I played in one of the Stars blogger freerolls tonight and I ended up getting 12th out of 500 or so players. For my efforts I get a seat in the blogger main event on Sunday as well as a Step 3 ticket (worth $82). It was definitely frustrating to get that deep in the tournament and not win or at least make the final table, but at least I have something to show for it.
A couple notes on the tournament:
-With about 100 players left I was one of the chip leaders with almost 40k at 200/400. I had a good table with some other deep stacks and it was a great spot to really build a monster stack for a deep run. But two players at my table who were short stacked started stalling in hopes of reaching the top 72 and assuring themselves of a seat in the main event. It was really annoying because they slowed the play down a crawl, and with so few hands per level the blinds went up quickly and the stacks got much shallower, which I felt cut into my edge. Finally on the bubble when there were 73 players left, one of them kept stalling even though it was hand for hand. I'd had enough and flipped out in the chat. At the time I was really pissed off, but looking back on it I acted like a douchebag. I checked the OPR for these players and they were both micro stakes players for whom making the blogger main event was definitely a big deal. I certainly don't want to become like the guy Stoner talked about recently and start looking down on players who play lower stakes. So I apologize to the people I berated. That being said, stalling during hand for hand is pointless, please stop doing that.
Once the bubble finally burst, I won a couple flips to build my stack and I was in good shape with 2 tables left. But then I got owned by a player on my left with a huge stack called malice51. Every time I came into a pot he either 3-bet me or flatted me in position and took the pot away. Finally I got down to a push or fold stack and shoved KJ into his AA and busted. malice said while we were playing that he was reading my blog, so if you're reading this now, well played.
Thanks for reading,
George
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
6 comments:
Thanks George, I appreciate it. Bad luck for you I woke up with AA there, not much you can do.
I commend you for your apology for the stallers, you are right they obviously were new at this.
I had a guy at some point bet into a dry side pot with one guy all-in and luckily I called and caught a 4-outer on the river, but looking at the HH he had bet so dry that the all-in guy would have survived if I had folded, which I was close to doing. Not good behavior but I kept my mouth shut.
Your writing is great, I'm subscribing. Good luck on Sunday and in the other prelims if you play.
Well, he could of course track them down individually and send them a gift bag, but I don't think it'll be worth the trouble.
Apologizing in public is the next best thing, I guess. At least he's doing something.
/j.
i always wonder about stalling during hand for hand in sats. a lot of times it's just the money bubble and not necessarily the seat bubble, in which case if you're a big stack it's still to your advantage to have the blinds go up w/ fewer hands, no?
ps congrats on making the finals! does it count toward leaderboard? :-)
nice run george was keeping an eye on you and NumbBono after i busted.. Was hoping youd take down one of those sweet sunday packages.
I agree on the hand for hand stalling.. pointless. And id rather play deep stacked poker vs shallow M stacks any day. Takes more skill to play a deep stack then push and pray mode
Was following your progress for a bit as it was one of the few names I recognized. I was ahead of you for a while but went card dead and I found myself in a difficult position (half way between two stacks with over 20k that were splitting their time pushing around the table). Some day I'll learn how to fight back with my 12k stack. Flamed out in 76th. nice bubble.
Anyways, wanted to say I enjoyed watching your progress. Good luck in the final!
DubsPoke
Post a Comment