O Doyle's Army - WE WANT YOU!

[O Doyle Rules]

Hi All,

With the interest I had received about my 120K hands challenge here at your forum, I thought the posters here might have an interest in what I am up to now. Here's a link at two plus two explaining it all:

(To the talking poker guy, if this is against the rules I apologize and please delete if that is the case. )

[O Doyle Rules]

I forgot to mention I will be glad to answer any questions you may have here in regards to this as well.

[omahilo]

How did you end up doing in the Main event? Did you play any other events and how did you do in those?

[O Doyle Rules]

I went out the first day of the Main Event. I felt my table was tougher than average due to the fact I was playing with the same 9 people I started the tourney with eight hours later! At that time there had been over 40 other tables broken up.

At my table was Marco Traniello. (Jennifer Harmon's husband) He had 7 cashes in this year's WSOP. ALso at my table was Dutch Boyd's little brother. One other pro at my table was the girl from poker-babe.com.

Hand I went out on right before the fifth level was up:

I am in the Big Blind and pick up to two black tens. Everyone folds around to the cutoff who raises 3x the blind (600). I am down to about 2.5k in chips at this time so I decide to raise all in. He thinks for along time and says he knows he's way behind but calls. He turns over Q9 of diamonds. Flops comes all blanks and I am now an 85% favorite. Turn comes blank - 93% to win. Of course the Q shows up on the river and I say goodbye!

I played in event # 44 with the talking poker guy. We were at the same table for a little bit. Nice guy. I fared a little better in that one. Got down to the final 13 tables. (9 tables paid) Pretty much just went card dead for the last two hours. Hand I went out: AK of hearts v. 66.

Thanks for the interest!

[ChipFish]

I'm interested.
Check PMs Odoyle..

[omahilo]

5600 people in the main event and you draw that table... very tough table considering all the people.

Marco was on fire at this yrs WSOP and Dutch's bro is a above average player.

Nice run tho... I couldnt imagine playing 120K hands in that amount of time.

As long as you had fun in Vegas it had to be well worth it.

[Talking Poker]

Hey O'Doyle...

I haven't reasd the 50,000 replies to your 2+2 post (that's one of the reasons I like this forum - I can actually keep up with it), but I did read your original post, and I think it's a great idea. It will depend on the fine print, of course, but I'm definitely interested, so please keep me (and this forum) in the loop.

I took a few photos of Rob Boyd on Day 1... I don't see you in any of the pics, but you probably saw me taking them and didn't even realize it was me

[Talking Poker]

P.S. Feel free to call me TP (like everyone else), or even "Mark" now that the secret is out. "The Talking Poker guy" just sounds so formal!

[2Tone]

I think this is terrific –there’s no doubt that a collection of high volume players have enough clout to warrant serious attention from sites. It is interesting to see if this takes the form of WSOP/WPT tie-ins. Other efforts have proved less successful – for example, pokerchamps is essentially offering any player 50% rake back, and is geared towards those looking to multitable. And yet it doesn’t seem to have much traction.

[O Doyle Rules]

Hey thanks for all the interest here. It's appreciated. I am hopeful that this will fly and if it does it will only benefit all online players even if they are not "in the army".

I will post here as the situation progresses. I now have had over 70 high volume players express an interest in just this short of time.

Talk to you all later..

O Doyle

[2Tone]

Check it out ...


Not a good deal for me, as I'd rather have my rake back in cash, but interesting none the less.