Absolute Poker

Recently, I decided to deposit a mere $100 on Absolute Poker to test my luck in their tournaments. Now, Absolute has gotten a bad reputation after their scandal that occurred months prior, but I still wanted to play some of their new tournaments and see if they fixed the problems with their software.

I began playing some low stack tournaments such as $5 no re buy and $10 as well. The first day was a pure disaster and my bankroll had diminished to about $25. That was all from multi table tournaments and I was just running very poorly and I could not catch a break.

Day two was a complete 360 as I began by playing a $5 re buy. There were only 61 entries, but first place paid out a nice $331. At the end of the first break, I was only in for my original $5 and I also had a nice stack which put me in 5th out of 40 remaining. I chose to do a double add-on, and I was fortunate to make the final table. The final table was nuts and I was lucky enough to have AA against KK in a huge pot which allowed me to thrust forward and win the tournament.

My bankroll after this tournament was around $370. I did not feel like ending Day 2 so I decided to enter a $50 no re buy with 227 entrants. After 2.5 to 3 hours we had made the money which was only $72 for 27th-19th. I got all my chips in with 77 against KQ and a K fell on the turn. I was not to angry with that tournament and I knew I had a solid bankroll that would allow me to play some solid tournaments.

I woke early on day 3 and entered a $15 bounty tournament. The structure was pretty screwed up, but I was able to make it to the Final Table where I made an early exit. Later that night, I decided to play 3 tournaments: $5 re buy, $3 re buy, and there nightly $15,000 Guar. $30 re buy. Now I told myself I would only put $60 into the 15k and would go further.

Three hours later I found myself in the money for all three tournaments. First for the $3 was $1,700, $300 for the $5 re buy, and a massive $4,750 for the $30 re buy. I pushed on the button with 22 in the $3 and got called in the BB by AK....I lost the coin flip and finished in 62 for only $17.50. I was plowing through the other two fields and the next thing I knew I was at 2 Final Tables.

The atmosphere was great knowing I was about to more than double my bankroll. I grinded the $5 re buy and made it to Heads Up. I was down about 2:1 in chips, but got all my chips in with J7 on a J78 board and my opponent quickly called with KJ. My hand did not hold as he rivered a K and I got second place for $221.

The final table of the $30 re buy quickly became my main concern and with each player going out the pay outs were becoming huge. It was down to 6 of us and I found myself in last place. I was able to double up by winning a coin flip with 88. Two more people went out and it was down to 4. The blinds were 5k-10k and I only had about 121k in front of me. Hoping to steal the BB I shoved from the SB with Q10 and ran into QQ. I was still very happy as I just took down a cool $1,300.

I did not mention a few other tournaments that I cashed in, but regardless in 3 days I had cashed 8/11 MTT's and had profited over $1,800. One of the main things I enjoy about AP is there small fields which allow you to capture many final tables and even victories.