Raising the Freeroll on FullTilt

[taylovesthebeatles]

that last hand was a bad one. good job though. kinda sucks u get nothing for finishing in 4th. still a strong finish. im impressed.

I got more than nothing- I got the book, just not the signed copy. Still a win in my book! lol. Thanks Glo you're the best!

[GloBug]

I got more than nothing- I got the book, just not the signed copy. Still a win in my book! lol. Thanks Glo you're the best!

wow i thought only first got something. well im not sure a matesow book will get u will get anything out of his book. maybe u could learn how to BLOW UP like him . lol as for the hand i would have probably done the same but he just had a good hand at the right time. lol better luck next time.

[eejit101]

Hand advice - On the TT hand with a limp in preflop make it 48k to go (4xBB). Otherwise the raise becomes easier to call for ppl with the extra odds on top with a limp already in, more outs e.t.c

On the last hand - FOLD!! Youve got a raise and a call, so your ahead of utterly nothing. With the chips as they are and you with 10x BBs, id MUCH rather see you going all in yourself with something like 910 or 56suited on a steal attempt, and then getting called by ATish and having a 60/40 race for it, than call with "any ace" when your 99% of the time drawing to 3 outs, nd 1% of the time drawing to half an out.


Tourney thoughts - GOOD GAME!!

[eejit101]

As an afterthought on the last hand.....

An arguament i can see you making when you get here is "It was a squeeze play". A bet designed to feign huge strength to pick up a big pot preflop without it going any further, hoping for folds etc.

If this is true, this is an impossible spot to squeeze, as one of them is guaranteed to have a biggish hand, AJ+ at least. 4 handed any Ace is gonna call your push here. With a min raise and a call your guaranteed to be behind to one of them, and if they both call odds wise against possible hands your at about 7-13% to win the hand.

Also if your assuming they might fold, with 240k each in the pot, along with blidns and antes, and then your push of just over a mil, they are easily getting 2-1 to call, with 3-1 implied if the other player does.


Good hand to discuss tho

[taylovesthebeatles]

Thanks eejit for your posts, those are some good thoughts. I was definitely going for a squeeze there, and I can see why you'd say it was a bad idea.

Here's my next question- has anyone here ever gotten prizes in a tourney like this? FT has my address from when I signed up, but should I expect an email Monday to verify it or just expect it to get to me or what? If there's somewhere on their site that explains this, someone direct me there please? Thanks!

[0maxpower0]

Yea EEj that is some really good advice. I had won a hat and a jacket from an ftops final table a few months back. After they confirm some stuff via email they will send it out. It took about a month from the time i won it for me to get it, so i presume it'd take you that long too. Even though it was a freeroll, its still tough to make it that far, so congratulations. I wasnt even sure that matusow could read let alone write a book, so i look forward to hearing when its about and if it contains any good information. J/k matasow is all right :-p GOOD JOB THOUGH!!

[taylovesthebeatles]

Yea EEj that is some really good advice. I had won a hat and a jacket from an ftops final table a few months back. After they confirm some stuff via email they will send it out. It took about a month from the time i won it for me to get it, so i presume it'd take you that long too. Even though it was a freeroll, its still tough to make it that far, so congratulations. I wasnt even sure that matusow could read let alone write a book, so i look forward to hearing when its about and if it contains any good information. J/k matasow is all right :-p GOOD JOB THOUGH!!

Thanks for the helpful advice, maxpower, I really appreciate it! Yeah it was tough but for quite a bit of it I was just running hot and being dealt great strong hands. Either that would happen or I'd get dealt absolute trash and have an easy fold. So that helps I think. But yeah, it's exhilerating to make it that far, even in a freeroll.