$500 Freeroll

Being that I was amped for the Blogger's Tournament, but was unable to make the bodonkament becuase of registration issues, my fingers were pretty itchy for a challenge. Luckily, I found the $500 freeroll on Bodog starting at (unfortunately), 9pm EST.

After some grinding and luck I ran deep somewhere between 70 to 90 people around 12:55 with 78,000 in chips.

Knowing my stack, knowing the time, knowing the amount of players left, and knowing what time I had to be up left me at odds end if I really wanted to continue, but I couldn't quit now.

Then it happened.

About 1:30 am, I lost about 1/3 of my stack on a play I know I should of made AQ suited (the second one in a row), against a all-in reraise...KK. Another, was my preflop raise with JJ and a call, with a K on the board...he had it - I wasn't listening to the little voice. That was about another 20,000 and left me SS.

With my mind going toward the side of mush, and my enthusiasm wailing, and knowing what I would have to do to rebuild I knew it could easily run past 3am...I decided to have fun and push.

I busted out at 66th...63rd was in the money. It was a good experience and fun. No regrets.

Blogger Tournament

I've been reading up on a few blogger poker tournaments and signed up for both PokerStars and Bodog Blogger Tournamnetns. Looks like I have one chance on both sites to qualify for the final Blogger tournamnet.

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On Bodog, it looks like two players to be aware of is $mokkee, and TonySoprano (plus anyone else who is on the leader board). If I have time, I'll research their game.

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I don't know if I'll have time to play in the PokerStars blogger tournament as their freerolls run up until the 20th, which is the only day I may have a chance to play. But I signed up anyway.

(The below is a requirement for the event.)

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

The WBCOOP is an online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers.

Registration code: 337028

UPDATE: Looks like my little blog got me into the PokerStars tournament as well.

UPDATEII: I will not be playing at the Bodonkament (I didn't realize there was a registration process, which wasn't as clear cut as PokerStars' instructions).

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