Sunday, June 21, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
While Adam Levy and Brandon Cantu press forward in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold-Em event, three familiar names are battling it out in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship. And just as Adam Levy was before him in the Hold-Em event, Matt Graham is the current chip leader. And I didn’t cooler him when I walked over to take his picture, giving up both reason to smile:
Michael Binger also returned on Day 2 and finds himself very much in contention with around 110,000. Come to think of it, Michael’s pretty much always very much in contention:
And Matt Vengrin is among the final 66 players and has rebuilt his stack up to 70,000 thanks to a timely double-up through Erick Lindgren:
Sixty-six players remain, twenty-seven get paid. The money bubble is a long way off and the railbirds will no doubt be crowding close as this star-studded field is winnowed down to the final table–or, maybe we’ll get down to the final nine before play is automatically suspended at 3AM. The PLO events have tended to play the fastest, a few of them have reached the final nine before that 3AM deadline. But this is a $10K event, a World Championship, with many of the best players in the world, so that may lead to a slower rate of attrition. Perhaps. We shall see.
Tags: 000 pot-limit omaha world championship, 10, 2009 world series of poker, 2009 wsop, Matt Graham, matt vengrin, Michael Binger, PLO, pot-limit omaha, ub, ultimatebet, ultimatebet wsop, world series of poker, WSOP
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Monday, February 9, 2009 - Roothlus
Hey peeps. It’s me, your resident pro Roothlus. It’s my last weekend in Orlando since I’m in the process of moving out to Las Vegas until the end of the World Series. I have wanted to move to the West Coast for years and I’m finally doing it. The West Coast is for me and I’m comin’! With the LAPC, the Bay 101, the Wynn Classic, WPT Champs and the WSOP on the west coast all within the next six months, it makes sense for me to move there. I don’t mind traveling but I really just need to have a home base on the West Coast. After the WSOP I’m planning on moving out to LA which will hopefully be my permanent residence. Alright so enough about that.
The FTOPS started on Wednesday so the tournament fields have gotten bigger which has helped the fields on other sites, Ultimate Bet included. The $1k on Wednesdays at 8:30PM EST got up to 216 players this week because of the FTOPS and so did the 9:00PM $200 sniper. It had 560 players in it this week. This is good for UltimateBet. Now, I just wish there was a tournament series every week! I think in the 2 FTOPS I’ve played so far I’ve lasted a total of, wait for it, 30 hands lol. I got owned by this donk in the $200 NL in back to back hands to bust before late registration was even done. Now, that’s impressive! I somehow outdid myself on Thursday when I played the $200 PLO8 tournament. I woke up in the middle of late registration 20 minutes into the tourney which I then didn’t realize for another 10 minutes that it wasn’t PLO and that it was PLO8. That’s what happens when you roll out of bed and start playing all groggy. Woops.
I took Friday and Saturday off and just enjoyed the downtime. Well, I wouldn’t exactly call it downtime. I went with some friends and my bro Justin a.k.a Roothlus Jr. to Tampa for this parade called Gasparilla. It’s like a toned down Mardi Gras but still a blast. It was exactly what I needed considering I’ve been grinding at home for the past two weeks so having social interaction was very refreshing. That’s definitely a downside of being an online poker player. You have to really try hard to create your own social circles because you aren’t around people besides your roommates on a day-to-day basis. That’s another reason why I’m moving to Vegas. I know soooo many people out there.
Sunday I was happy to be back at home and ready for a good grind session. Once again with the FTOPS there were massive fields all around including the $200k and $100k on UB. They both surpassed their guarantees as well. I ended up having a pretty good but heartbreaking day for a Sunday. I stone bubbled the FTOPS $240 6max which was $170k and this was the 2nd week in a row I bubbled a huge tournament. But, this is what I signed up for when I started playing tournament poker. I live for these ups and downs. In some screwed up way I’m kind of addicted to them. I could totally go off on a tangent about poker and my thoughts on it but let’s leave that for another blog hehe. Well, that’s all for now. See you guys at the tables.
Tags: Adam "Roothlus" Levy, FTOPS, Online Poker, PLO, world series of poker, WPT, Wynn Classic
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 - P0ker H0
The Ultimate Online Championships started last Friday, and so far it’s been a really good ride. Event #1 was a PLO tournament, and I really am not that experienced in it. I must say though, I have fallen in love with PLO. It was such a nice reprieve from the normal NL tournaments I play all the time. I focused really hard and found myself at the Final Table. 7 handed and I get dealt aqq2 with the ace and 2 of spades in early position. I decided to limp because the table has been so aggressive, and I was sure to get re-raised. Sure enough the guy to my immediate left raises. It folds around to me, and I’m thinking he probably has kk or aa, so I decided to see a flop and see if it would be bad for his hand. The flop came A59, and at this point I’m thinking he probably doesn’t have AA, because I have one, so I’m thinking more towards KK now. I check and he bets enough where if I shove, he has to call. I shoved and he had AKK7, and I was eliminated. My read was on, but unfortunately he had the other Ace to have me outkicked and I finished in 7th place for $3100. None the less I had a lot of fun.
The next day, was UBOC Event #2 and it was a $320 NL and although I was eliminated fairly quickly in it, I actually won the MINI-UBOC event #2 that coincided with it. It felt really good to outlast 400 something players trying to win the title. The final prize was $3300 so overall it’s been a great UBOC so far.
There has been some added excitement to the UBOC’s this year with the introduction of www.ubpokerleagues.com. It’s a website that takes a designated group of tournaments and scores them like a league. You pick a partner and try to outscore other teams and win the side prize pools that are offered. Currently my team is in 3rd place of the UBOC League, and 2nd of the MINI-UBOC League. We would be crushing until Wiscomurray got 2nd last night in the UBOC #4 $530 NL event. There are still a lot of tournies left in the league and plenty of time to catch up though. I really recommend playing these leagues. They add a whole new dimension and incentive to play good poker. The UBOC Leagues are closed, but you can sign up for Low, Mid, and Highstakes leagues that run every week. Be sure to check it out.
Gl to Everyone who plays the UBOC’s and Bad luck to everyone who plays the UBOC League.
Tags: mini UBOC, PLO, ub poker leagues, UBOC
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