The Man With no Seoul
by Bond18 on 09/11/07
The Man With no SeoulAfter thorough consideration, it turns out I won’t be going to Seoul. The expenses involved turns out to be in the area of about $5000 US. Since the tournament is only a $2500 buy in, and my ROI is perhaps 100%, I’d basically be expecting a loss on the trip long term. Even though I’d certainly the vacation aspect of the trip, there’s one much larger problem; the WCOOP.
For some brilliant reason, Pokerstars decided to schedule the APPT Seoul event right during the WCOOP and, in direct conflict with the WCOOP main event. This despite there being no other APPT event until December, and no technically announced poker event in the Pacific region until possibly November. Of additional difficulty with attempting to do the WCOOP is the absurd time it’s on in our region, which is something like 4am. This means if I attempted to do a little of both, I’d be forced to throw my sleep schedule back and forth, resulting in the inevitable onslaught from my stomach. The same stomach which was supposed to be swimming with Helicobacter Pylori, but upon calling the Medical Center today, it turns out “everything’s completely normal.”
Shit, why can’t I just have the bacteria. I wanted the fucking bacteria. The bacteria would be an easy to answer to my dilemma, a weeks worth of antibiotics and problem solved. Instead I have to go back to the doctor, who will be required to do further examinations and tests, likely resulting in my being diagnosed with some obscure monstrosity of a disease like tumorsyphillisisisosis. I’m pretty sure it starts with stomach and digestive problems and results in your face falling off.
So instead I’ll be adjusting my schedule in order to get up for the WCOOP at an appropriate time and harassing Nath to do a coaching session. While I would have loved to see Korea and decimated their Bulgogki supply, I guess live poker will have to wait until October.
Meanwhile, I had a +$20,000 Sunday and yet went to sleep extremely pissed off. At the final table of the Full Tilt nightly 150+12 when holding AT on a 68TT board with the chip lead the person second in chips also moved all in on the turn over my large raise. As I clicked call Full Tilt crashed for several minutes and folded my hand, rewarding the full pot to my opponent who also had AT and giving him a sizeable chip lead. I wasn’t the only player who disconnected in the hand or at the final table, so clearly the technical problem was on Tilts end. The result being with 1.5 million chips in play, 438,000 was rewarded to my opponent, 219k of which was mine, causing a full 438k swing. Of additional interest I later got heads up verse the same villain and he got disconnected, though I used my time bank to allow him to get back online. Unfortunately I lost the heads up to my villain despite coming in with a chip lead, but so many of his chips going into the match were the result of that hand I wrote an email to support letting them know I feel their technical difficulty cost me thousands in equity, and am owed some form of reparations.
Over/under on Full Tilts investigation of the matter and response is sitting on 3 weeks.
Comments
Anonymous says
Good luck, but I wouldn't count on anything much. Similar things have happened to me. What's most odd is these things usually happen when holding been hands. Let us know what happens.09/11/07
nath says
Haha. Don't worry, we'll work something out. I think it would be good for us.09/12/07
Anonymous says
Crohn's Disease?09/25/07
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