$24 buy in and hit another FTOPS satellite

Need 1 more win to complete the cycle...

FTOPS Satellites

I managed to satellite into 2 more FTOPS events. I already had 1 so that gave me 3 total. I'm not sure that I will play in any of them, but the nice thing is, I am qualified for 2 freerolls because of it. The bummer is, I expect some decent players to be in these freerolls. But we shall see. After all, I'm in it, so I'm sure there are going to be other luckboxes in it like me, right Wonka?

Last night I got heads up in a Satellite to an FTOPS seat. I had the other player pretty well figured out, so was confident to take it down even though we were about even in chips. I chipped up nicely and was at about 42K to his 22K when this hand happened.

I raised 2 1/2x from the SB with Ah5h. He called. Flop came Jh5s6c. I insta shoved. I mean shoved so fast it was like shoving in the dark. He thought for a long time and finally called with 4c7c. I thought I had him dominated, but in reality was only a 57% favorite. Better than a coin flip, but not much. Bad thing was, he beat me with runner runner clubs for the flush.



From there it all seemed to go down hill. We were at 600/1200 blinds and here are the hands I got: 64 76 210 85 Q2 34 35 23 AQ (raised and won the blinds) 2J KQ (raised and won the blinds) K5 (raised and won the blinds) K5 (raised and won the blinds) 78 54 45 24 26 and finally 10J (which I shoved and lost to A4). Bad timing for a bad run of cards.



Still, second paid $54. Not bad for a $5 entry and $5 add on. Would have loved that $216 first place though.



And here's a shot of Bowie300 (friend I've been tutoring on 45player Super Turbos) that he sent me last night:


I hope you are tearing up the Super Turbos as well.

Stay patient....

FTOPS X coming

My poker play is still unprofitable right now, but I do feel I have turned the corner. I've stopped tilting so much, I've returned to my tight aggressive play. I've been playing a bunch of satelites to the FTOPS and Sunday Million's on FTP. The bad thing about that is they usually only pay first place or pay very small amounts to 2nd or 3rd spot. So that hurts my ROI when I finish in the top 10% 3 out of every 10 tournaments but don't necessarily get paid.

I did qualify for FTOPS#8. It is a rebuy tournament. It will be my first FTOPS to play in. Actually, I hope it will be my 3rd or 4th. I am trying to get into FTOPS#1 and any others I can satellite into.

I've been playing almost every single night on FTP and feel like I have to get a little "fix" each night. So I think I'm going to take a few days off. Slow things down a bit. I really need to FOCUS harder when I play and if I'm playing every single night, then I think that makes me sloppy. Part of the reason for playing more has also been thanks to TheCloserX5 winning $52K+ in the Sunday 750K Guarantee. He's been on a heater lately as he took down the Big Daily Double B last Saturday as well for $2700+. Watching him do it, definitely lites a fire under me that I can do it too.

One last person to mention is sprstoner . He's been on a heater as well. I had him linked on my site forever and then I finally took him off after he seemingly quit blogging. He's back now and I love his blog. His poker thoughts run similiar to mine (although I wish it were our poker skills that were similiar). Check him out if you get a chance. I'm throwing him back up on my links indefinietly.

Tonight is my monthly tournament to win a WSOP ME buy in next year. I'm still in first place, but I'm tied now, and there are several people on my heals. Time to turn it on and prove that last month was a fluke where I went out with a set of queens to a runner-runner straight. I'm going to try to throw up a poll so look for that too, soon.

Stay patient....