Knockout Turbo, Time To Gamble

As part of my ten WCOOP freerolls, I registered for two events today. The $320 2x Chance NLH event (WCOOP #44) and the $265 turbo knockout NLH event (WCOOP #45). If you've never played a turbo before, the blind levels come and go so quickly it is basically a crapshoot, but as I've been fairly bored grinding out many of the longer events previous, it is a welcome change.

As of this writing, I'm still alive in WCOOP 44 (with a traditional slower structure) with a slightly below average stack. There are 421 players remaining out of the 2k that started. Hopefully I can pick up some pots and reach the money at 252.

I busted the turbo in 263rd place out of 3k entries for $477.92 + $100 in bounties for knocking out two players. I would have had a pretty monstrous stack given the structure had I won the pot where I busted, getting TT in pre vs A5 (for my full stack of around ~15bb) and vs a super shorty with T8 for his ~5bb or so. Unfortunately an ace flopped and it was good game.

I played a little cash during the middle stages of the events today and ran passably, though had I been able to fade a couple big suckouts it could have been a quick $1k in 1000 hand session. During some of these events rather than trying to play cash to make the time investment worthwhile, I've instead been playing games and multitasking that way, mixing leisure and work. It definitely makes the tourney experience far more bearable.

Two more events to go after I'm done with WCOOP 44. With my cashes thus far I've almost generated the cash value of my main event ticket, hopefully I can luckbox a little more value and get there. Either way, given my options were only to either play the ME or break the ticket up into smaller events (you can't take the ticket value in T$ or straight cash), I'm pretty happy with how things have gone thus far. Sure would have been nice to have made the final table in the shootout event though, so close...