May 11, 2009
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FTOPS #12 – Cashed
ID Start Time Name Buy-in Entrants Position Won Notes 89534409 May 12 01:46ET Satellite to FTOPS Event #22 
$200.00 + $16 66 7 – 90916362 May 12 01:46ET Satellite to MiniFTOPS #22 $20.00 + $2 36 18 – 90876125 May 12 00:16ET $30K Super Turbo Guarantee $110.00 + $7 489 363 – 89533696 May 11 22:16ET Satellite to FTOPS Event #22 $200.00 + $16 90 76 – 90318270 May 11 21:31ET Main Event Shootout $200.00 + $16 81 65 – 84242904 May 11 21:06ET MiniFTOPS Event #12 
$100.00 + $9 3468 1,151 – 84233561 May 11 21:01ET FTOPS Event #12 (Early Antes) $1,000.00 + $60 1349 136 $1,800 90850990 May 11 20:31ET $25,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) 
$30.00 + $3 371 160 – 90293778 May 11 20:01ET $75,000 Guarantee 
$150.00 + $13 827 750 – 89533909 May 11 19:56ET Super Sat to FTOPS Event #22 $24.00 + $2 29 7 – 90318341 May 11 19:51ET Sat to Main Event Shootout $24.00 + $2 36 25 – 90840588 May 11 19:01ET $40,000 Guarantee $69.00 + $6 667 204 – 90838840 May 11 18:46ET $15K Super Turbo KO $55.00 + $4 705 320 – 90154049 May 11 18:31ET Satellite to FTOPS Event #12 $200.00 + $16 534 184 – Total spent on buy-ins (incl. rebuys) = $1505 (not including FTOPS + miniFTOPS)
Today’s winnings/losses = $1800
Today’s net profit/loss = +$295
Made it deep in FTOPS #12 which replaced the $1k Monday with the same buy-in. This was the first tournament I’ve every played with an “early ante” structure where there was an ante in every blind level of the tournament. My assumption was that with the early antes it would induce more action early on in the tournament and would call for some very aggressive action preflop. That is exactly how it played out and adapted my approach to accommodate to the aggresiveness. It seems my early game strategy is almost flawless as I have no problem building a nice stack going into the mid stages. It’s the mid game I am having trouble with because it seems my stack steadily dwindles down to a re-ship stack of 20BB. I’m a little confused cause I feel like I have changed my mid game strategy up just recently to be more loose and aggressive, which is what most pros suggest. So it’s either I’m not doing it effectively or it’s this new strategy altogether that’s making me blow my stack. I need to figure out the leaks soon before it’s too late. That is exactly what happen when it got to the later stages of FTOPS #12 and ended up opening 2.5x the BB with 66 in middle position with my 13BB stack planning to go all the way with it. My aggressive opponent on the button re-popped me and I shoved for the rest of my chips, he shows QJo and you guys know I’m pretty much drawing dead at this point, considering that I never win flips! Oh well, I’m still happy with my performance and feel like I’m playing considerably well overall in these FTOPS events cashing deep in three of them, but nothings better than a final table at one of these events. Nothing else really exciting happened the rest of the day except for pretty much bubbling to winning my seat to FTOPS #22, a $2500 buy-in event that kicks off on Saturday, hopefully I can win my seat before then. Tomorrow is FTOPS #13 which is a 6-max 4x shootout the last shootout tournament of the series, my bread and butter. Better luck!
