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Title: Won't play this one again....
Post by: AMRN on November 25, 2009, 01:50:34 AM
logged into FT to see how many pennies I had left in my depleted account, and found the Daily Dollar about to start at 20:15. It had 3500 runners, and with 1500 chips and 10 min blinds, I figured on 4 hours ish.... didn"t account for the fact that as it"s a cheap rebuy, there would be masses and masses of chips in play later on. (literally masses!!)

Now nearly 2am, and we"re down to 75.... i have a whopping $16 locked up so far. lol. final table starts at $83, with $2300 for the winner.... talk about a top heavy structure!! unfortunately I have a feeling it will be 4am at the earliest before it finishes. could end up going to bed after 4am for an $80 payout. sigh
Title: Re: Won't play this one again....
Post by: CrizzyConnor on November 25, 2009, 03:08:59 AM
I made the same mistake through the week. Been on terrible form recently so trying to only play $11 & under buy ins at the moment, fired this up, in for $4... SIX HOURS later I bust in 22nd place for $35 when I re-raise all in vs chipleader with my Jacks and am snap called with 9T suited (for over 60% of his stack), flop TTx *sigh*... definitely wont be playing it again even if I only have a dollar to my name :D
Title: Re: Won't play this one again....
Post by: AMRN on November 25, 2009, 08:28:39 AM
So sick...  at 2.25 I run QQ into AA and drop from 900k to 240k. blinds now 12k/24k..... then facebook throws a wobbler, opens hundreds of new windows and kills my laptop.  By the time i get restarted (15 mins it took!) I"m down to 70k and stuffed. 8.5 hours for $28 - decimated by Facebook!
Title: Re: Won't play this one again....
Post by: lukybugur on November 25, 2009, 08:46:40 AM

So sick...  at 2.25 I run QQ into AA and drop from 900k to 240k. blinds now 12k/24k..... then facebook throws a wobbler, opens hundreds of new windows and kills my laptop.  By the time i get restarted (15 mins it took!) I"m down to 70k and stuffed. 8.5 hours for $28 - decimated by Facebook!


F-Secure subscription up to date??
Title: Re: Won't play this one again....
Post by: K3vl4rUK on November 25, 2009, 12:55:19 PM
i saw this on you FB mate ul :/
Title: Re: Won't play this one again....
Post by: AMRN on November 25, 2009, 13:17:39 PM


So sick...  at 2.25 I run QQ into AA and drop from 900k to 240k. blinds now 12k/24k..... then facebook throws a wobbler, opens hundreds of new windows and kills my laptop.  By the time i get restarted (15 mins it took!) I"m down to 70k and stuffed. 8.5 hours for $28 - decimated by Facebook!


F-Secure subscription up to date??


It"s my work laptop running corporate McAfee!!  Have heard of FB doing wierd stuff like this frm others, but never seen it til now.
Title: Re: Won't play this one again....
Post by: deanp27 on November 25, 2009, 13:21:07 PM
On Monday whilst playing my forum freezeout league i also regged for 7 or so early tournies on stars to keep me occupied. I don"t normally play loads of tournaments on work nights for obvious reasons, but fancied playing a few that night

However i managed to make last 25 of the 30k (5200 runners) and the final table of the 80k (2k+ runners) and i was still playing around 4am - i sure enjoyed getting up at 7am for work.

Even more fed up that i only got $109 for the 25th and $1700 for 8th in the daily 80k, when there was $17k up top. Although i guess i shouldn"t moan.
Title: Re: Won't play this one again....
Post by: Mikeyboy9361 on November 25, 2009, 13:23:09 PM

On Monday whilst playing my forum freezeout league i also regged for 7 or so early tournies on stars to keep me occupied. I don"t normally play loads of tournaments on work nights for obvious reasons, but fancied playing a few that night

However i managed to make last 25 of the 30k (5200 runners) and the final table of the 80k (2k+ runners) and i was still playing around 4am - i sure enjoyed getting up at 7am for work.

Even more fed up that i only got $109 for the 25th and $1700 for 8th in the daily 80k, when there was $17k up top. Although i guess i shouldn"t moan.

No Dean, you shouldn"t! Thats a great effort.
Title: Re: Won't play this one again....
Post by: bigredders on November 26, 2009, 08:46:27 AM
maybe you shouldn"t moan but that payout structure is so top heavy...how should you get 163000k just for beating 7 more people when you have already beaten 2000 plus. Especially by that point it is more luck and timing rather than skill.

feeling your pain there dean, happened to me many times before!
Title: Re: Won't play this one again....
Post by: AMRN on November 26, 2009, 08:59:07 AM

maybe you shouldn"t moan but that payout structure is so top heavy...how should you get 163000k just for beating 7 more people when you have already beaten 2000 plus. Especially by that point it is more luck and timing rather than skill.

feeling your pain there dean, happened to me many times before!


never thought of it like that - the final table in most of these games is just a shovefest.... all that skill and patience to get past 1000s of runners, then luck and shoving to make massive leaps up the ladder.

Title: Re: Won't play this one again....
Post by: deanp27 on November 26, 2009, 09:18:41 AM
to be fair it wasn"t a total shovefest and the stars structure is ok, but the players on the table were so aggro it turned out to be a 3bet/4bet contest. It is the first time i have been at a final table and been the most passive and tight player at the table. I got a pair blind v blind against a high/med stakes tourney reg but his pair was bigger than mine obv.
Title: Re: Won't play this one again....
Post by: Fatcatstu on December 12, 2009, 12:51:27 PM
I played the 30k on stars last night as i was a bit bored.

Ended up coming 2nd and not finishing til 3am.#

The $5k i won helped ease my pain when i was in work for 8am  :s