Bestest Ever !
Tonight has to go down as my best session of continual online poker play as it involved not taking a break from 7.00 pm until a bit after 11.30 pm.
A freeroll started at 7.00 pm on Ladbrokes, supposedly exclusive to readers of Poker Player magazine with the winner getting a $6500 package to one of the supporting tournaments at the currently ongoing World Series of Poker in Las Vegas (ie. not the main event). I came across a player from Sweden though who wouldn't admit where he got the password from and there were comments that a few in the last 20 didn't know what the prize was !
Then at 7.30 pm a $5000 freeroll started on Bet Direct which is the same software as Ladbrokes but (unusually) I could play both at the same time on the same computer. The weekly V-points freeroll on Virgin also started at 7.30 pm so I played that on my laptop but it didn't distract me for long !
I qualified for the $5k freeroll by playing in two $10+$1 MTTs on Bet Direct during the week (one was sufficient to qualify) and I was the second one out in one and I think fifth one out in the other !
Anyway, it basically helped that both tournaments were on the same software as I didn't have to switch screens and look for the fold (or raise) button in different places. Having said that I did once put in a big raise on Bet Direct with 45os and a board of AK4 (which was rightly called and punished) when I should have been putting in a big raise on Ladbrokes because I had flopped three Queens (I did get there and win the hand in the end !).
At one point I noticed I was lying 5th of 25 left in on Ladbrokes and 5th of 21 left in on Bet Direct. My highest position on Ladbrokes was to be third as I eventually went out in 19th. I don't think I could have taken up the Las Vegas trip but there was a share of $1000 for 2nd-9th so was disappointed not to make the final table.
Having gone out on Ladbrokes I could concentrate on Bet Direct and I think I hit the final table in 4th or 5th. Had a couple of reverses, including an A4 v AQ when the AQ asked his mate viewing if he should play it, thus announcing his hand whilst others were still to act - tut tut. He then got upset a little later when I took him out with 68clubs on a flop of 68T because he had minimum raised 20k pre-flop with ATos - he seem to think any raise should have been enough even though I had about 3x the chips he had !
That started a good run of cards which saw me take out the finishers in 6th - 3rd inclusive and had about a 5-1 lead going in heads up, which was soon back to something like my 600k in chips versus his 500k. I am now on the small blind with A rag (A5 I think) and go all-in to be called (not surprisingly) by his KK. Then the miracle A on either the flop or the turn, I forget which, and the first prize of $1209 is mine !!!!!
It was the most solid I have ever played, beating even the two Goa freerolls in which I finished second and first. Long may it continue ........
A freeroll started at 7.00 pm on Ladbrokes, supposedly exclusive to readers of Poker Player magazine with the winner getting a $6500 package to one of the supporting tournaments at the currently ongoing World Series of Poker in Las Vegas (ie. not the main event). I came across a player from Sweden though who wouldn't admit where he got the password from and there were comments that a few in the last 20 didn't know what the prize was !
Then at 7.30 pm a $5000 freeroll started on Bet Direct which is the same software as Ladbrokes but (unusually) I could play both at the same time on the same computer. The weekly V-points freeroll on Virgin also started at 7.30 pm so I played that on my laptop but it didn't distract me for long !
I qualified for the $5k freeroll by playing in two $10+$1 MTTs on Bet Direct during the week (one was sufficient to qualify) and I was the second one out in one and I think fifth one out in the other !
Anyway, it basically helped that both tournaments were on the same software as I didn't have to switch screens and look for the fold (or raise) button in different places. Having said that I did once put in a big raise on Bet Direct with 45os and a board of AK4 (which was rightly called and punished) when I should have been putting in a big raise on Ladbrokes because I had flopped three Queens (I did get there and win the hand in the end !).
At one point I noticed I was lying 5th of 25 left in on Ladbrokes and 5th of 21 left in on Bet Direct. My highest position on Ladbrokes was to be third as I eventually went out in 19th. I don't think I could have taken up the Las Vegas trip but there was a share of $1000 for 2nd-9th so was disappointed not to make the final table.
Having gone out on Ladbrokes I could concentrate on Bet Direct and I think I hit the final table in 4th or 5th. Had a couple of reverses, including an A4 v AQ when the AQ asked his mate viewing if he should play it, thus announcing his hand whilst others were still to act - tut tut. He then got upset a little later when I took him out with 68clubs on a flop of 68T because he had minimum raised 20k pre-flop with ATos - he seem to think any raise should have been enough even though I had about 3x the chips he had !
That started a good run of cards which saw me take out the finishers in 6th - 3rd inclusive and had about a 5-1 lead going in heads up, which was soon back to something like my 600k in chips versus his 500k. I am now on the small blind with A rag (A5 I think) and go all-in to be called (not surprisingly) by his KK. Then the miracle A on either the flop or the turn, I forget which, and the first prize of $1209 is mine !!!!!
It was the most solid I have ever played, beating even the two Goa freerolls in which I finished second and first. Long may it continue ........
posted by runadrum at 12:38 am
2 Comments:
Good win in the $5k Freeroll
i busted in 14th (Riverchance) and had you pretty much down as likely winner then.
10:14 pm
Thanks, you played well. The cards were kind to me although it struck me today that I played hands in the $5k that I was folding in the WSOP freeroll so perhaps fortune favoured the brave.
12:16 am
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