{"id":17,"date":"2008-09-12T09:46:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T08:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-09-13T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T11:42:11","slug":"w00t-my-1337-5k111z-in-online-tournament-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"w00t! My 1337 5k111z in online tournament shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been trying to win through the <a title=\"pokerstars.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pokerstars.com\/eptlondon\">Pokerstars FPP satellite structure to the London EPT<\/a> every couple of days for the last couple of weeks and not done too well; however last night I finally got a couple of breaks (winning with AT against AK by spiking a T on the river being most notable) and managed to concentrate and make a few disciplined folds and made it through to Sunday&#8217;s weekly final. So that&#8217;s about a 1 in 500 chance of me playing in the London EPT. w00t!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the stats surprised me a bit<\/p>\n<pre>  122 hands played and saw flop:\r\n\r\n   - 8 times out of 15 while in small blind (53%)\r\n   - 8 times out of 14 while in big blind (57%)\r\n   - 26 times out of 93 in other positions (28%)\r\n   - a total of 42 times out of 122 (34%)\r\n\r\n  Pots won at showdown - 12 out of 20 (60%)\r\n  Pots won without showdown - 27<\/pre>\n<p>Don&#8217;t really know what to make of that. The &#8220;pots won at showdown&#8221; %age is lower than I&#8217;d like. The &#8220;while in blind&#8221; values were a product of the competition, it was _really_ tight (I guess because of the structure). I suppose in that environment playing lots of pots is valid (especially given the &#8220;pots won without showdown&#8221; amount), but I should have been prepared to fold more when I didn&#8217;t have much post-flop (improve that 60%).<\/p>\n<p>These tourneys are fantastic value though, because with the number of people taking part 1\/10 players have a 1\/500 (or so) shot at a (nearly) $11k\u00c2\u00a0prize, which means the implied value (even without taking into account the secondary cash prizes) is around $2.22 for 10FPP. With the cash prizes (an extra $5000) the EV per FPP is 32c. Considering a pokerstars Tshirt is 500FPP I think that&#8217;s probably a valuation about 10-20x the usual.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, keep your fingers crossed this Sunday evening. I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been trying to win through the Pokerstars FPP satellite structure to the London EPT every couple of days for the last couple of weeks and not done too well; however last night I finally got a couple of breaks (winning with AT against AK by spiking a T on the river being most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}