After work I decided to check out what kind of tournaments were running on the various sites. I made my way through each one and ended up at MultiPoker, which has been adding some guaranteed tournaments lately. A $500 guaranteed tourney caught my eye. It was a $10+1 with unlimited rebuys and 1 add-on. Along with me, only 19 others signed up.
Now here is something I really hate about the Party network sites…they start playing hand for hand 10 people before the money table. What’s worse is they even do it when only 3 places are paid in the tourney like this one. So basically we had to play hand for hand until we reached the final table. Talk about dragging out a tournament! It lasted 2 and a half hours. This is basically a 2 table SNG we’re talking about here, with the exception of the rebuys. In all, there were 11 rebuys and 16 add-ons, so MultiPoker was adding $30 to the prize pool. Because of the hand for hand bullshit by the time we got down to where some of the best poker is played, the blinds were so high that a raise meant all-in.
We finally got down to the final 3 and I’m in the money. I knew I was in control at this point even though I had half the chips of 2nd place and about 1/4 as many as the leader. This is basically a heads up SNG with one more person. I’ve been crushing heads up, so I felt very confident. They kept folding and I kept betting. I was soon in 2nd place. After a bit of back and forth I flopped top pair. I bet and I’m called. Turn is a rag, and I’m all-in due to the pot size. The player in 3rd calls with the nut flush draw, but the river doesn’t help. Within a hand or two I take the chip lead. Shortly after I flop top pair, so I go for the trap. He comes out with a minimum bet, so I triple it. He goes into the tank and then goes all-in. I’ve got him. He turns over Q8 for a bluff and my K3 is good.
I re-bought right at the end of the rebuy period and also did the add-on. Turned $33 into $250. Too bad the tournament took twice as long as it should have.
Nick Momrik 