I'm not out in Vegas for the WSOP and I really wish I was as it must be incredible, the highlight of a poker players year. Let's hope DUPS representative James Keys can ship something massive, wearing somebody elses bracelet will be enough to keep me satisfied until I get a chance to have a go next year!
Still, Vegas in September is looking more likely which will be a class consolation. Hopefully a decent DUPS crowd can turn out, and surely within one of us there will be a massive score or something successful! One time, plssssss! Flights and hotel deals are ridiculously cheap and represent sick value, which as a poker player can't be turned down. It's a proud time for me when my girlfriend buys food or drink at a price which represents the best value, especially so when we both know it will be wasted but the value is too good to be turned down. Who knew poker had so many benefits to everyday life!
Mention must go to Ptevey who basically fulfilled my aims from my last post and shipped a big score in a live event, sick player who is simply a poker genius and hopefully this is the start of a great live career for him if he can spare the time! I'm already keen to speculate with my offline bankroll in live events and this score has simply encouraged me further. Gamble's amazing 2 minors in his first driving test (which judging by his dealing were almost certainly for hesitation) has also hammered home the need to drive as well, and with a car and a pair of nuts, I should be able to get in contention for big things!
Online I have only managed a few sessions, but they have gone well, winning around $1k. A two hour session of around $110 profit ended well when I shipped a $115 4-man to bring in $440 overall, and I played for around three hours yesterday, winning $420. As is to be expected/deserved, I'm still running so bad in every tournie I play, so challenging on OPR looks a long way off at the minute!
For anybody who reads, cheers, and I realise it's not always interesting!! I'm practically handicapped on a computer, so I will learn how to include pictures, HH's etc which will hopefully be interesting. For now, I will look for a cheesy pun/riddle to end my posts!
147
"A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it."
Saturday 13 June 2009
Saturday 6 June 2009
Growing up?! (surely not!?) and shotgun the fame!!
To ensure this is a short post, I'm starting writing it on the train in the time it takes to get from Darlington to Durham, so this won't be another marathon!
It's obv been ages, as exams have been the order of the day! Think overall they were average, with one absolute shocker which will probably be bad enough to bring me down to a 2:2. Very annoying and would signal a disappointing ROI from Uni when a couple of extra marks would be great, such a fine line but I think my apathetic approach will probably result in a failure...meh nvm, there's always poker right?!
On the poker front, I've not been able to play and make the most of the fantastic new additions to Stars. FIRST OFF, A REMATCH BUTTON....boomtown, this should hopefully bring huge increases in profit if I can coax the fish into playing another game, and I'm currently working out the perfect strategy to reel them in...might start giving it in the chat box or drop to any depths to get them to continue donating...is that really any worse than going in to law anyways?!? But, yeah that's sick, and the extra VPP's I can get from playing through their new scheme should be very nice. I have only played 4 times in the last few months but made 1240VPPs on their new rates, so Supernova for the year should be very achieveable and would help me next year to continue to make a form of Stars rakeback. So yeah, that's looking pretty good, and whilst I will have to work my way back into it a bit, I'm looking forward to it. Alongside heads up, I'm going to play more tournaments or devise a sort of schedule of events. I should be able to combine heads up with tournies and want to make strides in my tournament game.
I will also finally start to drive after I graduate, so when I'm on the road I'll hit the casinos more and get some more practice in with a view to play GUKPT sats and hopefully events if things go well. I haven't written any form of structured approach down yet but I want to start cracking the live value, continue working on the online value and try to be as professional as I can. I want to get some live experience with a view of giving Vegas a shot...I want to be out there, trying to win, enjoying the lifestyle, and lapping it up!
I have always struggled more at times with poker when I don't have an aim, so alongside specific win-rate aims I will set I will aim to become famous(!!!), and this will come about in poker terms at least if I can become one of the best and win big online and then afford to play and win live events...I want this, I would love the lifestyle, so I'm going to put my all in to see how this goes!! Such a pipedream probably, but hopefully will give me some focus, and all it takes is to run good once! SHOTGUN that time!!
It's obv been ages, as exams have been the order of the day! Think overall they were average, with one absolute shocker which will probably be bad enough to bring me down to a 2:2. Very annoying and would signal a disappointing ROI from Uni when a couple of extra marks would be great, such a fine line but I think my apathetic approach will probably result in a failure...meh nvm, there's always poker right?!
On the poker front, I've not been able to play and make the most of the fantastic new additions to Stars. FIRST OFF, A REMATCH BUTTON....boomtown, this should hopefully bring huge increases in profit if I can coax the fish into playing another game, and I'm currently working out the perfect strategy to reel them in...might start giving it in the chat box or drop to any depths to get them to continue donating...is that really any worse than going in to law anyways?!? But, yeah that's sick, and the extra VPP's I can get from playing through their new scheme should be very nice. I have only played 4 times in the last few months but made 1240VPPs on their new rates, so Supernova for the year should be very achieveable and would help me next year to continue to make a form of Stars rakeback. So yeah, that's looking pretty good, and whilst I will have to work my way back into it a bit, I'm looking forward to it. Alongside heads up, I'm going to play more tournaments or devise a sort of schedule of events. I should be able to combine heads up with tournies and want to make strides in my tournament game.
I will also finally start to drive after I graduate, so when I'm on the road I'll hit the casinos more and get some more practice in with a view to play GUKPT sats and hopefully events if things go well. I haven't written any form of structured approach down yet but I want to start cracking the live value, continue working on the online value and try to be as professional as I can. I want to get some live experience with a view of giving Vegas a shot...I want to be out there, trying to win, enjoying the lifestyle, and lapping it up!
I have always struggled more at times with poker when I don't have an aim, so alongside specific win-rate aims I will set I will aim to become famous(!!!), and this will come about in poker terms at least if I can become one of the best and win big online and then afford to play and win live events...I want this, I would love the lifestyle, so I'm going to put my all in to see how this goes!! Such a pipedream probably, but hopefully will give me some focus, and all it takes is to run good once! SHOTGUN that time!!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)