won 1st in $11 rebuy tonight on my birthday =)

[No_Limit_Pro 0]

PokerStars Tournament #5121633, No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $10.00/$1.00332 playersTotal Prize Pool: $12610.00 Tournament started - 2005/02/08 - 01:30:00 (ET)Dear No_Limit_Pro, You finished the tournament in 1st place.A $3,152.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account.You earned 366.37 tournament leader points in this tournament....(time out)...i did cut a deal prior to the finish...but yes, i was determined this time to get first. No more fade out and idiot moves. I was going for it all. At one point, I was down to 500 chips near the end. I had 17,000 chips and went all in with Aces, and faced 77, which proceeded to hit a random straight. From then on, I won K10 vs K5 and did another double up on QQ and just played it straight from there. So final table. Final 2, I had about 720,000 chips, Gressy had 1,250,000,and we agreed on this deal.First was to payout $3152.50 and 2nd was to pay $2017.60and this is the discussion: No_Limit_Pro: can you tell us difference after that ellis?No_Limit_Pro: if i take 2525 evenHostEllis [support]: at the moment 2nd is guaranteed 2017.60HostEllis [support]: which difference do you mean?No_Limit_Pro: if i take $2525No_Limit_Pro: how much would gressy getHostEllis [support]: 2525 - 2645.13gressy bear: ok take 2520 its easierNo_Limit_Pro: ok finegressy bear: me 2650HostEllis [support]: 2520 -2650.13No_Limit_Pro: ill take 2520 evengressy bear: ok dealso that was that and tournament ended in me slow playing kings against his 107 when he hit the 10 as a top pair. For those that are curious, I did rebuy I believe 5x + intial buyin + addon= $71 invested, but the prize was pretty decent. What impressed me the most was my drive to settle for nothing but first and not give up after getting my aces cracked with only 500 chips when average stack was about 25,000. It took some luck and a whole lotta skill along the way but in the end, my 24th birthday was a very good one. Goodnight folks and good luck!

[KStrom 0]

Nicely done! happy birthday :-)

[MrConceit 0]

So final table. Final 2, I had about 720,000 chips, Gressy had 125,000,and we agreed on this deal.First was to payout $3152.50 and 2nd was to pay $2017.60and this is the discussion: No_Limit_Pro: can you tell us difference after that ellis?No_Limit_Pro: if i take 2525 evenHostEllis [support]: at the moment 2nd is guaranteed 2017.60HostEllis [support]: which difference do you mean?No_Limit_Pro: if i take $2525No_Limit_Pro: how much would gressy getHostEllis [support]: 2525 - 2645.13gressy bear: ok take 2520 its easierNo_Limit_Pro: ok finegressy bear: me 2650HostEllis [support]: 2520 -2650.13No_Limit_Pro: ill take 2520 evengressy bear: ok deal

That's awesome man. Total congrats on this.Though I do think it's odd you bothered to do a deal with such a huge chiplead and even if he got utterly lucky you still would have gotten 2k vs 3.1k. But hey, that deal part is utterly your perogative.Again, CONGRATS!

[hotdog da 2rd 0]

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY TOO!!!!i just made 1k at my reg. nl cash game. yuhoooooooooonothing like waiting up to money on ur birthday baby.can't wait for my free party, then in a couple days i'm off to LA for the commerce.i love my life.....sniff.....sniff..=]

[No_Limit_Pro 0]

he had 1.2 million chips to my 720,000, maybe that puts the deal in perspective. sorry for the error

[wrigleyN8 0]

I thought you told me you were taking the week off. Good decision to play. Congrats. See you on the tables

[Aburame Shino 0]

Two things:1. Happy Birthday!! :-) and2. Congrats on winning the tournament. Turning $71 into $2,520 is no easy thing to do.

[No_Limit_Pro 0]

was taking the week off and decided to play a tournament on my birthday for some fun basically and to go through the motions of making all the right decisions however I finish. thanks for all your support, see you at the final tables as usual wrigs

[poker_bull 0]

Congrats!Out of curiosity, if you were so confident in winning the tournament, why make a deal?

[blakalicious 0]

he didnt say he was confident, just that he was dedicated.. if i read it corectly

[No_Limit_Pro 0]

"Congrats! Out of curiosity, if you were so confident in winning the tournament, why make a deal?"- Glad you asked that question. At first I offered that I get 2900 and gressy get 2200 but figured that probably woudn't fly....however, it'd at least give me ground for negotiation. I was outchipped 1.25 mil to 720,000 which is 173% more chips than me roughly. I was being laid pretty well for that deal which was roughly 49% of the pot for having only about 37% of the chips on the table. As good as I felt and confident about the win, I didn't want to get unlucky and risk the $520 less for a 2nd place payout. As superior as my play was, a 720,000 to 1.25 mil chip count is still somewhat of a longshot to overcome. blinds were 40,000 on the big so a few steals and I'd be in bad shape. Overall, I really wouldn't have done the deal for less than $2500, but the deal was too good to turn down. The room was really going at it and trashing him, but I felt he made a good decision to make the deal too. On another note, after I knocked out some of the veterans and "The Seize", it seemed nobody there knew who I was because I never play enough to contend for the leaderboard points. They all seemed to put money on Gressy, who I felt was a severe underdog. However the 'stars veterans and big players rooted me on and cubshundley9 picked me as the horse the entire way from when i was down to 500 chips and when i was just clinging on with 2500. Was a good battle, but just very tiring :?

[MercyFlush 0]

I didn't even know you could make deals like this online :)good to know