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[flintsword]

Last week I qualified for the $300 +$22 Paris Qualifer at FullTiltPoker starting on the cheap with $4.50. There were 52 players in this tournament, most of them serious players, so I took it as seriously as possible. ONly one prize, so my maxim applies:"Be patient, ... or become a patient."Surprise! I won 1st and am going to the WPT in Paris !! :icon_dance:Some of these players were just plain dangerous: one Gold Jersey FTOPS winner and the excellent player thegreat22. The others I did not recognize but they were there, so I was pretty wary.I do not post as much on FCP as I used to, but am a loyal lurker. All of you that take the time to post REAL poker information, thank you. I could not have won this without improving and the FCP forum helped a lot!I got drawn out on three times finding myself low on chips and having to fight my way back to a reasonable chip stack. One memorable flopped J high srt8 All in called by two pair looking for his four outs, ... and found one of them on the river, leaving me with a few hundred chips ... Many thanks to the regular posters here!

[Ukosumu]

Congrats! A trip to Paris would be awesome. Enjoy and report back with pics.

[Vatche]

wow, very nice...congrats.

[Barack_Obama]

This might end with you getting 0$ in return for your investment, or you will be a ****ing millionaire and WPT champion. Either way you will have a great experience. Congrats. And don't fall under the pressure during the real tournament.

[GeneralGeeWhiz]

Congrats! Have fun and take pictures.

[ukwildcat09]

That's sweet! $4.50 into a trip to Paris alone is awesome. Add the WPT event in and that is a great investment.

[Balloon guy]

ParisDon't go for a walk unless you have a map, they think a street is supposed to be curvy.Capaccinos are great, get on on the Champ delyance whateverTake the tube to London, it is 3x better than Parisgreat job man, good luck in Paris

[bdc30]

duh --nvmGL man!!

[Balloon guy]

ParisDon't go for a walk unless you have a map, they think a street is supposed to be curvy.Capaccinos are great, get on on the Champ delyance whateverTake the tube to London, it is 3x better than Parisgreat job man, good luck in Paris

[showstopper24]

Congrats dude, thats sweet.

[gatortom64]

CONGRATS!!!! Too bad you have to go to Paris for your prize!!!!

[flintsword]

Ukosumu, on Saturday, April 7th, 2007, 4:38 PM, said:

Congrats! A trip to Paris would be awesome. Enjoy and report back with pics.

Thanks for the encouragement. This US$16,000 win is my biggest ever, so I am looking forward to my first tournament (ever). You can bet I am going to play really serious poker when I am there.Although it sounds sacrilegious, I intend to forget about the money and prizes at the WPT Paris Grand Prix . I figure that it is just a distraction from the game anyways. During the qualifier I got so engrossed by the game and the play (which was excellent quality) that the play became more important than the prize.If I win something, it is a bonus. I want to concentrate on good decisions and also some bad decisions accepting a small negative edge in situations where the payoff is big enough to justify the risk.I will take pictures and since my laptop is coming with me to Paris (plus the adapter for those weird French plugs so I can get power) I can try and schedule some updates for FCP and by your request, some pictures.It would be pretty cool to have Daniel Negreanu at the same tournament, but the LAST thing he needs is another person bothering him.What would be cooler would be to get other FCPers at that tournament. Thanks again for the support!

[shrimp4789]

wow, way to go, wish i could qualify for $16,000 package for $4.50 lol, or even have the chance to qualify for $4.50 lol

[flintsword]

GeneralGeeWhiz, on Saturday, April 7th, 2007, 6:59 PM, said:

Congrats! Have fun and take pictures.

Thanks for the encouragement. I will take pictures and post them on FCP.

[TB17]

tb17 congratulates you.

[wsox8]

TB17, on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007, 7:52 PM, said:

tb17 congratulates you.

I love the sig.. I couldn't stop laughing at that part.GL in Paris, OP.

[ice4804]

Full Tilt doesn't give you the option of taking the cash do they?

[Pokergolf]

To the OP, much congrats on a top notch job well done............can't wait to hear about the trip to Paris for the WPT.Ice: I won a WSOP prelim qualifier for a 1500 tourney entry plus 500 spending. I thought for sure tilt would take care of my entry and put the 500 spending in my account. They put the entire 2000 into my account. I was really surprised. I guess they aren't doing the leg work for the winners. I would be interested to know if the OP got 16k shipped to his acct or if tilt is taking care of his arrangements.

[ice4804]

Pokergolf, on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007, 10:39 PM, said:

To the OP, much congrats on a top notch job well done............can't wait to hear about the trip to Paris for the WPT.Ice: I won a WSOP prelim qualifier for a 1500 tourney entry plus 500 spending. I thought for sure tilt would take care of my entry and put the 500 spending in my account. They put the entire 2000 into my account. I was really surprised. I guess they aren't doing the leg work for the winners. I would be interested to know if the OP got 16k shipped to his acct or if tilt is taking care of his arrangements.

Out of curiosity, did you still play in the WSOP event or keep the cash?I have a feeling they wouldn't do something like this for such a large prize, if someone wins a seat through them, they want them over there covered head to toe in Full Tilt gear advertising...

[Pokergolf]

Ice.........I just won my entry a few days ago. I'm planning on playing one of the 1500 buck NL tourneys that start pretty much any Saturday at noon in June. I'm leaning towards the 23rd for two reasons, first, it was a fairly small tourney last year compared to others and second, the 50k HORSE starts the next day, and if/when I go busto I want to rail that tourney.