2nd Place in SEO Poker Tournament, $2000
To my great anticipation, today was the SEO Poker Tournament that I have been looking forward to for a couple of weeks now. It was hosted by Full Tilt Poker, and the basis of the tournament was to enter your website with a page rank of 4 or higher, and the 1st place finisher gets incoming links to his website from all the losers. I figured, I've played my fair share of online poker, and I'll be playing against SEO website marketers, so they can't be all that great at poker. To be honest, the competition was somewhat lacking, except from a couple of solid players.
The tournament started a little shaky with a lot of people not even showing on time; everyone was playing from around the world and there was a miscommunication of translating time zones. Therefor, there was an entire table with no one at it, and the blinds kept going around and being passed from one player to the other. Then one person finally showed up and started raising every hand to steal the blinds from the unseated players' auto-much feature. This turned out to give four people a huge advantage, elevating their chip stacks from the starting count of 3000 to around 15,000 each by the time all the chips from the unseated players were gone. Unfortunately, I was at the table with the majority of players seated, and had to battle my way to stay about even.
To make a long story short, I fought it out all the way to the final table, then doubled up a couple of times to stay alive until there were only six players left. Since the top six places were guaranteed bounty, I was quite ecstatic and did some major fist pumps when I realized 6th place took down $450, woot, woot. Once the table was down to six players, things started to loosen up since everyone was already in the money. I tended to try and get most of my money through WickedFire, who was very loose, and played very tight unless I had a solid hand. I ended up getting heads up with only 2 players left. With my having around 18,000 in chips and the leader having 95,000, I knew I was in trouble, and quickly went out after battling back and forth a little. In the end, I wound up winning $2,000 for taking 2nd place, not bad for only playing poker for three hours and not paying a dime to enter the tournament.
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Comments
Karen posted on 03/26/2007 @ 10:10:30 pm
Where is my freaking free dinner Thomas?
Haley posted on 03/25/2007 @ 9:43:55 am
It's still profiteering from the theft of others. Enjoy your blood money.
Mr. Blue posted on 03/01/2009 @ 2:57:39 pm
Very nice initiative and second place is not too bad :) . Grtz, Mr. Blue