holy crap! poker!

[rmd]

i went down to foxwoods today for the $300 ($260+40 with $2K added money) ladies' tournament (the only comparatively cheap tournament in their spring tour event that's on a weekend). i've made the final table, and play resumes tomorrow at 4pm. i'm pretty stoked.

i'm slightly above average chipstack at the moment, so i think i could make the top 5 if i hit a bit of luck or can at least sufficiently represent it.

of course, the problem here is that i have off-hours work monday morning at 0530 at the office. oops.

more details later.

Comments

[frotz.livejournal.com]

Nice work! How large was the starting field, and what level are you on? Based on your comments and the payout table, I'm assuming you're in the "74 or less entries pays 5 places" territory, but that's the one level at which they don't provide a breakdown for some weird reason.

Good luck!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

nope. 307 entrants. top 30 get paid.

i've been really liking the structure of this tournament. 3000 starting chips, 50 minute rounds, and the blind/ante escalation is pretty good.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

oh, we're currently midway thru the round with 2000/4000 blinds and 500 ante.

i've got about 132K in chips.

i took a beat fairly early and spent several rounds just grinding it out with a half-average-sized-or-so chipstack desperately trying to steal a few blinds or pots here and there to get lucky, getting a little breathing room when i got AA (freaking everyone out by limping pre-flop with them because i was in early position and desperately wanted action on my hand so i was hoping for several callers), and then got lucky and nearly tripled up with THE SCOTTRO (hole cards 77) when i beat AK and QQ to make a full house on the turn. at that point, i had enough of a working stack that i could be more aggressive and could steal with more authority.

not a whole lot of people playing back at random aggression, actually. the woman to my left complained that if it was folded around to us i always raised my blind. and yet she never reraised me.

i was able to steal a lot of small pots by looking, thinking "man, that flop didn't hit me but i bet it didn't hit anyone else" and taking a stab at it if there was no action by the time it was my turn. if someone called and i had crap, i just check/folded. which i suppose is my bad for not trying to continue my aggression... :-)

[pookfreak.livejournal.com]

Ok Whooo for you but WHOOO for me cause I totally understood what you said and...Whoh (as Keanu Reeves would say)....

good job

[xthread.livejournal.com]

Excellent!
Very fine...
I'm looking forward to the update tomorrow.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

May the cards fall your way. Go you!

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

wow! go you!

[mangosteen]

Go thee!
I look forward to an update, as well as answers to frotz's questions. :)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

questions answered above.

[qbaz.livejournal.com]

YUO == TEH R0X0RZ.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

depending on when we finish up, i'm gonna be toast on monday. i figure i can always do the work and then nap in the QA lab. mmmm. beanbag.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

Not just the final table, but THIRD FUCKING CHIP POSITION WOOO!

[keren-s.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo! Go!Go!Go!
On our end, we finally bought our own carpet cleaner: basically your model but with 3 small changes (2 + and 1 - (no power surge) and had immediate cause to use it. Not quite as much fun as poker, but when its over the puppy will sleep in my lap.