Joe Udine is a Legend!
One of my good friends in poker, Hoodini10, took down the $1k FTOPS the other night for about $300k. It's Joe's 2nd FTOPS win, he's basically a god. Congrats!
The times I love having a blog
Are when I get sucked out on and can come here, post and whine. Pity me readers. PITY ME! Haha. For 30% of the chips in play 11 handed in the Stars afternoon rebuy. Such is tournaments. Playing well lately though and I just cant help but feel like something big is going to happen soon for me. I recorded the end of this 100r so the whole video will be up next week. Overall the video just shows how to get AA and KK like 4x and have them hold every time but the biggest one. Talk soon, when I have some good news, likely after I win an FTOPS this Sunday.
PokerStars Game #31329360932: Tournament #183606167, $100+$9 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXI (3500/7000) - 2009/08/06 19:32:32 ET
Table '183606167 42' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 3: achen (560562 in chips)
Seat 4: $trateGema (224747 in chips) out of hand (moved from another table into small blind)
Seat 7: WPThero (457133 in chips)
Seat 8: Skämmes (343904 in chips)
Seat 9: joscha45 (154585 in chips)
achen: posts the ante 700
WPThero: posts the ante 700
Skämmes: posts the ante 700
joscha45: posts the ante 700
WPThero: posts small blind 3500
Skämmes: posts big blind 7000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to WPThero [Ac As]
joscha45: raises 9998 to 16998
achen: folds
WPThero: raises 25227 to 42225
Skämmes: raises 55550 to 97775
joscha45: folds
WPThero: raises 358658 to 456433 and is all-in
Skämmes: calls 245429 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (113229) returned to WPThero
*** FLOP *** [7s Th 9s]
*** TURN *** [7s Th 9s] [2h]
*** RIVER *** [7s Th 9s 2h] [Jh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
WPThero: shows [Ac As] (a pair of Aces)
Skämmes: shows [Kh Ah] (a flush, Ace high)
Skämmes collected 706206 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 706206 | Rake 0
Board [7s Th 9s 2h Jh]
Seat 3: achen (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: WPThero (small blind) showed [Ac As] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 8: Skämmes (big blind) showed [Kh Ah] and won (706206) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 9: joscha45 folded before Flop
A free idea for online poker sites for an awesome new feature
So my consulting days are over for the most part over within the online poker industry so this is a freebie for any site that wants to make it happen. It wouldn't be a life changing thing, but it would be a very cool feature that would lead to players spending countless hours making and deploying their own tournaments, while paying rake the entire time.
Create-Your-Own-Structure
Pretty simple idea and a pretty easy idea to implement in a hurry. Essentially structures are based in text files and formatted a given way and the software reads from those files when tournaments are deployed. All a site would need to do is have the software delimit the custom structure in a certain way from a GUIin the lobby and BLAM players have the ability to create every blind jump and every ante for X amount of levels. Then you allow them the ability to pick the level length (between 1 and 30 minutes) and there you have it. The software spits a structure file back to the server which them deploys it automatically. In a quick update you have given your users the ability to not only create new structures but to essentially test out new ideas for your poker room to see how wild and wacky levels effect tournament length and relative stack depth. All this and the players are paying you for the ability to essentially be your guinea pigs for any strange tournament structure you've ever imagined for your site.