matt24 is having a great Sunday Millions tournament today at pokerstars

PO69 · Jul 9, 2007

A few times he was chip leader in this huge tournament with 6821 entries. I have been watching him for about 2 hours while checking the net and he is playing real well, just ran into a few big hands and chose the wrong time to bluff a few times.

By the way, the MASSIVE chip leader is a guy who I play live poker with often. He live 10 minutes away. He isnt that successful in live tournaments as he has been lately on stars.

The success of these guy might get back to playing online poker more often, but first I need to go make a few thousand playing live tournaments.

Good luck Matt, matt will win $3500 at least today

PO69 · Jul 9, 2007

I still havent forgetten about you Matt, as if you need it! I will get back into stars in a few days after I return from Michigan and taking care of my father-in-law. I am about to move his ass permenantly to Texas. He doesnt have ANY FAMILY in Michigan, yet he wants to stay there. But I cant fly up here every month when gets sick. We will get him a rental house or buy a cheap house for him

PO69 · Jul 9, 2007

matt doubles up to put him in 21st place with 26 left.

He had king-queen preflop all in and got called by someone with pocket 7's. He wins it

Betallsports · Jul 9, 2007

He's sitting there with 3.3 Mil

Good for about 5,700 $$$$$$$$$$

Illini · Jul 9, 2007

I have no idea how this kid got so good so fast, but it's fun to see him succeed. Three years ago he was going to IU games and betting $50, while never having played poker before. Now, he's one of the best players in the world.

Betallsports · Jul 9, 2007

Down to 13 Players !!

Betallsports · Jul 9, 2007

12 PLAYERS !!

PO69 · Jul 9, 2007

Well he finished in 10th place, he got knocked out by the other player that i know from my hometown.

Well he won $5700, so that was a good pay day from a $215 entry.

This tourney should vault him into the top 150 players on pokerstars. He might even make it to under 100.

His final hand................

Well the big blind was chip with 15 million chips to matt 3.6 million. Blinds around $250,000 with small ante. Small blind raises Matt to about double and then Matt goes all in. Without much hesitation, chip leader calls and has

chip leader king-queen
matt ace-3

Chip leader made the right call since that amount of chips didnt really matter to him and he hit a queen and actually a straight.

Matt made a good move there, but I might have just called the raise to see if you can get an ace. 9th place didnt pay much more and had he stole that pot would have been in 6th place or so with a shot at the big bucks.

PO69 · Jul 9, 2007

7th place paid $20,000.

I have never liked the pay structure in these tournaments. It leads to a quicker tournament since each hand doesnt mean more money, but 10-18th paid the EXACT same.

I have played in a large tournament where every other place under 20 players or it might have been every 3 place changed the amount that you won.

By the way, 3 players from Texas made the final table

PO69 · Jul 9, 2007

Well my Texas Buddy lost a HORRENDOUS bad beat with pocket aces vs the #3 seed. Preflop other player raises a little and reraised by rkruok to 3 million. Other guy calls.

Queen high comes on the flop and other guy goes all in, my buddy calls and shows pocket aces, vs the other guy having only king-queen. king on the the river is a 21 million pot for the other player. My buddy is now short stacked at 3 million.

He loses a few hands later for 7th place and $20,000. SHOCKING since he was such a MASSIVE chip leader. First prize was $190,000. Boy will be ever be pissed next Saturday at the poker room

Matt24 · Jul 9, 2007

gay gay gay, that about sums it up. Did not run too well at all for the last 150players, at one point i lost 3 strait flips and lost a 60/40, but did win AJ vs AQ for part of my stack, then lost another flip, then won a flip, then lost the A3 vs KQ where im a favorite. 5700 is so meaningless when youre at that point. booo

GreenDoberman · Jul 9, 2007

Top 10 finish. nothing to sneeze at.
Congrats.

GreenDoberman · Jul 9, 2007

Gonna take a shot here myself soon.

PO69 · Jul 9, 2007

I cant believe that the guy who beat you had 21 million chips at one point and came in 7th! He had 1/3 of all the chips in play and was due at least $60000 or so. I know that he is pissed now too

PO69 · Jul 9, 2007

I RARELY ever agree to final table deals in live poker and have only done it once online, but these guys agreed to chipstack chop at 3 people and they left 30 thousand on the table to play for.

With no chop,

1st place $192,000
2nd place $96,000
3rd place $68,000

Chipstack before chop

vietcong $32 million
dallas $19 million
FCmunky $14 million these are estimates

I would not have agreed if I were Vietcong since he had a pretty good lock on second which paid nice.

Final tally

1. Vietcong wins $157,000
2. FCMUNKY $97,000
3. dallas Rob $104,000

Dallas has more cash above because of the chop, but the did come in third. They only played about 2 hands heads up

SoCal · Jul 9, 2007

fcmunky got luckier than anyone i've seen at a final table in a long time. on three all-ins he rivered and sucked out. he went from a distant desperate 7th place to the first guy to ask about chopping. pretty much made an extra 80 G's on some wild luck.

sammythesage · Jul 9, 2007

nice reporting all!

Kruser6 · Jul 9, 2007

I wish I could say that makng $5,300 is meaningless. Wow.

Congrats matt.

royalfan · Jul 9, 2007

playersonly69 said:
I RARELY ever agree to final table deals in live poker and have only done it once online, but these guys agreed to chipstack chop at 3 people and they left 30 thousand on the table to play for.

With no chop,

1st place $192,000
2nd place $96,000
3rd place $68,000

Chipstack before chop

vietcong $32 million
dallas $19 million
FCmunky $14 million these are estimates

I would not have agreed if I were Vietcong since he had a pretty good lock on second which paid nice.

Final tally

1. Vietcong wins $157,000
2. FCMUNKY $97,000
3. dallas Rob $104,000

Dallas has more cash above because of the chop, but the did come in third. They only played about 2 hands heads up

Have you been in position more than once to chop online? Seems you never win from what I can tell. Not trying to bust your balls, but you are always talking like a big shot, yet are always asking for money from people into your account.

royalfan · Jul 9, 2007

playersonly69 said:
I RARELY ever agree to final table deals in live poker and have only done it once online, but these guys agreed to chipstack chop at 3 people and they left 30 thousand on the table to play for.

With no chop,

1st place $192,000
2nd place $96,000
3rd place $68,000

Chipstack before chop

vietcong $32 million
dallas $19 million
FCmunky $14 million these are estimates

I would not have agreed if I were Vietcong since he had a pretty good lock on second which paid nice.

Final tally

1. Vietcong wins $157,000
2. FCMUNKY $97,000
3. dallas Rob $104,000

Dallas has more cash above because of the chop, but the did come in third. They only played about 2 hands heads up

Why would you not take the deal vietcong got? Phenominal deal for him. He would have to win nearly 2 of 3 to make it not a good deal, and that is assuming third is not an option which it obviously is a possibility.