FTOPS

May will see me enter my first FTOPS event. I entered a seven card stud high low tournament earlier. I didn't realize it was a satellite event for the FTOPS. There weren't many entrants in the tournament but I was able to win one of two satellite entries. I am pretty happy to say the least.

Back to Back Final Tables at UB

Today's tourney only had 79 entrants, but I was able to beat 76 of them. The deck hit me in the mouth early at the final table but unfortunately I kept gettting outkicked once we were down to three and then found top pair up against an over pair on the hand that knocked me out.
It has been a pretty good run lately. In four out of the last six tournaments I played, I have cashed and have two final tables that were both top three finishes. I should have one the one I made it to heads-up play, but I am pleased with how things are going in the tournaments now. This was definitely a good way to start off the weekend.

Good luck at the tables everyone.

Peace and Love all around

Triple play for iLLNuGWichee and Final Table for Mathclub

Congrats to Zac, who plays online as iLLNuGWichee had an awesome day yesterday. He made the final table of the FullTiltPoker $75,000 Guarantee, winning $2338.95 for finishing 7th out of 503 entrants. Zac also final tabled the FullTiltPoker $33,000 Guarantee (1r+1a), winning $742.50 for finishing 9th out of 123 runners.

Over at PokerStars Zac's good work continued. He final tabled the $109 NL Hold'em [turbo - $15,000 guaranteed], cashing for $1759.50 for a finish of 5th of 306 players. Great playing sir!

Shaun aka Mathclub playing as ktpie on FullTilt, final tabled the FullTiltPoker $19,500 Guarantee (Rebuy) on 04-16-2009. He won $1642.13 for taking 5th place out of 266 runners. Congratulations Shaun! Well played sir!

Congrats to ChazMental

Congrats to Pocketfives.com legend and all around great guy ChazMental. Playing on the Cake Poker network, Chaz made the final table of the $10rebuy tournament earlier last night/this morning. Chaz earned $360.00 for finishing 7th out of 338 runners in the tourney.

This was Chaz's second final table this week.

Great job Sir!


Shaunne and Chaz

Final Table at UB

I played in the UltimateBet $4 sniper tournament last night. I got enough good cards and got lucky enough to make it to the final table and then heads up. I started off heads up with a chip lead. Lost it. Then got it back. Then I was inpatient and tried to steal a blind w J5 when I had no business pushing, lost the hand and then lost the tournament.

It was so cool to get to the final table but I am really disappointed in not being able to finish off the tournament. I got some nice rail action from Pocketfives.com's Dr.GHouse, who was also nice enough to make a rail thread when I made the final table. I hope to seal the deal next time.

Good luck at the tables everyone.

Final Tables for Wein

Poker fiend and pocketfives.com star Wein made two final tables last night (04-25-2008). First off, he made the final table of the $25K guarantee $109 NLHE MTT on PokerStars. For his fine effort, Wein was rewarded $1165.00 for finishing 8th out of 466 players.

On FulltiltPoker under his screenname ChasingIdiot, he finished 7th of 399 in the $150 $65K guarantee MTT for a cash of $2,112. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Congrats Wein! Fantastic effort in a couple of tough tournaments.

Wein has a really good blog that you can read here: Wein's Blog

Another Final Table for Wretchy

In a tournament which only finished moments ago, Wretchy again displayed the ability that will make him a player to be reckoned with for years to come. He finished 2nd in the $55+r Pot Limit Omaha MTT on Pokerstars. Wretchy beat out 196 other entrants to get headsup and fought well against his opponent, but his wrap around straight draw didn't hit and he lost the heads-up battle. Still, a great showing and a prize of $7,122.26 for the Wretched One.


That's Wretchy on the right btw.

Wretchy Rolls

Wretchy started out the final table of the $50+5 (1r +1a) NLHE MTT on FullTiltPoker tonight with one of the smaller stacks. But ability can overcome many of the adversities that life throws at us and he used solid play to build his stack, eventually getting to heads-up action.

Full Tilt Poker Game #6113089168: $13,500 Guarantee (1r+1a) (45823696)
Table 22 - 4000/8000 Ante 1000 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:26:28 ET - 2008/04/20

Seat 2: brehmer (423,252)
Seat 3: Ninorta47 (171,755)
Seat 5: Wretchy (83,074)
Seat 6: XXFlopQuadsXX (120,842)
Seat 9: PearlJammed (169,577)

ante 1,000

XXFlopQuadsXX posts the small blind of 4,000
PearlJammed posts the big blind of 8,000
The button is in seat #5

brehmer folds
Ninorta47 folds
Wretchy raises to 82,074, and is all in
XXFlopQuadsXX has 15 seconds left to act
XXFlopQuadsXX raises to 119,842, and is all in
PearlJammed folds
XXFlopQuadsXX shows [Ac Ad]
Wretchy shows [7s As]
Uncalled bet of 37,768 returned to XXFlopQuadsXX

*** FLOP *** [6s Ah 4d]
*** TURN *** [6s Ah 4d] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [6s Ah 4d Qs] [Ks]
XXFlopQuadsXX shows three of a kind, Aces
Wretchy shows a flush, Ace high
Wretchy wins the pot (177,148) with a flush, Ace high
Wretchy: yeah GFY IMO

Karma bites XXflopQuadsXX in the ass ^ here.

Full Tilt Poker Game #6113268625: $13,500 Guarantee (1r+1a) (45823696),
Table 22 - 5000/10000 Ante 1000 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:41:01 ET - 2008/04/20
Seat 2: brehmer (481,652)
Seat 3: Ninorta47 (111,987)
Seat 5: Wretchy (164,248)
Seat 9: PearlJammed (210,613)

ante 1,000

Ninorta47 posts the small blind of 5,000
Wretchy posts the big blind of 10,000
The button is in seat #2

PearlJammed folds
brehmer folds
Ninorta47 has 15 seconds left to act
Ninorta47 raises to 110,987, and is all in
Wretchy calls 100,987
Ninorta47 shows [2s Ad]
Wretchy shows [Ac 5h]
*** FLOP *** [5d 2c 7s]
*** TURN *** [5d 2c 7s] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [5d 2c 7s Jc] [Kh]

Ninorta47 shows a pair of Twos
Wretchy shows a pair of Fives
Wretchy wins the pot (225,974) with a pair of Fives
Ninorta47 stands up

Unfortunately he was at a 3 to 1 chip deficit then and his opponent made friends with the river twice to take down the tourney.


Full Tilt Poker Game #6113389838: $13,500 Guarantee (1r+1a) (45823696),
Table 22 - 6000/12000 Ante 1500 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:50:47 ET - 2008/04/20
Seat 2: brehmer (853,065)
Seat 5: Wretchy (115,435)

ante 1,500

brehmer posts the small blind of 6,000
Wretchy posts the big blind of 12,000

The button is in seat #2

brehmer raises to 39,000
Wretchy raises to 113,935, and is all in
brehmer calls 74,935

Wretchy shows [Ac Jc]
brehmer shows [Qd 3d]

*** FLOP *** [8c Th 5s]
*** TURN *** [8c Th 5s] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [8c Th 5s 2d] [Qc]

brehmer wins the pot (230,870) with a pair of Queens

*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 230,870 | Rake 0
Board: [8c Th 5s 2d Qc]
Seat 2: brehmer (small blind) showed [Qd 3d] and won (230,870) with a pair of Queens
Seat 5: Wretchy (big blind) showed [Ac Jc] and lost with Ace Queen high

Still it was a great job by Wretchy to outlast 242 players and take down almost 5K for second place. Excellent job sir!

Final Table for Griff

Agriffrod made the final table in the PokerStars $109+R NL Hold'em on 04-16-2008.  He won $3140.00 for finishing 6th out of 171. 
Congrats for the fine performance.

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Stud MTT Final Table at UltimateBet

It was a great weekend at the tables. Even though it was a small field, I was happy to make the final table in the $5.50 Stud MTT at UltimateBet. After making a final table yesterday, I was really excited to make another run deep into a tourney today. It's been a really long time since that has happened for me.



I made it to the final three tables in a no limit hold em bounty tourney at UB tonight too. I didn't cash for much and only got one and a half bounty, the half bounty resulting from a hand where my AA and another guys AA knocked out a guy with KK who then proceeded to whine about losing the hand, but it was nice to have another solid tourney today to go with the final table.

John Smoltz pitched five scoreless innings today against the Mets and picked up the win for the Braves. Great to see and I hope he is able to stay healthy this year. He's a great pitcher.


Good luck at the tables.

iLLNuGWichee is a final table machine

On Friday, April 4, 2008, iLLNuGWichee had a day at the tables that few dare dream about. He made 5 final tables at 4 different sites.

He finished 2nd of 62 in a Bodog 10K guarantee for $2000.
He finished 2nd of 486 in the $109 buy in $25,000 guarantee at PokerStars for $7290.
He finished 5th of 113 in the $20k guarantee at UltimateBet for $1400.
He finished 3rd of 188 in a Bodog 10K guarantee for $1190.
Finally, he finished 5th of 245 in the $22k guarantee rebuy at FullTiltPoker for $1644.90.

A fantastic effort by a great guy. Very well done sir.


^ The Machine

Final Table at PokerStars

I haven't been able to play much the past week and the two tourneys that I did get to play saw my KK chased down by two outers on UB. I had a few hours to play Saturday and decided to try out PokerStars since I could play longer if I went deep. Well an A6 suited thought it wise to call me twice with nothing and hit an ace on the turn to crack my aces in the hold em tourney I entered so I wasn't feeling terribly optimistic. But I joined a PL Omaha tourney after busting out of the hold em tourney. I like playing PL Omaha Hi Lo but haven't played many PL Omaha Hi tourneys and have had little success. But I got off to a good start in this tourney and, after what seemed like a day and a half when we got down to ten players, I was able to make the final table. It was my first final table at PokerStars in a long time. I was able to finish 5th after starting the final table in 6th place.

One hand helped me when the big blind decided to defend and only served to double me up when the big blind's draw missed after the flop. I personally try to avoid recklessly doubling up the short stacks late in a tourney. The chips I might win never seem to be worth the risk of throwing away chips to the ss.

I was too aggressive with my last hand and pot committed myself with a pair of jacks and a suited ace. Of course someone behind me had aces so I was done. It was great to get to the final table but I wish that pocketfives.com hadn't been down. I was only able to talk to a couple of friends via AIM while the tourney was going on. I really like talking to people while playing. I guess I shouldn't but it seems like ti actually helps me play better. It's also nice to let people know that I play a little too.



Good Luck at the tables everyone. I'll see ya soon.

Great day for Wretchy

Wretchy finished 2nd because of a couple of river bad beats in the $100 10k at UB today and won the $50+5rebuy on Pokerstars today for a cool ten grand. Congrats Wretchy very well played sir. I guess a week in Cancun is good for your game as well as a beinga a great vacation

Final Table at UltimateBet!

I haven't been able to play as much as usual the past couple of weeks so it was nice to get to the Final Table in the $6.50 Bounty Tournament at UB. I really enjoy the bounty tournaments because it seems easier to get action with your good hands from the stacks who can double you up. The highlight of the evening was having two people call my all in pre-flop when I was dealt KK and then flopping quads! I took down a couple of bounties and entered the final table 5th in chips. I was able to increase my stack when Ak hit a King on the flop vs JJ. Unfortunately, the hand that crippled me was an all in w AKs pre-flop versus QQ. No help and I was soon out in 4th. A very nice payday and a great capper to a wonderful weekend.

Good Luck at the tables everyone.