FTOPS Event #4 Pot Limit Holdem

Since yesterday I've been having a very mixed run of cards and play. I did six $100 9 seated SNGs. The first two I placed 1st and 2nd (in the case of the 2nd I had my opponent all in as a favorite and lost the critical hand and giving my opponent a 5-1 advantage. The next four, however were all bubble outs 4th place finishes with some truely bad-beat situations. In the first I was crippled to a short stack after calling a preflop raise with AA and checking a flop of TTT to my opponent who went all in with JQ. Turn and River J's gave me a gutshot punch to the stomach and a tiny stack that got blinded out in 4th. The next 3 were all 4ths as well (even with me trying not to take any excessive risks while on the button) AQ vs QJ all in preflop, QJ rivers a straight, etc. I did make some mistakes, but all in all I was very happy with my play in all of the sngs.

That's not what this entry is about, though. This entry is about transvestite poker players.

During the first hour of event #4 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series I'm sitting next to someone named pokerguy7070. They didn't LOOK like a pokerguy...



I've played poker live quite a lot and one thing I guarantee you I don't see very often is this:



Especially on a guy...

Back to the actual tournament, though. I'm bleeding chips by a sieve by basically playing like a donkey. I've had a couple all-in moments, including me sucking out on pocket queens with my pocket 8's while short stacked. The last hand I played there was a minimum raise in early position with 4 callers and me in the BB. I raised pot with AKo which was almost all of my chips and the early position player reraised forcing everyone out. He had AKo also and the flop gave me a backdoor flush draw that didn't materialize so we chopped the limpers chips. It's not much, but I'll take it over the KK or AA I was half expecting him to flip over.

The tournament started with 696 players and there are 396 left. I have 1629T left which is about 1/3 of the average stack so I need some help soon. The blinds are at 60/120. Well speak of the devil. I reraised all-in with QQ preflop and ran into American Airlines. No help on the board for me and out 381st. The flop was all undercards so no getting away from this hand unless I fold it preflop which isn't likely. Oh well, there's always FTOPS #5 tomorrow...