Sunday, March 1, 2009

Satelite Tournaments

I have recently discovered a form of tournmament I have never really played before because the poker site I used to solely play didn't offer many and if you did win higher up it could take days to fill the large buy in tournaments to continue up the ladder. So this past week I played a $2 satelite on Betfair and luckily won 1 of 2 seats available into a larger $1111 guaranteed event, this was a nice little surprise as I would never at my current bankrol allow myself to play that high of a buy in unless it had something to do with training for future growth in my game. So I then played in a satellite free roll on Poker Stars and won 1 of 50 seats available into the next round on March 14th, my dead cat said to try some on FullTilt since I was having a nice litte run with this new form of tournament. So without even giving it much thought I continued on with my routine of playing lots of free rolls and pumping out as many games as possible and didn't bother with the satelites... until last night. I played in 1 $2 satelite and 3 .50 cent satellites to the 200k gauranteed double douce on FullTilt. I didn't get any entrys into the larger tournament but I did cash 2 times bubbling the entry the double douce.
On to today, I have PokerVT member tournaments on FullTilt at 6:00 and 8:00pm, as well I have a heads up match to play vs mrguky from PokerVT because I won a last longer on Friday Night Fights with PokerVT 2 nights ago, the winner gets to play Nick Rainey for $100 Head Up so I am a bit anxious. So to make for an easy morning I decided only to play a few free rolls and more of the satellites into the double deuce. I started with a $2 freeze out and a .50 cent re buy. I was gonna join more as I got knocked out, but didn't need to... I love my dead cat, I won a $22 entry into the double deuce in the .50 cent tourney as it was a turbo and ended first. I was worried if I won in the $2 tourney that I wouldn't get anything since I was already entered for the 4:22pm double deuce 200k guaranteed... but nope the wonderful people at FullTilt were gracious enough to credit my account with $22 in tournament tokens to be used in tournaments on FullTilt, BAM! I can now use them to play any level... maybe 6 buy ins for $3.30 cent tournaments who knows... I will definitely be trying to play more of these every weekend as they seem to be great for odds at getting paid out a nice little amount for a very small buy in. The only disadvantage is my PokerTracker3 shows it as a loss of money as the tournament dollars don't register as a win but $3.80 cents into $44 in tournament entry's and a chance at the double deuce months before I ever thought I could play in a $22 buy in event is well worth the trade off of my stats looking poor... I hope to be editing later with great results from all of my many big events today, especially a bounty update as my dead cat says today is a nice day to collect a bounty... maybe even 2!
On another note I have yet to begin the 100 Sng challenge and their is a new 500 SnG challenge to start prepating for. I think I might try pokerstars SnG and then FullTilt for the 100 challenge to get lots of practice. Then start the 500 in a couple weeks or so after I am playing more tables at a time.
I am also going to post in the forum at PokerVT about my blog and see if anybody is interested in following along in my journey to become a poker pro, hope they all don't just laugh and think I am a donk playing free rolls all the time. My dead cat has his own opinions on the "donk" comment that I choose not to share at this time or ever. Have a great day anyone who might be reading this!

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