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 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.
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