In the early hours of Monday 6th November, Suzanne, a long time Tribecca palyer, entered a $10 rebuy tournament on BPL along with 35 others. The tournament offered a $1,000 guaranteed prize pool with a further $1,000 added money by the network.Suzanne, a single mum from Bath, has to fit her online poker playing around the demands of her family. She plays late in the evening, helped by the fact she is an avowed night owl. In this particular competition things started unspectacularly and she spent $50 during the rebuy period obtaining a workable stack for the second part of the competition.
Suzanne has undoubtedly worked extremely hard at her game, continually trying to improve. A regular asking for advice on the Poker Hand Analysis board she has only comparatively recently switched her attentions from Single Table Tournaments (in which she does well) and Small Stakes Cash Games (in which she struggled to find a style that suited her and didn't suit her opponents!) to Multi Table Tournaments.
To quote Suzanne: "There is no doubt that blonde has improved my game for a while." When I asked what in particular had contributed to this she immediately quoted Pab's thread on the Internet Poker board which gave a link to animated hand histories through every hand in one of his many tournament wins. Suzanne found it "fascinating" and it spurred her on to try different approaches.In this tournament Suzanne reached a position with 5 players left and she had 18,000 chips, in the big blind, with the blinds at 3,000/6,000. A pivotal moment was imminent. The Small Blind pushed his 50,000 stack all in and Suzanne looked at her screen. She held T-7 offsuit. Two thoughts went through her mind. The first was a resigned "Oh well, 5th isn't bad." The second was "Hold on, he's bullying me." She called and literally could not believe what she saw when the Small Blind flipped 2-3 offsuit!
Suzanne doubled up and then went on a spree, pushing all-in and stealing her way to a commanding chip lead three handed before triumphing for a first prize of over $750.At this point, having previously been second eleven times in MTTs, Suzanne was "in tears" at her biggest ever online win, and the result of a lot of hard work and self improvement. To quote again: "Nothing can beat the feeling I had of winning my first tournament"
With this win behind her, its safe to expect more to follow. bPL players, watch out!
