In live play, there are a lot of gray areas that require floor people to make decisions and as a result a lot of times those decisions are not consistent. That can be frustrated. I've played where a floorperson ruled against me and later after a shift change the exact same situation occured except in reverse and a new floor person ruled the otherway. Completely contradicting the initial ruling.
I forget the action specifically but I remember the first floor person's ruling affected my decision and I acted in deference to it. You could say, I got double whammied. In online play, there are no shift changes or multiple rulings or reversals the law.
The are also no options for exploitation by running angles. The players shadiness is reigned in because of it. I read an interesting story from Minnesota about softball of all things, but it makes a great parallel to one of the weakneses of live poker and rulings by the floor compared to online poker tournaments.
Essentially, one team beat the other team by a walk-off homerun, however on the way to the plate the winning run, the girl who hit the homerun high fived her teammates. This is illegal because she touched another teamate before scoring. The angle-shooting manager brought his rule-book to the plate and bitched his way into having the run denied by showing a section where it said the play was illegal.
The umpire saw it was written that way, confered with his team and disallowed the play. On the face of it, good prevailed because the manager showed it was an illegal play (though bitching about that is as bush league as it gets... actually, no, because this gets worse).
What the umpire didn't read, and the manager didn't show him, was the caveat in a subequent section, where in the case of A HOMERUN a warning is given and the run is not taken away. So, the other team, with the angle shooting manager wins the game in extra innings, wrongfully.
The parallel to us who play poker tournaments is simple. Some players have a little more clout than others. Some know the game well and dealers might defer to their decisions. I've been in a situation where the floor defers to their decision (wrongfully) and the players take advantage of this.
In one live poker tournament a player declared a misdeal, despite action being completed by 7 people (all folds) and induced the button and small blind to discard when I sat in the big blind with what turned out to be rockets. The dealer disagreed and then agreed because of who the player was.
The floor did the same. I did not think to go over the floor's head to the tournament director who would have called it correctly. Truth is the guy was partially right, and when I started to debate it with him, got the two players in between us to fold because he was certain he was right. This was a pivitol hand.
None of this would have transpired when you play poker tournament online. First off, the dealer wouldn't have exposed a card (which he didn't the angle shooter did) and there'd be no debate. There are no misdeals nor debates about hands. How vociferously I debated also would indicate the strength of my holding. Which I didn't want to do.
Showing posts with label online poker tournament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online poker tournament. Show all posts
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Latest Winners of Trip to WPT Venice
Earlier this month Bwin held their Sunday WPT Venice qualifier one of their many daily poker tournaments. 61 players sought to join previous qualifiers skburke, KristapsK3, Speezebre, barolmay, Ilawa, Kicker Keni, jojojoxx, claystig1, and_Perbaad_Are at the WPT Venice event. The top three would join bwin's roster.
As the field got whittled down to the bubble these five players remained: indrich (~77k), RipCheaer (~70k), 010peter (just short of 100k), King_Dirk (one of two short stacks with about 31k) and Nikos7714 (the shortest stack at almost 28k). With three prize packages to be award with a value of $7,700 the action was tense.
You might recognize a couple of names on here from my posts about the Aussie Millions. By playing in bwin's poker tournaments, they each won a trip around the world. Once there, King_Dirk, went deep and cashed in a side event, and indrich gave a strong showing but didn't make the money. Once again, they were close to the finish line, and this is the reason the play poker tournaments online, as each was hoping to enjoy another poker trip on bwin with a chance to win a fortune.
The short-stack Nikos7714 held on for as long as he could. He got eliminated when his A9 ran into veteran indrich's A10 suited. This moved indrich to the chip lead at 117k. Of course he knew he didn't need to win all the chips, he just need to avoid elimination and hang on to a top three spot in this online poker tournament.
RipCheader and 010Peter chipped down a bit, with RipCheader being shortest at 43k. 010Peter had 87k and King_Dirk had improved to 56k. The stacks would continue to swing until King_Dirk looked, ironically, at two black Kings.
At this point RipCheader had regained a chip advantage on him. He had AK suited and King_Dirk got all his chips into the middle pre-flop. Like most online poker tournaments, in fact, like any poker tournaments, starting with the best hand doesn't mean you'll finish with it.
King_Dirk, knew if an Ace came, he'd be drawing slim to the case King. It didn't take long for the painful news to be delivered as the flop was Ace high.
Congratulations to 010Peter, indrich, and RipCheader for winning the $7,700 prize package and their trip to the WPT Venice event.
As the field got whittled down to the bubble these five players remained: indrich (~77k), RipCheaer (~70k), 010peter (just short of 100k), King_Dirk (one of two short stacks with about 31k) and Nikos7714 (the shortest stack at almost 28k). With three prize packages to be award with a value of $7,700 the action was tense.
You might recognize a couple of names on here from my posts about the Aussie Millions. By playing in bwin's poker tournaments, they each won a trip around the world. Once there, King_Dirk, went deep and cashed in a side event, and indrich gave a strong showing but didn't make the money. Once again, they were close to the finish line, and this is the reason the play poker tournaments online, as each was hoping to enjoy another poker trip on bwin with a chance to win a fortune.
The short-stack Nikos7714 held on for as long as he could. He got eliminated when his A9 ran into veteran indrich's A10 suited. This moved indrich to the chip lead at 117k. Of course he knew he didn't need to win all the chips, he just need to avoid elimination and hang on to a top three spot in this online poker tournament.
RipCheader and 010Peter chipped down a bit, with RipCheader being shortest at 43k. 010Peter had 87k and King_Dirk had improved to 56k. The stacks would continue to swing until King_Dirk looked, ironically, at two black Kings.
At this point RipCheader had regained a chip advantage on him. He had AK suited and King_Dirk got all his chips into the middle pre-flop. Like most online poker tournaments, in fact, like any poker tournaments, starting with the best hand doesn't mean you'll finish with it.
King_Dirk, knew if an Ace came, he'd be drawing slim to the case King. It didn't take long for the painful news to be delivered as the flop was Ace high.
Congratulations to 010Peter, indrich, and RipCheader for winning the $7,700 prize package and their trip to the WPT Venice event.
Monday, February 23, 2009
LAPC
With almost 700 players, the WPT L.A. Poker Classic is proof poker is dead.
The fad, that is poker, could barely eke out just short of 700 runners in a $10,000 buy-in poker tournament. The end must be nigh.
The Commerce Casino in Southern California played host to the event. After some stellar day 1 tournament poker play highlighted by Daniel Negreanu surging near the top of the leaderboard the field has slowly dwindled. Antonio Esfandiari made a run up the leaderboard on day three only to fall back to pack a little bit later.
Just before the money bubble, the magician had finished his disappearing act and headed for the rail. His AK got bested by AQ... of course. Negreanu also got knocked out when he rivered trips and lost to a Broadway straight. Both players will probably fire up their laptops on the way home to play poker tournament back.
A progressing story is the run made by amateur Kofi Farkye. He finished the second day on the heels of the Magician but it wasn't long until he took over the chip lead. Several of these names on the leader board are probably more recongizable when they play online poker tournaments, but the online handles weren't listed with their generic real life names.
The field is being slowly whittled and it's still anybody's game. More updates to come. Looking to play an online tournament of your own. Bwin has some action here.
The fad, that is poker, could barely eke out just short of 700 runners in a $10,000 buy-in poker tournament. The end must be nigh.
The Commerce Casino in Southern California played host to the event. After some stellar day 1 tournament poker play highlighted by Daniel Negreanu surging near the top of the leaderboard the field has slowly dwindled. Antonio Esfandiari made a run up the leaderboard on day three only to fall back to pack a little bit later.
Just before the money bubble, the magician had finished his disappearing act and headed for the rail. His AK got bested by AQ... of course. Negreanu also got knocked out when he rivered trips and lost to a Broadway straight. Both players will probably fire up their laptops on the way home to play poker tournament back.
A progressing story is the run made by amateur Kofi Farkye. He finished the second day on the heels of the Magician but it wasn't long until he took over the chip lead. Several of these names on the leader board are probably more recongizable when they play online poker tournaments, but the online handles weren't listed with their generic real life names.
The field is being slowly whittled and it's still anybody's game. More updates to come. Looking to play an online tournament of your own. Bwin has some action here.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Big Bounty update
Spainer75 won the January Big Bounty online poker tournament run by bwin. He prevailed in a marathon heads-up duel after a ferocious final table of eliminations. Spainer his final table mates hdezdelorenz, MAE9690, Goldensbush,
Steko83, tommi7, menzengal1981, puggy82,and joop1387 will have the targets on their back for the february edition as the bounties.
Spainer prevailed after coming to the final table as the chipleader. A position he barely let go of, though in heads-up play he was the short stack for a while.
Steko83 and Joop1387 came in as the dogs but Steko83 managed to elude a knockout blow for some time. The $22,000 for first was an enticing carrot and the prize money drove the action early.
As the table convened the chips stacks were:
Spanier75 325,588 in chips
hdezdelorenz 299,729 in chips
MAE9690 206,882 in chips
Goldensbush 169,216 in chips
Steko83 52,015 in chips
tommi7 315,0264 in chips
Mezenga1981 174,200 in chips
Puggy82 295,873 in chips
joop1387 75,233 in chips
Puggy82, who came in as bit of a favorite was the second player eliminated. Puggy left the event $1,951 richer but had to have thought he had a chance to get another win. His pocket 8s met up with pocket jacks preflop.
MAE9690, 15 minutes into the event, looked at a giant stack of virtual chips on his screen below his name. He had to think he was good. As we know it was rare for Spainer not to be chipleader, so MAE's glory was short lived. MAE's 600,000 loomed over the table. Mezanga1981 was the short-stack shy of 30,000. Spainer for the moment was second with 386,000, hdezdelorenz close behind with 300,000 and Stek083 was hanging on with 160,000.
Hdezdelorenze was the first to put a dent in MAE's armor with a double up. Spainer got back the chip lead when he took the newly fleeced MAE out with pocket 5s. MAE won $4,337 for fifth place. Spainer did not go easily into the night like MAE. In fact, he was just getting started.
Moments later he quickly busted two players. A set of Kings for Spainer meant Menzenga1981 could only console himself with the $6,506 for fourth place. Spainer than wielded a King high flush to oust Steko83.
Just as the final table started with Spanier in first, heads-up play began with him at a significant advantage. He held a little under a 2 to 1 advantage, so any slip up by his opponent could be the last mistake of the tournament. On the other side of the coin Hdezdelorenz take over the lead with a victory in an all-in situation.
Heads up play moved about as quickly as peanut butter drips out of jar. After a half-century of hands, Spanier lost his chip lead for the second time in the tournament. Now it would be the end of his night if he made an ill-timed all in.
Still, the action plodded on. 30 hands later Spainier was back in charge with the chip lead. When all the money got all in hdezdelorenz flopped an open ended straight and flush draw. Spanier held top pair and the top pair held as the turn and river were relative blanks.
Second place hdezdelorenz won $14,096. The final table will all be Bounties in the next installment this Saturday, February 15th. Go to the Big Bounty for more information.
Steko83, tommi7, menzengal1981, puggy82,and joop1387 will have the targets on their back for the february edition as the bounties.
Spainer prevailed after coming to the final table as the chipleader. A position he barely let go of, though in heads-up play he was the short stack for a while.
Steko83 and Joop1387 came in as the dogs but Steko83 managed to elude a knockout blow for some time. The $22,000 for first was an enticing carrot and the prize money drove the action early.
As the table convened the chips stacks were:
Spanier75 325,588 in chips
hdezdelorenz 299,729 in chips
MAE9690 206,882 in chips
Goldensbush 169,216 in chips
Steko83 52,015 in chips
tommi7 315,0264 in chips
Mezenga1981 174,200 in chips
Puggy82 295,873 in chips
joop1387 75,233 in chips
Puggy82, who came in as bit of a favorite was the second player eliminated. Puggy left the event $1,951 richer but had to have thought he had a chance to get another win. His pocket 8s met up with pocket jacks preflop.
MAE9690, 15 minutes into the event, looked at a giant stack of virtual chips on his screen below his name. He had to think he was good. As we know it was rare for Spainer not to be chipleader, so MAE's glory was short lived. MAE's 600,000 loomed over the table. Mezanga1981 was the short-stack shy of 30,000. Spainer for the moment was second with 386,000, hdezdelorenz close behind with 300,000 and Stek083 was hanging on with 160,000.
Hdezdelorenze was the first to put a dent in MAE's armor with a double up. Spainer got back the chip lead when he took the newly fleeced MAE out with pocket 5s. MAE won $4,337 for fifth place. Spainer did not go easily into the night like MAE. In fact, he was just getting started.
Moments later he quickly busted two players. A set of Kings for Spainer meant Menzenga1981 could only console himself with the $6,506 for fourth place. Spainer than wielded a King high flush to oust Steko83.
Just as the final table started with Spanier in first, heads-up play began with him at a significant advantage. He held a little under a 2 to 1 advantage, so any slip up by his opponent could be the last mistake of the tournament. On the other side of the coin Hdezdelorenz take over the lead with a victory in an all-in situation.
Heads up play moved about as quickly as peanut butter drips out of jar. After a half-century of hands, Spanier lost his chip lead for the second time in the tournament. Now it would be the end of his night if he made an ill-timed all in.
Still, the action plodded on. 30 hands later Spainier was back in charge with the chip lead. When all the money got all in hdezdelorenz flopped an open ended straight and flush draw. Spanier held top pair and the top pair held as the turn and river were relative blanks.
Second place hdezdelorenz won $14,096. The final table will all be Bounties in the next installment this Saturday, February 15th. Go to the Big Bounty for more information.
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