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Update - about time too!!

November 26, 2008 on 11:32 pm | In General, Poker | No Comments

Gee has it been that long since I last posted!

I have been side tracked for the last 6 months on a model train project and this has all but reduced my poker playing to nil. Since my last update 7 months ago I have played in the Bigger Deal monthly tournament 4 times and three times I was card dead for most of the tournament and unfortunately I played too tight so when I did catch something then it was no big deal for the big stacks to call me. On the other occasion I actually won the tournament so I guess that sort of makes up for it albeit that my signed copy of Bigger Deal hasn’t turned up yet. I’ve got the book already so its not really a problem.

I had a phone call from Titan Poker last week who invited me to play in a Saturday freeroll which I did and I finished 151st out of 1548 players and frankly it was a stupid call on my behalf with a suited Q8 but it was against a player who had been going all in with low cards and playing good hands cagey so I though I may be in good shape. He had two lower cards sure enough … it was just a shame that one was a 7 and err so was the other!

I have another 6 Saturday special tokens in my account so I am going to try and do better next time I play that tournament but what is really exciting me is that I was also asked if I wanted to play in a ECOOP tournament which offers seats to the $1500 ECOOP III main event. There are 10 seats on offer so I thought why not. What I wasn’t told at the time though was that there are only 350 players invited to play into the tournament so I feel quite glad to be asked. That tourney is at the beginning of December so I will need to get myself up to speed before I play that one.

I am so far off my targets for this year that it is untrue BUT I have recently changed my job and I am now working a lot closer to home and I am close to a Rileys snooker club that have life poker games every week. If I don’t, therefore, break my live poker playing virginity by the new year then I will definately be joining the club and playing in the Monday night games in the new year so I think that I will be in good shape to do that and then play in their poker leagues.