WRGPT 18

[Zag]

I posted this over in the poker thread, but I'm not sure how many people see that.

Hi all. WRGPT18 -- World Rec.Gambling.Poker Tournament #18 -- is about to start for this year. This is an email-based poker tournament modeled after WSOP main event (that is, no limit hold'em with deep stacks). It takes most of the year and the only thing you win is bragging rights, but it is fun. I've been in every one since WRGPT5, and I finished fifth in WRGPT7 (out of, I think, 600ish people).

[sAbLLimINal]

I just registered under sAbLLimINal

How active do you have to be in this? Like if you just make a move once a day will that be alright?

[Zag]

It varies, but approximately one move a day is plenty. Once it is your turn, then you have 6 hours of your "active hours" to make your move. That is, you define what your active hours are by giving a start time of day (pacific time) and then the 10 hours after that time each weekday are your "active hours." If it becomes your turn with, say, 2 hours to go before your active hours are up, then you have until 4 hours after your active hours starts the next day.

However, it is actually a lot easier than that. They have a simple language through which you can submit actions in advance. As soon as you get your hand you typically know if you are willing to call with it. The command "CALL $800" means that you will call any amount up to $800 but will fold if it is more than that. If it becomes your turn and you already have an advance action that it applicable, then it automatically does it. The language includes if-then-else logic, so it is possible to be prepared for any contingency. Or you can just put some if-clauses and then it will wait for a response if none of them apply.

[sAbLLimINal]

Cool. Do you know how to change the start time? I'm in the eastern coast, but I put the start at 3:00 am, which I think is probably wrong.

[Zag]

[alphatango]

[Zag]

Well, that was quick. My earliest exit, in 14 or so years of WRGPT's.

We've had a lot of preflop aggression on my table, including by me. At least twice, now, I've raised preflop only to lay it down to a reraise. So I woke up with QQ. In THIS tournament, where you are lucky to get 10 hands per round, you have to charge with a hand as good as this. So I reraised a late-ish position raiser, he rereraised me all in.

Considering my table image (over-aggressive) and the general climate and pace of the game, he could have as little as AT. I'm hoping he has AQ, and I call.

He had KK. I didn't suck out. I go home now.

[MNOWAX]

meh i was out the very first hand.

two donkeys push al in and i wake up in the SB with KK, one has low suited connectors and the other had AJ. As usual for kings and me, the ace hits and i walk.
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[sAbLLimINal]

I forgot about this, so I figured I stopped playing, even though I still get the many emails from them. Hopefully next time I'll be more aware.

[Zag]

You're probably still just on vacation. Do you still get "Your hand" emails? If so, reply to one with just "BACK" as the text of the message.

[sAbLLimINal]

I've deleted the ones that came to me. But I feel a little bad about coming in at such a late time.

[Zag]

It really isn't that late. You likely have paid only one blind, so far. Go for it!

[Antrax]

So far I moved money around and ended up being where I started minus one round of blinds. How're you doing, Zag?
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[Antrax]

Oh, I just saw you were eliminated. Sorry. So, any GLers still in?
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[sAbLLimINal]

Alright, I've decided to come back then. Right now I have 19650, not sure what we started with, but I'm in 4th at my table.

[Antrax]

Started with 20000. Blinds were 50-100, now they're 100-200.
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[alphatango]

I am also still in. I got hit by the stupid "You're in Australia, so you get office hours on Saturday" problem a week and a half ago, at which point I decided it was a good time to take a break in the lead up to my concert.

Prior to that, nothing much had happened for me -- mostly hands not worth playing, although I did try to play an aggressive T8s and a couple of honour-low combinations. Gave up when I thought I was clearly beaten or when the pot odds didn't look good.

For the record, I have essentially no practical poker experience (maybe a couple of one-evening tournaments with 6-7 friends, one of which I won), so I'm going with instinct and whatever poker theory I've managed to pick up while reading. (Probably shouldn't be admitting that, but hey...what are the odds I'll last long enough to play against anyone here? )

Anyway, have just come back to find that one guy doubled up on the hand I went on vacation, and has managed to knock out another player, giving him about $60k. I'm currently sitting on about $18k, one of the smaller stacks around the table, but we've just had the reshuffle bring us some new players, so I'm waiting to see what happens with them. Mr. Big Stack has just gone AWOL behind me, incidentally -- wouldn't mind too much if he disappeared at this stage.
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[Antrax]

My table had one of those AA/KK/AQ situations that ended up with AA tripling up and eliminating the other two (in case you're wondering, AQ was dead wrong, KK was unlucky), so now I have a 60k stack in my table, as well. He likes to play, too, so until they break up the table it's time to tighten up.
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[Antrax]

Yet another example of why slowplaying pocket pairs preflop is idiotic, from my table. KK sitting two after the blind calls, gets one late position caller and small blind gets in too. Board JJJ, both blinds check to the KK who bets 600 on the 1600 pot. Late position calls, both blinds fold. Turn is a rag, KK bets $2500 into the $2800 pot and again gets called by the late position. River is a Q, KK overbets $10k to the $7800 pot, late position raises him another $12500, KK pushes and pays the KJ handsomely for his quads. Raising preflop would have ensured he wouldn't have had to play out of position versus a possible J, as pretty much the only hand worth calling a raise with that has a J is JJ which was impossible.
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[Antrax]

My first double up. On the button with AQs, one caller from late position. I make it an extra $1000 to go (blinds 200-400) as I don't mind getting called, my hand can go any way it wants.At this stage I'm thinking the late position will call again (large stack, plays way too many hands) and I'll chase him out during the flop. To my surprise, BB calls the extra $1000, and the late position raises another $5k. Of course, limp-reraise could say aces, but I'm thinking this guy just wants to throw his weight around. So I jam, an extra $15k over his raise. BB runs away screaming, late position calls me with queens, and I suck out my 1 in 3 odds to a double up.
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[Antrax]

Well, I'm out at #106. It's pretty poorly set up, IMO. The blinds escalated so fast that nobody could afford to play anything more refined than "push when you have it". For the past couple of weeks, it was just a replay of "two guys with all-in hands push, one emerges with the other guy's stack". Almost no chance of your raise not getting called because the tables were almost full all the time. What's worse, because they kept moving us around, I couldn't even create an image to steal, because nobody stayed with me for very long. So, I just did ye olde "jam if your hand justifies it" and even got lucky enough to steal with 26o from the button (amazingly, I stayed in the same table for a whole round, so they saw me fold ten hands or so, and someone nobody raised to the right of me). However, it was clear that it's a crapshoot, and eventually I ran an A9o into a K4o who hit a king and eliminated me. I was pretty lost in any case, I had to double up like 2-3 times to have a chance at the endgame.

So, If they want to run it again next year, either accept that it'll take more than a year, or limit the number of participants. This blind structure just promoted complete randomness from the mid-game onward.
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[sAbLLimINal]

Good job Antrax. I was somewhere around the top 500 when I got eliminated. I think i had 2 pair and he had 3 of a kind??? I'm not sure what it was, but I was glad that I made it for so long.

[Zag]

Grats, Antrax!

[Antrax]

Anyone signing up for 19?
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[Zag]

I have already. For anyone else interested, here's the link: http://www.wrgpt.org/registration

[MNOWAX]

nope it was to tedious for me honestly, as well as figuring out all the shortcuts to use to call and raise. it took me four attempts to move in on a hand last year.
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[Antrax]

..."PUSH"?
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[MNOWAX]

lol i didn't know that, i was trying to bet it all literally
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[Zag]

Actually, the command is "JAM" though maybe they implemented PUSH, as well. Or you could just type the number for how many dollars you have.

[lexprod]

BUMP

Is anyone playing this year's and is still in? I'm doing alright at my table, though have just been folding the last half-dozen hands due to crap cards/position combo

[Jaguar]

I've been out for way too long. Lol. My hand was strong, the other player's was stronger

[Zag]

This discussion was inappropriate for this forum, so I split it out to here:

http://www.greylabyrinth.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=13936