Saturday, November 17, 2007

A little Friday Surprise!!!!



So it all started by deciding to stay home rather than work three hours at Best Buy last night(i technically wasn't on the schedule so it was an option to stay home), the 16th of November.

I told myself that I'd take 100 to 1,000 at the cash tables. As soon as I hit the tables, I took a beat for 65, grrrr, down to my last 35. On the chat box, a tournament flashed across the screen for a 13,500 dollar guaranteed tournament. What the heck, I went ahead and registered.

Back in January of 2005, I actually won a $6K guaranteed tournament, which had a 22 dollar buy-in, but also had rebuys. It ended up being the best tournament I had taken down at that point, how can a Donk get so lucky?

Anyway, after playing for a little over 5 hours I bit the dust in SECOND place, how lucky can I get. Here you go Mondo: lucky, lucky, lucky. I put a couple bad beats on some people in crucial moments of the game but played the best I could. To me, its been the best tourny so far because of the amount of players verse the last big tourny. This tournament had 593, the tournament in January of 2005 had about 185 players.

However, like all poker players, I hope someday to win a bigger tournament than that. But, I'm not gonna get too far ahead of myself there. Although getting sucked out in heads up play, second paid out about 2,200. Not to bad for a nights work.

Here's a screen shot of the tournament lobby after the game was finished................................


9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very cool! btw - peep:mouth, peek:eyes. : )

RoccoBoxer said...

I should have gotten credit for the sceen shot.

JK - Congrats...

Michael Allan said...

lol, thanks for catching the "peep" error

Michael Allan said...

btw..thanks for the screen shot jim!!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Mike! I am very impressed! It's so hard to win big tournaments like that one! Keep it real! Lata..
Rico

ScottMcM said...

Nice score. Look forward to seeing you at the cash tables :)

Anonymous said...

Congrats. I was also down to my last $25 in my cash box on FT, after a week of games. I was aout ready to call it quits for online cash, then suddenly climbed $50 over my deposit and kept it there this week. Lotta tight players on FT.

Michael Allan said...

scottmc..........i appreciate it, i need to link up with you from my blog. ill get your link from mondo's blog, i guess you can do the same for mine.

Michael Allan said...

mr. bahhhh,

need to see you back in the games brother....where have you been,come on now.