Friday, March 30, 2007
Ultimate Bet Tourney
That's when the big cards starting coming. AQ unsuited early. I make it 3x to go and everyone folds except the biggest stack who is seated at my table. The flop comes all low cards. I put in 1/2 pot size bet and the big stack goes over the top. I stall for a while and then fold. There goes 25% of my stack. I stall a little more and decide to again wait for only good cards. The button passes around and again I get AQ unsuited. Again, I make it 3x to go and this time the big stack goes ALL in. There are 44 players left and I am not interested in going broke. So, I fold. The blinds are now rocketing up with the antes. I am not quite desperate but getting close with now 42 players left and me in the small blind. That's when I get 44. Everyone folds except the button who makes it 3x to go. I think for a long while. Do I limp in? Do I reraise? I am not going to fold. Not getting any real world clues, I decide that it isn't enough just to make the money. I want to be in the top 5 or better. My stack is half his so I chose to put him to the test and went all in. The big blind folded and he called in light speed flipping up KK.
I am out before I can spell Bubble....
Any thoughts?
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Saturday, March 17, 2007
Ted Forrest wins Shooting Star
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Final Table of Shooting Star $2000 Event
This is the final table of the $2000 Bay 101 event. There are mostly pros at this table but can you spot the Bay 101 regular who is mixing it up with the best??
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Clonie Gowen at the Bay 101 Main Event
Clonie Gowen, one of Surgical Poker's favorite players at the Shooting Star. She was at the same table as David Williams. Later, on Day 1 she was out. Hopefully, she'll be back.
Bay 101 Shooting Star Day 1A
This is a view from the floor of the Bay 101 Card Room about 2 hours into Day 1A of the Main Event.
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Phil Hellmuth Playing the Shooting Star
Phil playing in the Shooting Star, Day 1. Unfortunately, much later that day his AK suited got cracked by pocket rockets and he was out.
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Phil Hellmuth at Bay 101 Shooting Star
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Ms. M makes the Top Ten at Bay 101 $2000 Event
I was one spot away from the WPT Spotlight Link (World Poker Tour) http://www.worldpokertour.com/players/?x=womenplayers&womenplayers=1
As most of you know I fallen on the Poker wagon and have been doing pretty well with it. I mostly play no-limit cash games but wanted to play the WPT-WSOP that San Jose Bay 101 is hosting this week. I occasionally go to Bay 101 and play some cash games where I've also met some new friends.
On Sunday I played my first WPT Event for a buy in of $2000, which half was staked. If I place in the money I would give the sponsor 40%. My current sponsor is a player that I met at Bay 101 who usually plays the $100-$200 limit game. The game started with 250 players and about 40 pro players (Todd Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Gavin Smith, Steve Wong, Miami John etc.) with everyone starting with 10,000 in chips at
I got down to the final table of ten players (seven of the ten were pros) with $70k in chips, with the average chip count at $300k. At this point it was
If I would have been able to make the next day, I would have at least made an additional $2500 or much more, had an article in Mercury News (this writer from Mercury News was preparing this story about me if I made the final table), I would also have been tracked by WPT with my wins on the website.
M
Comment from AM: Next time I am willing to stake Ms. M. Or, perhaps she can give me some lessons!@