February 5, 2009
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FTOPS Event #1
ID Start Time Name Buy-in Entrants Position Won Notes 78943384 Feb 05 04:22ET $69 + $6 Sit & Go $69.00 + $6 45 15 -- 78816546 Feb 05 03:16ET Satellite to FTOPS Main Event 
$69.00 + $6 31 16 -- 78815731 Feb 05 03:01ET Turbo Hundo $100.00 + $9 285 27 $171 78243851 Feb 04 22:41ET Satellite to FTOPS Event #10 $50.00 + $5 129 69 -- 77984781 Feb 04 22:21ET Super Sat to FTOPS Event #22 $69.00 + $6 24 12 -- 73859850 Feb 04 21:02ET FTOPS Event #1 
$200.00 + $16 6275 4,389 -- 77648878 Feb 04 21:01ET $100,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) 
$100.00 + $9 603 435 -- 78245429 Feb 04 20:01ET $65,000 Guarantee 
$150.00 + $13 1,021 793 -- Total spent on buy-ins (incl. rebuys) = $1061 (excluding FTOPS buy-in)
Today's winnings/losses = +$171
Today's net profit/loss = -$890
Well today was the kick off of the FTOPS series starting with a $1M guarantee event that attracted a staggering 6275 players. The prizepool actually hit $1.2M with first place taking home $216k. I feel like I played very well up until the hand in which I knocked out with. I 4-bet push preflop for about 24BB with 33 versus a loose preflop raiser hoping I still had some fold equity or at worse be a race if he decided to call. Unfortunately, he had me dominated holding 77 and apparently I shouldn't even have considered fold equity into my analysis because he snap called with full confidence his 77 was good. I'm highly dubious he knew his 77 was good but rather convinced himself he was going to commit all of his chips in this hand prior to me raising. Not much I can do about that, just move on to the next event. I played few other tournaments but those didn't work out so well either. What did make it a profitable day was playing almost 400 hands in $2/$4 6-max cash games and winning about $2k and $1600 of it coming from one fish in two almost back to back hands, I'll post the hands below. Tomorrow there is no NLHE FTOPS event but I will be playing the usual daily tournaments. Next event is on Fri. which is the FTOPS #4 - $200k Guarantee - 3x Shootout event. Shootouts are still a relatively new style of tournament to me, so I'm looking foward to that. Here are the hands I stacked the fish with in almost consecutive order:
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HAND #1
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Full Tilt, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker
BB: $444.50 (111.1 bb)
UTG: $878 (219.5 bb)
4XTRADER (MP): $800 (200 bb)
CO: $806 (201.5 bb)
BTN: $954.30 (238.6 bb)
SB: $1,563.60 (390.9 bb)
Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is MP with
UTG folds, 4XTRADER raises to $12, CO folds, BTN raises to $40, SB folds, BB folds, 4XTRADER calls $28
Flop: ($86)
(2 players)
4XTRADER checks, BTN bets $50, 4XTRADER raises to $125, BTN calls $75
Turn: ($336)
(2 players)
4XTRADER bets $165, BTN raises to $420, 4XTRADER raises to $635 and is all-in, BTN calls $215
River: ($1,606)
(2 players, 1 is all-in)
Results: $1,606 pot ($3 rake)
4XTRADER showed (a full house, Threes full of Fives) and won $1,603 ($803 net)
BTN showed
(two pairs, Jacks and Tens) and lost (-$800 net)--------------------
HAND #2
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Full Tilt, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker
MP: $400 (100 bb)
CO: $872 (218 bb)
4XTRADER (BTN): $1,597 (399.3 bb)
SB: $802 (200.5 bb)
BB: $800 (200 bb)
UTG: $1,989.10 (497.3 bb)
Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is BTN with
UTG folds, MP folds, CO folds, 4XTRADER raises to $12, SB folds, BB raises to $40, 4XTRADER calls $28
Flop: ($82)
(2 players)
BB bets $55, 4XTRADER calls $55
Turn: ($192)
(2 players)
BB checks, 4XTRADER bets $100, BB calls $100
River: ($392)
(2 players)
BB checks, 4XTRADER bets $1,402 and is all-in, BB calls $605 and is all-in
Results: $1,602 pot ($3 rake)
4XTRADER showed (a straight, Four to Eight) and won $1,599 ($799 net)
BB showed
(a pair of Aces) and lost (-$800 net)
Comments (2)
Ok,I can understand him flopping top pair with decent kicker improving to two pair on the turn, and then flopping ace pair with J kicker, checking for the spades, but why the calling of all-ins I have no idea.... fish/donk explains it all... its like he wanted to just give you all his chips haha
@MentalXpreshun - The first hand I could understand, it doesn't look like a scary board for top two pair, but at a deep table with 200BB you can still find a fold because you only beat an overpair or semi-bluff in that spot. The second hand I got the ridiculous call all-in with his top-pair just from a simple meta-game perspective. I just stacked him literally two hands prior and he's thinking that I'm just trying to bully him now that I have a bigger stack, there was no doubt in my mind he wasn't gonna call me down weak which is the main reason why I went for the over-bet shove on the river. Don't play cash much but this proves there's fish at all limits. Gotta love poker!
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