Blogger Tourney

[Aequitas58]

For those who don't know, the blogger tourney was open to all bloggers and blogger readers. The field was shockingly large, and it just goes to show how many bloggers / readers there are out there. Word spread fast.

The decision to play was last minute for me, so w/ 10 minutes left, I had to find the password. I'm not too much of a blogger "reader" so I had to track down the password from Sir.

Unlike most NL tournaments, this was EXTREMELY tight. Usually, after the first 15 minutes, it's not out of the ordinary to see over 20-30 people eliminated. Not so last night! I think we were 1/2 hr into the tournament, and only 6-7 people were out! I told Sir over AIM that it was going to be a long one.

He was doing better than me in the beginning - he was getting great hands, and some of the were holding up. He took a beat early on, which brought him back to my level, around 1250. I finally had a playable hand, it held up, and I was sitting w/ ~1600. Sir, on the other hand, took off. Before I knew it, he was over 2400. Good for him.

I raised all-in w/ the hammer (72o) and the table folded to me. I told you it was tight. I showed, and my table got a kick out of it. After that, it all went downhill. I lost w/ KK against A8. Lucky ass made his A2345 straight, runner runner, of course!

I told Sir I had to make some big moves, because w/ the blinds at 50/100, my ~800 stack looked REALLY shitty. I took a shot and went all-in w/ TT, and I think someone cracked me w/ KJo.

Oh well. It was a good tournament - a very good mixture of players - and I'm looking forward to the next one.

[rchamberlin]

I lasted exactly eleven minutes before my brain reared itself.

I finished fourth in the last one, so you can imagine how pleased I am with my performance last night. dumbass dumbass dumbass...

[SirFWALGMan]

I keep hearing people say "The tables were very tight".. is this compared to the normal people you are going against at Party? If so it does not surprise me much. I mean these people read TP type forums, Blogs, sleep, eat, and drink Poker. They are bound to be at least a little better than most of the Party people. Who knows though.

[Talking Poker]

This is why I want to play in the next one of these... sounds like some good competition.

[rchamberlin]

I thought it was pretty tight as well. My take on it is that we had ALOT of readers, and I'm sure they were playing really tight to make a good impression on the bloggers. Just a guess, but that's what my feeling was. On my table, we went seven hands without anything happening. Just folding blinds. Of course, once they got to me noone folded.