Freerolls, Battle of the Blogger Tournaments, and Misc

I have played in several freerolls this past week, most sponsored by the Online Poker Tour. Now I remember why freerolls are good for beginners and bad for experienced players: all that time playing, but virtually no rewards except for the poker ego garnishing.

I actually got down pretty far in some freerolls -- final tabling one and just missing on two others. Not really bad when you are wading through almost 700 runners. But what does it get the experienced player? Several hours and 13th place in a Full Tilt freeroll netted me $.18. Not exactly a cost effective way to play. OPT has a month-long contest underway, but that it a lot of time to devote.

In other news ... the Battle of the Blogger Tournaments has begun. Scores from the MATH, Mookie, and Riverchasers tournaments will be used, as well as the occasional Big Game. The blogger tournaments are loaded with great players, so getting high on this leaderboard will be a challenge. I missed the first event but played the next two. I am currently in 19th place, so that is not too bad for a start. I had a middle-of-the-pack finish in the Mookie and came close to the final table in the Riverchasers event.

The next event in Monday at the Hoy (MATH) on Full Tilt. I already won my $24+2 token from a two-table SNG $8+.70 satellite. I thought I was going to bubble with nothing to show or hit the $14 "just missed" spot, but some doofus who was in the middle of the pack made an unbelievably bad play, going all in on an unsuited Ace-rag (four, maybe?) and was bounced out by one of the chip leaders. I and two other small stacks were battling like all heck to stay in, and this guy who should have coasted into the money made life easy for us.

The screenies are from a third place finish in the weekly CardsChat buy-in at Bodog, and a second place finish at a K9 Poker buy-in at PitBull. The PitBull tourney had only ten runners but went on forever. It probably had the highest level of good poker playing of any tournament I have been in for some time. I thought I would take it down when I was heads up with a slight lead and I had pocket Kings. However, my opponent flopped (I believe) a straight, so I had to settle for second place. Such is poker. Can't complain after my pocket 8's beat pocket Kings when I spiked an 8 on the flop earlier in the tourney.

Happy Easter everyone!!