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FTOPS #10: $300 NLHE
Not a lot to say about this one. Only remotely interesting hand was this one: Full Tilt Poker, NL Hold’em Tournament, 60/120 Blinds, 9 PlayersLeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter CO: 5,090BTN:...
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FTOPS Event 12: $1000 NLHE Second Chance
This was an odd format. If you lost all 5000 of your starting chips in the first two hours, you got a free T5000 rebuy. However, if you reached the end of those two hours with chips, even if you had...
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FTOPS #14: $500 HORSE
I almost didn’t play this because my experience with limit tournaments has always been that even if I am not doing well they take forever. At least in NLHE if it isn’t going well you don’t waste a lot...
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FTOPS $17: $300 Rebuy 6-Max NLHE
Given the deep stacks, short-handed format, and substantial buy-in, this was probably the FTOPS event I was looking forward to the most. Sadly, the other players at my table were giant nits during the...
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FTOPS #14: $500 HORSE
I almost didn’t play this because my experience with limit tournaments has always been that even if I am not doing well they take forever. At least in NLHE if it isn’t going well you don’t waste a lot...
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FTOPS #20: $200 NLHE 6-Max
Not surprisingly, the quality of play in this was something like atrocious. Judging from the chat and general play, I was at a table full of clowns, which was cool. My favorite hand saw a guy raise...
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FTOPS #21: $300 Razz
As I’ve said many times before, my preference in Stud tournaments is not to build big pots on 3rd street. That’s generally a high-variance, low-edge strategy, and it makes otherwise large mistakes on...
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FTOPS #22: $5000 NLHE Two-Day
I really wish FTP had found a way to avoid scheduling this on Valentine’s Day. Emily told me she was OK with me playing it, which I think she would have been, but that’s really all the more reason to...
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FTOPS #22: $5000 NLHE Two-Day
I really wish FTP had found a way to avoid scheduling this on Valentine’s Day. Emily told me she was OK with me playing it, which I think she would have been, but that’s really all the more reason to...
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FTOPS Main Event: $500 NLHE
About three hours into this tournament, it was looking to be short and sweet. I shoved 33 from the SB over an aggressive guy in the CO who’d been raising most of the time it was folded to him. The BB...
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SCOOP Main Event
I played all three tournaments: the $10K, the $1K, and the $100. Each was what I expected it to be. The $100 was monkeylicious. The 1K was soft enough for the buyin, certainly weaker play than would be...
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FTOPS Event 1: $200 6-Max
I donked my way out of this one with a quickness, lost my ass with QQ on a 972 board with two clubs. Worse, it was to a guy who’d previously called KJ on a J74 flop, potted the turn when I checked to...
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FTOPS Event 11: $200 PLO8
I always look forward to the PLO8 events, but I couldn’t get anything going. The opposition was beyond awful: Full Tilt Poker Game #12159019788: FTOPS Event #11 (84242375), Table 41 – 20/40 – Pot Limit...
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FTOPS Event 13: $300 NLHE 6-Max Quad Shootout
I lasted no more than 15 minutes in this tournament and got 3-bet no fewer than four times. The final time, I raised 44 in the SB, shoved over a 3-bet from the BB, and lost the flip to AQ. Poker...
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FTOPS NLHE Two-Day
I was not playing very well on Saturday, and it showed through in my results. I think I’m pretty good at letting bad beats and unlucky cards roll off my back, but I have a lot more trouble getting over...
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FTOPS $500 Main Event
Standard tournament garbage. Congratulations, though, to my long-time reader and former student Diego, who made the final table! Diego, why oh why did you back out of our staking deal?!!? Obviously I’m...
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Not ALWAYS An Oxymoron
Particularly earlier in the year, running too many big bluffs in tournaments was a substantial leak of mine. I’ve made a concerted effort to confine the monster bluffs to the cash tables, and my...
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Betting For Protection
The whole idea of betting for protection is one that I feel I am really only now starting to understand. Most people, when they first start playing, are way too concerned about protecting their hands....
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I’m Off the Wagon
My tournaments results have been pretty good the last few months, culminating most recently in two PCA seats and a win in the FTP $300 Saturday 6-Max. I attribute this improvement to a disciplined...
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My 2010 Poker Resolutions
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all enjoyed yourselves responsibly last night (and last year, for that matter), and that you are striding confidently forward into a new year. Yesterday, I...
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