The Shark Tank

I had high hopes for the Guiness World Record event.  After all, I had probably won 20 seats to the damn thing.  Unfortunately, I busted in 8,860th place where 8,750 got paid.  I was short and shoved KQs which got looked up by A9.  I didn’t hit any of the cards I needed and I [...]

The Guiness event seems to have made the FFP sats even softer than usual or I’ve just been lucky.  I have cashed in 2 of the set of 4 sats at least three or four times and I’ve even cashed in 3 of the 4 once.  In addition, Stars gave me some free money because [...]

I’ve now seen at least 100 2 outers and 3 outers in these things. You see silly all-ins in the early stages when people seem to think gambling it up is the most fun way to proceed and then you see them later once the blinds get crazy. As a result, I’ve seen [...]

I played two cash tourneys with some of my accumulated T$ last night. I played a $4 limit tourney and a $5 NL tourney. The limit tourney was slightly softer than the WSOP limit event! I got bad beat like three times and busted out of the limit event early.
The NL event [...]

I have mostly been playing the Two Hundred Grand sats because they run pretty much continuously.  My record in the 70 FFP sats that pay one person $11 has been fairly dismal.  I think I’ve won two of them in 16 attempts.  I’ve run a bit bad, since I got heads-up in six and only [...]

I tried four of these last night, cashing in two.  They seat 20 players and award 6 seats.  Each seat is worth 11 T$.  This particular sat is worth about $3.39 at the concierge rate, so you need to cash in about a third of them to make the concierge rate.  I cashed in half, [...]

I have officially cashed out of online poker.  My last Stars withdrawal is on the way to the bank and my last Cake check is headed to me.  I actually have some money still at Bodog and WPEX, but I’m not 100% certain I’ll ever see that!  I’m working on them, though.  I have realized [...]

I managed to earn enough points to get back on track for SuperNova in October, but essentially completely droppped out again in November.  I think I played about 400 hands in November and I guess I’ve officially given up on the quest.  Although SuperNova would significantly increase my rakeback, I just can’t seem to get [...]