For the second time, Kevin “BelowAbove” Saul and I have won the PocketFives FTOPS Contest Team Championships for $46,200.  With the addition of the sick sick Chris Moorman to our team, I felt from the beginning our trio had a very good chance to do well, and we did.  I actually rather enjoyed the contest [...]

FTOPS has been a pretty annoying series thus far.  Even though I’m in second in singles, I have been running awfully of late – worse than I’ve run in tournaments in a long time.  I’m immune to caring about something as trivial as tournament variance due to playing HSNL for as long as I have, [...]

i’ve played a few more events since my last blog post, the $200 6max ko, $300 freeze, $500 hu, $1k 2nd chance, and $200 turbo. i didn’t cash any of these, but i’m not doing a silly ftops bet so it doesn’t really matter. i was originally gonna skip the heads up, but jcarver said [...]

I’ve spent the majority of the last few days rotating three activities – tournament poker, rock band, and civ 4.  I’m definitely at life peak skill in all three of those (sick brag bro), and haven’t really done much else otherwise.  FTOPS has a very time-consuming schedule (one at 2pm and one at 9pm every [...]

Day 1 in the FTOPS contest didn’t go terribly well, at least not in terms of pure results.  Nobody on our team got near ITM (only one person in the whole contest seems to have cashed).  I got the deepest before losing KK < ATs and JJ < AK for two fairly large pots and [...]

The quarterly alarm bell known as FTOPS begins tonight.  I don’t think I did anything last series, but the series prior to that one was a little special in that I teamed up with Kevin “BelowAbove” Saul and MattG in a sidebet contest.  Mostly thanks to Kevin, our team won something like $40k-50k for having [...]