Stars 70 FPP Satellite Turbo SnG's

[lwestatbus]

Edit: See the post above dated March 31st for information on how to find these tournys.

Has anyone played these? They're an absolute hoot!! I dropped down to these after several heartbreakingly deep finishes at the 400 FPP Sunday Millions satellites were depleating my FPP inventory with no payoff. I tried this 70 FPP satellite, won it, and immediately converted the buy-in into 11 tournament dollars. I've won three more (out of about ten I played). The T$ are nice the these games are just fun in their own right.

If there aren't four players all in in the first two hands there is something wrong at the table!! If someone isn't all in with something like 8-5 offsuit in the first two hands there is something wrong at the table!!

These are ten player SnGs with a winner-take-all structure. From 10th to 6th place the game resembles a riot at a redneck roadhouse--beer bottles and fists flying, drunks getting thrown through the doors (and occassionally through a closed window) into the street, and the band continuing to rock out to Lynard Skynard. I'm usually huddled under a table in the corner but occassionally get in a good shot.

Once it gets down to five players the game usually settles down quite a bit unless one of the people who is just wild for the sake of being wild (as opposed to being wild trying to get lucky early) ends up with a big stack and continues their all-in-every-other-hand strategy. Then the game more closely resembles the Three Musketeers dueling the Cardinal's men in a more elegant brawl. Still blood flowing but not nearly as indiscriminately and with better costumes.

I've had considerable luck staying out of the line of fire in these until they settle down which leaves me often with the short stack out of four players but then clawing my way up to first or second. By the time it gets to heads up it becomes a one-on-one duel like two WW I fighter pilots--complete with salutes exchanged before one goes down in flames.

[kingetje]

haha yeah i played 6 of these the other day.

won 1 of em, but i cant help but feel i shouldve won more

-77 vs 22 first hand, villain flops 2

-3 handed, 3way all in preflop, my QQ vs 99 and 77. 77 flops a set and 99 rivers a straight

-i reraise big stack all in with AJs, calls with K5o. flops 5.

-donk limps in my SB, i shove from BB with A5s. calls with 98. turns a 8


etc.

[lwestatbus]

I just busted out of another. First hand was tame with one min-raise (I folded trash) a few callers and a 150 chip pot. Second hand I had pocket aces, UTG is all in with 98 suited, UTG+1 is all in with pocket fives, I call and everyone else folds. My aces hold up (rivered set wasn't needed) and I'm waayyy ahead. Take a big hit when pocket jacks run into pocket kings. Have AK, raise, flop comes A-x-x, villain beats me all in w/ A-Ten but rivers his ten.

Oh, well.

[BeerWench13]

I've played a couple of these. It's like roulette. They're great fun, especially when you're drunk enough to laugh at that 74o crushing your flopped set of K's.

[Sean_in_NJ]

They're great fun, especially when you're drunk enough to laugh at that 74o crushing your flopped set of K's.

I don't flop sets of K's when I'm drunk. I'm far more likely to have the 74o.

[BeerWench13]

It never fails that I go down in flames when I get good hands in those tournaments, especially in the first blind level. I cringe when I see them because I just know I'm doomed.

[trs912]

Because of this thread, I thought I'd try one last night. First hand - JJ - two shoves and I call and win. All downhill from there. One of those nights where all my hands were just barely lower than villains. AQ vs. AK. Ax vs. Ax and their x paired. Etc. Close but no cigar.

But, it was fun and I've got a bunch of fpps and I'll keep playing it.

[Specklator]

Won one this morning so I'll be in the Sunday $100K again this week. Talk about a crazy few hours of poker the last 3 weeks in the $100k. Did my share of sucking out others and then got taken out close to the bubble the same way. Karma kills.

[Felting]

I play them then use the winnings to play the $2.20 36 seat SnG sat's(6 seats, 7th pays $6) to the 100k to build even more T$.

[lwestatbus]

I play them then use the winnings to play the $2.20 36 seat SnG sat's(6 seats, 7th pays $6) to the 100k to build even more T$.

I didn't know about these Sats. Many thanks. I've got $T saved up from two recent 70 FPP wins and will try them out. How do these 36-seat tournys play? Wacko, loose, or normal? Are they turbos?

I really enjoy these 70 FPP games. They are just an absolute hoot. I have a very consistent pattern with them:

I'm hanging out with maybe a few speculative hands during the first orbit of the table bloodletting. In 90% of the games I find myself among the final four, often short stacked, but regularly find myself both building my stack and often ending up heads up.

If I can't find an attractive ring table I'll always try one of these.

[trs912]

Thanks to this thread, I am officially addicted to these.

[lwestatbus]

Just finished and won one of these that was just amazing. Five people all in on the first hand---several limpers, cutoff goes all in and gets four callers with AMAZINGLY stupid hands. First all in with KQo rivers a king to take a huge pot.

Hand #2 same guy takes out two more players for 3/5 of the chips in play in two hands. It's three of us on one side of the table vs this guy in the #8 seat.

I get a couple of small pots, take a small hit, and my compatriots have both dropped by the wayside.

By the middle of the third round (blinds only up to 25/50) I am heads up against this guy with my 2,500 chip stack vs. his 12,500 stack.

And then I BEAT HIM!!!

Whoooeeeee. It took until blinds were up to 200/400 but I beat him on the basis of three big hands. Grand finale had us almost even in the 7k chip range with me slightly ahead. I slow played my AQs and the nut flush on the turn. He made a small straight on the river, went all in, and I nailed him.

It is a nice finish to what was otherwise a horrible month.

[trs912]

I've won several of these now. Awesome stuff. Even though they are all for the same tourney every week, you can win multiple ones in a week and keep unregistering to get tourney $$.

[lwestatbus]

I recently had to contact PS Support as I could no longer find these tournys. I had been using the Tourneys -> Satellite -> FPP menus to find them and they would continuously pop up at the top of the window and then disappear when they filled.

You must now use Sit & Go -> Satellite -> FPP and look at the bottom of the window to find these. This route may always have been available but I'd always used the one above.