I'll be there for sure.. I live in West Chester, PA

Yea I'm definitely planning on coming to a few of these.  I get back from a trip to New Orleans on the 17th so am planing to come up on either the 19th or 20th (leaning towards 20th for the $25K gtd)

Guys ……the hour is near…anyone coming up or down for event 1…talked to the floor manager on sunday and they are expecting 400+++ for event 1 which puts the prize pool at 80k plus and 1st between 16 – 20k….chime in and maybe we can meet for breakfast in the morning……best to register online prior to avoid the lines……hope to see some tpe'rs there…also if anyone wants to enter the sunday heads up event ou better do it now , at last check there were only 60  spots avail…it's capped at 320…..hope to catch up with a few of you there….thanks bigheaddave

I might make this Saturday 7pm event, but I'm definitely eyeing next Thursday and Fridays events.

gl everyone

Gonna come play in the 25K GTD tomorrow.  P-aire's report sounds enticing, I can't wait to see what I discover tomorrow, hehe.    Anyone else going tomorrow?

Meh, got 40th, 218 runners 27 paid, 7.4K up top.  Definitely love the play there and will try to make it there as much as possible.  Some of the play was amazingly horrid, there was a guy at my starting table that was hilariously bad, regularly cbetting 3K into a 600 pot on the flop in the 2nd level.  He ended up calling off 4 levels later 2 different all-ins (the first for like 40bbs from a tight lady's flop shove, 2nd when he was down to like 15bbs again on the flop) with bottom pair (5 in the 1st hand, 4 in the 2nd) and a 3 kicker.  Simply stunning.  Unfortunately I didn't get any of his chips.

Nothing went too well to start off, lots of small-mid pocket pairs I opened but never connected or met resistance opening in other random spots so got down to 5K and in the 5th level and 3b shoved QQ into KK, bink Q right under the door card.

Semi-interesting hand 3 hands later only because the floor had to get involved and probably me in stacking an old dude.  Blinds 150-300-25, I have ~13K. EP limp, young semi-aggro kid next to limper makes it 1400 and I look down at AA. I mean to just over min-raise him by an extra 150, putting out 2350 (but clearly trying to raise since there was multiple 1K chips in my bet stack). The dealer was noobish and didn't announce my raise, it folds around to an old dude on the button who tries to call the 1400 when 2 other people not in the hand point out I had raised.  Old dude tries to take back the 1400 and starts to muck his hand.  I have the old dude covered by 3Kish, can't see opener's stack fully since i'm in 1 seat and he's in 10, but he has ~26K.  Young opener tries to say it's a call not a raise, I say I was clearly trying to raise since there are blatantly more chips in my bet than calling, floor comes over and correctly rules that my raise counts, but needed to be to 2500 and the old guy's 1400 is in the pot and he can decide whether to call the additional 1100 or not.  He eventually does as does the young kid.  J72 rainbow, young kid checks, I bet 4.2K, old guy shoves QJo, young kid folds.  So if the floor hadn't said his 1400 was a call I wouldn't have got his stack, hehe.  Live pro angle shot? 😛

Next orbit get AA again, 3bet pre and bet-call a 10Kish stack's shove on an 8 high board with 2 clubs.  He had JTcc and I didn't get a hold there, but that would have put me at about 40K at the 200-400-25 level.

Instead hovered around 35bbs for a while, and after dwindling a little more than doubled in a pot where I opened QTcc on the button, got 3 callers.  Flop A high with 2 clubs, one big stack donks and I shove, he calls and I make a flush on the turn vs his AKo.  Sitting healthy again there at my max in the tourney with 39K at 500-1000-100.

Our table then becomes the death table, and for 2 orbits we literally get 2 new players every orbit and bust 2, in that time I didn't get much and a new big stack 60K+ young competant looking player gets seated 2 to my left, so that handcuffed me from trying to get rowdy with some late pos raises.

Take some stabs here and there getting small pots, so dwindle to ~28K at 800-1600-200 when another youngish competant looking player who was short stacked shoves in EP for right around 12K.  I iso ship 88 and can't outrace his A2.

No other spots for me and I go out at the beginning of the 1200-2400-300 level after getting one shove through 2 hands prior, but then shoving 15K from CO with QTo and sb wakes up with JJ.

88 vs A2 was a key pot, as I would have most likely healthily made it to the bubble and hopefully gotten to abuse some of the table.  There was another interesting spot where everyone will probably say I was too nitty but I”ll post it in a separate reply in case this repor post is tl;dr.

just shipped event 11 for 7k….$150 buy in….tpe rules…was at the final table with another tpe player….will post some details tomorrow….

bigheaddave said:

just shipped event 11 for 7k….$150 buy in….tpe rules…was at the final table with another tpe player….will post some details tomorrow….

Sick, congrats!  Didn't know any other TPEs were there since I didn't see a response here earlier.  I was at table 9 all day – I'm guessing not but did we ever cross paths?  Who else was at the FT?

bigheaddave said:

just shipped event 11 for 7k….$150 buy in….tpe rules…was at the final table with another tpe player….will post some details tomorrow….

Haha, just saw your pic at …..esults.jpg , I was at your table sitting across from you in the 1 seat when the dude cracked your Aces.  Way to keep it together there, recover and finish strong!  That was a horrid beat.

Is that younger kid Steve to your right (I take it you knew him before coming the table) a TPE member?

Unfortuately had to head out of town for a few days, but coming back Sunday.  May try to check out one of the $65 satellites that night, and hoping to get enough work done ahead of time to come for the monday $100 NL or the 150 HORSE.

Congrats!!

thanks for all the support guys……I can't tell you how much reading your posts and responses on playing hands has helped me throughout the last year or so…..my game has steadily gone to the next level and I now feel that I have a game plan to win any tour that I enter at most buy in levels….TPE has been great and I just wanted to say thanks to anyone that posts no matter who / what  it is…..gooooooooo tpe……thx again bigheaddave

Playing the Raymer $150 75K gtd 1A tomorrow, lemme know if anyone else will be there.

Blerg, busted 115th-ish in lvl 10, but hey, at least I won the $0 last longer against Raymer, haha!  He busted halfway through the morning