thaiger1

Thanks to those of you who voted ... the voting was tied at:Raise MinimumandRaise All-In If you missed the original post, here it is, with how the hand actually played out at the end ...This weekend, we were down to 6 players (from a 240 player field) in a local $250 buy-in $50,000 NL Tourney here in Northern Michigan... places 6-10 paid $610; 5th:$3K; 4th:$6K; 3rd:$9K; 2nd:$15K; and 1st:$24,000I've won the weekly $50 NL Tourney twice in the past month at this same casino. (Daniel will appreciate this:) Most of the field is from Grand Rapids (his girlfriends hometown) with not a lot of big tou

no (PWetzoo)... not that far north ... this was the "$50,000 Huge NL Hold'Em Tourney" at the Leelanau Sands near Traverse City. Evidently "Mr. Huge" is a talk show celebrity down in Grand Rapids, and he promoted it, which is why most of the field was from down there. They're repeating it at the end of March increasing buy-in and offering a WSOP package to the winner, and will be offering another WSOP entry tourney in April/May ... I agree that maybe I overreacted to the poster who earlier was responding to every post, and I apologize if I seemed out of line in commenting on it. I see now th

you'll allow others a chance to make theirs ... first time I've posted here and I trust that there's something about the situation I described that fires your passion, and that you're not in the habit of commenting back at every post you don't agree with simply restate your contrarian view.if you're a sysop here, perhaps you can edit my poll to add a 5th choice ... that of "Raise to 40-50K" ... I tried but don't have that capability.no disrespect intended ... i just hope i've found a user friendly poker forum where the free exchange of views can be shared without someone trying to reign suprem

This weekend, we were down to 6 players (from a 240 player field) in a local $250 buy-in $50,000 NL Tourney here in Northern Michigan... places 6-10 paid $610; 5th:$3K; 4th:$6K; 3rd:$9K; 2nd:$15K; and 1st:$24,000I've won the weekly $50 NL Tourney twice in the past month at this same casino. (Daniel will appreciate this:) Most of the field is from Grand Rapids (his girlfriends hometown) with not a lot of big tournament experience, and I'm the only local left. I was chip leader at several earlier tables with some of those left,including final table chip leader when it started over an hour ago,