A Crazy Day Watching WCOOP Event 5 & Winning A Surfers Poker Contest
A long, fun day of poker and hardly leaving the house. It basically started and ended with participating in MMC #5 on Surfers Poker.
MMC is a tournament where Surfers Poker members all enter and the winner is the player who can go deepest. The tournament was a 2922-player $2 buy-in Poker Stars event. There were 15 Surfers Poker members playing in the event… and yours truly accomplished the feat of outlasting all of my opponents.
Here’s the thread from the forum if you want to check out the highlights… I have to admit, I got very lucky with 10s cracking Jacks and A-10 outdrawing AJ and AQ with all my chips on the line late.
I finished 15th of 2922 which earned me $40 and the deepest finish contest won me another $12 plus $5 from a side bet. The total win was $57… nothing spectacular but it was a lot of fun.
The other thing I did tonight was follow and report on (for Surfers Poker) the action from the WCOOP Event 5 - No Limit Hold’em. The event is still going on and it there are a few names remaining. My watch list of 10 players didn’t even make the money and it was pocket Jacks that ended many of their days earlier than expected.
Daniel Negreanu (KidPoker on PokerStars) made a particularly interesting move when he flopped an open ended straight and put all of his chips in the middle. Negreanu held 44 and a flop of 3-5-6. His opponent called holding 55 for trip 5s. The turn brought a 7 and Negreanu the lead but the river spiked a 7 and Negreanu was an early exit.
Of my other players, only Prehlad Freidman (Prefontaine on Poker Stars) came close to a money finish although my dark horse pick, mattymat (partially because he had good statistics and partially because he’s from Philly) lost with Pocket Jacks. The hand is here.
I don’t exactly know where my bankroll is at because I did some transferring between sites tonight to build my Poker Stars bankroll to be ready to enter Friday’s Razz tournament. Now, I have to get some sleep. In 8 hours I’ll be playing in the Trump US Poker Championship Event #1 - Stud Event… if I don’t oversleep.
A quick Phillies note… they swept the Mets and are just 1 1/2 out of the Wild Card and 3 1/2 behind the Mets. They have 13 games remaining and they need to win at least 8 down the stretch to give them a shot at the Wild Card but I think it will take 9 wins to make it happen.
