Wretchy's Pwnage moves to FullTilt

Seemingly tired of winning the $100 rebuy tournaments on Pokerstars, Dan "Wretchy" Martin moved over to FullTiltPoker to win the $22 rebuy last night. The tournament field consisted of 404 players and Wretchy won $5,870.00 for taking down first place.

It has been an impressive week on the virtual felt for The Wretched One who is currently ranked as the 19th best online tournament player in the world at pocketfives.com. A win in an FTOPS event would be a great addition, as would a victory in another triple crown event would be a great way to cap an awesome week.

Great job sir and continued success!

This Teacher Definitely Can!

There is an expression that is as wrong as it is old that says "those who can do and those who can't teach." It is silly and online poker teacher extraordinaire Jennifear shows on a regular basis that she definitely can play the game.

Playing as PunkinBear, Jennifear made the final table of the PokerStars $11 NL Hold'em on 04-17-2009. This tournament had a $30,000 guarantee and Jennifear won $2640.00 for finishing 3rd out of 2745 entrants.

Great job Jen! Very well played!

If you want to improve your game, contact Jennifear for help here.

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.

Overnight Updates

While most of the East Coast was asleep last night, several top online poker players were raking in the cash with both hands.

Dan "Wretchy" Martin made two final tables last night/early this morning. He finished 5th out of 3626 entrants in the FullTiltPoker $750,000 Guarantee which began on 04-12-2009. Wretchy took home $31050.00 for that great performance.

Wretchy also made the final table in the FullTiltPoker $75,000 Guarantee which started last night. For finishing 6th out of 856 in this tournament, he won $5778.00. Great job sir!

Jason Koon aka JAKoon1985 aka NovaSky won the FullTiltPoker The Sunday Mulligan which started on April 12, 2009. The win earned Jason $53020.00. He finished 1st among 1205 entrants. It has been a great week for Jason and he bounced back from a horrendous beat in the SCOOP $10,000 main event in which what should have been a triple up for him turned into a runner runner flush for a dominated opponent. Well done Jason!

Finally, Jared Hamby aka TheWacoKidd final tabled the FullTiltPoker $200,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) which began play on 04-12-2009. Waco won $8063.10 for finishing 7th out of 514 players. Good to see Waco at the final table again. Excellent play sir!

Final Table updates!

Congrats to Alex Fitzgerald aka TheAssassinato. He made the final table in the FullTiltPoker $60,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) on 04-11-2009. Alex won $6481.50 for finishing 5th out of 263 entrants.

Jennifear, playing as PunkinBear, made the final table in the PokerStars $109 NLHE [|turbo| - |$35,000 guaranteed|] on 04-11-2009. She won $2328.75 for finishing 5th out of 405. Congrats Jennifear.

JAKoon1985 gets paid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATS to West Virginia native Jason Koon. Playing as "jakoon1985", Jason won the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) event number 17 on PokerStars which started last night and finished play this morning.

The $2,100 buy-in No Limit Hold Em with 1 rebuy and 1 add-on ( NLHE [1R1A]) had a guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000.00. For his win, Jason recieved the top prize of $302720.00.

Jason beat out a field of 267 other players which included most of the biggest names in online poker. Great job Jason!!!! Very well played sir!!!

Congrats to Old School OTers

Congrats to Michele aka -AG- who, playing as ArmyGirl on FullTilt Poker, made the final table of the FullTiltPoker Daily Double - B on 04-08-2009. She won a very nice$350.35 for finishing 6th out of 1001. Very well played mam!

Also congrats to Nick "Agriffrod" Mithcell. Griff made the final table of the $5,200 No Limit Hold-Em, 6 max, buy-in SCOOP event, event number 14. This event had a guarantee of $1,250,000. He finished 6th out of 331 players and banked a very nice $66200.00 for his effort. Excellent work sir!

Congrats to Jennifear!

Jennifear aka PunkinBear won the $120 Tourney on UB yesterday to the very James Bondish tune of $7,007. She beat out 244 other players to win the tourney.

Congrats Jen, very well played!

Jennifear is also a fantastic teacher who can really help your game. Visit her site Jennifear's Poker Palace here.

You can also read a conversation with Jennifear from May, 2008 here.

Badugi

I have no idea why, but I love Badugi. I have to make myself stop playing after awhile because I would sit there all evening.

It has been a good last 24 hours on the carbon felt. I cashed in a micro Stud High/Low tourney on Pokerstars last night. I got an early start in tourneys today on UB, playing two bounty tournaments. I made the final 3 tables in both and supplemented the prizes with 7 bounties. Definitely an enjoyable day.



The first game in the final four was a bit of a surprise to me. Michigan State is a very good team and I am a fan of Tom Izzo, but I really expected UConn to win. They have played very well this year. Of course the connection to the Big East made me pull for UConn.

Congrats to UConn Women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma. Geno won the Coach of the Year award today. His team is undefeated and seeking a 6th National Title. As a fellow Italian-American, I always pull for Geno unless his team is playing WVU.
Good luck in the Lady's Final Four Geno.

TheAssassinato slays competition again

Congrats to Alex "theassassinato" Fitzgerald for another big win on FullTiltPoker. He won the FullTiltPoker $40,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) on Thursday, April 2, 2009. For winning the tourney and beating out 317 other runners, Alex won a very nice $31150.00. Very well played sir!

You can read about the life of a poker pro and see other cool pics he has taken by reading Alex's blog here

Nuggy wins again!

Congrats to iLLNuGWichee. He won the FullTiltPoker $25,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) on Aprils Fools Day, 04-01-2009. For dispatching 387 other players, Zac won $10845.00.
Great job sir!

Congrats to Mathclub

Playing as ktpie on FullTiltPoker, Shaun aka "mathclub" finished 2nd out of 358 in the FullTiltPoker $22,500 Guarantee last night, this morning or next Wednesday (I have a hard time keeping New Zealand time straight)but it was apparently March 31, 2009 in the Eastern United States. He won a nice $3952.32 for making it heads up.

Very good job sir and well played.

Congrats to Wretchy

Congrats to Dan "Wretchy" Martin. He won seat in the 2009 World Series of Poker on FullTiltPoker last night. Wretchy was one of only three people to qualify. Congratulations and here's to hoping for a good run and a final table.

Congrats to Maridu!

Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck, one of the most dedicated Calvin and Hobbes fans ever, is one of the newest Team Pokerstars players. I spoke to Maridu earlier today and she told me that she officially became a Pokerstars pro yesterday. It would be very difficult for this to happen to a nicer person. Maridu has long been a valuable member of the pocketfives.com online community and a valuable part of the poker scene. I am very happy for her and hope that nothing but success awaits her.



Good luck Maridu

If you can read Portugese, you can read Maridu's blog here or you can Google "Need an Ace" and click on the translate tab in the search results.

Peace and Love

Wretchy pwns UB $200 MTT

Last night/early this morning, the Wretched one, Dan "Wretchy" Martin, took down the $200+15 80K guaranteed tournament on UltimateBet. For his win, Wretchy collected a cool 20,000.

Another very impressive win for Wretchy. He has won major tournaments at each big site still open to play for American players.

WP GG and Congrats sir.

How could I get more value out of this hand?

On this hand, I think my river bet smelled like value bet or he thought i hit an open ended draw. I am pretty sure he either had a set or two pair on flop.

I thought that if i checked the river looking to check-raise, he would have checked behind. My bet must have convinced him that I had the goods or he was totally on a draw. I'd like thoughts on what sized bet you think he would have called on the river or any other way to get more value out of this hand.

PokerStars Game #18069826573: Tournament #91352474, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2008/06/11 - 15:33:14 (ET)
Table '91352474 20' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: No jinx here (1490 in chips)
Seat 3: Khales (1540 in chips)
Seat 4: Zeon26 (1470 in chips)
Seat 5: bombay black (3630 in chips)
Seat 6: ninnig1 (1680 in chips)
Seat 7: Isabella7 (1460 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 8: SluggerWV (4530 in chips)
Seat 9: BAYvw (3690 in chips)
Isabella7: posts small blind 10
SluggerWV: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SluggerWV [Jh Th]
BAYvw: calls 20
No jinx here: folds
Khales: folds
Zeon26: calls 20
bombay black: calls 20
ninnig1: calls 20
Isabella7: folds
SluggerWV: checks
*** FLOP *** [8s Qh 9c]
SluggerWV: bets 100
BAYvw: calls 100
Zeon26: folds
bombay black: calls 100
ninnig1: calls 100
*** TURN *** [8s Qh 9c] [7d]
SluggerWV: bets 200
BAYvw: raises 200 to 400
bombay black: folds
ninnig1: folds
SluggerWV: raises 640 to 1040
klem mate is connected
BAYvw: calls 640
*** RIVER *** [8s Qh 9c 7d] [6c]
SluggerWV: bets 1040
BAYvw: folds
Uncalled bet (1040) returned to SluggerWV
SluggerWV collected 2590 from pot

Final Table at FullTilt Poker

I haven't been able to play as many non-satellite tournaments for the past month or two. I have never had a lot of success at FullTilt even though I really love the structure of the tourneys there. Last night I found a $5 PL Omaha 8b tourney that fit into my schedule and was very happy to make the final table. I started the final table with a chip position of 8 of 9. I finished 7th and got a really good return on my buy-in.

Good luck to Devin "TranquilChaos" Porter and Jared "TheWacoKidd" Hamby as they are both deep in the money in the World Series of Poker 6 handed no limit hold em tournament. Both are great players and even better guys. Hopefully they will get heads up for the bracelet.

Yada Yada Yada

So yesterday some of my friends were playing poker. yada yada yada They won some money.


Wretchy made the final table in the $129 $25K guarantee tourney on FullTilt. He beat out 255 people and finished in 8th place. He won $723.25 for the tourney. Great job sir. iLLNuGwichee was also deep in the money in this tourney and was at Wretchy's table when the action was down to two tables. Nuggy, like Wretchy, caught some bad breaks and finished the tourney in 14th place. Well played sir.



Mathclub was only able to make 3 final tables yesterday.

In the $9k guarantee SS MTT, he beat out 80 players to finish in 9th place and win $315.00. Playing as ktpie at FullTiltPoker, Mathclub finished in 4th place in the $11,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) and won $1267.50 for beating out 213 other players. Finally, he cashed in the UltimateBet $3000 Guaranteed Rebuy, bringing in $480.00 for finishing 2nd out of 166. Another great night for New Zealand's finest. Well played gentlemen.

Nuggy wins yet again! No it's not a repost.

iLLNuGWichee won the $12 Bodog $4K Guaranteed (rebuy) on 04-12-2008. For beating 143 other players Nuggy won $1411.20. Another great job. I'm running out of things to say about the daily tournaments he wins.



So, how about that Trevor Immelman winning the Masters? What a great job of hanging in there down the stretch. He saved us from a bunch of talk about the Grand Slam which was annoying at this point in the year in my opinion.

Congrats Nuggy and Congrats Trevor.