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10/9/07posted by Poker Star @ 3:42 PM Day 2 in Aruba- 548 total entries from days 1a and 1b. Close to 240 were left to play. I check my table assignment, and I'm pretty thrilled. I have 23,100, one big stack at 37,000, one guy at 19,000, a couple between 13 and 15k and the whole rest of the table has 9,000 or less. We start at 200-400 blinds with a 50 ante. The third hand I limp in with Q-K from early position. The button and big blind call. Flop comes A-Q-Q. I make a small bet and the button calls. A jack pops up on the turn. I bet half the pot, slightly worried about a straight if I don't boat up. But I take down the pot. The next hand the big stack raises and 1 of the short stacks pushes all-in. The big stack then calls with A-Q, the short stack shows K-K. He then hits the last 2 kings on the board for quad kings. The very next hand I'm in the big blind. One player limps in, to the button who raises to 1,000. The small blind only has about 4,000 and he goes all-in. I look down to see Q-Q. So I go all-in also. The button folds, and the small blind shows 7-8. I hit 2 more queens on the flop to take out the small blind and win a 10,000 pot. Things are starting out nice!! I'm cruising through this level until a guy rivers a flush against my 2 pair and I lose a pretty big pot. At this point I'm still sitting at about 30,000 in chips though.Next level starts at 250-500 with a 75 ante. Only 2 of the short stacks are left. The other ones have been knocked out and replaced from other tables. Michael Gracz then comes to my table. There are less than 180 left in the tourney. I stay about even through this round until the last hand before a break. I limp in with pocket sevens and the big blind calls (he only had 8,500). The flop comes 3-4-7 offsuit. I bet 1200, he calls. The turn is a 10. I bet 3,000 and he goes all in for 6,800 total and I call the additional 3,800. He had 5-6 for a flopped straight. I need the board to pair on the river, but it doesn't come. That knocks me back to about 21k in chips at the break. Next level is 300-600 with a 100 ante. I'm not able to increase my stack at all. Every time I limp in or push a pot, one of the big stacks plays back at me and I have to give it up. I've slowly went down to 15k, then 12k. Last hand at this level and I have 9,000 left. The guy that flopped the straight on me last level puts out a small raise of 1500. Everyone folds to me in the big blind. I have Q-K suited. He doesn't seem that strong, so I try to take the pot. All-in, 9,000. I can tell he really doesn't want to call this for 3 quarters of his stack, but he calls. This time he has the 7's. They hold up to put me out. I finished either 125 or 126. They only paid 54 spots, so I was a little shy. How depressing. Aruba recap- UB held a great tournament with a real nice turnout and big prize pool!! CONGRATS to Nick Blackburn from Ohio who was at my table day 2, and finished 4th and congrats to the winner, Travis. Have fun with that $800,000. Aruba is a paradise. If you go there for a vacation, take a lot of spending money, or stay at an all-inclusive. Maybe it's just me, but where I'm from a beer is $2 to $2.50 and a nice dinner is $50. It's triple down there. Unless you go off the resort, then everything's cheaper. However, the beach and sand are priceless and UltimateBet and Absolute Poker throw some monster parties. All the food and drink any person could ever want. It was a week to remember overall. - Scott AKA "thebombbaby" Read more! Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
posted by Poker Star @ 3:39 PM Over the weekend, Absolute Poker made one more poker player's dreams come true. "MCBILL", a new player to Absolute Poker, was the lucky winner of the 5th Absolute Dream Package. Although he may have been the lucky winner, he certainly didn't win by luck. You see each and every Dream Package winner has one thing in common: They are ALL really good at poker. CUTIEPI314 won an EPT event, GENTLEMAN8 is a rising star on the European Circuit and just cashed at the Aruba Poker Classic and THEBOMBBABY has cashed in every tournament on Absolute Poker.The biggest difference with MCBILL is that he comes from a different generation of poker. MCBILL started almost 10 years before CUTIEPI314 was even born. From the very beginning, MCBILL was hooked on poker. His first real win came in college when he played a 5/10 game and took home $700. From there to here he has studied the art of cards and has become a very successful high limit cash game player. MCBILL has played in WPT and the WSOP over the years but credits himself to be a better cash player. Cash or tournament play, MCBILL brings confidence to the table. When asked when he thought he had a chance to win it, he replied, "Honestly the moment I signed up or I wouldn't have played. However, whenever you play a tournament you have to have everything fall in place to win, and during this tournament I felt I had a better than average chance to win with about 40 players left. I was doing well, playing well, and not running into any unexpected trouble". MCBILL says he plays a very patient and observant hold'em game. When he thinks he has the advantage, he likes to make decisions as tough as possible for his opponents. Like all players, his start to poker wasn't all glory and money. Tt took MCBILL 3 years to become a winning player. "Like most people, I always thought I was a winner, and I had a friend tell me to start keeping records. Five months later it was hard to lie to myself and the records, so I became a student of poker, paid attention, read every book, and watched the wins come in". We are excited to see how MCBILL does over the next year as he has access to millions of dollars in poker prize pools. Remember, you could be the next winner of this great poker prize package. To help you out, MCBILL would like to send you off with a tip. "Learn patience and observe. Find a mentor if you can, it will speed up the learning curve. And lastly and most importantly realize that your first decision can be your worst decision. (Once you enter a hand, you can play it perfectly from there forward, but maybe you should have never been involved, and from experience that hurts.) Read more! Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
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