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luvr
Damn I hate it when you write a blog and then lose it before saving.
This is the story of how $4 grew into something more. (And I lost another chance to win a trip via satellite) Long story short since I lost what I had written: iPoker makes me angry and I'm going back to Betfair where I belong. Not only do I have a sick rakeback deal there but they've just upgraded their software and joined the OnGame network and have a bunch of bonuses going. And they sent me Christmas presents last winter. Anyway, I can't withdraw from iPoker to moneybookers unless I've already made a deposit from moneybookers and since I haven't and my moneybookers was empty I had to think of something. While waiting to see if a friend had $5 in their moneybookers account I logged into my UB account. I know. Bad. But a friend convinced me to try them awhile ago, long before the recent security issue. I found a lonely $4. Quickly and without hesitation that $4 made some friends and grew into $60. I withdrew $50 (leaving 10 to play in lowbie tournies) and sent $5 to iPoker. While waiting for iPoker to let me withdraw my money, I sent the $45 to Betfair to get started. In the last 48 hours I've made 3 final tables in little tourneys. 2 were freerolls, one freeroll had over 2000 entrants.Today I final tabled a 454 person field in a $2, 1k GTD tourney and came 3rd for $97. I also won some BIs at 10nl. My little $4 has grown into over $150. I had been watching a lot of tourney vids lately with the intention of winning a trip to EPO: At the end of July I found out I was involved in a site only rake race. If you got over 30k player points you won a seat into a tourney for a chance to win a $6300 package to London to play the English Poker Open. If you got in the top 25 you won a seat in another tourney for the same prize. I had 2 chances to go to the EPO for free. Both tourneys were 5k starting stacks, 15 min blinds. First one had 14 people in it. I was slowing chipping up, playing nitty in the beginning and staying around 5-6th for chips. Then someone set over setted me in this hand that I posted on our forums: http://www.leggopoker.com/forums/mul...way-12215.html I still had some stack left but wasn't able to catch a double up and eventually got it with AK or something decent and lost anyway. In the 2nd I was playing nitty again in the beginning then a hand happened were there was a raise and a call and I had QQ so I 3bet. The opener folded and the caller shoves allin for his last half of the starting stack. I call and lose to AKo. I'm down to about 1/2 the starting stack and still feeling OK, it's still deep. A play a couple more small pots with AK and AA with no real action. Then there's a raise and a call and a 3bet from an aggressive player and I have QQ in the SB. I shove. Opener and caller fold, 3bettor calls with 99 and binks a 9 on the flop and I'm out. GG and so much for London. Even though I got the luck in micro tourneys instead of a trip to London I'm still kind of glad I learned a bit more about tourneys in the process. Well that's it for now, good luck Leggo with all your pokerings. P.S. Not sure why but I hit record when the final table started. I might post it on here later since a couple people said they wouldn't mind seeing it. I feel like playing now though, I'll update this entry again later with it.
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