Better Fred

[peterbirks]

Betfred was on truly bottom form yesterday.

First it sent me an e-mail saying that I had qualified for the "weekly" $1000-added freeroll tournament, which would be starting at 8.30pm on Wednesday 10th.

Which was fine, except I had played in the weekly $1000-added tourney on the Tuesday. Had some donk just installed a tourney on the wrong date, or sent out an inaccurate e-mail?

I checked online, and the tourney was there, except that it started at 9.30pm, not 8.30pm.

So I registered and went away to play some proper poker.

Then when I tried to get back onto Betfred at 9.20, it was no-go. The "24-hour helpline" kept me on hold for 10 minutes before I gave up and went back to playing on Pacific -- leaving the Betfred lobby open for occasional checking.

After an hour, Betfred comes back up. As I suspected, everyone had been offline, but the tournament had been started on schedule (marvellous!). This led to the (for me), unusual situation of a tournament with 61 players (six prizes), and 30 no-shows. For the 30 people who had been keeping their eyes open for the potential overlay, we were in a tournament with 2000 in starting chips and blind levels beginning at 150-300 (10 minute levels).

I think I went out 44th after push-botting for about half an hour -- the 30 no-shows were still being blinded down. Even when up to 6,000 (my peak), I still only had an M of 10 (blinds now 200-400 and about to rise to 300-600) and I was fourth in chips.

I got knocked back to 3,000 and, with blinds now 400-800, I pushed with KJo, called by AT and Q8s. Flop of JTxx looked good until the river of a 10 (decimal rather than binary) and IGHN.

Good fun, but it was nice to get back to some cash games. I still can't take it seriously, although there is no validity to claiming that "it's not proper poker". It's just different.

Comments

[andy-ward-uk.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that I like "bottom form" a lot and plan to use it as often as possible. We need more phrases like this. I was just saying to Titmus the other day that every time there's an underdog, surely the opponent must be an overdog and should be described as such. And so on.

Andy.

[peterbirks.livejournal.com]

If you aren't that bothered about doing something, do you say that you will do it come heaven or low water?

PJ