Mansion is a relatively new site in the online poker racket. They're the same people that offered the free $1000 bet on the first week of the NFL season this year to try to draw people to their sportsbook (I was too stupid to do this despite hearing from several people that it was legit. Yes, the Steelers covered and everyone got drunk). They also sponsor the "Poker Dome" show that you might have seen on TV. Their latest poker promotion is their daily $100K guaranteed tournament with a $100 buy-in throughout the month of January and at least the first week of February. The overlay is enormous and the players are terrible. Also, earlier this week US players were cut-off from the site so the overlay got even more out of hand. Today there were 456 players, meaning they paid well over half the prize people out of their own pocket, and that's even ignoring that the rake is counted in the $100 buy-in. Anyways, I won the tournament today for $24K. The play at the end was so bad, people basically folded every hand hoping to move up the prize ladder. I got lucky a couple times to get some chips and then ran over the table. A brief scare heads up when I lost 3 consecutive races, but my luck turned just in time to win a coinflip which regained me the chiplead, and then hold all-in preflop with a dominating hand to end it. A few beers and UFC pay-per-view tonight to celebrate.
Mike
6 comments:
Awesome Mike.
Way to start out 2007!!!
Wolffhound
Nice take down sir. I'm Kyle's friend from UW, I'm really interested in your SS strategy for NL, do you mind elaborating a bit? Are you playing 6 max or full ring?
Thanks.
Way to take it down SirDonk...
How did the other Sunday ones go for ya?
-wes
NJ man! Your right about the players on here, theres so many instant calls with Ace rag. Still waiting to take down one of these things, but I guess now I'm limited to just weekend play on these. 7th is my best finish so far.
When I shortstack I basically play it like I would in a tournament. Buyin for the minimum (20xBB), and if I get down to 12xBB or so I usually reload back to 20. If I get over 30xBB on the table I leave on my next BB.
You're basically moving all-in over a lot of late position raises and usually getting called by hands that should fold because people don't know the usual tournament math (or just want to gambool beacuse it's only 20xBB). I think it works best in high stakes games because there are a lot more people playing very aggressively preflop, raising a lot of weak hands that simply can't call your push. Basically, most good cash players only know how to play 100xBB+ deep stacks, so a tournament expert I have an edge playing 20xBB deep. There is also a section in the new Sklansky book (NLHE:Theory and Practice) that explains why as the shortstack at a table of full stacks you actually have an intrinsic advantage. There is really no point to actually learn how to do this though at small-mistakes though because you can make so much more learning to play with a full stack. I still think I'm prboably better off playing 5/10 NL with a full stack, but those games are getting tougher lately so this is a nice alternative.
Sunday report: I didn't play much so I'll put it here instead of making a full post. I lost some money playing cash, but made some back in my tournaments. I finished 3rd in the $200 tournament on Paradise for $3k when I lost with J5 vs 87 all-in on a JJ8 flop (I'm only a 98% favourite), and then lost the rest of my chips to the same guy a few hands later with QT vs 77 all-in on the T7x flop. I only played tournaments that started before 3 so I could watch the Super Bowl.
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