WBCOOP 2012 Event #12 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo

Managed to bink another $5.50 SCOOP ticket in this tournament. Thats 3 x $5.50 and 1 x $22 SCOOP tickets from 6 events. Sweet.

WBCOOP Event #9 PLO Hi/Lo

Managed to bink another $5.50 SCOOP ticket in this to add to the 2 tickets already won.

That's 3 tickets out of 4 events.

Just as well these guys can write about poker, cos they sure as hell can't play it!!!   lol.

Go out with AA24 vs A2QQ

Board comes 77QK6  lol. Sick.

WBCOOP 2012 Event #7 Resumé

Well tbh this was a very uneventful tournament. Only hand of note was when on a 5c8s5d3d6c board I call a Russians bluff with A4 & was right. Ofc I gave a little needle telling him that I had "pwned another ruskie". He makes the fatal mistake of replying and getting involved in a discussion whereby he insists he isn't bothered that I had pwned him. Well he certainly was bothered 2 rounds later when I caught him at it again and knocked him out, lol.

Anyway ended up getting a bit short. SB had open shipped when folded to him for 3 rounds so I am just looking for a hand to catch him. I get KQ which is well ahead of his range & snap call his predicted shove. He has J9o. Window card is J then A and of course 4 bricks to follow, gg me finished 12th, so locked up a $22 SCOOP ticket.

WBCOOP Event #7 6-max NLH

Due to family visiting missed the 3 events  yesterday, particularly gutted to miss the 8-game, but a bottle of red wine ensured I was asleep on the sofa by 11pm.


Anyway today gonna give the 6-max a bash, not that I particularly like 6-max, but hey ho we'll see how it goes.

WBCOOP Event #3 Badugi

Ok guys you know the score. If you would like to rail the username is GiMac on PokerStars.

Damn just short of cashing in this one. Sigh.

WBCOOP EVent #2 PLO 6-Max

Ok so PLO 6-max it is. Bring it on!!!!

1st priority is to cash and get a ticket for the main event itself.   DONE!!!

2nd priority is to get as nice a SCOOP ticket as possible.   $5.50 SCOOP ticket obtained!!!!

Ok not bad for 1st event, ended up coming 93rd.

Now for the Badugi Tournament at 23:00.

Ok so the World Blogger Championship Of Online Poker 2012 starts today.

With 31 events in total it has loads of value. (note: If you cash in any of the 30 side events you get a free ticket to the Main Event which will have a $5k prizepool).


Up for grabs in every side event are SCOOP tickets from $5.5 up to $215.


With only 10 tickets per player, game choice here could be crucial. I am tempted to avoid the usual donkem No Limit Hold em tournies, where luck plays such a large part and concentrate where I have a bigger edge in the Pot Limit and Mixed games.


Unfortunately I am going to have to miss the first game this afternoon at 3pm which is a NLH, 10k chip start stack with 15 min clock tournie. Nice structure but work has to be done.

Tonight there is a PLO game at 7pm GMT and a Badugi game at 11pm GMT, so will decide later whether to play them or not.

What country do our PUBLIC SERVANTS work for?

Ok this is somewhat out of character, has no bearing on my immediate life or on my poker bankroll per se, so excuse me this rant, but this type of decision annoys me so much!!! It's being reported by the BBC here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17127488) that the MOD (ministry of defence) has awarded a contract worth upwards of £450m for 4 new tankers to be built. Now you would think in these austere times, like many other countries, especially the U.S., Germany and France, that the MOD would look at the bigger picture and not just the immediate cost of the contract, but the associated benefits savings to the exchequer, along with additionally generated tax receipts, etc, and award the contract to a UK company, but no they go and award the contract to a country on the other side of the world!!!! Apparently £150m of "associated contracts" have been awarded to UK companies, but we shouldn't be fed breadcrumbs with the loaf going to a foreign company, should we not be looking after our own? These same public servants will no doubt be out on strike again soon, and will no doubt yet again be asking private sector workers to support their action. No doubt they will, once again, be upset and confused when the private sector says bugger off. Are public sector workers that far removed from reality that they will again question why????

Teenagers

I know I am not the first parent to think this and I almost certainly will not be the last, but why do teenagers either think they know it all, think their friends know it all or think their teachers, at least I was told this spotty geek fresh out of teacher training college was a fully fledged teacher, know it all? I know when I was a teenager I thought I knew it all and my fuddy duddy Dad who had a sensible 9-5 job didn't have a clue about the real world in the 80's, but then that was the 80's, and my Dad was a bit fuddy duddy, this is the 21st century man and I ain't in any way fuddy duddy, am I? Now to let the thought that I might in some small way be considered fuddy duddy is a little bit like admitting that I am getting old & at 43 there is no way I am ready to admit to that, so I return to my original question of why do teenagers think they know best, sigh.

WBCOOP 2012

Well it's that time of year again & the annual pilgrimage to PokerStars.com for the World Bloggers Championship of Online Poker.

This years 1st prize for the best blogger is $5000 and PokerStars would like to now what we would do with it if we won it.

Well for me it is simple. I used to have a bankroll I used specifically for playing online satellites into major events, and I was lucky enough to win seats to major UK and international events, including GUKPT's, European Deep Stack Champs, APT & APPT Main events, & several other large tournaments which would ordinarily be well outwith my normal bankroll level. Unfortunately, due to the recession, I had to use the money in this bankroll for general living expenses & therefore I no longer have this roll.

I remember the experience of qualifying for the European Deep Stack Championships in it's inaugural year, and while I took a horrible beat when getting it all in on the turn with top set vs an overpair+gutshot and he rivered the gutshot, the overall experience of playing in a 50k starting chips 1hr clock deep stack event was fantastic and coming 5th in the PLO side event, which was 20k starting chips, with 1hr clock, was just plainly awesome. When I think it cost me a few dollars to play in that event & the experience of travelling to Ireland, meeting loads of "pros", it just brings home how valuable having that satellite bankroll was. Another instance would be the fact that it cost me all of $55 to travel half way round the word and play in the $1m gtd APT main event in Manila. With $2500 traveling expenses and the $2500 buy in covered by the package I won, the main event was guaranteed at a prize pool of $1m and I was extremely happy with the way I played again. Once again a horrible bad beat after shoving all in on a 457 rainbow flop with pocket jacks only for some rich fish to call me with A8 and river his gutshot draw. But I keep telling myself all I can do is get it in good and hope the other player doesn't get lucky.

Whilst my blog might not now be the best or funniest or most followed blog in the world, $5k 1st prize for best blogger would be a fantastic way to develop my blog by using the $5k to satellite into major events across the world and have followers follow my experiences as I blogged my way of "living the dream".

So if I was to get the $5k it would be used to create a new satellite bankroll, to enable me to again play in these higher level events, where I would once again blog the experiences & outcomes as they happened. Hopefully this time the elusive major bink will come my way and I will be able to blog the success and hopefully give some readers the insight into how it is possible for us mere mortals to bink big if given the chance. Because, like the title of my blog says, I'd rather be lucky than good.

APAT National League on PokerStars.com

Awesome news this week with the announcement of the APAT National League!!! 13 Regions from all over, including Scotland, Wales, Ireland, North East, North West, South East, South West, Europe, etc etc will be taking part in a 15 week league. So every Sunday from March 11th onwards, I will be found playing for Scotland on www.pokerstars.com








Anyone wishing to register can go here to choose their team & register their usernames at http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?board=109.0

Way to go Des and the crew at APAT for pulling off yet another value packed series of games & with 5k starting stack and 15min clock, let the cream rise to the top!!!

Goodbye 2011 and hello 2012

Well 2011 was pretty uneventful. Apart from working to scrape a mediocre living during the recession, poker had to take a bit of a back seat. I managed to do a $50 challenge where I built $50 up to $2k and that took most of the year, lol. Anyway hopefully with the worst of the recession behind us and work settling down a bit 2012 will be a little more poker orientated.

I have started the year by taking onboard some poker coaches and hopefully their help with SNG strategy will bear fruit. Fingers crossed.

I've also joined Team Blue Blood, with added value leagues etc from Blue Square.

The APAT National league has been announced too so Sundays from March 11th onwards on PokerStars, I will be found playing for Scotland.

The PokerStars WBCOOP is coming soon in March, and hopefully I will be allowed to enter again.

At some point in the year I hope to be able to play a couple of UKIPT and GUKPT events, but we'll have to see.

Anyway, it may be a bit late but all the best for 2012 and lets do some damage!!!