Party Poker's STEPS Sit and Go challenge -inneresting.

[Greg Zabawa]

It would be a lot more interesting if more people knew about it. It takes forever to fill up Steps 3-5.

[Twentysack]

Hi, just wanted to add some thoughts about the STEPS. I played in the 1st step last night. It is definately not a cakewalk. While the players aren't that great, its compareable to about a 30+3. There was some mention of the blinds being by 10 min instead of hands and while this is an improvement it still became a push fest in the one i was in. I ended up busting out in 7th after open pushing ~T1500 at the 200/400 blinds on the button with ATo and getting called by the sb's AJo and bb's KK. Stealing is ESSENTIAL in this one.

[ilya]

I agree, they are not nearly as soft as I would have expected.

[SmileyEH]

At least we know they will be profitable:

***** Hand History for Game 1267934441 *****
NL Hold'em Trny:7703948 Level:5 Blinds (50/100) - Monday, December 06, 19:30:46 EDT 2004
Table 5th Steps 2-Table(157006) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 1: RoJoSox ( $900 )
Seat 2: Eeban ( $2040 )
Seat 3: Gigabet ( $2240 )
Seat 6: teacuppoker ( $365 )
Seat 7: Resolute78 ( $415 )
Seat 8: ShipITGoon ( $425 )
Seat 9: craizyraizy ( $2385 )
Seat 10: ZeeJustin ( $1230 )
Trny:7703948 Level:5
Blinds (50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
RoJoSox folds.
Eeban folds.
Gigabet folds.
teacuppoker folds.
Resolute78 folds.
ShipITGoon folds.
craizyraizy raises [250].
ZeeJustin is all-In.
Anandamide: call
Anandamide: calllcalll
craizyraizy calls [930].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jc, 8s, 3h ]
Anandamide: call
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7s ]
craizyraizy shows [ Js, Tc ] a pair of jacks.

ZeeJustin shows [ As, 4d ] high card ace.
Player ZeeJustin finished in 17 place
craizyraizy wins 2460 chips from the main pot with a pair of jacks.
see
ZeeJustin has left the table.

[whiskeytown]

I lost to the same hand in mine...the chump called for a third of his stack with J10 suited and flopped an openender...

ah well...next time all in preflop with AK [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

RB

[eastbay]

Yuck. That seems like a cheap device to prevent people from keeping their winnings. "You win! Guess what, you can't cash out!"

Not for me... I play SnGs partly for the low variance. This entirely defeats that purpose.

[Registrationtoo]

playing on Step 1. Incredibly fishing. Two people out in first two hands just at mytable [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

took me about 15 minutes to ifnd a game. they were all full. Seems like its going to be popular. Hopefully i get to step 2 ! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Greg Zabawa]

I just played 5 Step 3's and won entry to Step 4 in 4 of them. So far so good, out of every 12 times I enter Step 3 I need just one 4th place finish in Step 5. I think this could be very EV+ for me.

[Sundevils21]

is there any way to sell your seat if you make the last step?

[niwotyalpi]

No it would be great if you could just take the 1000