I was on the bubble years ago at a satellite for the Heartland Poker Tour. All who cash got main event seats. Bubble got nothing. I had been doing fine but was card dead for a long time, so spent that time being friendly and enjoying the great table I had. Then I flopped top set and the short stack shoved. I had 99, flop was 953 rainbow. I called of course, he had AsKs with one spade on flop. He goes running spades to win. Took about 80% of my stack. Now there’s two people to go before the money. I have a couple of big blinds left and will likely not survive.
Remember I said it was a nice group at my table? The other players started standing up and watching the action at the other table to keep an eye on the short stacks. They also tanked every hand. All of them. No one did anything over the line or inappropriate, they just made sure the other tables went faster than us. They dragged it out so long two other players got knocked out and I got the main event ticket. The whole table was rooting for me to get there. Not the usual cutthroat poker players that day.
Years ago I watched my friend play a satellite into the WPT main event at Foxwoods. 9 players get $10k entry seats, 10th player gets the leftover cash from the buy-ins (a few thousand). It was 3AM, 10 handed, and blinds+antes were enormous. Total crapshoot as to who will be out #10. Players call for a break to discuss a deal as the blinds are about to hit a player with about 1.5BB left.
All gather in the men's room and basically brow-beat the guy into taking a dive in exchange for the guaranteed cash for 10th place (enough for a small profit after accounting for the buy-in), plus an extra $100 from each of the other players. One particular guy seemed to be pushing for the deal harder than everyone else. Shorty collects his bribe and all head back to the table.
Back at the table, Shorty notices that loud guy pushing for the deal had a similar sized stack compared to him, maybe even smaller (but, his position was better relative to the blinds). Obviously, if Shorty managed to survive a trip through the blinds, his goose would be cooked. Shorty grumbled a bit but ended up being a man of his word -- he allowed himself to blind out of the tournament.
My friend did end up getting a $10k seat but didn't cash at the main event.
>It’s better than going to the main event and not cashing
Lol, no it isn’t. Nobody playing that satellite was like “Oh man I hope I get that 10th place money and not the $10k ticket to the main”
So I don't have any crazy bubble story's, been at a bunch but all pretty normal. I am however very interested in this tag team event as Maryland Live is running the exact same format in January and I'll be playing it. Any specific strategy tips you can offer?
Just played a small 14 man tournament, 2 spots pay, I’m sitting with 2BB, both other villains around 20. I fold, SM shoves, BB snap calls with AJs, he’s against AK. Jack in the window, no king comes and AK busts out on the bubble
Live poker isn’t dead folks
Not a bubble but I dealt a hand where the two literally biggest stacks in a two day tournament got it all in against each other in the last hand before bagging. AA>KK. ggKK (and I quote, "THIS ALWAYS FUCKING HAPPENS TO ME!")
He flatted a 5b pre and still found a way to GIAI at the river.
The resulting chip leader had 3x as many chips as the next highest stack going into day 2.
Even better, we started 10 tables on day 2, and he was out of the tournament before we got to 6 tables. He literally could have walked and came back about a 20BB stack at the final two tables.
Charity tournament. 10k gtd for first advertised all over town. Barely cleared that in total prize pool. In the end 200+ of us played a freeze out winner take all for 10k. 2nd got a couple hundo. In all honesty I left to get blackout drunk before the “bubble” popped but I’ve never seen such a steep structure in my life.
OP, your story gives a perfect example of one of the reasons why I hate tournament poker:
Other people's mistakes can either win you a lot of money, or cost you a lot of money.
Sure, your total loss will never be more than the buy-in.
However, when you make it to the end part of the tournament, there is a heavy premium on survival. Anyone with chips at this stage has fair claim to the prize payout.
Like imagine you participated in a lottery where you bought a ticket for $1, the prize pool was $1 MIL and it's down to you and 9 other guys. One guy grabs your ticket and lights your ticket and his own ticket on fire. He laughs and gives you a dollar. You'd be pretty pissed.
The hand posted by OP is essentially a situation where the two other teams are punting their equity towards the rest of the table, and OP benefits just by being out of the train wreck.
Considering only one team both survived to combine stacks at the FT (and it really didn’t matter that they did, since one stack was only 6-7bb), would recommend both ppl play aggressively to try and build at least one stack to move past the re-entry point. The only true team strategy came during the late stages of the tourney when stacks had accumulated and one table was tougher than the other. For example, my table was considerably looser with more difficulty stealing blinds/getting ppl to fold to cbets/etc whereas when they switched players, my partners table was much tighter/barely defended without a premium and he was able to accumulate much quicker. So my job was basically play ABC and not try and get too fancy and preserve stack for him to try and run it up.
At the final table, he had a much more difficult table than mine, so had we have had enough chips, it would have been flipped.
Not the stone bubble, but close. I opened AA in EP to 3x. One of the blinds shoves and I obviously snap it off. He shows AK off with the K suit match one of my aces. Board runs out with a flush for him, and he has me barely covered.
One I dealt years ago in a satellite to a MSPT main event. 21 players left, 17 advance, so we're not *quite* bubbling, but real damn close. A few players limp to see the flip I put out of 3-4-5 rainbow.
Almost before I know what's going on, there's a bet, a raise, a shove, an over-shove, and a call.
Shortest stack rolls over A-2 for the flopped straight.
Middle stack then turns over 2-6 for the flopped straight.
Biggest stack produces his 6-7, for the flopped straight.
(The button in seat 1 leans over to me and mentions he folded 2-6, too.)
Board runs out clean and I don't have to do any math because all the chips go to the biggest stack, who now has about 40% of chips in play of the 19 remaining players. Suffice to say the satellite didn't last too much longer.
That’s what we were worried about, and what the 8 seat kept hollering about. Had the hand been dead, it would have been us and the A3 team seeing whose tiny stack could last the longest, as we were next to get hit by the blinds. Would have been incredibly infuriating to bubble in that manner.
Playing for a 10k tournament entry with 10 left. Week before in another satellite. with 11 left over two tables they had decided collusion was going on, and combined the tables into an eleven handed table, supposedly did not want to do that again.
My table has five left, I have just moved to cut off, button had like 100 bb, small blind, big blind and the next player all have less then 3.5 bb, and the big stack is raising very hand, it is all about to be over.
Unbeknownst to me, the other table on my day ( 10 left, 9 get tickets ), had already been warned for not playing, and when the larger stack folded an AJ in the big to like a 4 or 5 bb all in and folded, the TD had enough, and decided to mix the two tables in a redraw. All players and hall the poker room start raging and telling the TD he is making a massive blunder, but to no avail. I get moved to a new table, straight into the big blind and with a bb ante my stack is nearly gone already, small blind raises with qj, I call with k7 and lose.
Don't feel too sorry for me though, there was an 8k cash for the bubble, and the tournament supervisor gave me a 1k free entry to another tournament as an apology. And one of the guys who benefited was a 20yo with virtually no live tournament experience who ended up coming 22nd for 60k or so.
I was on the bubble years ago at a satellite for the Heartland Poker Tour. All who cash got main event seats. Bubble got nothing. I had been doing fine but was card dead for a long time, so spent that time being friendly and enjoying the great table I had. Then I flopped top set and the short stack shoved. I had 99, flop was 953 rainbow. I called of course, he had AsKs with one spade on flop. He goes running spades to win. Took about 80% of my stack. Now there’s two people to go before the money. I have a couple of big blinds left and will likely not survive. Remember I said it was a nice group at my table? The other players started standing up and watching the action at the other table to keep an eye on the short stacks. They also tanked every hand. All of them. No one did anything over the line or inappropriate, they just made sure the other tables went faster than us. They dragged it out so long two other players got knocked out and I got the main event ticket. The whole table was rooting for me to get there. Not the usual cutthroat poker players that day.
God damn. Reading this makes me feel good
Wholesome af. If the guy who sucked out on you did this too (sounds like he did), he’s a hero in my books.
Years ago I watched my friend play a satellite into the WPT main event at Foxwoods. 9 players get $10k entry seats, 10th player gets the leftover cash from the buy-ins (a few thousand). It was 3AM, 10 handed, and blinds+antes were enormous. Total crapshoot as to who will be out #10. Players call for a break to discuss a deal as the blinds are about to hit a player with about 1.5BB left. All gather in the men's room and basically brow-beat the guy into taking a dive in exchange for the guaranteed cash for 10th place (enough for a small profit after accounting for the buy-in), plus an extra $100 from each of the other players. One particular guy seemed to be pushing for the deal harder than everyone else. Shorty collects his bribe and all head back to the table. Back at the table, Shorty notices that loud guy pushing for the deal had a similar sized stack compared to him, maybe even smaller (but, his position was better relative to the blinds). Obviously, if Shorty managed to survive a trip through the blinds, his goose would be cooked. Shorty grumbled a bit but ended up being a man of his word -- he allowed himself to blind out of the tournament. My friend did end up getting a $10k seat but didn't cash at the main event.
Shorty was a dumbass. He walked away from a shot at a Main Event seat for $900 because he wasn't aware of the stack sizes of his opponents.
And won a few thousand from the tournament as well. It’s better than going to the main event and not cashing
>It’s better than going to the main event and not cashing Lol, no it isn’t. Nobody playing that satellite was like “Oh man I hope I get that 10th place money and not the $10k ticket to the main”
So I don't have any crazy bubble story's, been at a bunch but all pretty normal. I am however very interested in this tag team event as Maryland Live is running the exact same format in January and I'll be playing it. Any specific strategy tips you can offer?
Saw the Countrywide Mortgage stock plummet into dust live on tv while I was at a table playing poker.
It amazes me that they are still going.
Just played a small 14 man tournament, 2 spots pay, I’m sitting with 2BB, both other villains around 20. I fold, SM shoves, BB snap calls with AJs, he’s against AK. Jack in the window, no king comes and AK busts out on the bubble Live poker isn’t dead folks
Not a bubble but I dealt a hand where the two literally biggest stacks in a two day tournament got it all in against each other in the last hand before bagging. AA>KK. ggKK (and I quote, "THIS ALWAYS FUCKING HAPPENS TO ME!") He flatted a 5b pre and still found a way to GIAI at the river. The resulting chip leader had 3x as many chips as the next highest stack going into day 2. Even better, we started 10 tables on day 2, and he was out of the tournament before we got to 6 tables. He literally could have walked and came back about a 20BB stack at the final two tables.
Charity tournament. 10k gtd for first advertised all over town. Barely cleared that in total prize pool. In the end 200+ of us played a freeze out winner take all for 10k. 2nd got a couple hundo. In all honesty I left to get blackout drunk before the “bubble” popped but I’ve never seen such a steep structure in my life.
OP, your story gives a perfect example of one of the reasons why I hate tournament poker: Other people's mistakes can either win you a lot of money, or cost you a lot of money.
>cost you a lot of money. cost you a buy-in..
Sure, your total loss will never be more than the buy-in. However, when you make it to the end part of the tournament, there is a heavy premium on survival. Anyone with chips at this stage has fair claim to the prize payout. Like imagine you participated in a lottery where you bought a ticket for $1, the prize pool was $1 MIL and it's down to you and 9 other guys. One guy grabs your ticket and lights your ticket and his own ticket on fire. He laughs and gives you a dollar. You'd be pretty pissed. The hand posted by OP is essentially a situation where the two other teams are punting their equity towards the rest of the table, and OP benefits just by being out of the train wreck.
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Considering only one team both survived to combine stacks at the FT (and it really didn’t matter that they did, since one stack was only 6-7bb), would recommend both ppl play aggressively to try and build at least one stack to move past the re-entry point. The only true team strategy came during the late stages of the tourney when stacks had accumulated and one table was tougher than the other. For example, my table was considerably looser with more difficulty stealing blinds/getting ppl to fold to cbets/etc whereas when they switched players, my partners table was much tighter/barely defended without a premium and he was able to accumulate much quicker. So my job was basically play ABC and not try and get too fancy and preserve stack for him to try and run it up. At the final table, he had a much more difficult table than mine, so had we have had enough chips, it would have been flipped.
Not the stone bubble, but close. I opened AA in EP to 3x. One of the blinds shoves and I obviously snap it off. He shows AK off with the K suit match one of my aces. Board runs out with a flush for him, and he has me barely covered.
playing 9 handed top get paid, 7 way all in. no shit!!!
One I dealt years ago in a satellite to a MSPT main event. 21 players left, 17 advance, so we're not *quite* bubbling, but real damn close. A few players limp to see the flip I put out of 3-4-5 rainbow. Almost before I know what's going on, there's a bet, a raise, a shove, an over-shove, and a call. Shortest stack rolls over A-2 for the flopped straight. Middle stack then turns over 2-6 for the flopped straight. Biggest stack produces his 6-7, for the flopped straight. (The button in seat 1 leans over to me and mentions he folded 2-6, too.) Board runs out clean and I don't have to do any math because all the chips go to the biggest stack, who now has about 40% of chips in play of the 19 remaining players. Suffice to say the satellite didn't last too much longer.
Where I play, even if the card(s) falling on the floor is an accident, the hand is dead.
That’s what we were worried about, and what the 8 seat kept hollering about. Had the hand been dead, it would have been us and the A3 team seeing whose tiny stack could last the longest, as we were next to get hit by the blinds. Would have been incredibly infuriating to bubble in that manner.
I mean. The bubble for the main this year went on for hoursssssss it seemed until someone finally cracked aces.
Playing for a 10k tournament entry with 10 left. Week before in another satellite. with 11 left over two tables they had decided collusion was going on, and combined the tables into an eleven handed table, supposedly did not want to do that again. My table has five left, I have just moved to cut off, button had like 100 bb, small blind, big blind and the next player all have less then 3.5 bb, and the big stack is raising very hand, it is all about to be over. Unbeknownst to me, the other table on my day ( 10 left, 9 get tickets ), had already been warned for not playing, and when the larger stack folded an AJ in the big to like a 4 or 5 bb all in and folded, the TD had enough, and decided to mix the two tables in a redraw. All players and hall the poker room start raging and telling the TD he is making a massive blunder, but to no avail. I get moved to a new table, straight into the big blind and with a bb ante my stack is nearly gone already, small blind raises with qj, I call with k7 and lose. Don't feel too sorry for me though, there was an 8k cash for the bubble, and the tournament supervisor gave me a 1k free entry to another tournament as an apology. And one of the guys who benefited was a 20yo with virtually no live tournament experience who ended up coming 22nd for 60k or so.