Huge Online Score
I woke up this morning about 45 minutes before the Sunday Warm-Up so I could take my dog for a walk. At one point during the walk, I just kinda thought to myself, "I have a good feeling about today. Maybe I'll win something big." (Humor me and pretend for a second that I don't think that nearly every single Sunday!)
For a while, it was looking like the Sunday Warm-Up might pan out to something big. It started with over 4,000 players and I had a nice stack with about 300 left. Unfortunately, I made a bonehead shove in a spot where I would have folded if I had seen that someone had already entered the pot. A couple people Michael knows were at the apartment, and I kinda lost focus making small talk with them. You can't exactly say, "LEAVE ME ALONE DAMNIT I'VE GOT SIX TABLES GOING!" to someone who knows nothing about online poker.
As the day progressed, it looked like nothing was going to materialize for me. With about 200 players left in the monthly Stars $530 buy-in $250k guaranteed, I made a pretty marginal shove with pocket Jacks and got decimated by Aces. I was literally left with about 5 big blinds. Since 180 spots were paying, I decided to nit it up and drain my timebank so I could at least cash. Bottom cash was like $800, so hey... might as well try to cash, right?
By the time we were in the money (180 players left), I had no timebank and only 3 big blinds.
By the time 110 players were left, I was the chipleader.
From that point until the end of the tournament, I was never worse than 4th in chips on the leaderboard. I just kept cruising right along thanks to people spewing off in extremely light spots against me when I had big pocket pairs.
Yada yada yada (I'm tired, so I won't bore you with tiny details)... next thing I know, I'm heads-up with half the chips in play.
The heads-up match didn't last too long. The other guy, "Benba", was unknown to me and had generally seemed a little spewy. I got him all-in with my Ace-Nine suited against his Ace-Ten offsuit. I flopped a flush draw and was really begging for a suckout to ship the $105k my way. No dice. To his credit, he deserved to win the hand and the tournament. Later, I got 2.3M and KTdd all-in against his 9.5M and A2o. No dice there, either. I don't think I made any glaring mistakes heads-up or anything, but I sure as hell didn't outplay him either.
I'm glad Stars fixed their payout structures so that first isn't like twice the size of second in their big tournaments. I came up short on the win, but took a staggering $76k for second! Not bad for sitting on a couch and clicking some buttons! :)
To put that into perspective a little:
* My previous record for largest online cash was $14,000.
* In over 1,300 previous MTTs on Stars, my combined gross winnings were a mere $50,000
* After toiling with a lowly -30% ROI on Stars for years and years, my lifetime ROI on Stars is now 67%!!
Tournaments are so crazy!
WEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
For a while, it was looking like the Sunday Warm-Up might pan out to something big. It started with over 4,000 players and I had a nice stack with about 300 left. Unfortunately, I made a bonehead shove in a spot where I would have folded if I had seen that someone had already entered the pot. A couple people Michael knows were at the apartment, and I kinda lost focus making small talk with them. You can't exactly say, "LEAVE ME ALONE DAMNIT I'VE GOT SIX TABLES GOING!" to someone who knows nothing about online poker.
As the day progressed, it looked like nothing was going to materialize for me. With about 200 players left in the monthly Stars $530 buy-in $250k guaranteed, I made a pretty marginal shove with pocket Jacks and got decimated by Aces. I was literally left with about 5 big blinds. Since 180 spots were paying, I decided to nit it up and drain my timebank so I could at least cash. Bottom cash was like $800, so hey... might as well try to cash, right?
By the time we were in the money (180 players left), I had no timebank and only 3 big blinds.
By the time 110 players were left, I was the chipleader.
From that point until the end of the tournament, I was never worse than 4th in chips on the leaderboard. I just kept cruising right along thanks to people spewing off in extremely light spots against me when I had big pocket pairs.
Yada yada yada (I'm tired, so I won't bore you with tiny details)... next thing I know, I'm heads-up with half the chips in play.
The heads-up match didn't last too long. The other guy, "Benba", was unknown to me and had generally seemed a little spewy. I got him all-in with my Ace-Nine suited against his Ace-Ten offsuit. I flopped a flush draw and was really begging for a suckout to ship the $105k my way. No dice. To his credit, he deserved to win the hand and the tournament. Later, I got 2.3M and KTdd all-in against his 9.5M and A2o. No dice there, either. I don't think I made any glaring mistakes heads-up or anything, but I sure as hell didn't outplay him either.
I'm glad Stars fixed their payout structures so that first isn't like twice the size of second in their big tournaments. I came up short on the win, but took a staggering $76k for second! Not bad for sitting on a couch and clicking some buttons! :)
To put that into perspective a little:
* My previous record for largest online cash was $14,000.
* In over 1,300 previous MTTs on Stars, my combined gross winnings were a mere $50,000
* After toiling with a lowly -30% ROI on Stars for years and years, my lifetime ROI on Stars is now 67%!!
Tournaments are so crazy!
WEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
posted by Cory Albertson at
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