ramjam
11-01-2003, 06:52 AM
I have started to recce at Gaming Club. As I think has been mentioned here before, it appears to present a cornucopia of freerolls and added value tourneys.
I played 50 ring game hands yesterday (in quite fishy company) and this qualified me for a $3,000 freeroll at 1am EST/6am GMT this morning. While playing there last night I noticed that the $100,000-guaranteed $220-buy-in monthly no limit final was in progress. There were (I think) 290 entrants. This represented a mind-boggling $36,000 of added dead money (or over $100 of EV per entrant).
Anyway, I didn't wake up this morning till 7.30am. I had left by computer turned on and logged in and it greeted me good morning with a lot of enthusiastic beeping. Bleary-eyed and without the aid of caffeine, I managed to perceive that I was still in the tourney, having outlasted about 600 of the 939 entrants, with 630 of my 1,000 starting chips still in front of me. Unfortunately (and I've no idea how the blind structure works), 400 of them were soon going in on the BB with J3s. A lot of checking and a 3 on the river allowed me to move into profit for the first time. Another hour or so of ups and downs and I came in 24th and earned the princely sum of $10. The prize structure seems designed to encourage mass participation - the first $260 places paid from $4 up (with about $1,000 going to the top 3 finishers).
For the moment, the water seems fine. Unfortunately, the OIC may lead to a big increase in shark attacks.
I played 50 ring game hands yesterday (in quite fishy company) and this qualified me for a $3,000 freeroll at 1am EST/6am GMT this morning. While playing there last night I noticed that the $100,000-guaranteed $220-buy-in monthly no limit final was in progress. There were (I think) 290 entrants. This represented a mind-boggling $36,000 of added dead money (or over $100 of EV per entrant).
Anyway, I didn't wake up this morning till 7.30am. I had left by computer turned on and logged in and it greeted me good morning with a lot of enthusiastic beeping. Bleary-eyed and without the aid of caffeine, I managed to perceive that I was still in the tourney, having outlasted about 600 of the 939 entrants, with 630 of my 1,000 starting chips still in front of me. Unfortunately (and I've no idea how the blind structure works), 400 of them were soon going in on the BB with J3s. A lot of checking and a 3 on the river allowed me to move into profit for the first time. Another hour or so of ups and downs and I came in 24th and earned the princely sum of $10. The prize structure seems designed to encourage mass participation - the first $260 places paid from $4 up (with about $1,000 going to the top 3 finishers).
For the moment, the water seems fine. Unfortunately, the OIC may lead to a big increase in shark attacks.