$2,100 Ticket and Food

I've had 4 days off poker, been in Bristol all weekend (Thur-Mon) and spent pretty much the whole time eating, eating and ..... eating. Before I took time off I managed to bink a $2,100 ticket in the Poker Stars Steps. I cba to play it atm as the only $2k steps that are running are to tourneys in Brazil and LA and I can't really drop everything and fly over at a weeks notice.



Therefore I've decided to wait for the SCOOPs as they have a number of $2k events and is probably a better shout for a decent return.

Food. As I've spent the weekend just going to the cinema and eating meals I figured I'll post some non-poker related pics...

ButterflyPrawns
Polette al Forno
BLT

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I LOVE FOOD !!!!!!

Deep Run in Grand Prix (12/810)

Just a quick post in regards to the DTD Grand Prix this past weekend. I ended up running fairly deep but busted just short of the final table in 12th from 810 runners. Was pretty gutting as was playing well and running well, peaked at 700k but a few pots proved costly and ended up busting after shoving KJ into KJ in which he made a flush.

Currently in the process of writing a Trip Report which will be live by the end of the week.

Cashed for about £800 but only had FTW on my mind.

T'was a good warm-up for the £560 UKIPT event in a few weeks :)

Trip report to follow within the next few days.

DTD Grand Prix Sells Out

Day 1a of the DTD Grand Prix kicks off today. At the weekend there were some worries that the guarantee wouldn't be met with only 300 or so buyins. However over the past few days buyins were rife and the event reached full capacity with 810 runners creating a prizepool of 81,000 euros.

With a modest buyin of 100euros I'm sure the event will be full of fish, therefore it'll be important to be patient and pick your spots. Theres no point rushing in all guns blazing trying to take down every pot as nothing ever suprises me in these types of events. One brief example is holding AA in a 3-bet pot pre, board comes down 568 and someone wakes up with 79o lol.

It'll be interesting to see how day 1a plays out, how many bust outs, average stack at the end of the day etc. It's a 10k starting stack on a 40min clock, so I'm sure by the end of the day there will be plenty of action. Unfortunately there is no dinner break in this event, it runs from 1pm to 12am with just a 15min break every 2 hours :(

Good luck to anyone playing and I'll post an update after the event.

Follow Me On Twitter

Due to a number of live tourneys coming up over the next month or two I'm going to try and use the ol' Twitter ! Feel free to follow me, click here or the nice little birdie below...

UKIPT Last Longer

If anyone is interested in a £30 last longer during UKIPT Nottingham then shoot on over to the thread on 2+2 and get involved...

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/65/mttc-live/ukipt-nottingham-feb-11th-14th-938459/index8.html#115

Rules

• The buy-in for the bet is £30.
• There will be an escrow for this bet, you can give bakinC00kies the money at the venue and he'll collect it and hand it out to the eventual winner.
• The winner of the bet will win the entire prize pool (winner-take-all).
• You can register for the bet up until one (1) hour before the scheduled start of day 1a, which will be 11:00 UK time; any registrations after that do not count.
• Once you're registered and play the event you're 'forced' to participate.
  

Brief post, I was going to assign an accompanying image but typing "last longer" into Google images didn't bring back the images I had in mind !

UKIPT Nottingham Schedule Released

The schedule was released for UKIPT Nottingham and I've now fully booked my accommodation. I was looking at the Hilton Spa and it was about £100 a night however when I checked this morning it was £48 a night inc breakfast. I therefore proceeded to snap call, I don't mind Travelodge when I have to but I usually pay about £30-£60 a night for that anyway so £48 a night for a hotel with a pool, spa, high speed internet and free parking and breakfast is ideal.

Anyway onto the schedule, it includes the main event which is split into 2x Day 1s, £100 and £300 side events and a £1,500 high roller (with a £100 sattelite prior to the tourney). All in all I think they've done well, it's now Fri-Mon as appose to Thur-Sun which I prefer and a good selection of side events.

I'm registered for Day 1a so if I bust can jump into the £100 side event. Also if I bust I'll have a days worth of grinding online/relaxing followed by the £300'er on Sat night and if I bust all of this I'll probably fire one bullet in the £100 High Roller Event.

Whenever I go to event I just shoot home as soon as I bust however this time I'm staying for the duration regardless. I put far to much emphasis on the main event and don't look any further than that. Therefore this will be my first full weekend of live poker in terms of playing solid from Fri-Mon.

http://www.ukipt.com/tournaments/nottingham/

Good Luck All.

Rush On Demand & Graphs

Over the past month or so I've been playing more and more of the ROD tourneys on Full Tilt. Basically once 45 players register for a ROD SnG the tourney fires up, late reg then remains open for 20mins or so. The majority of players like to wait for the 2nd or 3rd blind level so entries usually rise to between 150-300 players depending on the buyin.

As you've seen from previous posts I've won a few of these to date, they're fantastic fast pase tourneys and something a little different from the norm. I haven't really grinded them as such, simply thrown them into my MTT schedule whilst I've been playing.

I've played 155 of them so far and although a poor sample size it's just nice to take a look and see how I've been getting on. I've been jumping between the $12 and $26 tourneys giving me an average buyin of $16. Total profit in these 155 games to date is just over $2.5k.

I may consider putting together a post specifically about ROD strategy. A fellow GNF'er has done something similar which I feel is a great read, Rush On Demand Tournaments: A Love Hate Thing.

ROD graph below...


I'm currently on a -$500 downswing at the moment and have been well placed about 4 times with 2 tables left but fallen short at all times. This seems the norm for me as I've gone on a -$500 downswing four times over the past 150 games.

Talking of graphs, I'm thinking about getting back into the 18 mans. After speaking with Dann whos currently grinding them. It's a great way of getting VPPs and I'd like to try and get my account up to 15k FPPs to play one of the 9 man Pro SnGs for the craic. I think the winner walks away with about $1k and theres a $200 Pro Bounty on offer as well. Will probably jump between the $16 and $27 18 mans. Here is my current graph is the $16 and $27 18 mans at the moment...

I have the £100'er at DTD next weekend so looking forward to that as it'll be my first live event of 2011. This will be shortly followed by the team event I'm entering as part of GNF and then for the £500'er UKIPT at DTD, so it's going to be a busy few months for me pokerwise.

I'll also be playing the $216 FTOPS Rush On Demand Turbo event during the UKIPT. I'm playing Day 1a on the Friday and the Rush FTOPS on Sat night along with Gazika, we'll be splitting 20% of the Final Table if either of us manage to make it. I think we're both well versed in Rush strategy, so giving this a shot is a must. Lots of players will jump in just because it's an FTOPS so I'm sure there will be plenty of dead money.

Cheers.

2010 Review / 2011 Goals

Just a quick post on my 2010 pokerwise and my aims/goals for the new year.

2010 Review

Online
Online started out badly. I had a fantastic finish to 2009 cashing for just over $30k in the last 3 months of the year for spent the first few months of 2010 playing the high stakes MTTs ($55-$200) with minimal results. This was a learning curve and something I won't be doing again, to top it all off I failed to qualify for the £500 CBMPT event in Bristol so bought in :( Again, I shall not be doing this again in a hurry and was stupid for doing so. Although It didn't kill me financially I would class myself as dead money in the £500 event, I played very tight and just didn't/couldn't play my A-Game due to the fact I bought in direct with £500 hard cash (with no backing). Lol to buyin to £500 events comfortably I'd need a £100k role (200 bi BR Management rule) which I don't have.

With that said I refocused and started studying the game again and playing well. Some of my decent MTT results from 2010 are listed below:

* 1st out of 211 players ... $44 (4-Max) - $2,450
* 1st out of 320 players ... $27.50 (4-Max) - $1,750
* 1st out of 210 players ... $22 (Heads-Up) - $1,350
* 1st out of 308 players ... $22 (Big Antes) - $1,260
* 1st out of 307 players ... $22 (Big Antes) - $1,255
* 1st out of 248 players ... $12 (Rush) - $710
* 1st out of 233 players ... $12 (Rush) - $670

other results include...
* 52nd out of 1,573 players ... $640 (Party Million) - $2,600
* 4th out of 271 players ... $109 ($20k) - $2,300
* 23rd out of 4,691 players ... $215 (Sunday Warm-Up) - $2,300

So overall once I'd put the poor start to the year behind me it turned out to be a very consistent year in terms of results. As a part time player I'd now like to build on this in 2011 and start increasing my buyins and hopefully scores :D

Live
It turned out to be a poor year in terms of live events. I played 2x UKIPTs and 2x CBMPTs.

The first was the £200 CBMPT event in Bristol, I busted out with a boat. Flop came down J92, I was holding JJ. Turn was an A and river was a 9, we get it in on the river (which boated me up) but the lady I was up against had pocket 9s.

The £500 in Bristol didn't really warrent anything report worthy, as mentioned I bought in direct which rendered me dead money.

The UKIPT in Nottingham was a fun event and I made it deep into day 2. I got it in eventually preflop with pocket Queens against a serial raiser who held AK, A on the flop and game over 10 places short of the money.

UKIPT Coventry saw me bust late in day one, this time with me holiding AK against QQ and I failed to bink.

2011 has started well and I'm registered for the £100'er Grand Prix at Dusk Till Dawn, I also have 2x £500 UKIPT seats bagged for the event in Nottingham which allows me to realx a little.

2011 Goals
Basically I'll keep it simple...

• Add 2 live cashes to my Hendon Mob page.
• Go to Vegas during the WSOP Circuit and cash.
• Try and play/satty into a £1k+ live event.
• Get 2x five figures scores during the year.
  
• Cash for over $30,000 online.
• Play at least 1x Sunday Major a month.

The goals above are fairly moderate and I feel I can nail all of them this year. It's all relative when it comes to goals but the goals are based on playing 100-150 hours a month and playing 5-10 live events.

I haven't really started playing properly online this year, I had my first session online last night cashing for $400 for a 3rd place finish in a $75 45 Man on Tilt, as well as a few min cashes in the $12 rush tourneys but thats about it.

Let's Get Ready To Rumble.....

Let 2011 Begin !