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Full Tilt Online Poker Series

May 7, 2009

(30min in the tournament)

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series started yesterday.

Due to the time difference i couldent play the first event, because it started at 3 in the night.
Today event 2 is being played, the $240 Omaha HI Pot Limit Knock Out tournament with a $250.000 guaranteed prizepool.
$200 goes to the prizepool, and then you get $40 when you knock out a player from the tournament.
If you eliminate one of the full tilt pros, then you get a $200 bounty.

Omaha PL is one of my favorite games, and i have been looking forward to this event at full tilt poker.
I get a great start and increase my starting stack of 5000 to 16.000 in the first 30min putting me in 3rd place. I had forgotten to start writing this review, so i cant remember the exact hands, but it was several minor pots.
After 40 minutes a big pot takes place when im being dealt  A-A-7-8 double suit.
Im in middle possition and just limb in so i dont give away my aces if i hit a set, and a double suited hand with 2 aces is a great hand to see a flop with.
I hit the nuts on the flop with 8-q-3 suited on the board. We are 3 players on the flop, and there is a 200 bet before me which i just call, and so does the last guy. Turn now brings a 10 of the same suit, and i instantly think that this make a straigh flush possible. First player bets out 500 and i now raise pot incase someone is drawing for a house. Last player instantly calls my bet and the raiser folds. He moves all in on the river when a 2 hits, which dosent change anything. Offcourse i dont fold in this spot although im afraid of the straight flush, and sure enough he flips 9-j and i loose a 12.500 pot that would have given me a great chiplead in the tournament.
Im still at 10.000 though, so i just need to calm down and move on.
Im home alone with my 18 months old son, and he helps me out as he starts crying for a bottle giving me a 10 min break, and when i return the first break in the tournament starts. 

I shouldent really be surprised by the number of “fish” in this tournament, but i am. After all its a $240 buyin, but the way people play is redicilous. There is no room for advanced moves, and i just sit tight as a rock and wait for a good spot. I take down some smaller pots, and apart from that nothing much happens the second hour of the tour and im at 14.000 in chips when the second break starts.

568 players remain out of 1218.
Largest stack is 47.000 and average stack is 10.700
Blinds now start at 240-120

I have spotted a terrible player sitting a few seats before me, and i hope i get a chance to get some action from him. He keeps accumulating chips, but unfortunately he dosent last long, and he busts before i get a chance to take some of hes chips.
With blinds level of 12 minutes, its a pretty fast tournament and my stack dosent seem as much after 40 minutes after the second break where i got 12.000 and blinds are 500-250 so i hope to get a big pot soon to take of some of the pressure. Im not crazy low, but soon i will have to make a move to double up.
My “tight as a rock” and wait for a monster hand strategy seems to fail.
We have now played for 3 hours and its time for the 3rd break.
My stack is now 11.000 and blinds are 600-300.

The first 2 hands i get k-k-x-x and call the pot raises to hit the flop. It dosent happen, and im at 9000.
I feel the desperation and i really need a double up now, just to hit the average stack.
8-9-10-A doubble suit and i call a pot raise to see a flop, thats totally blank. Blinds go up to 800-400 and i got 6700. I now feel that its only a matter of time before someone put me out of my misery.
With A-Q-10-3 doubble suit i feel its time to put in the rest of my chips, and i get up against K-K-J-4 doubble suit. One of the suits i got covered. I spike the ace on the flop, and that doubbles me up to 15.000
Its still only half of the average stack, so the chips needs go get back to work again soon.
Blinds have now increased to 1000-500 and after a few rounds im down to 10.000 in chips.
It time to get in the action again, and A-A-9-6 double suit seems like a hand that could do the job. I raise pot in early possition and get a reraise from the big blind. I call with the rest of my chips of course.
He shows A-Q-J-2 double suit and the flop comes J-J-8 rainbow giving him a set.
Pretty brutal, and im thinking its over but the turn brings a beautiful ace and i scoop the pot with aces full. Im now at 21.000 and blinds increase to 1200-600.
Average stack is 37.000 so im still way behind.
We are getting close to the money though. 135 gets paid, and we are 156 left.

Its time for another break and im down to 15.000
143 player are still in the game, and im in 122 position, and blinds are 1600-800.
I will wait for 8 more to get knocked out so i make the money, and then i should still be left with 10k to make a recovery and win it all…!
It dosent take long before we hit the money and i got 13.000 left.
Im ready to do some flipping and start to increase my stack.
Im on the button when i pick up K-K-9-9 double suit. Everybody folds to the guy before me who bets pot. I thinks its a good spot to push my stack, and i do.
He shows A-J-10-7 with no suit, and i win the pot with my kings bringing me up to 28k.
Next time im in big blind, i get a free flop with 4-6-9-J and hit the nut straight, but with 2 suited cards. I check to big blind who bets half the pot, and i then raise the pot. He folds and im at 33k, giving me some room to relax.
Blinds increase to 2400-1200.
Like always when you hit the money, peoples starting hand requirements go drasticly down and the field thins out fast.
Although im still at less than half of average, im not in a hurry.
Nothing happens for awhile, and my stack slowly decreses to 22.000. I then take down a small pot and have 34.000 on the button. There is a very loose maniac on my right with a huge stack and hes involved in every hand. Everybody folds to him and he bets pot. Blinds are 4000-2000 and i look at A-A-Q-2 with one suit, and its a easy decition to push my stack. He instantly calls and shows A-10-10-4 with one suit. An ugly 10 hits the flop, and hes trips finish me off. I would have been in good shape with 72k, but i guess it just wasent meant to be. Im pretty happy with the result though in the first event, and experience is always nice. I finish 63rd and get $512 for my effort.

I look forward to playing another Full Tilt Poker FTOPS event, but i havent decieded which one i will play next yet.

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