new online poker forum site

Signed up for a new poker forum site I came accross the other night while reading this blog http://plan3tgongpoker.blogspot.com . They had a tourney on Saturday for all of their members (small number so far as it is a new sight). It was a $5 + 50c on FTP at 1pm and they added $250 to the prize pool. I think they only ended up with about 17 players...so there was a sweet overlay. I ended up getting second for about $70...not bad getting paid 13x buyin for top 10% finish. http://www.pokerstrategyforums.com is the link to the new site if anyone reads this and if they are interested in signing up. Looks like it has a 2+2 feel with more of an emphasis on poker strategy instead of chest beating and beratings like you tend to see on 2+2. Have had zero luck since my big scores last week on full tilt (winning the bronze freeroll...4th in the Sunday night Horse and the near miss for the 12K main event seat last Tuesday).
When I see what these people call allins with midway through a decent size buyin tourney, it makes me want to shove allin preflop with my monsters everytime. If they have any ace or any pocket pair they instacall. Oh well. I have been doing decent on the $36 and $72 bodog turbo sngs and ok on the $50 bodog sngs. Need to somehow build enough to take some more shots at a main event package through satellite. All fo now. Later.

sooooooo close

Played in the $200 wsop main event qualifier last night on ftp while playing the skillz and bodonkey blogger events. Put all my focus on the qualifier...all for naught. There were around 190 people entered and 3seats guaranteed and cash for 4th. In just the 2nd orbit, Beth Shak (one of the red FTP pros) 3x utg...I call on the button with 2c4c...flop comes KcJc4x...she checks...i bet..she raises and I donkey shove...she calls with pocket rockets no clubs...I lucksack turn the flush and move in to 2nd place in chips. No bounty on Shak though because she had 230 more chips than me at the start of the hand. About 3 orbits later I open raise from the cutoff and get minraised by the small blind. I call and flop comes KQ7. I have 10 J with with suit matching the Q&7. SB checks...i bet out for pot...he pops me 3x my bet and I shove with oesd and non nut flush draw...he calls with KK for flopped top set and I river and Ace for broadway and take a huge chip lead as I was still 2nd in chips entering the hand and he was top 10. Figuring to have used up enough lucksackery for a month with so much on the line I stop playing any hands out of position and just wait for monsters to pick off short stack desperation plays. I was still able to steal from position because people were afraid of the combination fact that I had almost twice the chips of 2nd place and the fact that they saw I wasn't afraid to put them in the middle without the nuts but with big draws (knowing there tourney life would be on the line). Anyway, I go a long time on card drought and end up falling to 2nd in chips when we get down to 83 people left. More card drought and I end up being 11th by the time we get to 21 people left. I pick up a monster pot when I call utg's raise from the button with 79s...flop 792 rainbow...he bets I call turn is a 4 and he again leads and i again just call...river is a 6 and he jams for his entire stack...I had him covered and decided to call since I just didn't see how that board could have helped a preflop utg better. He turned over pocket Kings and I am back to 3rd in chips. I drop to 4th in chips when I have my bustout hand...folds to cutoff who is 3rd in chips...cutoff just calls the bb...i have AKo in the SB...I raise 4xBB after the button folds...the BB folds and the cutoff limper shoves allin...I have seen this same move for the last hour straight with A7 A3s K8o K3s etc. Not from this player...but still. Anyway, I decide to make the crying call. He has JJ. I miss the flop and he hits Jack on the turn to seal it. Win that hand and I have chip lead going in to final table (or tied for chip lead I think as I would have had 142K chips and guy at other table had 144k chips). Anyway, I bust out 10th and get no love. Shit happens and I know how lucky I was to have had the chance. The 50/50 allin chance on the flop against beth shak and then the broadway to crack the guys flopped top trips. Only had one real tough spot late where every steal attempt I made I got played back at by guys with enough chips to hurt me. That is not good when blinds are getting up there and there are significant antes and you are card dead for 80 straight minutes. Maybe next time. I had so many tables going that i made tragic mistakes in the blogger tourneys. In the PLO skillz game, I had a pot raise preflop in front of me when i held AA67 single suited. I pot reraise... Button reraised me pot and I get back to find I have timed out...might have gotten beat any way but that was definitely my chance. Then I donkey called Blinders shove allin from one of the blinds when someone had opened to 140 i had called with 99 and one more person called behind before he shoved. Only a windowlicker calls that shove (or someone 2 tabling on bodog and 9 tabling ftp) or in this case both...and i go out 1st or 2nd level in the donkey. Crapasaurous. Peace.
JD

no love in the ftp 4man freeroll but Horse works

Won my first of 2 heads up matches in the freeroll 4man shootout...but bushed all in with 4 to a flush and a gutterball on the flop...both of us having fairly equal stacks and I did not hit either. He flopped top and bottom pair. Oh well. I used some of my winnings from the freeroll yesterday to qualify for the Sunday horse event last night. Then played 5 more qualifiers and qualified twice more. Played (2) 75 token qualifiers and (3) 26 token qualifiers. Ran piss poor in tourneys on ftp and Bodog. Had AA and KK simultaneously on Bodog (in the bodog main event and also playing a 4 k guarantee. I pot raise with both and computer locks. Bad Beat. Then played the 8:30 Bodog tourney and pick up AA in bb second hand...button open shoves 2nd hand of tourney in to me. I insta and he turns over QJoff...turn flops a queen and rivers the nightmare. Horse event now over (for me)...scored a 4th for my first time ever playing the Sunday Horse event. Wouldn't have even been able to play had it not been for the freeroll win. I both took and laid some wicked beats in that Horse tourney. Was on life support multiple times only to luckout and suckout to stay alive. Goot night for now.
JD
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gold in the ftp bronze special olympics

"Even a donkey has his day." Had a pretty good run yesterday into this a.m. at the tables. I won the FTP Bronze freeroll that had 1374 people in it. Then I final tabled the $10+1 midnight madness tourney (busted 8th) that had 1829 people in it. I am currently on break in the $75 token $18K guarantee that starts at 01:59 EST. Currently 14 of 29 with original number of runners at 222 with 27 paying. I will update results next break or at bust. The Bronze freeroll was incredible...At one point with 7 of us left I had 1.19million chips and closest person to me had 202k. Even I couldn't manage to screw that one up and not win with that big a lead. Hopefully I can score big and win the 4 man shootout tomorrow between the 4 winners of the FTP freeroll events. $5k to the winner and a shot to play 3 or 4 FTP pros heads up for another chance at up to 50k. Busted 19th in 18K damnit. KJ in bb and called minraise from button...flop J104rainbow...I check raise allin..he calls with J 10 off and takes me out. Next time. I love this tourney as it is the only one I have won twice. Off to sleep, church, then freeeeeeerolllll time...also won a qualifier for the Sunday Night Horse tourney $200. I will donate chips there.
GLGL