Twitter > Poker
It would appear I am much better at Twitter than poker. I don't have a lot of followers, I don't get many retweets and even the number of likes is probably subpar but what I do get, in abundance, is poker tournament tickets.
There is a wealth of poker tickets and goodies to won in the world of Poker Twitter, and here's what I've gotten out of it in just three months:
I opened UTG+1 with JK suited, smiurfy who was loose aggro called as did that James Bond looking avatar on the button. Bond had been super tight for a long time, he tripled up early in the tournament and had barely played a hand since. 3 way to the J6K flop and I cbet 2/3pot, smiurfy calls, as does Bond. I fire another two thirds pot sized bet on the turn, smiurfy calls again but Bond shoves over the top. smiurfy in his loosey goosey way could have a pretty wide range here, could be on a draw, could have a pair who knows I'm pretty sure I'm taking him to value town right now but Bond has been super tight and I can only put him on one hand, pocket sixes. Earlier when he won chips he was 3betting and 4betting big pairs, so I think I can rule them out, given how tight he's been I doubt he's jamming AK here, so what can he possibly have? He's not calling preflop with J6/K4 type hands, he's not calling the flop bet with 44, which only leaves 66. So sick, I can't believe it. How sick is this spot, uurggghhhhhh... Does he really have sixes? Can I really narrow his range to just that one hand? Am I that good? Surely not? Maybe he could have JK too? Could he have AK? Uurrrghhh... I get it all on, as does smiurfy who as expected has a flush draw, Bond as expected has pocket sixes.
I've won more tickets that you can shake a selfie stick at, I'm all over it:
In just the last 3 months alone, I have won over $150 in tickets (and a card protector), turning that into almost $100 of cold hard cash and played a whole bunch of satellites. The only trouble with the satellites is you're locked into playing a fairly sizeable and increasingly difficult satellite tree to actualise your equity but I had a shot at a $530 mega satellite to the PCA from nothing, so beggars can't be choosers.
I'm winning literally hundreds of dollars of tickets and I'm not doing anything difficult, I'm not crafting Photoshop images or creating slick videos I'm retweeting, answering multiple choice questions or simply guessing numbers. So at the risk of doing myself out of future freebies, I would advise anyone on a tight bankroll to get following, get tweeting and get winning!
There is a wealth of poker tickets and goodies to won in the world of Poker Twitter, and here's what I've gotten out of it in just three months:
After winning a $27.50 Spin & Go PCA satellite ticket on Twitter, I expertly converted that into what felt like a disappointing min Spin & Go prize of a $55 satellite ticket. Spirits were lifted when I beasted the next stage and captured a seat in the $530 mega satellite for a Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) package, in which Pokerstars were guaranteeing something ridiculous like 100 packages to celebrate/highlight the return of the PCA.
In terms of buy-in and possibly prizes, this was the third biggest tournament I have ever played, and I'm playing it because of a random prize draw on Twitter!
Despite the buy-in, I felt pretty comfortable playing in the tournament, at no point did I feel the standard of play was beyond me, in fact sometimes quite the opposite, there appeared to be a never ending stream of the maniacs who would site down, get super aggro and bust quickly.
I was cruising along, gathering chips with no real difficulty, bizarrely the tournament felt a bit like a deep stacked microstakes tourney where you can simply wait for a big hand, value bet it and chip up. Until the following hand happened:In terms of buy-in and possibly prizes, this was the third biggest tournament I have ever played, and I'm playing it because of a random prize draw on Twitter!
Despite the buy-in, I felt pretty comfortable playing in the tournament, at no point did I feel the standard of play was beyond me, in fact sometimes quite the opposite, there appeared to be a never ending stream of the maniacs who would site down, get super aggro and bust quickly.
I opened UTG+1 with JK suited, smiurfy who was loose aggro called as did that James Bond looking avatar on the button. Bond had been super tight for a long time, he tripled up early in the tournament and had barely played a hand since. 3 way to the J6K flop and I cbet 2/3pot, smiurfy calls, as does Bond. I fire another two thirds pot sized bet on the turn, smiurfy calls again but Bond shoves over the top. smiurfy in his loosey goosey way could have a pretty wide range here, could be on a draw, could have a pair who knows I'm pretty sure I'm taking him to value town right now but Bond has been super tight and I can only put him on one hand, pocket sixes. Earlier when he won chips he was 3betting and 4betting big pairs, so I think I can rule them out, given how tight he's been I doubt he's jamming AK here, so what can he possibly have? He's not calling preflop with J6/K4 type hands, he's not calling the flop bet with 44, which only leaves 66. So sick, I can't believe it. How sick is this spot, uurggghhhhhh... Does he really have sixes? Can I really narrow his range to just that one hand? Am I that good? Surely not? Maybe he could have JK too? Could he have AK? Uurrrghhh... I get it all on, as does smiurfy who as expected has a flush draw, Bond as expected has pocket sixes.
I've won more tickets that you can shake a selfie stick at, I'm all over it:
Not sure if it was because I had already won a $22 mega satellite ticket or not but I was able to use another one that I won for any $22 tournament, so I played some pot limit omaha PKO, finished 22/218 for $25.47 plus $12.50 in bounties, another ticket bagged me $37.65.
Played a whole bunch of $22 satellites, made it to the $109 stage a couple of times but no further, really struggled in the $109 games to be honest, not sure if it was a skill thing or a running bad thing.
I'm winning literally hundreds of dollars of tickets and I'm not doing anything difficult, I'm not crafting Photoshop images or creating slick videos I'm retweeting, answering multiple choice questions or simply guessing numbers. So at the risk of doing myself out of future freebies, I would advise anyone on a tight bankroll to get following, get tweeting and get winning!
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