Chippy McChiperson
Straight Flush
6 handed on the money bubble of @krafticus monthly tournament, 5 pay, $540 up top and $110 to 5th ($40 +$10 + $10 tourney with 27 runners and 9 ribeyes) . Blinds 3k/6k, UTG shortstack (normally solid player, but his shoving range is very wide here) shoves his remaining 28k, UTG+1 not overly aggressive big stack shoves all-in for his 110k or so. The other 3 players fold (all with stacks between 40-60k), and in the big blind I wake up with AKo. My stack is about 95k, and at this point I’ve collected 5 bounties. It should be noted, we’ve all decided (as is tradition at this game) to chip in 1 bounty each for the bubble boy, so they’d get $50 back.
Also to keep in mind, the points for coming in first place are way higher than 6th. 1st usually gets around 4700 + 100 per bounty, 2nd 3900 + 100xB, and 6th probably around 2k + 100xB. The total number of points translates to a correlating number of chips in the end of year free roll (not really a free roll, $10 per buy-in all year goes towards this game, but there’s no additional buy-in).
Normally there’s a cash game going in case I bust, but all the main cash players either busted out way early and didn’t want to wait around, or went very deep, so nothing to fall back on. Also, we’re playing with my chips, so I’ve got to wait around til the end no matter what. WWYD?
Also to keep in mind, the points for coming in first place are way higher than 6th. 1st usually gets around 4700 + 100 per bounty, 2nd 3900 + 100xB, and 6th probably around 2k + 100xB. The total number of points translates to a correlating number of chips in the end of year free roll (not really a free roll, $10 per buy-in all year goes towards this game, but there’s no additional buy-in).
Normally there’s a cash game going in case I bust, but all the main cash players either busted out way early and didn’t want to wait around, or went very deep, so nothing to fall back on. Also, we’re playing with my chips, so I’ve got to wait around til the end no matter what. WWYD?