Alon Ipser
Cardschat Elite
Silver Level
Well, I’ve had a pretty good week IMO. I managed to place in the money in 4 freerolls not counting my best finish which was at Stars. After almost 6 hours I managed to place 5th out of 5887 players for which I earned the opportunity to play in another 2600+ tournament which you have probably guessed I didn’t fair so well in. I was really hoping to get a small stake going at Stars but looks like I will have to find another way as their freeroll system is damn tough.
As for my other wins I placed 15th out of 120 in a PLO freeroll at Noble and just finished 12th out of 260, also at Noble. I received $5 and $1 respectively. Both tournaments were qualified for by playing a specified number of hands at Noble. For those of you that like Omaha, Noble, Titan and their sister skins have a nice little $500 freeroll that goes every Saturday that you qualify for by playing 50 raked hands of Omaha. That is the one I placed 15th in, and if I can do it, it can’t be that hard.
My last 2 wins came at Party and I was playing both at the same time as they started an half an hour apart. I placed 90th and 67th both out of 3000 players for a total of $1.65. I have placed in 3 out of 5 of Party’s freerolls. I don’t think it because of my playing but has more to do with the number of sit outs. I think I said last week that their registration starts like 7 hours (maybe 8) before the tournament starts so there is an unbelievable amount of sit outs. The first game I was seated to the left of the only other player not a sit out. If he folded, I bet and took the blinds. If he bet, I folded and he took the blinds. We cleaned out the table and were pretty even at the end because neither one of us got too greedy.
After my wins at Party I had $2.50 still not enough to play in any of their ring games so I entered one of their $1 tournaments and placed 39th out of 1892 players for $7.56 bringing my total to $9.06. I am thinking my best chances to win at party is at the SnG’s but if I lose the first one I am back down to trying to win in another $1 tourney so I played a .10/.25 NL table (their cheapest, limit starts at .25/.50). I managed to pick up a King high straight flush the first hand, all in, won. I hung around to see if my luck was going to stay but didn’t pick another hand by the time the blinds came around so I left the table. The idea was to get enough money to play the SnG and still have some if I lost which I did lose.
So this is where I sit after 2 weeks
Party $8.46
Noble $42.53
As for my other wins I placed 15th out of 120 in a PLO freeroll at Noble and just finished 12th out of 260, also at Noble. I received $5 and $1 respectively. Both tournaments were qualified for by playing a specified number of hands at Noble. For those of you that like Omaha, Noble, Titan and their sister skins have a nice little $500 freeroll that goes every Saturday that you qualify for by playing 50 raked hands of Omaha. That is the one I placed 15th in, and if I can do it, it can’t be that hard.
My last 2 wins came at Party and I was playing both at the same time as they started an half an hour apart. I placed 90th and 67th both out of 3000 players for a total of $1.65. I have placed in 3 out of 5 of Party’s freerolls. I don’t think it because of my playing but has more to do with the number of sit outs. I think I said last week that their registration starts like 7 hours (maybe 8) before the tournament starts so there is an unbelievable amount of sit outs. The first game I was seated to the left of the only other player not a sit out. If he folded, I bet and took the blinds. If he bet, I folded and he took the blinds. We cleaned out the table and were pretty even at the end because neither one of us got too greedy.
After my wins at Party I had $2.50 still not enough to play in any of their ring games so I entered one of their $1 tournaments and placed 39th out of 1892 players for $7.56 bringing my total to $9.06. I am thinking my best chances to win at party is at the SnG’s but if I lose the first one I am back down to trying to win in another $1 tourney so I played a .10/.25 NL table (their cheapest, limit starts at .25/.50). I managed to pick up a King high straight flush the first hand, all in, won. I hung around to see if my luck was going to stay but didn’t pick another hand by the time the blinds came around so I left the table. The idea was to get enough money to play the SnG and still have some if I lost which I did lose.
So this is where I sit after 2 weeks
Party $8.46
Noble $42.53