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Double Stack tournaments at Full Tilt Poker

June 26, 2007 on 10:12 pm | In General |

Now I’m sure I’m a bit behind with this but I found the double stack sit n go tournaments that are hosted by Full Tilt today and I must say that they look good value. You get 3,000 starting chips and the blinds start at 15/30 and go up every 10 minutes. After an hour the blinds are just moving into 60/120 territory so even if you’ve managed to stay at the starting level you will still have 25 big blinds to play with. With 90 players prizes go down to 18th place and the first prize in the $5.50 tourney is $112.50 so it is well worth going for. Full Tilt do these tourneys in 4 different buy in ranges - $1.25, $5.50, $11 and $22. I’ve never been a huge fan of FT because I always seem to suffer horrendous bad beats such as earlier today when I had KK early on and I was in the big blind. Their was a raiser on the button and the small blind goes all in. Now I had noticed that he was quite an active player and didn’t put him on Aces so I went all in and the original raiser dropped out. It turned out I was up against 10s - my KK was crushed though with a 10 on the river. At this point I had just 650 chips left and I managed to get it back up to 5,000 or so when I had AQ and the blinds were starting to get a bit tasty and again I had an active player make a move on me. I decided to put him all in and he called and had KQ so again I was a good favourite to win but a King came up on the turn and I was winging my way home. The only way to get out of the bad beats though is to play through it and I think that I will be giving these tourneys a go over the next few weeks at least and if I do well then I may look to play the, even more.

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