By
Fox |
Published
May 02 2005, 05:18 PM
I’m discovering an awful lot of people read this thing. The guys at the
Asian place down the street where I often eat lunch called me Fox when
I walked in the other day, as did the guy at the gas station, and I get
a lot of emails about the blog lately. I wish I had more time for this
blog and pocket fives in general, it’s a lot of fun but I’ve been
really busy lately, especially this weekend.
I’ve
had three paying gigs this week writing poker articles, two of them for
print magazines which is a first for me, and all the big overlays
lately have kept me busy playing tourneys. The deck hasn’t been running
me over the last week or two so I’m glad that the writing gigs and a
few students have kept my income fairly steady.
I did get to
witness what I believe to be the biggest single table tournament in
history on Party this week. The “Step” tournaments on party have
intrigued me lately, especially since they introduced a few new levels.
Check out Troll’s blog for a good introduction to the steps and how
they work, and then take the buy in up a few levels to get a picture of
the “Step Higher” tournaments they introduced recently. It took awhile
after they started running them for a level five table to fill up but I
kept my eyes open whenever I happened to be playing and I was lucky
enough to be watching when it finally happened.
You can buy in
directly to any of the steps, and the buy in for this monster was
$15,000+$500 if you wanted to take that route. I assume most if not all
of these people won their way in through the lower steps. The usual
Party SNG structure was in force so the whole contest was a bit of a
crapshoot and the whole thing lasted less than 40 minutes. Adam was
watching as well and his comment was along the lines of “I would never
play for that much money with that structure”. I agree with him
completely, but it was a lot of fun to watch. $150,000 decided in 45
minutes and the guy who goes out in 4th place gets nothing for his
trouble.
The payouts were 1st- $100,000 - 2nd $30,000 – 3rd
$20,000. When they got down to three, I wondered to myself if the 4th
place guy was now the biggest bubble guy in history. Some of the WPT
events may have had people miss bigger prizes than that by one place,
I’m not really sure. Call the Guinness people I guess. No not the World
Record people, I mean the Guinness Brewing Company. If anybody needs a
beer right now it’s Mr. 4th place…
See you at the final table, Fox
About Fox
I'm awesome. You would like me. Really. Come join me at the tables at http://www.pokerprosnetwork.net/chriswallace.html I'm always happy to chat and I'm at one of my named cash game tables most evenings.
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