Good Job, You Got Me
$50 overlay value in this tourney which is part of a series of tournaments with tens of thousands in prizes for the leaders. I was among the leaders before this tournament.
He went out 3 hands later as he goofy amount bet/min raised/called every street every hand I assume as a joke. Was probably a bad play on my part against that style, but whatever:
Game #8426152034: $90k Bounty Hunt 3 (ID8541022) 300MPP+0MPP - Hold'em NL (10/20) - 2008/11/24 - 20:03:54 (UK)
Table "8541022 - 1" Seat 10 is the button.
Seat 1: Voldemort sits out
Seat 2: Monteroy (2520 in chips)
Seat 3: fejlip (2670 in chips)
Seat 4: H34dsUp sits out
Seat 5: jl2003 sits out
Seat 6: Maria158 sits out
Seat 7: CmOneMakr (2530 in chips)
Seat 8: tropmoche (2330 in chips)
Seat 9: LangeGeep (2530 in chips)
Seat 10: spirox sits out
Voldemort: posts small blind 10
Monteroy: posts big blind 20
HOLE CARDS
dealt to Monteroy [2c Qc]
fejlip: folds
H34dsUp: folds
jl2003: folds
Maria158: folds
CmOneMakr: raises to 51
tropmoche: folds
LangeGeep: folds
spirox: folds
Voldemort: folds
Monteroy: calls 31
FLOP
[4c 4s 6c]
Monteroy: checks
CmOneMakr: bets 56
Monteroy: raises to 540
CmOneMakr: raises to 1024
Monteroy: raises to 2469 and is all-in
CmOneMakr: calls 1445
TURN
[4c 4s 6c][3h]
RIVER
[4c 4s 6c 3h][8h]
SHOW DOWN
Monteroy: shows [2c Qc] (A Pair of Fours, Queen high)
CmOneMakr: shows [8s 2h] (Two Pairs, Eights and Fours, Six high)
CmOneMakr collected 5050 from Main pot
SUMMARY
He went out 3 hands later as he goofy amount bet/min raised/called every street every hand I assume as a joke. Was probably a bad play on my part against that style, but whatever:
Game #8426152034: $90k Bounty Hunt 3 (ID8541022) 300MPP+0MPP - Hold'em NL (10/20) - 2008/11/24 - 20:03:54 (UK)
Table "8541022 - 1" Seat 10 is the button.
Seat 1: Voldemort sits out
Seat 2: Monteroy (2520 in chips)
Seat 3: fejlip (2670 in chips)
Seat 4: H34dsUp sits out
Seat 5: jl2003 sits out
Seat 6: Maria158 sits out
Seat 7: CmOneMakr (2530 in chips)
Seat 8: tropmoche (2330 in chips)
Seat 9: LangeGeep (2530 in chips)
Seat 10: spirox sits out
Voldemort: posts small blind 10
Monteroy: posts big blind 20
HOLE CARDS
dealt to Monteroy [2c Qc]
fejlip: folds
H34dsUp: folds
jl2003: folds
Maria158: folds
CmOneMakr: raises to 51
tropmoche: folds
LangeGeep: folds
spirox: folds
Voldemort: folds
Monteroy: calls 31
FLOP
[4c 4s 6c]
Monteroy: checks
CmOneMakr: bets 56
Monteroy: raises to 540
CmOneMakr: raises to 1024
Monteroy: raises to 2469 and is all-in
CmOneMakr: calls 1445
TURN
[4c 4s 6c][3h]
RIVER
[4c 4s 6c 3h][8h]
SHOW DOWN
Monteroy: shows [2c Qc] (A Pair of Fours, Queen high)
CmOneMakr: shows [8s 2h] (Two Pairs, Eights and Fours, Six high)
CmOneMakr collected 5050 from Main pot
SUMMARY
Comments
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by whom did you just get outplayed
CmOneMakr
CmOneMakr
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Makr!!!!!
Actually, I was more upset that I chose to play it against whatever he was doing as I did even given that I was way, way ahead.
Also cranky that these utterly insane tourneys at Interpoker (usually 2 month long promos 3 to 4 times a year) will likely be over once Crypto essentially folds. Nearly $20,000 in tourney value there for me this year between all of their promos, affiliate freerolls, and MPP tournaments, all for the equivalent of Goldstar level play at Stars.
What's the current state of crypto? Is the network dying out? They're a publically traded company that I've always kept an eye on..
The cryptologic network was really a very strange business model. Their casinos had too generous bonuses for years (still decently +EV with a little thought), and I suspect their casino side got hurt bad with the US legislation.
The poker software was very solid, but their promotions were just too generous. 30% rakeback, basically unlimited bonus that was well over 100% rakeback at the 25-100 buy in levels, and MPP tournaments that were utterly insane value.
The problem was that it was too generous and the benefits of playing small stakes was way too high, so moving up was almost pointless. I would probably have to play the 5/10 PL and NL games at a decent return to make up for it, so the reality was many players just stuck around the lower buy ins where the rewards were out of whack.
Not hard to see that this pretty much stagnated the games since most never moved up, and more and more extreme bonus whores who folded every hand started filling up the tables, so the games became much more annoying to play.
They never really got their act together in terms of a strategy to develop and build a solid player base, and that can only last for so long so it was not that surprising that the network basically failed and the rooms are going their separate ways in the new year.
By the way, the tournament players were so awful it was almost hard to believe at times.
For the future I suspect they will license their casino software to a company like Party which would be a good match. Crypto's casino software really is considerably better then Party and others so I suspect that is where they will focus their attention in the future.