Massive Technical Difficulties in the Triple Stud Home Game

Edit: Support tells me that they are “experiencing some delays” but that points should be awarded appropriately within 24 hours.

My thanks and apologies to everyone who played in last night’s Triple Stud event. I’ll start on a positive note: I had a great time, and it seemed like many of you did as well. Thanks for playing and for being good sports throughout.

Technical Difficulties

1. Structure. It took over 9 hours for us to play from 30 runners down to the 3 who got paid, and several people understandably chose to abandon their stacks rather than continue to play a $1 tournament for so long. All I can say in my own defense is that I don’t get a lot of information about what various options mean when creating a tournament and am still getting the hang of setting the structure. Obviously this was a huge fail, and I appreciate everyone being so understanding about it.

2. Cancellation. It came down to KeondaFreon and myself playing heads up. I had about a 2:1 chiplead, and (s)he opted to concede and go to sleep rather than play it out. Keonda sat out, and I did as well, thinking that we’d get blinded down and end up taking first and second. Apparently, Stars cancels the tournament if both players are sitting out. It paid us out based on our chip counts, which was fine, but as of now results from this tournament aren’t displayed in the Home Game lobby or on the League Standings. I’ve e-mailed support about this and am going to work with them to make sure this gets resolved. I know that everyone who earned points in this tournament worked hard for them and invested a lot of time in it, and it’s important to me that you get the credit you deserve. I’ll update you when I have more information about how this will be resolved.

Despite these problems, we really did have a lot of fun, and I encourage everyone to play our next event:

Pot Limit Turbo Knockout

This Sunday’s tournament will be a $3 +.75 +.30 6-handed PLH/PLO mix. There’s a $.75 bounty on each player, but otherwise it’s winner take all. Points for league standings will be awarded in the usual fashion, ie they will not be WTA. It’s also a turbo, with the “Turbo” blind structure (whatever that means), 5 minute levels, and 3000 starting stacks. I’m pretty confident this one will finish up in under 3 hours unless we get a huge field.

Fun Chat

To give you just a taste of last night’s antics, I saved some of my favorite moments from the chat box. Here, Mortal Limit, Bond2King, and Cadwallion discuss the merits of having abandoned stacks at the table:

Mortal Limit: woo! Blather is at this table now! EV bonanza!
Cadwallion [observer]: two sit-outs at our table, one at yours
Bond2King: oh yeah it’s like whole entire cents of EV, crazy
Mortal Limit: think of it in bets. it gets more exciting.

And then this occurred after Illiterat 2-bet my steal raise with a K up in Razz, called a 3-bet, and proceeded to snap me off on the river with a T8 when I was bluffing with a Q after making two-pair:

Dealer: foucault82 has Lo: Q,9,5,4,2
Dealer: illiterat has Lo: T,8,6,5,A
Dealer: Game #58784501643: illiterat wins pot (810) with Lo: T,8,6,5,A
foucault82: nice call
foucault82: guessint you didn’t knwo it was razz when you raised me?
illiterat: I didn’t know it was razz on the river 😮
El_dzik: hahahahaa
foucault82: hahahhahahahaah
Bond2King: lol that’s a bad beat
Bond2King: you’re opp calls cause they don’t know what game it is

Apparently my bluff would have worked except that he rivered a pair of Aces and thought we were still playing Stud Hi.

Thanks again to everyone who played. I’ll keep you posted about the results of this tournament, and I hope to see you all on Sunday for the Pot Limit Turbo Knockout.