What a night!
I was playing in the Team Canuck tourney on Paradise and the $3 rebuy on Stars when my wife got home from her conference. She offered to let me go over to BigE's for side games, but I was already playing online...
Here's where the fun starts - I have an awesome wife. She dictated the tourney action to me over the phone while I drove to Eric's (about 15 min). She'd tell me my cards, position, and action, and I'd tell her how to play. I had a few playable hands (and a few bluffs) before I finally got setup at Erics, and I actually doubled my chips during the drive. How cool is that.
In the Canuck tourney I got pretty short-stacked and was moved to Devin's table. He would be all-in in his next blind (using his patented post/fold strategy), so I changed my short-stack strategy from "push a good hand" to "push Devin's blind", hoping for the bounty. Unfortunately I got 73s and it was raised and called in front of me, but I would not change my course. I hit a flush on the turn, sucking out 3 players, and getting the bounty
I was also doing fairly well in the Stars tourney, and played it while playing some live SnG's. It's fun multi-tabling live and online simultaneously. I was able to win the second live SnG and final-table on PS at the same time. Somehow I finished 7th out of 2001 for $850. I'm still looking for a big MTT win, but I'll take it, since that's my biggest cash to-date.
Anyway, it was such a weird night playing live/online/by-phone, and actually having success at it, that I thought I'd post.
Here's where the fun starts - I have an awesome wife. She dictated the tourney action to me over the phone while I drove to Eric's (about 15 min). She'd tell me my cards, position, and action, and I'd tell her how to play. I had a few playable hands (and a few bluffs) before I finally got setup at Erics, and I actually doubled my chips during the drive. How cool is that.
In the Canuck tourney I got pretty short-stacked and was moved to Devin's table. He would be all-in in his next blind (using his patented post/fold strategy), so I changed my short-stack strategy from "push a good hand" to "push Devin's blind", hoping for the bounty. Unfortunately I got 73s and it was raised and called in front of me, but I would not change my course. I hit a flush on the turn, sucking out 3 players, and getting the bounty
I was also doing fairly well in the Stars tourney, and played it while playing some live SnG's. It's fun multi-tabling live and online simultaneously. I was able to win the second live SnG and final-table on PS at the same time. Somehow I finished 7th out of 2001 for $850. I'm still looking for a big MTT win, but I'll take it, since that's my biggest cash to-date.
Anyway, it was such a weird night playing live/online/by-phone, and actually having success at it, that I thought I'd post.
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Mrs Hertz  was playing last night and she told me that you were talking to her.  We have also done the play a tournament over the phone thing once or twice.
I love when reading stories online make me smile. Such a GREAT story.
(Save it for your poker book someday
We had 18 people for a $5 tourney with unlimited $2 rebuys for 4 rounds...we had $140 in rebuys!!!!! Congratz to Folded for taking it down after rebuying 14 times himself, it was fun to watch him play.
I think it was and hope everyone had fun....hopefully you and Jenn will make the next one!
But yea... Trevor OWNED me.... pesky better hands.
Oh well, 2nd, 2nd, and 2nd isn't a bad end to an evening.
Mark