A little while ago I completed a survey for Pokerstars and got entered into a 5k freeroll. The freeroll is this Sunday so it’s been a bit of a wait.
PokerStars is also doing its Turbo Takedown tournament (had it stopped for a while, or have I just lost touch?), so I figured if I’m going to be playing a freeroll I ought to have a go at getting into the TT which is playing at roughly the same time.
I haven’t touched my PokerStars account for a little while so wasn’t sure how many FPPs were there (it’s 3000 FPPs to enter) – turns out I had 1350 left.
I entered two satellites, one for 300FPP and the other for 500FPPs. The first only got 18 players, so there was just one seat to the winner and 2400FPP to 2nd place. I had a crazy run of luck and several times ended up all-in as the underdog only to draw to a straight (so weird, I never hit straights in my cash games!) – I ended up HU but then went out on a AK (me) against 44.
I checked the cashier – the 2nd prize FPPs had put me within 50FPP of the buy-in for the TT! I quickly opened the lobby for the 2nd satellite so I could unregister and just as I did this it started! FML, I’ll just have to win the stupid thing…
This one had 27 entries so it was a bit better with 4 seats for the TT, and the 5th place got 2500 FPP. So all I needed was the 5th place really.
I quickly became chipleader, and held on to that until we were down to 10 players. The blinds started to erode my stack and the others had doubled up on each other so I began to have a tough time staying in the game, sinking down to 6 place. Patience and a few careful raises got me to the final 5, although it was a bit touch and go at some points. I figured I wasn’t bothered about carrying on since I had enough FPPs and so just shoved any ol’ hand (happend to be A3o), got called and went out.
So I got my 3000 FPP and registered for the Turbo Takedown. Remaining FPPs = 2450, profit of 1k points 
If I’d carried on to get 4th or better in that last sat then the FPP profit would have been just 50 more, so it really wasn’t worth staying in (and besides that meant I didn’t take one of the seats from the other guys – and that kind of karma is *definitely* going to make all the difference on Sunday!)
All I’ve got to do now is get in the money on both those tourneys on Sunday…
