Party Poker Quarter Million Guaranteed **Official Thread**

[Airpoaneman]

Is there any difference between the 200k and the Quarter million in terms of the players?

Who is playing?

[Airpoaneman]

Table #70

[Lloyd]

Table 98 Magic Pig

GL all

[Airpoaneman]

Worst cards ever. But i am sure everyone has had that problem sometime.

Finally after what seemed to be 50 dry hands I was delt KK, blinds are 50/100.
Raised to 300. Two callers. Flop is 10 7 3, One guy goes all in, i call, the other folds, turn is 10, and river is 8. He wins with trip 10's jack kicker. Out of tournament at 595.

[Lloyd]

Couldn't get any cards for the first hour plus. Then I got dealt this:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (10 handed)

SB (t1240)
BB (t1575)
UTG (t3270)
UTG+1 (t3750)
UTG+2 (t3265)
MP1 (t3875)
MP2 (t1325)
MP3 (t2720)
Hero (t1160)
Button (t3615)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
UTG calls t100, <font color="666666">5 folds</font>, Hero calls t100, <font color="666666">1 fold</font>, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: (t400) 7/images/graemlins/club.gif, 6/images/graemlins/club.gif, 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="blue">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, <font color="CC3333">UTG bets t225</font>, Hero calls t225, SB folds, <font color="CC3333">BB raises to t1475 (All-In)</font>, UTG folds, Hero calls t835 (All-In).

Turn: (t3160) 5/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

River: (t3160) 5/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t3160

Results in white below: <font color="white">
BB has 8s 5s (full house, fives full of sevens).
Hero has 7s 6s (full house, sevens full of sixes).
Outcome: Hero wins t2745. BB wins t415. </font>

Now I'm up to 4395 on table 12

[Lloyd]

I got knocked out in 111th place - still in the money but should have done better. Blinds were 500/1000 and I had around 7500 in chips. Shortstacked but there were probably 40 people below me. I had pocket 7s in UTG+2. I limped in hoping this would scare people. The button raise. I went all-in (again, hoping that my limp raise would show some serious strength). But it's tough to show strength when someone has pocket aces. I lost.

I'm not sure if this was the right move to do. If it worked, I would have almost doubled up with a decent chance of placing much higher. If I folded (or just didn't enter the pot), I'd still be playing and probably have a much better chance to double up while at the same time moving up in the money.

So, chalk it up to a learning experience.