Bodog 100k

I won a ticket into this week's 100k G'd on Bodog. Any observations from playing this particular tournament? Field size/play? Any big cashes from CCr's?
Thanks

I have not played in those, but good luck!

Bout 650 players.Field is soft. Im trying to get 25 posts soon to play the 100k CC satellite lol

I have played the Bodog 100k quite often and have reached the FT four times. It used to be pretty soft, particularly in the early levels. A lot of qualifiers not accustomed to playing deepstack tournies would get themselves lost by playing mediocre hands out of position. It was very profitable to play connectors and pairs in position.

Since Black Friday, I notice that the number of players in the game has increased (presumably people displaced from Stars and Tilt), so it`s possible that things may have changed a little. I haven`t played in recent weeks so can`t be sure.

You don't have to play it 'this week'... ticket is good for ~3mos. (I think it's 3mos.?.. maybe 60days?). As mentioned above, field is soft but also the US MTT regs. who are no longer able to play on FTP & Stars will be in this game.
I've only played it once - yesterday... not soo good. In early levels AA < 63 & then KK < QJo. I was surprised (although I expected it) by just how bad soooo many of the players were. Many seemed like they weren't Tournament players (ok.. I check most of them out - - running their names on a couple sites/doin' searches on them... & found quite a few to be losing players who play stuff like $3/$6 FLHE, passive players seeing too many flops, Limp/Calling, calling down 3bets O.O.P. & willing to get it in with weak hands).
I believe quite a few CC members have had good results in it, with many of them ITM regularly.

You were right first time, m8, 3 months.

Yeah I knew that, not sure why I worded it that way. Ok sounds good. I prob wont play this weekend. But when I do, I'd like to get a thread going of others who are in the game. I did the satellite hoping to have the T$ to enter the final for the live seats to Punta Cana. They used to just give you T$ instead of an actual ticket. But since I won the ticket on a 7$ rebuy/add on without rebuying or adding on once... itd be tough to complain.

Just ship the $100k, then you'll have the buyin for PuntaCana (along w hookers & blow obviously).. but don't punt the PuntaCana.
I'm hoping to take a few more shots at it myself (the $100k that is). Alot of CC member's names are easily recognizable in the lobby.

ShowDoun plays the Bodog 100k frequently since Black Friday. He used to enjoy the Sunday tourneys on fulltilt and pokerstars where the prize pools would be 100k and buyin only 10 bux or 22 for the double deuce. He cashes in it often but nothing higher than a top 12 finish. The payouts are top heavy and he gets tempted to go for the mincash if he has less than 10bb's with 50 or so players to go to get into the money. This strategy probably costs him the chance to accumulate a large stack to go deep, but he gets itm more often playing slow and cautious near bubble. The times he did go deep he had a safe stack near bubble.

The field size is about 600 players and usually has some overlay. 90 get paid so it's a high pct compared to most mtts that get itm. Always seems to be a loose aggro on the table early on and 4 or 5 tightwads waiting for premos. I look up each player on bluffmagazine . com and about 10 pct of the field have over 6 figures in overall winnings. Most players are satty winners, newbies or players with less than 1k won.

Sadly, this is the only tourney with a 6figure prize pool that he plays. He did play the Merge Network 100k a handful of times in May/June and even won free tickets to it in their 100 seats to 100k freeroll, but went broke chasing their bad beat jackpot at the cash tables. He never deposited on any poker site and doesn't want to start now.

zubs1aa scored big in Bodog's Poker Open for 75k. He plays in a few cardschat Bodog tourneys and probably does the 100k sometimes. given68 and bryan24 recently won tix thanks to the private games. Silverfox432 was chipleader when I busted a couple weeks ago in the 100k and went deepish for top 27. JohnnySeaBet aka PokerOrifice finally dusted off the cobwebs on his ticket and played the other day. Connector hands like 63 and QJ are good to play against his type early on

although he never saw the hands, showdoun thinks he knows what he's talking about - - both hands villain were out of pos. & not gettin' near imp. odds to be in the pot. JSB prob lost the min. on each. He then doubled thru the QJo donk, but then went busto on a stnd. shove spot w AQs from HJ running into QQ.

Ok who's on the list today?

Do they have to be soooooted or not? 63s I can see but 63o I'm not so sure. Should these be played out of position to?

Best of luck all.

I was mostly joking about playing 63 but qjoff or suited 65, etc. are certainly playable in position and multiway and/or headsup out of position lol. If you have a feeling you're gonna hit or know you can bluff the villain off their hand then any 2cards will do.

I didn't have much luck today in the 100k. 372nd out of 621 players. Had 6500 at the 1st break but then tried checkraise bluffing instead of cbetting and got into trouble as they wouldn't fold jack9 on jackhigh flop. I barrelled the turn and bet very small on the river. Dropped me to 10bb's openshoved kingtenoff from sb ran into 66 busto. Cashed in the 130pm 7k gtd $11 buyin for the weak 18.92 mincash.

I only play on Merge. But i know in the past there was a big overlay on the Bodog major. If that is the case, have fun!! It might not be since BF, but who knows.

when i played it the players were pretty soft early on but you will be able to figure out who and who not to battle with. there are alot of reg's there who have been playing there for years so i would open up higher buyin mtt's while your playing and make notes on the better players. bodog's software runs kind of slow for me so try not to get impatient. about a 10k or more overlay atleast.

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