Tuesday, 29 November 2011

AA Versus The Mighty "Doyle Brunson Hand"

So with just a few PKR Points to play around with, I thought I'd buy a few cheap tickets to some of their "Phase" Tournies. These are fairly low buy-in affairs that play as a 10 man sit 'n' go; you get promoted or relegated between each "Phase" according to how you place (or totally eliminated if you do badly). The idea is to claw your way up to the final phase to get a chance to win a hundred dollars or two. With Phase 4 being just a $23.80 entry and Phase 5 (final phase) costing just $64.40 to buy-in direct, they're probably not bad value to enter directly at Phase 4 or 5 as a lot of micro-stakes casual players, who have worked their way up, perceive those tables to be the "dizzy heights" of poker. 

Unfortunately, they can sometimes take an age to fill up with those final stages rarely getting filled at off-peak times and rarely reaching a full table at the best of times either. You can even easily wait over an hour or two for the lower Phase levels to fill as well. Anyway, to cut a long story short, as my current balance is on zero, I thought I'd buy a few early stage tickets. Things have been going ok as I've just managed to progress from Phase 2 to Phase 3 and I've also got an extra Phase 3 ticket as well (value $8.90 x 2). A top two place at a Phase 2 game will promote you to Phase 3 so the result of this screenshot is irrelevant as far as results go but I thought I'd just plop it up as it shows my pocket rockets getting smashed by the might "Doyle Brunson" hand:



 

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