Jerrod Ankenman's Journal

12:38pm: best. structure. ever. (sort of)
I won the UltimateBet $200 tournament last night for $37,000. I picked up a lot of chips with about 8 or 9 tables to go and was actually leading the field by about 2x (ie, I had 300k, the next person had 150k) until we got four-handed. When I win a lot of showdowns, it's quite bad for the other players.

A strange thing happened; when we broke to the final table, the blinds were 4k-8k with an 800 ante. Something got screwed up in the software and the blinds stopped escalating. So we played for about 60 minutes (4 limits) at these blind levels. I emailed support to tell them about it (being the huge stack, I had the most to gain from blind increases). Eventually they showed up and fixed it, which started the blind escalations again. But in all fairness, if it hadn't been 4 am, I would have thought this was a great structure. There was play at every stage of the tournament.

So that's finally a win in one of the majors; I have been feeling like Phil Mickelson for a long time. I passed Bill in buyins/tournament on the agreement too! :)

5:58pm: Ah, Omaha....
while earning a deposit bonus...

***** Hand History for Game 1808438706 *****
$10/$20 Omaha Hi/Lo - Monday, March 28, 17:56:07 EDT 2005
Table Table 27302 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 2: JESPI ( $639 )
Seat 3: bigcrazyfish ( $467.5 )
Seat 5: Dymondboy ( $409.5 )
Seat 6: bananaman83 ( $1272.75 )
Seat 9: hoehand ( $147 )
Seat 10: msg144 ( $140 )
Seat 7: HgFalling ( $486 )
Seat 4: street17 ( $253 )
Seat 8: hersom ( $460 )
Seat 1: MMatl ( $345 )
JESPI posts small blind [$5].
bigcrazyfish posts big blind [$10].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HgFalling [ 3h Ks 7c Ac ]
street17 folds.
Dymondboy folds.
bananaman83 calls [$10].
HgFalling raises [$20].
hersom folds.
hoehand calls [$20].
msg144 folds.
JESPI calls [$15].
bigcrazyfish calls [$10].
bananaman83 calls [$10].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9c, 8s, Jc ]
JESPI bets [$10].
bigcrazyfish folds.
bananaman83 calls [$10].
HgFalling raises [$20].
hoehand calls [$20].
JESPI calls [$10].
bananaman83 calls [$10].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2d ]
JESPI checks.
bananaman83 checks.
HgFalling bets [$20].
hoehand calls [$20].
JESPI calls [$20].
bananaman83 calls [$20].
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
JESPI checks.
bananaman83 checks.
HgFalling bets [$20].
hoehand calls [$20].
JESPI folds.
bananaman83 calls [$20].
HgFalling shows [ 3h, Ks, 7c, Ac ] a pair of sevens.
HgFalling shows 8,7,3,2,A for low.
hoehand doesn't show [ 5c, Ad, 2s, Tc ] a pair of twos.
hoehand doesn't show 8,7,5,2,A for low.
bananaman83 doesn't show [ 4s, Kh, Qs, As ] high card ace.
bananaman83 doesn't show 8,7,4,2,A for low.
HgFalling wins $158.5 from the main pot with a pair of sevens.
HgFalling wins Lo ($158.5) from the main pot with 8,7,3,2,A.