Official results of the multi-forum arse-whooping...

[PShabi]

I especially liked the guy who kept telling me I was, "so easy to read" after I made some aggressive plays on the button, only to fold to a reraise (which happened a lot at the final table, I know).

I was proud of my comeback though, "You're pretty easy to read too. In the chat box." Hehe.

Yeah, the collusion talk was stupid. ChillyWilly was the one starting in with that. I'm pretty sure he was talking about me to! I was on the phone with my dad and ignoring the chat when all of a sudden he said something about me dumping my blinds to someone.

Oh well.

It was fun! Looking forward to the next one.

[Talking Poker]

Nice sig, pshabi

[omahilo]

Dont sweat that ChiliWilly guy... that guy just cracks me up. He was at my table in the beginning of the tourney and someone got pissed off because he made a huge raise with a flush draw then hit it on the turn.

Chili then went on to tell him about the semi-bluffing chapter in Slansky's Theory of Poker book.

[TajaUk]

I really didn't notice much trash talking by people, but then again i tend to just concentrate on my cards during the game.

The few times where a problem occured was when people tried to bluff the pot when someone was all in?!!? It kept Tony in and a few others in the top 20, this was such a lame play that people invariably questioned the motives behind them, i think it was just crap play personally.

Also the trend of not calling short stacked players when it would have cost virtually nothing for the player to call. Over and over again people let the short stacked players win cheap pots and not make the correct play. If your from TP or not and there is a chance to take you out at the business end of the tourney certain plays have to be done.

[Tony Cheval]

True, you've got to have SOMETHING to play with, I know there was one time I really wanted to call an allin, but I only had 42o Without seeing all the cards, who can know for sure?

I poked around the other forums a bit, looks like Ace10 are the real whiners. I dropped a nice civil post on there, though I did get a small zing at the guy who called my avatar a dog.

[PShabi]

Just went over to A10 to try and back you up a little. Not trying to start trouble, trying to be civil, but COLLUSION? I gave up big time potential cash game profits for 4 hours on a Sunday night to play in a $10 MTT. COLLUSION?

Anyway, domination has it's price. Talkingpoker is just the prettiest girl at the dance and all the other bitches are standing in the corner with their KMART gowns hating on her!

[Talking Poker]

Easy big guy.......

But you're right. If ProTilt had taken the top few spots, I suspect the A10 guys would be saying they colluded... And if A10 did, maybe the PT guys would be complaining.... or maybe WE would be.

Me personally - If I saw something "fishy" going on, I might get suspicious, but I'd need more evidence before I'd cry foul... That's sore loser talk.

[PShabi]

Yeah, I made that crap play. Renegade was all-in, I called, Chilly stayed along for the ride. I guess some people like to check it down at that point and try to get one of the two hands to knock out Renegade.

Personally, I wanted Renegade's chips and I didn't want Chilly to add to his stack. So I made a decent-sized bet at the dry side with 3rd pair and got Chilly out. I was ahead too but then the turn helped Renegade. Chilly got on me about that one. I'm playing for PShabi not Chilly.

There were a couple of times where I think people expected me (with the chip lead) to call a short stack. I let go some trash hands (if I would've hand ANYTHING I would've rode with it) in these situations. Mostly it was my holdings and the I didn't want to just let chips go.

It was my first time at a MTT final table and I'm sure I made some basic mistakes. I'd never go easy on anyone because they were TP though. The only decision I made with that in mind was the chop at the end.

If I'm playing anyone from another forum, I would've played it out. It took some time before I finally decided to chop with Taja. My gut said, no, but I'm really competitve.

Anyway, I'm closing the door on this tourney. Still can't believe I got there. I think the biggest thing for me was having some pretty big cards and people pushing all-in against them. 2nd hand, I had AA on a King high flop and I was praying the guy had AK. He did and pushed 'em in with virtually all of his chips still in his stack.

I got QQ vs. 33 and QQ vs. 44 too. Big cards help!

[TajaUk]

You have to remember I made the request to split the money when i was on 71k you was on 39k. I didn't care who won really, was just happy that that prick in 3rd didn't. Thats why I called his 10k all in with 10,6.

When he had 460 chips he musta hit AA ak jj on the bounce and was pushing it about. I found it was pretty easy to read him tho, he always went all in with decent hands and bet about half his chips when he wanted to bluff you off the pot.

[PShabi]

Oh yeah, you definitely had a good lead when you offered to split. I, normally would say no, even with 1k in chips. Yeah, I was happy when you made that call.

I noticed that read too. He would push-in with good cards and just min raise with anything else. I was in a 92os funk for about 5 orbits but when I finally got something worth looking at and he did that small raise, I pushed-in and got him off of me for a while. He was a bitch to play against from the right.

[Tony Cheval]

I managed to dodge a bullet against you once. Held 99, player to my right went allin (with 88). I thought about it a bit, got a bad feeling and folded, then you called him with KK. Probably not a good move for me overall, but sometimes you gotta go with your gut, served me well enough it would appear.

[PShabi]

Yep, I was like are you going to call Tony (in my head)? I knew you were thinking. I would've overcalled too but I wasn't really wanting to weaken my hand and go 3-way. Nice fold.