PokerStars is kicking off WCOOP Extreme Satellites on August 4th for their upcoming online tournament series. They’re added hundreds of seats on top of the satellite prize pools. For example, 100 T$109 seats will be added to their August 4th satellite ($7.50 buy-in) hosted at 2pm ET 8/04, pretty awesome value.
Full Tilt’s FTOPS XIII starts Wednesday August 5th with a $216 buy-in for Event 1. MiniFTOPS starts September 9th with 25 events scheduled at 1/10th the buy-in of FTOPS events. I haven’t played many FTOPS events in the past and don’t plan to play any this time around either. I may sit in a few MiniFTOPS events tho.
Bodog recently bumped up the buy-in of their 100k Guaranteed tournament held every Sunday at 4pm EST. Even with the higher buy-in there was still a 27k overlay. Unfortunately, they’re not running 25 seat guaranteed satellites anymore. They’re 10 seats guaranteed now making it harder to satellite in. So I haven’t played the 100k since they bumped the buy-in. I’ll still try to sat in occasionally. Unfortunately they also lowered the guarantees on many other tournaments and removed some altogether. I’m sure this is having an negative effect on their traffic. I haven’t spent much time there since these changes were introduced.
There’s no 750k during FTOPS so I’ll be playing other sats instead. I was a little burned out from the satellite challenge the previous week and only won 8 seats to the 750k last week.
Other news, I noticed one of the front tires on my Audi was almost bald. They’re Pirelli P6’s and I’ve burnt through two sets like crayons since I’ve owned my TT. It’s only got 53k miles. I shopped around a bit online and decided to put some all-season tires on this time around. I ordered Goodyear Eagle GT’s to replace the P6′s. They got a lot of positive reviews and should arrive for installation Wednesday. Man I hate having to pay for shit like that. But I also don’t like sitting on the side of a road with a blowout or worse, get in an accident because of it.
Go out and check your tires before summer’s over, stay safe.
Hahah…reP600s on an old GTI of mine, and I gotta say, the grip is awesome but they wear for shit.
I keep meaning to ask. Now that you have your own web site, how do you like it? Is it that much better than blogspot? What’s better about it?
I had to replace a couple of tires due to nails/road hazard type crap. I would rather find out I needed help a couple of blocks away at the tire shop rather than in the middle of nowhere.
Good thoughts!
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