Haha, bovada is cool with the animation crap with certain hands. I just beat AA with KJspades (I was UTG raised he was bb for about 400 more so obv i call).
Anyhow i got a flush and "cracked aces" and they actually cracked up it was funny i had to LOL.
2nd break is through and late reg finally over, sitting about 19kish chips with 500 people left.
Edit: yuck, just got sucked out on a rivered straight to lose 4k, AJ vs 910 flop Q9J, he bet half pot 1100 i called, turn Q he bet 2100 (thought about reraising but called, river K he checked I checked). In hindsight had thought of raising pre and didn't but should have.
eek was doing quite well, took out a 15k stack (got a little luck of 55 vs KK and hit a 5 on the turn) to bump me up to almost 50k stack then not getting many hands finally picked up QQ in sb, MP minraised to 2400 i reraised to 5499 he jammed and I instacalled to fac AA of which he hit one on the flop so dropped to 27k and now blinds are 800/1600 20 more people before ITM.
Seems I'm getting back in this, from a 3 k stack shortly ago up to 57k now with 65 remaining. Still below avg stack and only <15bb but still alive with a chip and a chair.
Edit: 5th break concluding, now up to 132k 51 remaining
Went out in 14th all, had a 300k stack at one point earlier but lost a flip bringing me down to 200k and just went more or less card dead again and dwindled to about 100k and at 8k/16k blinds i was btn and shove to try and pick up blinds and antes to keep me going but ran into AQ vs my J5 and we both ended with a flush but his obv was higher. Would have been another 5 spots before the money pay increased and hoped to pick up some chippies to help me get there as the 1600 ante was gruling even when not in the blinds lol.
Quite the run considering how close i was to out like 50 people ago, oh how nice it would have been to TID for 25k but in the meantime 14th got me almost 1200$$.
Yay for the ticket I won in the cc buyin
Edit: Thanks to all that followed along my ups and downs of the tourny via the thread.
Yup just posted up that thread, its certainly at the bottom of the list but I am very happy with it. Actually very happy with my MTT play lately overall.
Love following a good thinking player deep. I find myself trolling that rail thread when i get bored Ive only played Bovadas 100k 3 times, min cashed once. Other 2 times i got a little unlucky and found a fold on later streets only to end up running into a better hand when shoving while short. Overall, id say the bovada games are pretty soft though. GL!
Cheapest way in is free satellite ticket. Tournament is pretty similar to $10 and under as far as competition goes. So if your average to good you should at least win your way to $16 satellite. I've only played twice made it on my second try.
The 100k is definitely tough. After 2nd break I bet myself off a key hand and was left with only ten bigs. Shoved with AQ the next hand and busted forgot what place I was in. I was tilted after I showed bottom pair and opponent showed flushed draw. He check raised me out of the hand on the turn. Best move I've seen in a long time. I was button and should've checked or shoved. Maybe I post the hand in another thread so everyone can rag on me.
Well done and congrats on it. I might have to start taking the bodog CC games more serious if I ever wish to play in this event thanks for the Idea and well done again