H.O.R.S.E. tournament on Full Tilt

[captZEEbo1]

I just got done playing in my first ever H.O.R.S.E. tournament on full tilt. It got about 160 players to play in a private game of $10+1. I think this was advertised on RGP. There might have been a link to it here:
http://www.free-casinos-online.info/news/thread.php/rec.gambling.poker/241_280.html
but that site is messed up for me now. For those of you who do not know, H.O.R.S.E. is Hold 'em, Omaha 8/b, Razz, Stud, Stud Eight/b. It was a lot of fun, but too bad I didn't money /images/graemlins/smile.gif I really hope Full Tilt keeps going on with these H.O.R.S.E. tournaments. Supposedly this was the first EVER H.O.R.S.E. tournament played online.

p.s. Not sure if this was a good forum to post this in.

[slickscottie]

I enjoyed the info. Do any sites offer horse cash games?

[captZEEbo1]

as far as I know, this was the first time HORSE was offered on the internet.

[DeeJ]

This would make me sign up! Love the razz and stud games. Who's got rakeback on FT /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Terry]

Wish I had known about that.

How was the quality of play? Were there a lot of tough players or were there quite a few who were obviously completely out of their element in some games?

[FeliciaLee]

Some tough players, some clueless ones. I won my only big pot in the Razz section against a guy who had 55KJ showing (so his best possible low would be a J5321. I had and 86xxx, so I just kept raising him until I was all-in.

Later, he said he didn't realize he couldn't use his fives twice in the same hand, and thought he had 655xx, lol.

The structure was okay for the first hour, but then really started biting into us. Just one loss, one bad beat or brick-up, and we were out.

Next time I hope they give us more chips, or make the levels 15 minutes instead of 10.

Felicia /images/graemlins/smile.gif
www.felicialee.net (http://www.felicialee.net)

[Tom Bayes]

It was great to have 157 in a mixed games tourney-first of many, I hope! It seemed most of the opposition in this tourney were decent to very good online players with only a handful of goobers, although Felicia seems to have gotten all of the Razz-impaired at her table.

I think FT has a great (by online standards) structure for no-limit, but they could back off a bit with the blind escalations for limit tourneys. I was playing tight and had a cold spell at the start of hour 2 and got desperate pretty quick.

The highlight of the tourney for me was winning 2 of the first 3 hands in the first round of holdem and briefly being #2 in chips. During the second round of stud I tried and failed to steal antes with a door ace and nothing else, stubbornly tried to bluff a guy off his king, and ended up pot-committed on 5th street-it took 2 runners for a flush to save me from the rail. Good result for a horrible play by me.

The rail did come in the second round of stud/8. I got 543, caught a 6 on 4th street and got the rest of my short stack in, then bricked out with Q,J,T. So I finished 61st, out of the money. I did finish just ahead of FL-I think we made a last-longer bet /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Perry Friedman from FT ended up winning. Since HORSE has been discontinued from the WSOP, does this mean that Perry is this year's world champ in HORSE?

[FeliciaLee]

Yes, I agree, the 2nd hour was tough. Just takes one beat and you're out.

Yeah, I think I was 65, so you finished ahead of me. No LL bet, no one ever asked me to do one, lol. But my biggest disappointment was Tanya. She was the chip lead throughout the whole first hour, virtually, and was up to over 9300 in chips from 1500, then lost them all in about 15 minutes!

Why that girl insists on playing almost every hand, and pushing losing hands is beyond me. She was a shoe-in! Instead, she was out right after us. Ugh! I know her in RL, and if we could combine our playing styles...watch out!

The Plaza is taking up the HORSE gauntlet. Their big event, the World Poker Challenge, starts in April. I plan on playing HORSE if I am able.

Felicia /images/graemlins/smile.gif
www.felicialee.net (http://www.felicialee.net)

[mike_scar]

Why did they discontinue HORSE from the WSOP? Can we blame it on scott fishman being annoying?

[IronDragon1]

For No Limit Hold Em, No Limit Hold Em and No Limit Hold Em

Goddamn waste.

[FeliciaLee]

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For No Limit Hold Em, No Limit Hold Em and No Limit Hold Em

Goddamn waste.

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Plaza is taking up the gauntlet on this one. Not only are they going to be the new downtown "series," but they are bringing back all of the old games, along with the old structure of the WSOP. Tons of chips, long levels that barely increase.

On top of that, they are promising 4-5% maximum juice, even on the lowest buy-in events.

Rooms are only $30 for the series. Not the fanciest rooms in town, but still...

http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/schedule1777.htm

Felicia /images/graemlins/smile.gif

PS: HORSE is on May 2nd. Be there!!! Say Hi to me!

[lighterjobs]

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Plaza is taking up the gauntlet on this one. Not only are they going to be the new downtown "series," but they are bringing back all of the old games, along with the old structure of the WSOP. Tons of chips, long levels that barely increase.

On top of that, they are promising 4-5% maximum juice, even on the lowest buy-in events.

Rooms are only $30 for the series. Not the fanciest rooms in town, but still...

http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/schedule1777.htm

Felicia /images/graemlins/smile.gif

PS: HORSE is on May 2nd. Be there!!! Say Hi to me!

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that is great that the plaza is going to be doing their tournaments like this. what kind of turnout are they expecting?

[lighterjobs]

wow. i just saw that they are only going to have the 50k event scheduled for two days. seems kind of a short event for what the entry fee is.

[BlackAces]

I can't imagine they expect a gigantic turnout for it. Probably less than 200 at that buyin.

[FeliciaLee]

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that is great that the plaza is going to be doing their tournaments like this. what kind of turnout are they expecting?

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This is the problem I've found with Plaza time and again. They don't advertise outside of a page in CP. They don't spread the word well at all. They still haven't decided on whether the max juice is going to be 4% or 5%. They haven't been running sats for months trying to get people to play multi-tiered sats for the 50k entry. They just come up with these fantastic ideas, then kind of sit around on their butts for months. Drives me bonkers.

Word is spreading around. People at Commerce were talking about it, people in San Diego, but are those the people we want there? Naw, let's have some TV newbies! The hardcore players are always going to come.

Supposedly they are in negotiations with Spike TV for television coverage. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Felicia /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[FeliciaLee]

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I can't imagine they expect a gigantic turnout for it. Probably less than 200 at that buyin.

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I don't think they're expecting over 50.

[IronDragon1]

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that is great that the plaza is going to be doing their tournaments like this. what kind of turnout are they expecting?

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This is the problem I've found with Plaza time and again. They don't advertise outside of a page in CP. They don't spread the word well at all. They still haven't decided on whether the max juice is going to be 4% or 5%. They haven't been running sats for months trying to get people to play multi-tiered sats for the 50k entry. They just come up with these fantastic ideas, then kind of sit around on their butts for months. Drives me bonkers.

Word is spreading around. People at Commerce were talking about it, people in San Diego, but are those the people we want there? Naw, let's have some TV newbies! The hardcore players are always going to come.

Supposedly they are in negotiations with Spike TV for television coverage. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Felicia /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

What the hell's razz?

Seriously, I'd be there in a flash but I gots school at the time.

Also, I'm poor

[partygirluk]

WOuld be interested in knowing when a tourney like this is next run. GL.

[FeliciaLee]

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WOuld be interested in knowing when a tourney like this is next run. GL.

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Keep a watch on RGP. The subject line should have HORSE in it, so it will be easy to spot.

[Good Friar]

There are two coming up on Full Tilt Wed and Thurs Night. What's the password?

[beset7]

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There are two coming up on Full Tilt Wed and Thurs Night. What's the password?

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It was posted on RGP today but i can't find it. go to www.recpoker.com (http://www.recpoker.com) and sift through the spam and GCA posts today and find it. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[RalphyWiggum]

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There are two coming up on Full Tilt Wed and Thurs Night. What's the password?

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For anyone who's interested the password is: unstable

[Tom Bayes]

You did it now. You are going to make the "RGP only" crowd mad because we might have a big tourney (more than a couple dozen) with a decent prize pool again. Shame on you /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

As far as I'm concerned, the more the merrier. I'd love to see mixed-games take off and at least be a regularly available niche of online poker.

I'm sure Perry Friedman and Full Tilt will be happy to have as many player as possible joining FT and paying tourney entry fees (and maybe playing more).

[pipes]

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There are two coming up on Full Tilt Wed and Thurs Night. What's the password?

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For anyone who's interested the password is: unstable

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Horse tournament tonight on FullTilt? If so, what time? Why is there a password for the tournament?....

Tks

[beset7]

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There are two coming up on Full Tilt Wed and Thurs Night. What's the password?

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For anyone who's interested the password is: unstable

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Horse tournament tonight on FullTilt? If so, what time? Why is there a password for the tournament?....

Tks

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It's a private tourney for posters on rec.gambling.poker. However, much as a recent post on RGP feared, it was only a matter of time before the password was posted on "other" forums. /images/graemlins/grin.gif And no, that wasn't me. Frankly, if they don't the password spread around they shouldn't post it on the usenet.

[FellKnight]

There is a password simply because the H.O.R.S.E. tournament format is still in beta-testing mode. Since Perry Friedman is an RGP-er, he offered to let RGP test out the format, and we were more than happy to comply.

Although I would be happy to have kept the tournament strictly RGP, I have no problems with having the members of this forum come and play, though it would be nice if you posted some feedback on RGP for Perry & crew afterwards.

Fell

[FeliciaLee]

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Although I would be happy to have kept the tournament strictly RGP, I have no problems with having the members of this forum come and play, though it would be nice if you posted some feedback on RGP for Perry & crew afterwards.

Fell

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I agree, and I did.

I belong to both forums, FWIW. Although I rarely post on RGP.

I can't play tonight, a local cardroom is adding $500 to their NLHE tourney. Too good to pass up!

Felicia /images/graemlins/smile.gif
www.felicialee.net (http://www.felicialee.net)

[Welshman]

I don't mind 2+2 interlopers playing either so why don't you identify yourselves so we can have a bit of friendly rivalry and banter. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[FeliciaLee]

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I don't mind 2+2 interlopers playing either so why don't you identify yourselves so we can have a bit of friendly rivalry and banter. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[/ QUOTE ]I have no imagination, I'm FeliciaLee or something similar everywhere.

Lee is my middle name, btw, my mother's maiden name. Not that anyone cares, but there ya go. Almost everywhere online has a Felicia registered, so I had to start using FeliciaLee on the web about ten years ago.

Felicia /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[pipes]

Where in Full Tilt is/was the tourney located. I could not find it anywhere? I looked under both Tournaments and Special...

[BlackAces]

It was under Private.