Well, the poker gods shined on me once again after a bitch and whine post. On Sunday I won my first tourney on Stars. It was a $20 cubed for just under $9400. Not bad. For anybody looking for a nice deep stacked tourney for a low buy-in, I definitely recommend this 2pm-ish(EST) on Sundays. The initial $20 gets you 3k in chips. The rebuy gives you another 3k. So, that's a very deep 6k stack to start the tourney. I kinda just stumbled across this tourney. It's definitely on my regular Sunday tourney list now.
Usually, I try to capture a screenshot of all of my online poker milestone's but for some reason it didn't dawn on me til the next day that this was my first win on Stars. By the time that I realized this, the tourney lobby was already gone. Stars only keeps up the daily tourney lobbies for about 24 hours.
Because Stars offers chops, I would consider one if the chips are fairly even instead of flipping coins for a few thousand dollars. But this tourney was an exception. The other guy was so bad that I didn't even think of a chop. When we started I was down 2 to 1. After a while, I was up 4 to 1. Then I got unlucky when he hit trips on the river after all of the money was in on the turn. That gave him a 4 to 1 chip lead. Even at this point, I didn't think of chopping even if he wanted to. We were still deep and I had a huge skill advantage. So, as you know I ended up winning. It was only a day or two earlier that I told myself that I would buy that new Camaro after my next decent poker score. Well, this was the score. I contacted the dealership, but the problem now is trying to sell my current car. Hopefully, between now and the end of the summer I can win a lot more money and sell my car.
That's it for now. Good luck at the tables.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
A Phone Call to Grandma
I stumbled across someone's video on PocketFives. Here's a video I made about my phone call to my grandmama after my first 5-figure poker score.
*This conversation didn't actually take place. I am 100% sure that it would go like this. I didn't want to go there because telling this to my grandma, whom I love very, very, very much, is like posting an Ad in the local newspaper. So I just mailed her the money without the story. (Link to the original video.)
*This conversation didn't actually take place. I am 100% sure that it would go like this. I didn't want to go there because telling this to my grandma, whom I love very, very, very much, is like posting an Ad in the local newspaper. So I just mailed her the money without the story. (Link to the original video.)
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
A Long Overdue Update
It's been a while so, here's the latest happenings in my poker life.
I'll start with the FTOPS, well, after probably spending $1500, I finally won a seat into the ME. But that was all for nothing. I was able to chip up early, but proceeded to tilt my chips off to a guy that chased a gutshot and got there when the turn game me top, two. I'd like to take some credit for giving him his start for a nice run in the event. He finished in 6th place for $78k. Congrats! Appropriately, his id is "dump22".
Well, after the FTOPS concluded, I decided to take a break from poker. Running bad and playing bad is a deadly combination for anyone's emotional health and bankroll. I had no timetable for this break, only that I wanted to clear my head and start back playing when I felt the desire.
During this break, I did something very out of the ordinary for me, I watched TV. I'm not a big TV person. I'd rather be on the computer trying to find some way to become a bazillionaire. Other than basketball and football, there are only a handful of shows that I watch on a semi-regular basis. Well, during this break I was able to catch up on CSI, Lost, Cold Case, Without A Trace and my secret vice, American Idol. That's probably all the shows that I watch. I also managed to watch a few movies from my Blockbuster Online subscription. And I managed to work on a new website that I have in the works. All of this spanned the course of two weeks.
So, exactly two weeks after the FTOPS and the start of my break, I was reading through some posts on PocketFives. Coincidently, one was about downswings. After reading a lot of posts about people's various downswings and how they worked them out, I felt a lot better about my current "normal" 50 buy-in downswing. Thus, that was the fire that I needed to put in a days work.
I then proceeded to play a good number of the regular Sunday tourneys with the exception of the Stars or Full Tilt Sunday Majors. Well, long story short, I was able to secure my biggest score to date. Although it was a second place finish, I won just short of $20k in the Stars $150k $50 buy-in tourney.
Heres a screenshot:
Here are some hands from the Heads-up battle. I started down about 4 to 1 and was down 5 to 1 before making a come back. Well, after our last break, I went from being ahead 5 to 1, to being out of the tourney in second place. I'm always looking to grow and improve as a poker player and after losing my last two heads-up matches, I'm starting to study more about that aspect of the game.
Hand #1: This hand put me back in the game.
Hand #2: The first hand after the last break.
Hand #3: I played this hand horribly, but the guy was making some fairly thin calls with mediocre hands. I was hoping to get full value, but instead I valuetowned myself. LOL.
Hand #4 aka The Bustout Hand: Hopefully, this is the first of many 5-figure scores and a 6-figure score would be very nice.
Good Luck at the tables.
Andrew aka TheJunkie
I'll start with the FTOPS, well, after probably spending $1500, I finally won a seat into the ME. But that was all for nothing. I was able to chip up early, but proceeded to tilt my chips off to a guy that chased a gutshot and got there when the turn game me top, two. I'd like to take some credit for giving him his start for a nice run in the event. He finished in 6th place for $78k. Congrats! Appropriately, his id is "dump22".
Well, after the FTOPS concluded, I decided to take a break from poker. Running bad and playing bad is a deadly combination for anyone's emotional health and bankroll. I had no timetable for this break, only that I wanted to clear my head and start back playing when I felt the desire.
During this break, I did something very out of the ordinary for me, I watched TV. I'm not a big TV person. I'd rather be on the computer trying to find some way to become a bazillionaire. Other than basketball and football, there are only a handful of shows that I watch on a semi-regular basis. Well, during this break I was able to catch up on CSI, Lost, Cold Case, Without A Trace and my secret vice, American Idol. That's probably all the shows that I watch. I also managed to watch a few movies from my Blockbuster Online subscription. And I managed to work on a new website that I have in the works. All of this spanned the course of two weeks.
So, exactly two weeks after the FTOPS and the start of my break, I was reading through some posts on PocketFives. Coincidently, one was about downswings. After reading a lot of posts about people's various downswings and how they worked them out, I felt a lot better about my current "normal" 50 buy-in downswing. Thus, that was the fire that I needed to put in a days work.
I then proceeded to play a good number of the regular Sunday tourneys with the exception of the Stars or Full Tilt Sunday Majors. Well, long story short, I was able to secure my biggest score to date. Although it was a second place finish, I won just short of $20k in the Stars $150k $50 buy-in tourney.
Heres a screenshot:
Here are some hands from the Heads-up battle. I started down about 4 to 1 and was down 5 to 1 before making a come back. Well, after our last break, I went from being ahead 5 to 1, to being out of the tourney in second place. I'm always looking to grow and improve as a poker player and after losing my last two heads-up matches, I'm starting to study more about that aspect of the game.
Hand #1: This hand put me back in the game.
Hand #2: The first hand after the last break.
Hand #3: I played this hand horribly, but the guy was making some fairly thin calls with mediocre hands. I was hoping to get full value, but instead I valuetowned myself. LOL.
Hand #4 aka The Bustout Hand: Hopefully, this is the first of many 5-figure scores and a 6-figure score would be very nice.
Good Luck at the tables.
Andrew aka TheJunkie
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Full Tilt Withdrawal Issues Update
In a previous post, I mentioned how Full Tilt's cash pickup option was the best thing since sliced bread. Well, fate would have it that they removed this option only a couple of days after I was fortunate enough to get my money. That's a bad beat.
So, now I'm back to the unsolved mystery of finding out how I can withdraw money from my Full Tilt account. Well, today I was fortunate to stumble across a post on P5s that mentioned the Full Tilt Forums. Now for all of this year, I have almost exclusively played on Full Tilt and not once was I told or heard about their forums. The link is actually and obscure link at the bottom of their website. After visiting the forums, I came across a most glorious forum titled, Players Transactions. Basically, this is a forum to conduct various player transactions. The threads of most interest to me were people trying to trade Full Tilt cash for PokerStars cash. Ding! Ding! Ding! Of course, there is a price for everything. I was able to successfully exchange $520 in Full Tilt cash for $500 in PokerStars cash. It sucks to pay this $20 fee, which is negotiable between the two parties, but this is a small price to pay in order to get my check in a timely fashion and not be worried about it bouncing.
Be sure to read the "sticky" posts before you conduct your first transaction. To no one's surprise there are scammers out there, so they give you some tips and even have a list of suspected scammers.
As a side note, you can also by FT points on this forum. They usual sale for $4 - $4.50 per 1000 points. So, I may be able to get my table faster than I expected.
So, now I'm back to the unsolved mystery of finding out how I can withdraw money from my Full Tilt account. Well, today I was fortunate to stumble across a post on P5s that mentioned the Full Tilt Forums. Now for all of this year, I have almost exclusively played on Full Tilt and not once was I told or heard about their forums. The link is actually and obscure link at the bottom of their website. After visiting the forums, I came across a most glorious forum titled, Players Transactions. Basically, this is a forum to conduct various player transactions. The threads of most interest to me were people trying to trade Full Tilt cash for PokerStars cash. Ding! Ding! Ding! Of course, there is a price for everything. I was able to successfully exchange $520 in Full Tilt cash for $500 in PokerStars cash. It sucks to pay this $20 fee, which is negotiable between the two parties, but this is a small price to pay in order to get my check in a timely fashion and not be worried about it bouncing.
Be sure to read the "sticky" posts before you conduct your first transaction. To no one's surprise there are scammers out there, so they give you some tips and even have a list of suspected scammers.
As a side note, you can also by FT points on this forum. They usual sale for $4 - $4.50 per 1000 points. So, I may be able to get my table faster than I expected.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Full Tilt's Check Pickup Withdrawal Method
For the past two months, I've been having a lot of trouble withdrawing some money from my Full Tilt account. The first time, they issued a bunch of bonuses and deposited $100 into our accounts because their payment processor issued a bunch of bad checks. This seemed great. The money I tried to withdraw was placed back into my account and they sent me an email stating that I should try the check request again. So I did.
That led to three weeks of constantly taking disappointing trips to the mailbox, I nearly exploded. After a week of constant email complaints, my money was finally deposited back into my account along with $50. This time, it was suggested, which I planned to try out anyway, the Cash Pickup withdrawal option. After about 2-3 days, I received an email giving me the details of the pickup. The money was sent via Moneygram. This was new to me, but appeared to be similar to Western Union. I was still a little nervous, but found a Moneygram center in my local Wal-mart. I went there, filled out a Receive Cash form, showed my ID and got my cash. That was a long two months to get my money, but it was such a relief. I will definitely use this withdrawal option in the future. Hopefully, it will continue to work this smoothly.
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