Yorky Pud

From time to time poker players, for some unknown reason, love to start with shallow stacks and move all-in like crazy horses just for the laugh. Poker players especially like to do this when they can rebuy and try to win the piece of a $50,000 prize pool and a $7,500 guaranteed one like in Event #10 of the Grand Series of Poker (GSOP) and it's mini equivalent. Here's how Team Betfair and I got on.

GSOP Event #10: $50+$4 No Limit Hold'em Mad Tilt Rebuy $50,000 Guaranteed

The Mad Tilt tournament is not one I would usually enter because it feel like pure gambling to me, a pastime I neither particularly enjoy or partake in, but in for a penny in for a pound let's go play a $54 rebuy one! For this write up I will describe, in great detail, every single hand I played so make sure you're ready.

The tournament kicked off with everyone starting with 100 chips and blinds of 10/20 so we only had five big blinds! Thankfully I had been dealt AcKc under the gun so I simply moved the bet slider all the way to the right, clicked bet 100 and my virtual chips slid into the middle of the equally virtual table. One player folded and I was then called in two spots to discover I was up against AdJc and 8h8d. The flop came down a rather stunning As-4c-Kh which pleased me no end because now I am about to triple up to a massive 15 big blinds. The Qc turn is even better because not I have the nut flush draw to go with my top two and I am already rubbing my hands together with glee. That happiness soon turned sour though as the river was an eight of spades! Mother F***er! Get out of here.

No rebuy for me and I busted out 534/546, amazingly 12 people had busted before me including three Team Betfair players including the last place finisher but we shall spare them of the embarrassment of naming and shaming.

Thankfully me fellow Team Betfairians seemed to fair a little better, except BetFairy who burst the bubble in 80th place. Their demise was for the great good though as it meant everyone else picked up at least $210.27 for their efforts. In tota 17 Betfair players made it into the money with forum and community game regular Mrs Keith A going really deep before busting in 21st place for $450.57. Mrs Keith A was the third highest Betfair casher as only xvisitor1 (16) and Dr.Giddens (7) managed to outlast him/her. Dr.Giddens of the Norway variety won a welcomed $2,327.94. GG everyone. Thank the heavens that one is over with!

Event #10 in numbers

Total entrants: 546
Total prize pool: $78,150
Total Team Betfair entrants: 116 (21.25% of field)
Total Team Betfair cashes: 17
Total Team Betfair prize money: $7,265.42 (9.30% of prize pool)

Mini-GSOP Event #10: $5+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Mad Tilt Rebuys $7,500 Guaranteed

If you thought a $54 buy-in tournament where you start with five big is mental then imagine what it's $5.50 baby brother is like. Yeah, it's completely barmy! I actually rebought in this one, not that it did me any good like but at least I helped to push the prize pool past the $7,500 guarantee.

Eight hands in I am sat armed with the monster stack of 155 and the blinds had already increased to 25/50 so when ti folded to me in late position I moved in with my AhJh and was called by Piraeus in the big blind who had somehow acquired a 505 stack. Anyway, they called with As9s, the board ran out 5c-Kh-4c-8h-4h and all of a sudden I had 335 chips!

It all went Pete Tong shortly afterwards though when the blinds were 40/80. I open-shoved for 435 from UTG+1 with AsKs and was called by Piraeus again and punisher101 was already all in from the big blind. Piraeus showed a dominated AhQd and punisher101 Qs4h. Marvelous, almost a triple up on the card for Pudding then. Don't be silly, everyone knows I run worse than anyone in history! The board ran out 10h-Qc-9d-5h-2d to leave me with 60 chips.

These went all in from the small blind a couple of hands later with 8s6c and syxoi777 raised it up with Ac10s. A board reading Jd-5d-Qh-3c-2d was enough to send me to the rail in 335/713. No more rebuying for me in this event. At least I know why they are called Mad Tilt events.

Some players obviously like them more than me, in particular the 18 Team Betfair players who finished in the top 105 places to receive some money back into their accounts. A big congratulations for not smashing your lap tops to pieces in frustration to 16 of those 18 in the money people but a massive congrats to DJ_Mustafa1 of Ireland and A4Ash of Canada who quite amazingly finished in first and second respectively, winning a combined $2,882.50 between them! Great stuff I am sure you will agree! Well played shove monkeys!

Mini Event #10 in numbers

Total entrants: 713
Total prize pool: $9,860
Total Team Betfair entrants: 96 (13.46% of field)
Total Team Betfair cashes: 18
Total Team Betfair prize money: $3,369.20 (34.17% of prize pool)

More wins for Betfair Poker players which is never a bad thing is it? I would love to see figures from other Ongame sites because I doubt any are killing the games as much as our guys and gals are right now. As of the conclusion of the 10th events Betfair players have cashed 287 times for total winnings of $395,814.62 whilst our mini grinders have made it to the money on no fewer than 314 occasions cashing for $30,171.81. Great stuff, keep it up!

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