Full Tilt Online Poker Series VI Packs a Punch
This quarter's
Full Tilt Online Poker Series VI was, once again, a resounding success. Full Tilt guaranteed $9,125,000 in combined prize pools across the series' 16 events, but the prize pools actually added up to almost $11.2 million, more than 120 percent of what Full Tilt had guaranteed. Five events had prize pools in excess of $1 million. The events lured a combined 27,511 entrants, and the 16 winners earned a combined $2.2 million.
The two biggest events - the $1.5 million-guaranteed, two-day $2,500 no-limit hold'em tournament and the $2 million-guaranteed, $500 no-limit hold'em main event - each awarded its winner about $400,000. Wuddacooler came out on top in the two-day event and fkscreennames took down the main event. See the full results of the
FTOPS VI below.
Chatbox Cunning
Strategy from top online pros
"Andy McLEOD"
On the continuation-bet:
I think it's about knowing how to proceed thereafter if you don't take the pot down on the flop. Likely the sickest online tournament player, Imper1um [Sorel Mizzi], continuation-bets almost every time. But he gets great reads on his opponents and doesn't just give up if his bet doesn't take down the pot, which it won't a lot of the time, especially since people are becoming increasingly more aggressive and more and more players are learning how to float [call with nothing as a setup to a bluff on a later street], and so on.
At lower stakes, I imagine the continuation-bet will still be effective, especially if it is a strong one, but at higher stakes, you definitely see some people overusing it, because they seem to give up the pot whenever it doesn't succeed on the flop.
On the most important thing that he has learned to take his game to the next level:
Probably the biggest thing for me was gaining an appreciation for table image. I've always been naturally aggressive, and in the beginning, I would just think I could run over every table that I played on and pretty much spew chips all over the place. People would call me down so light that I would be angry, thinking to myself, "How can you call me down with that?" when, in reality, the only player making a mistake was me. It's all about adapting to your table image, and once I realized that, I starting playing 10 times better.
Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron
On the most common leak that most entrants in large-field tournaments have:
There are so many. I'm trying to pick out one that is the most common. I'd say limping in with garbage from early position and ending up flopping a hand that they don't want to fold. I think the best advice for a lot of them is to play tighter preflop. Sure, a lot of the good players they see will be playing a loose preflop game, but that's because they can. They can get away with it because they know how to get away from hands, and they're really good at reading hands, whereas some of the worst players in the Sunday Million should really be playing a lot more straightforwardly preflop. They should be playing just really good hand values and folding suited connectors and small pairs in early position.
On whether he bluffs more in no-limit hold'em or pot-limit Omaha:
I think in PLO [pot-limit Omaha], at least at the higher stakes, you can get away with bluffing more, at least on the river, because most of the time the good PLO players are going to be trying to draw to the nuts or very powerful hands. So, it's a lot easier to represent a really strong hand, and people are going to be less likely to call you down with hands that don't beat the nuts or the second nuts. So, in a way, it's even easier to bluff in PLO, but you have to be playing against a player who is aware of the difference in strength of hands between PLO and no-limit hold'em.
