Seriously ... I haven't done a timeline on it yet or anything, but I'm pretty sure that FullTilt is slowly closing the gap between the different FullTilt Online
They probably won't stop until they're running one continuous FTOPS series. But hey, if they can keep the fields huge I'm not complaining trick cards!
My FTOPS hasn't been great so far, but it hasn't been terrible. I made a deep run in the $215+rebuys event, which is always one of my favorite FTOPS tournaments. I was one of the chip leaders for a decent portion of the tournament but ended up fizzling out not too long after we got into the money.
I also cashed in one other event of the series so far, the $500 6-max PLO. I ended up getting it in on a pretty standard Omaha post-flop flip, holding bottom set and a straight draw against top two with a flush draw, and cashing for barely more than the minimum.
This is just going to further my recent desire to improve my Omaha game through books and training
I'm going to try to finish reading Hwang's book on the game before I play the $500 rebuy PLO prelim at the Bike next week. It'll be the only preliminary event I play leading up to the WPT Legends of Poker $10k.
Anyone with a sick memory or anyone who may be stalking me (you like em chunky?) will be saying to yourself, "Really? You're going back to the LOP after what happened to you last year?"
Season 7 on the WPT was not a fun one for me, highlighted by losing a couple of six figure pots deep in 10k events with A-A all in pre. However, the Bike tournament really took the cake.
In the first orbit of day 3 as we approached the money, I stacked off with A♦ A♣ against K♣ Q♠ on a A♠ J♠ T♠ flop. Still optimistic that the board would pair, I was in full sweat mode ... until the K♠ hit the turn and sent me out the door laughing.
Yea, laughing. I distinctly remember walking out the door cracking up at how sick it was, because what else could I do?
A couple guys from one of the other reporting sites saw me as I was getting to my car and asked, "What the hell happened Stout?" They looked at me a little confused as I laughed and told them, "Top set of aces vs a Royal, gg." I assume they thought I was delirious.
Anyway, I'm going back for that tournament with a vengeance. They're going to have to cooler me again if I'm not going deep because I've been staring at computer screens too much since the WSOP ended and I'm really anxious and ready to play some
Speaking of big money, I think I'm going to play the $2,500 2-day FTOPS event tomorrow. It's a very tough field, but I usually limit myself to 3-4 tables and really pay close attention to it ... basically playing it more like a live tournament than a typical online donkament.
I've had some decent results in it, with two cashes and one bubble in it over the five times I've played it (they ran a $5k 6-max in its place for a while), but it's time for me to really go for the kill in this tournament.
After FTOPS and Legends in LA, I'll finally be leaving the West siiiiiiiide for the first time since I moved out here. As much as I REALLY love living out here, it's time for me to visit my homeland of New Jersey.
Even though they shrank one of my favorite WPT events down to a $3500 buy in, I'll be skanking around the Borgata for most of September just like the good ole days!
Then I'll be making a trip across the pond for the WSOP Europe Main Event and the EPT London event. Strangely enough, despite all the travel I've done I've never been to London ... or England or all for that matter.
I've decided that it's time to visit the motherland (well, one of the many, since I'm a European/Native American mutt), and a couple of huge tournaments laden with crazy Euros seems like good times.
Time to get some travel booked and get some rest for this $2500 ...
-- Matt Stout
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