*Official* Empire $20,000 WSOP 2005 FreeRoll

[jslag]

I'm in (jslag). Anyone with me? It's gonna be a long one to make 1st or 2nd...

J.

[mantasm]

I am. I'm the new poster who ends up winning the first tournament he posts about.

at table 76

[cnfuzzd]

im in, table 70, hanging in there with 1000...

peace

john nickle

[cnfuzzd]

just for the record, forum rules dont allow that....

peace

john nickle

[ZBTHorton]

Table 58...I wonder how many fools in this tournament registered like three days ago and won't show?

Username: RiverPlaya7

[thrillhouse7]

I'm in table 65

[IndieMatty]

Table 6. GL

[jslag]

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Table 58...I wonder how many fools in this tournament registered like three days ago and won't show?


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My table has not completed a single hand yet, running 5 minutes. I have a feeling a lot of people may have forgotten about this one.

[ZBTHorton]

Yep. You beat me to it. Running 7 minutes. On third hand.

[mantasm]

My table already broke. Now I'm at 63.

[cnfuzzd]

consider yourselves fortuanate, ive got one of those fold-or-all-in types, already doubled up, so it doesnt look like we will lose him anytime soon...

peace

john nickle

[cnfuzzd]

and with that post i enter the ranks of Veteran...100% quality baby

peace

john nickle

[ZBTHorton]

I guess now that your a veteran...there is only 1 spot available in the main event...

Damn those odds.

[MicroBob]

we only have 3 or 4 no-shows.
playing pretty normally.
i'm on 54 though so hopefully it will break at some point.

I came over the top of somebody with a 225 raise after I flopped top-pair but he pushed all-in (flush draw maybe) and I had to lay-down so I'm already down to 745. crap.

[ZootMurph]

Down to 155 already... Queens ran into Kings... this should be an early night /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[jslag]

We have 5 people not here, posting and folding. It's like playing a short-handed table.

[soah]

Won 500 very early with KK. Then finished him and another guy off with AA vs QQ vs JJ all-in preflop. I'm up to 3000 now. Table 10.

[TimM]

[ QUOTE ]
we only have 3 or 4 no-shows.
playing pretty normally.
i'm on 54 though so hopefully it will break at some point.

I came over the top of somebody with a 225 raise after I flopped top-pair but he pushed all-in (flush draw maybe) and I had to lay-down so I'm already down to 745. crap.

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I KNEW that was you, which is why i found this post. I flopped two pair.

[MicroBob]

I'm up to 1275.
raise to 120 with AK on button after several limpers. K-high flop and one guy kept calling my bets. Ace on the river for 2-pair but he didn't call my almost all-in bet.


That's not as good as soah's 3000 (Go Soah!!) but I'll take it.

[stinkypete]

2330 at table 42. started off aggressively and so far i'm doing alright. doubled up early with AT when the A hit the flop against KQ who turned a Q. playing more conservatively now.

[ApolloQuiet]

I'm in. Doubled up when my full house beat a bluff all in bet.

Table 60 for now.

[cnfuzzd]

w00t!!! all in boy limps, which he has started to do, on the button, i complete with 86s, BB checks. Flop the nut straight with a gutshot sf draw. Checked to all in boy, who pushes. I of course call. All in boy flips over kings and doesnt improve. i tell him he should have pushed...

peace

john nickle

[MicroBob]

I didn't know that was a 2+2'er....but you're only 1 of 2 players I have stats on from my data-mining 5/10 and 15/30 (and some 10/20) so I knew I was dealing with someone who knew what they were doing...and I didn't want to take on a flush-draw at this point anyway (which is what I thought was a possibility).

[cnfuzzd]

moved to table nine, dont see anyone i know...

peace

john nickle

[MicroBob]

Yiiikes Tim. I was scared for you with that AK hand.

he split the pot against another AK with two Q's on the board.

[cnfuzzd]

pocket jacks in sb, MP min raises, one caller, i raise to 275, caller calls. Flop comes KK7. Checked, i put him all in for 500, he calls. Flips up 77. River brings the third king. I re-suck-out g00t. 3440.

peace

john nickle

[TimM]

[ QUOTE ]
I didn't know that was a 2+2'er....but you're only 1 of 2 players I have stats on from my data-mining 5/10 and 15/30 (and some 10/20) so I knew I was dealing with someone who knew what they were doing...and I didn't want to take on a flush-draw at this point anyway (which is what I thought was a possibility).

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Once the hand was over, I checked your location, and also saw I had a PT note on you, and said wow that could be MicroBob. Sorry about the BB special two pair. I pushed because I didn't want to be against a flush draw either. Plus I guess I am in a gambooling mood in this freeroll, as you can see by how i played the AK hand later.

How bad are my stats? I've only been on Empire one month, and it happens to be my worst month so far. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[cnfuzzd]

is it possible to have a bad month with that avatar?

peace

john nickle

[mantasm]

At 2470, doubled up with trips versus top pair.

moved to table 3, i'm the big stack. they should just give this thing to me now.

[soah]

Flop middle set vs top pair, lose to runner-runner flush. Down to 2800, was up as far as 3355 at one point.

[ZootMurph]

That was quick. I ran into Kings three times in the first half hour of the tournament. Won once with AQ to double up from 190 to 380. Made 200 with pocket tens. Then got pocket 9s in CO and open raise to 100 with 10/20 blinds. The BB, who is a big stack at the table, reraises to put me all in. He's pushed me around a few times like this, so I push hoping that, if he has a hand, it is not a larger pair. BANG!!! Pocket Kings.

Every time someone had pocket kings, I was looking at a real strong hand... QQ, AQ, 99 in BB.

[IndieMatty]

Standard 1933...but all of a sudden my eyesight is blurry. No joke. I can barely see the screen. Too much poker? Any solutions? Besides a doctor and hypertension medicine.

(I'm a "healthy" 26 yr old)

[MicroBob]

your stats look pretty good from the 280 hands I have data-mined on you.....that's partly why I respected the all-in even though I was going to lay it down anyway.


VP-15/PFR-12
Super-Duper high aggression numbers (that tail-off dramatically on the river) but the sample-size is pretty small to read anything from that.


WtSD-35, W$SD-47, BB/100=0

since your river-aggression is so low as is your W$SD I suspect you missed quite a few draws or had an A on the river ruin your KK a few times in the hands that I have on you.

[jslag]

Still playing 5-handed at my table, hilarious. Was up to 1900 at one point, but ran into AA when I had 88 on a low board. Guy had bluffed a lot so I put him in. Was back down to 1000, but I'm up to 1770... rollercoaster

[ZBTHorton]

What's funny is that nobody is getting knocked out of this tournament.

1/2 the tournament didn't show
The other half is 2+2'ers.

[thrillhouse7]

I've been blurry too lately, it sucks.

[MicroBob]

That's nothing compared with their Thursday freerolls that they've done. you have to play 700 hands on Monday or Tuesday to qualify for the Thursday freeroll...except there were a LOT of players who didn't know they were in a free tournament.

Usually only 3 or 4 players show-up per table.
But there was always 1 table where there was just one guy stealing the blinds from 9 no-shows.

I once saw a table in one of these where all 10 didn't show-up and they just kept passing the blinds around until the table was broken-up.

[IndieMatty]

It's happened to me a few times pre-online poker. I blamed it on 9-11 or ephedra...first time while sipping on whiskey enjoying some semi legal offshore gambling...

[TimM]

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is it possible to have a bad month with that avatar?

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I can confirm that it is indeed possible to lose 100BB at 15/30 in 4.5 hours with this avatar. And to be down 50BB at other limits over the rest of the month. But, I'm not bitter or anything. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Part of the problem is, in transferring my BR to Empire, a big chunk of it got "diverted", so I had to drop down.

I will be happy if I can manage to undo everything except the 15/30 hit by months end.

[MicroBob]

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What's funny is that nobody is getting knocked out of this tournament.

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Not sure why you think this.
Started with 759. Currently have 589.

If anything, I think they're falling out a bit faster than I would have expected.

[soah]

Haven't played a MTT in a long time, but isn't the general rule that half the field is gone after the first hour? Since half the field didn't show up, they can't get knocked out yet, so we'd figure that about 1/4 of the field would get knocked out in the first hour. So far we've lost 185 out of 759 which seems to be on perfect pace.

Well anyway, I stole a few pots to sneak back over 3000 chips for the moment.

[ZBTHorton]

Actually, that was my point. I just worded it absolutely horribly. =)

Game on!

[ZBTHorton]

Break 1...sitting at 765...took a bunch of crazy hits and chipped up with small pots from 300...bah...

Just moved to table 50..

[cnfuzzd]

The large stack at the table min raises in EP, i have been folding several orbits, so i raise to 200 with 55. Flops comes J8A. Checked to me, bet the pot, called. Turn is a blank. Check, check. River is a magical five. I bet half the pot, villian calls and shows 86. I suck out again. On break with 4320...

peace

john nickle

[jslag]

1660 at first break

We've played 94 hands already at my table

[mantasm]

2060 at the break. I doubled up a short stack. What's everyone getting to drink during the break? Maker's mark for me.

[ApolloQuiet]

1st break, up to $2130. Table 17.

[TimM]

[ QUOTE ]
VP-15/PFR-12
Super-Duper high aggression numbers (that tail-off dramatically on the river) but the sample-size is pretty small to read anything from that.

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I'm usually more like 15VPIP/8PFR. Looks like you caught me at a time where I was getting dealt a higher percentage of PFR hands and then either missing the flop or getting them cracked. I also have had a large number of sets killed by the board so bad I can't even call one bet on the river.

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W$SD-47

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This is key - I am usually this much above 50%, not below.

P.S. NH with the AdQd, also scary.

[MicroBob]

Yeah. I guess that makes sense now that I think about it.
Although I do think that a little more than half showed up.

I'm just always amazed at some of the hands that people bow-out with in the early-going of these things.

[MicroBob]

Yeah...but it was only 480 or something to call him and I think there was 600 or 700 in the pot (since I had already raised a couple of limpers out of it).

So my AQ held up against KQ and I improved to 1650 or so.

Just fell to 1465 when I decided I couldn't call some short-stack C/R'ing me on the flop.

[MicroBob]

I stole Tim's blind with A7o. Sorry tim.
Then our table broke-up.


Now at 1690 on table 19.

[TimM]

Oops, just moved to table 7, where there is a big stack (5000+) raising almost every hand. I'm still around 1000. Should be fun. /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[ApolloQuiet]

Hacker-Pschorr

[MicroBob]

PKAFOK is at this table and is on my right.

He finished 5th in the 2000 e-points WSOP-freeroll last night.....but he's down to only 710 right now but is obviously pretty dangerous.

[TimM]

[ QUOTE ]
I stole Tim's blind with A7o. Sorry tim.

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You did the right thing. Seems like I make most of my chips from the BB by hitting the flop with garbage in these things.

Just got knocked out, gambling on AJs against big stack. He had AK, and I got two of my suit but not the third.

[slavic]

I'm playing the role of floater tonight

[TimM]

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I'm playing the role of floater tonight

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Red hair and all?

[soah]

My raises are getting almost no action, so I figure 55 from early position is good for a raise. Short stack pushes. Argh. I call, he hits an Axx flop with his AK. I pick up a gutshot on the turn for extra outs, and spike a 5 on the river. Feels so dirty. I'm up to 5500 now.

[slavic]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
I'm playing the role of floater tonight

[/ QUOTE ]

Red hair and all?

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Rainbow wig

[IndieMatty]

Just went all in with AJs against button raiser, then BB reraised with KK. button dropped..

flop was 234 and then 5 j 2 of my suit too..he's now out..matusow style. 2900

[TimM]

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Rainbow wig

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Awesome!

http://www.akrondesign.com/Retail/Wigs/rainbow152.jpg

[MicroBob]

That's BIG-TIME dirty!! Nice hit!

Sorry about the tough-break Tim.


I'm yo-yo'ing a little bit.
Was down to 900 or so.
Catch KK and get a short-stack to go all-in with KQ so I'm up to 1750 now.

[jslag]

Some maniac with 4500 chips came to our table and went all-in one very hand. I had to figure KT was a favorite, so I called after he had just lost half his stack. My KT holds up against 22. Won a few more pots after that and I am sitting at 6090..

[slavic]

The only original players left on my table other than myself are absent and autofolding. Hmmm. THey are going to outlast 60% of the players.

[mantasm]

I'm the big stack at my table again with 4829. Busted a couple of short stacks and took a lot off the LAG who got lucky early.

[cnfuzzd]

we have four stacks over 4k and six stacks under 1k, and my deck has gone cold. Kind of interesting...

peace

john nickle

[ZBTHorton]

Was being blinded away... folded 44 in early position with 2 raisers in front of me only to watch a 4 spike.

Eventually lost 3-4h vs AK when I was short stacked in the BB.

Good luck everybody.

[MicroBob]

to answer the other guy's question...I'm just drinking coffee tonight.

I usually drink during the week and am working on the weekends. My GF also works weekends....so we like to go out on Monday or Tuesday for our drinking lunacy. I'm a total light-weight anyway.

[slavic]

Looks like I'll just make it past the post and fold players

[IndieMatty]

Great im to the left of the chip leader with 13500, who just got a gift from a guy who called all the way to hit his one card queen high flush, didn't believe chip leader had the ace of diamonds....called the guys all in. amazing.

[ApolloQuiet]

Out - 201st

About 2100 chips. Had AQo late pos 50-100 blinds, I PF raise to 300, one caller flop A44 2 clubs, get one caller on pot size bet. Turn comes third club, opponant checks I go all in, he has me covered and calls. He turns over T9c. I go bye bye. Damn. Good luck to those remaining.

[IndieMatty]

Getting nothing..people are dropping like flies eh? My eyesight is almost back to normal. Good times!

[IndieMatty]

out..limped with kq after getting sucked out, small raise..i called the k flop...oh well. good luck

[stinkypete]

gimme your chips dude!

[slavic]

I'm out AA loses to QJ. I played for a larg pot and got rolled. Oh well.

[jslag]

8803 at 2nd break, there is a very LAG table captain with 16k at my table... hope he'll double me up later on, but he does have position on me.

Good luck to all left in this thing...

[mantasm]

4854 at 2nd break, not really getting any cards right now.

[soah]

Made my first big misstep a little bit ago... couple limpers, I check in BB with A9. Flop A22 and I try to push a guy off a better ace since I've seen him lay down good hands previously when threatened for all his chips. Lost 3000+ chips on that hand. He had AT... argh

Won back 1000 on the next hand with a runner-runner boat with 54s from the sb. Then I doubled up off the guy from my A9 hand when I raised all-in with 88 on a 654 flop. He insta-called with K6???

8155 chips going into the second break.

[MicroBob]

I'm 2716 at break....which isn't great (average stack is 5k).....but just a couple minutes ago I was down to 1300 or so and doubled-up with QQ against big-stack AT.

[cnfuzzd]

same here, and i havent played in so long that when i did raise my AK, i got nothing. 3565, and ready for more...

peace

john nickle

[mantasm]

First hand after break, KK. I get disconnected just long enough for it to fold my hand. Flop K74. I would have probably just won the blinds anyway. bleh

[jslag]

Several people at my table are being maniacs... there strategy is to go all-in or call raises and "get lucky". I re-raised one of these guys with AK (I pushed), he called with T9 /images/graemlins/confused.gif

I'm at 13k now

[soah]

Oh man.... guy goes all-in for 1700 with 66. Next guy raises to isolate him with QQ. Next guy after that cold calls with AK. Flop AKQ. All the money goes in. Final pot 16,000.

Very next hand I get AA in the sb with like four limpers to me. I bust one of them to go all the way up to 14,202 chips.

[MicroBob]

decent hole-cards a couple of times...mostly blind steals.
I'm up to 3716 though.
Avg. Stack is 6.1k....so I'm consistently barely better than half of average stack.
but I'm still around and breathing with only 120 players left so no complaints.

[stinkypete]

yes. and then i spewed chips against the shortstack.

[MicroBob]

The guy to my left got knocked-out with A8o or something.....the button was passing and I got to skip the BB this orbit.
Here's to small victories!!

3216.
avg stack 6800.
111 players left.

[MicroBob]

somebody else at the table got knocked out with JJ vs. KK and now we had only 7 players on the table for a couple moments.
I stalled for a few seconds and waited for them to add a couple more players which thankfully didn't take too long.

[IndieMatty]

so jealous..good luck you guys....though I have found an absolute maniac I am chasing around. Theres my small victory. the weekend nuts.

[AZK]

I'm at Table 10, 6k left...who's still in? I'm AZK19

[jslag]

Made a small blunder, called an all-in with AQ, guy had 55 and it held up. Down to 8066... but I think the gamble was worth it given this prize structure... Gonna need 50-60k in chips for that final table, at least.

[soah]

Table 10 just broke, I'm at 7 now.

[MicroBob]

yup.....
759k in chips out there (roughly).
75.9k will be the average-stack at the final-table.

50k should get you that far....you'll have a couple of stacks even smaller than you I suspect.

chip-leader at final-table will have well over 100k I think.

meanwhile, Im down to 2.4k.
Guess I have some work to do.

dropped a few more down to 1800.

Then catch JJ in SB and push all-in against button-steal. Hit trip J's and I'm up to 4032 and still barely breathing.

avg stack is 8700.
87 players left.

[AZK]

I'm at 2

[MicroBob]

geez.
Soah just joined us also.
We have 3 2+2'ers at table-2 now.

[jslag]

So stupid... 4 to the flop, I have 88 in the BB. Flop is QJ8, two hearts. I have bottom set. SB goes all-in for 4k, I call, button calls. I push on the turn. Button folds. Turn and the river are both hearts and SB turns over 7h 2h for the flush.

Down to 4593 now... sheesh

[cnfuzzd]

out at 80th, down to 3500, get KQs, raise 3x, BB, who is also big stack, pushes for 30K, i decide to call. He flips over ATs. I dont improve. Game over. Good luck everyone...

peace

john nickle

[soah]

I fold UTG and get moved to table 2 where I end up in the CO.

Microbob goes out on runner-runner flush.

[MicroBob]

multiple limpers.
I limp with AJo on the button.

Flop is AJx, 1 diamond.

All-in against Ad7d.
Runner-runner diamonds and I'm out in 78th.

Would have had around 8.5k if not for the bad-beat.

Oh well....made a good run at it and liked how I played.
Like I was going to go very far with 2 other 2+2'ers at my table anyway.

[AZK]

JJ 3xBB raise, no action, same thign with AA a couple hands ago, what do I need to do?

[soah]

sb -- call a late position minraise with AQo. Flop AAK, all money goes in, his AJo gets no help. 23,000 chips now

[jslag]

QQ loses to A5, down to 3243. Need a miracle now..

[jslag]

So sad, I get my money in each time with an edge and have lost... that's poker.

I push my A9o in the BB against a steal raise. Guy calls with KJo. Turn is my 9, but the river is his K and I'm out in 63rd... ugh

Good luck soah and AKZ

j.

[AZK]

6k with blinds of 300/600, is this all in or fold preflop time? This is my first major tourney this far...

[soah]

I had to take out AZK, he pushed against my QQ. =( I think I'm the only one left now.

[AZK]

4.5k left, blinds 400/800, I get 88 and push, Soah on the other side of the table says "good luck", shows me QQ. Done. If I had to give anyone my chips it would be him, so it's all good. Good luck soah...

[soah]

Button raises with 84, I call in bb with AJ. Flop AKQ. Button makes runner-runner two pair. I guess it serves me right for being so passive. =(

[mantasm]

Opened with A9 from LP, reraised all in. I called getting 5:1. He had AT and my T flopped. Up to 20k, about average.

[soah]

Managed to work my way back from 22k up to 30k without even seeing a flop.

29616 going into the break. 27 players left, average stack 28111.

[mantasm]

I'm still hanging in too with ~17K.

[soah]

Lose a coinflip and down to 10k just like that... *sigh*

[soah]

Rivered in a 28k pot and I'm out in 24th.

[mantasm]

Doubled with AA. Reraised an MP opener preflop, he called. Flop is Axx all diamonds, he pushes I call. He has JJ with the J of diamonds and no diamonds come. I'm around 55k now, average 35k.

[Oilcan]

Out in 22nd

Got all-in preflop my AA vs AKo and u know...KxxxK!

gl all

[BubbleBoy]

Still in as Baithis. 19 players left.

[mantasm]

19 left and I'm chip leader. I won a big pot off the former big stack, so the 2 2+2ers are in the lead.

[BubbleBoy]

I think I just moved up to second. Leader at our table also

[radek2166]

i FINISHED 182 AND DID NOT PLAY A HAND

[BubbleBoy]

My A,Q flopped top pair only to be outdone by pocket Kings that flat called my raise. Luckily I had her covered so I survived and am JUST below average stack now.

[IndieMatty]

Our boy here is...chipleader. 4 left. Sweat!

[thrillhouse7]

3 left. mantasm still in it

[IndieMatty]

I can't believe I'm up watching this. I'm too tired/drunk to play for myself...keep it up Mantasm.

[thrillhouse7]

Nice job mantasm! the 98 was interesting though /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[IndieMatty]

Well worth it. Congrats MantasM, make us proud!

[mantasm]

Thanks for the sweat everyone! I felt like I played pretty well and got lucky a lot and I was really glad I stop by the MTT forum every once in a while. I'm looking forward to my first vegas trip.

[MicroBob]

Very nice. Glad a 2+2'er got one of these spots.
Big Congrats!!

[Mr. Graff]

[ QUOTE ]
I am. I'm the new poster who ends up winning the first tournament he posts about.

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That is kinda cool /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[BubbleBoy]

Congrats dude, even though you knocked me out /images/graemlins/shocked.gif to put in in 6th (got nadda for it)! At least one of us got in!