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I think it is a good time to start one of these.

 ;whistle;
 

:D

I saw you were deep in the 08, but got sidetracked and didn't get to rail any of it...  Very well played!

We won, or binked big?

Nice one doobsy!

Cheers both

Was 2nd in the plo8 for $6k or so.  Don't know if I should be really pleased or really unhappy.  Winner got  $3k more and a $5k seat on top.  But I was short stacked hitting the bubble, so got to be pleased where I finished.  Would still have loved the $5k seat!

congrats Doobs.

Jeez, nice one.

Pardon my ignorance, but what IS the GSOP? Genting Series of Poker, or Gutshot ditto? Gutshot used to run such a thing, back in the day.

$6k for second is pretty tidy in almost any online PLO8 Tourney, so it must have been pretty big. I'd play those things (Online PLO8) every night given half the chance.

Grand Series of Poker - the tourney series on Ongame.

Last night was a $50 rebuy - 357 runners.

Ahh, that makes more sense to me now, thanks. That's a fair-sized field for an Online PLO8 jobbie on a network such as OnGame I would have thought.

I gather that OnGame were sold by Party earlier this week for €15 million, rising to €25 million if, when & how Online Poker is reformed in the USA in coming years.

€15 million struck me as a paltry sum for a Network, all things considered. How times change.

hm, it was 6.7m$ right? sold by bwin who owned ongame but are now 51/49 partners with party.

Yes, sold by BWin, but the numbers I saw reported in several places, & in the trade press, were €15 million, rising to €25 million based upon contingencies.

If it was, as you suggest, $6.7 million (€5 million approx) that's even more of a shock. 

I saw it here.....


http://pokerfuse.com/news/industry/parties-confirm-ongame-sale-amaya-01-10/


...and here....


http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/14150-bwin-party-sells-ongame-poker-network-for-up-to-25-million

The $6m was an unsourced guess from before the deal was announced - it was $15m, rising to $25m if the US regulates within 5 years.

I mentioned the upside of these online series in the discussion about WCOOP.  Because it is part of a series means that all kind of randoms play in games they really don't know how to play.  They attract the online equivalent of bracelet chasers.  If this was a normal 50 rebuy plo8 game on ongame they'd be lucky to fill a single table.  There is a $100 nightly plo8 game on stars I try and play.  It has gradually gone down from 100+ runners to 30 odd over the last couple of years.  I guess it is now on life support, and going to disappear completely in the not too distant future.  Carrying on playing it is probably a bit silly, as the prize money is low and most of the players left are fairly decent.  Guess I'll have to take it back now, as playing this game 2 or 3 times a week has probably made me a fairly decent player of the game.

On the online bracelet chasing thing, I know I do it myself.  I will enter the 10 game just because it is the WCOOP.  I enter and find myself frantically checking whether the ace or straight counts as a low in whatever game pops up in front of me.  The fact I can't play half the games isn't so much of a disadvantage, as the field is crammed full of people like me.

I know you'll hate it, but I have lost count of the amount of times I have said I am really looking forward to playing the plo8 tournament in one of these series because it is going to be so soft.  As sure as night following day, I have then found myself exiting the said tournament 10 minutes after the end of the rebuy period.  My humiliation is normally compounded by my tuning in the next day to find that the worst player at the table was crowned as plo8 champion.   

The game took me far longer for me to learn than straight omaha or holdem, and playing the cash games used to be a massive leak of mine for a good few months.  I think it is because of this, that I found myself anti-funking one of my opponents who I had watched get it in bad and survive over and over from 3 tables out.  In my defence he did say something that appeared to be the foreign equivalent of ship it after one of these suckouts.  I know I should be wanting to face him heads up, but deep down I want the people that play well to win.

I googled my heads up opponent and discovered he was very much a micro stakes cash player and only appeared to play small tournaments.  I don't think he had played much plo8 at all.  Despite this he played the final table well, and I didn't mind losing to him much at all.

Anyway Friday is the straight plo, hopefully it will be as soft, and I can have a decent run at it.   

Awesome Post Doobsy, get that Omaha jobbie won tomorrow.

I must say I don't hate people describing Tourneys as soft, or full of qualifiers or whatever, I just find it ironic & a little odd that in so many cases, they then exit & complain that they were called down by idiots!

Cake & eat it, careful what you wish, for & all those sort of thingies.

I guess we are all as daft in different ways, me more than most, without a shadow of doubty stuff.

15th in the PLO.

GSOP>>>>WCOOP 

Much too good.

Boba Fett heads up in event 12.  $19k FTW.  Even in chips.  AA < QQ, flop QQx just now.

76>AJ on a 89T flop 5:1 chip lead

ffs break.  was going to bed when i noticed this

gl Boba

Noooooooo

AQ < K6, 6 river

phew AK > a5 back on track

wiiiiii  :)

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

66 > QdJd flop 654dd for sweats

congrats Boba.

Oioiiiiiiiii, sicko, wpwp congrats.

oioioioi wd mate, had a good night on ongame myself but dont wanna derail thread ;)

Prague sat?

nah, 2nd 55r, 4th 500f

middy won a sat tho and im getting hotel room ;)

niiiice

Congrats guys  wp!