Justin Thorne - 24000
Ricky - 17000
Dave C - 15000
Whipp - 13000
Alan Mason - 10000
Sox - 9000
Nigel - 7000
Gordon - 7000
Roger - 2000
Sunday, 22 August 2010
Friday, 6 August 2010
FULL TILT LEAGUE
Here's how things stand for the final play off in a few weeks (still two chances to win a place)
AnteVirus Thorne - 15,000 chips
Ricky - 10,000 chips
Dave C - 9000 chips
Whipp - 8000 chips
Nigel - 7ooo chips
Alan - 5000 chips
Soxy - 3000 chips
Roger - 2000 chips
Danny 5 Dicks - 1000 chips
AnteVirus Thorne - 15,000 chips
Ricky - 10,000 chips
Dave C - 9000 chips
Whipp - 8000 chips
Nigel - 7ooo chips
Alan - 5000 chips
Soxy - 3000 chips
Roger - 2000 chips
Danny 5 Dicks - 1000 chips
Sunday, 18 July 2010
FULL TILT MADRID LEAGUE
Every Friday in July through August, we are running heats to win a trip to play in the Full Tilt Espana Series. The winner will be off to Madrid and the CASINO GRAN to play in the 1500 buy-in tournament.
So far the final table looks like this:
Justin Thorne - 8000 chips
Alan Mason - 5000 chips
Nigel Holliday - 4000 chips
Dave Corbel - 4000 chips
Gary Whipp - 4000 chips
Roger - 2000 chips
Soxy - 2000 chips
Ricky - 1000 chips
Still 4 heats left, so plenty of time to pick up points and make it onto the final table. We pay 5 points for a win, down to 1 point for 5th.
We multiply players' points by 1000 for starting stacks on the final table/s and any player with 2000 chips qualifies to take part, not just the top ten!
See you at the tables...
jT
So far the final table looks like this:
Justin Thorne - 8000 chips
Alan Mason - 5000 chips
Nigel Holliday - 4000 chips
Dave Corbel - 4000 chips
Gary Whipp - 4000 chips
Roger - 2000 chips
Soxy - 2000 chips
Ricky - 1000 chips
Still 4 heats left, so plenty of time to pick up points and make it onto the final table. We pay 5 points for a win, down to 1 point for 5th.
We multiply players' points by 1000 for starting stacks on the final table/s and any player with 2000 chips qualifies to take part, not just the top ten!
See you at the tables...
jT
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
New Poker Room in Jersey!
Always happy to see new homes for poker popping-up in Jersey so I was delighted to see Park View Poker Club opening its doors recently.
I particularly like it when a club is dedicated to poker and not just a large space filled with poker tables dragged up from a basement.
Park View is for cash games only and is open to the public 5 nights a week, usually from 7:30pm until the wee hours of the next morning, and sometimes, right through to the following night!
My mate, Dan the Dragon is running things and as a player first, he has converted the room into a state of the art den for the serious player, and has even had a table custom built.
Dan likes to do things a little bit differently and likes to pay attention to the detail and is offering free food (he is an amazing chef and used to run one of the premiere Chinese restaurant kitchens over here) hot drinks and soft drinks all night and even offers a free pick-up and drop-off service after 1am.
There is always a dealer when the poker room is open and there is a separate area for smokers, which is good news for me as I couldn't stand the days of smoky poker dives!
Another nice little touch, is the free Internet Area and the club will soon be offering e-Gaming with a live dealer - I have no idea how that works but I am intrigued and will check it out.
So, get yourself to the Park View Poker Club and check it out, you don't even have to play, just let Dan know you are coming, pop in and have a look around and if you are lucky, you may even get some grub!
CLICK HERE for more info...
This Friday at Club 72, we're running the May Madness £20 Re-Buy Tournament with Jackpot first hand! Cards in the air at 7PM SHARP!
See you at the tables...
jT
I particularly like it when a club is dedicated to poker and not just a large space filled with poker tables dragged up from a basement.
Park View is for cash games only and is open to the public 5 nights a week, usually from 7:30pm until the wee hours of the next morning, and sometimes, right through to the following night!
My mate, Dan the Dragon is running things and as a player first, he has converted the room into a state of the art den for the serious player, and has even had a table custom built.
Dan likes to do things a little bit differently and likes to pay attention to the detail and is offering free food (he is an amazing chef and used to run one of the premiere Chinese restaurant kitchens over here) hot drinks and soft drinks all night and even offers a free pick-up and drop-off service after 1am.
There is always a dealer when the poker room is open and there is a separate area for smokers, which is good news for me as I couldn't stand the days of smoky poker dives!
Another nice little touch, is the free Internet Area and the club will soon be offering e-Gaming with a live dealer - I have no idea how that works but I am intrigued and will check it out.
So, get yourself to the Park View Poker Club and check it out, you don't even have to play, just let Dan know you are coming, pop in and have a look around and if you are lucky, you may even get some grub!
CLICK HERE for more info...
This Friday at Club 72, we're running the May Madness £20 Re-Buy Tournament with Jackpot first hand! Cards in the air at 7PM SHARP!
See you at the tables...
jT
Sunday, 7 March 2010
Stats geek!
I'm running so bad at the moment in the cash game or at least it feels like I am... It actually highlights the importance of tracking your game if you want to take poker seriously. Nobody likes having a mirror held-up in front of them but in poker, you need to know if you are a winning player and if you aren't, you need to know where your holes are so you can fill them.
I track every game I play in and I mean every game. When I get home, no matter how late it is, I record my buy-in, what I have won or lost and I often take notes if I have made a bad play or picked up something on a player I play against regularly.
In live games, we don't have the benefit of Shark Scope or Poker Tracker so we don't have the luxury of knowing how we are doing and what hands are +EV or -EV. Imagine if you could access every hand you played in live games and then click a few buttons to find out how often Ace, 10 suited paid off for you?
It ain't gonna happen and of course in the live game, we have so many other inputs other than betting patterns, pot odds or the basic maths of our own hands. But it is important to decide what you want from poker... is it pure entertainment for you, does it boost your monthly income, or is it a business? It helps to be honest, but I am often amazed at how poker players simply refuse to even answer that question and they certainly don't or can't tell you if they are winning players.
I won't get into the cash value of the figures but this is how I have been doing the last few years:
2008
In the cash games, mostly the pomme and The Vic in London, I ended the year making 20% from the cash I put on the table. Even then, I didn't see many bank accounts offering that kind of return. I won (ended up with more money than I sat down with) 46% of the time. Biggest win was £1600 and biggest loss was £890.
In tournaments, I was down 27% but final tabled 57% of the time and cashed 24% of the time.
2009
In the cash games (and I broadened my playing everywhere from Vegas to the Caribbean) I made 37% on the money I put onto the tables. Owning a share in my own poker club meant I was playing up to 3 times a week so I am happy that my return increased year on year. I won 55% of the time, another trend I want to increase. My biggest win was £1405 and my biggest lost was easily over £2000 (in Bulgaria against the local mafia!)
In tournaments, I made 28%, which is almost the exact opposite of the previous year (where I lost 27% of my buy-in bankroll). That made me happy, as whilst tournaments are never going to earn as much as cash games unless you win a big one, I wanted to improve without effecting my cash game too much. I final tabled 72% of the time, cashed 38% of the time and won 11% of the tournaments I played in.
2010
So far this year, I have won 60% of the time in cash games, but I am down 12% due to a couple of big losses. Not a great start, but if I maintain my winning percentage, I know I can get back into the black.
In tournaments, I have final tabled 56% of the time and cashed 44% of the time. I've won 22% of the time, so that's not bad.
So am I really running bad at the moment? Not really... I am down and lost more than I would have liked in one sitting but the hands where I lost, I either had the best hand when the money went in, or gave a player a tough decision to make for all their chips with a semi-bluff or slightly worse hand at the time.
The cash game seems to be crazy wherever you go at the moment, with players in the hand purely because the pots are big.
Example.
I make it £17 to go with pocket Queens and get three callers before a fourth player raises it up to £50 (which is all his chips at the time.)
The pot is £107 when it gets back to me.
I make it an additional £150 on top of the £33 to call the re-raiser.
This puts £290 in the pot. Villain 1 tanks for 5 minutes and eventually throws his £60 or so into a side pot, boosting the pot to £350 or so.
Villain 2 announces that he now has to call as he is getting value... what? He has to call £183 to win £350, which ain't even 2 - 1 !!!
I show my Queens and this is what I am up against:
Villain 1 - K, 5 suited... yes, King, 5 suited!
Villain 2 who was calling for value - Ace, Jack offsuit
Re-Raiser shows pocket 10s.
I say out loud that I know my hand is doomed.
Flop:
10, 7, Ace
Turn
3
River
Jack
Brilliant, I have the third best hand and win a side pot of £4.
About three hands later I hit two pair with Jack, 10 against two King rags who flopped a King, with one card to come. Another King comes on the river and they share my chips.
The important thing is to look at the stats, note where mistakes were made and keep playing if financially feasible! I am lucky in that I can take a bit of a hit thanks to the bankroll I have built up over the last few years. Tilting... YES! Running bad... NO!!!
See you at the tables...
jT
I track every game I play in and I mean every game. When I get home, no matter how late it is, I record my buy-in, what I have won or lost and I often take notes if I have made a bad play or picked up something on a player I play against regularly.
In live games, we don't have the benefit of Shark Scope or Poker Tracker so we don't have the luxury of knowing how we are doing and what hands are +EV or -EV. Imagine if you could access every hand you played in live games and then click a few buttons to find out how often Ace, 10 suited paid off for you?
It ain't gonna happen and of course in the live game, we have so many other inputs other than betting patterns, pot odds or the basic maths of our own hands. But it is important to decide what you want from poker... is it pure entertainment for you, does it boost your monthly income, or is it a business? It helps to be honest, but I am often amazed at how poker players simply refuse to even answer that question and they certainly don't or can't tell you if they are winning players.
I won't get into the cash value of the figures but this is how I have been doing the last few years:
2008
In the cash games, mostly the pomme and The Vic in London, I ended the year making 20% from the cash I put on the table. Even then, I didn't see many bank accounts offering that kind of return. I won (ended up with more money than I sat down with) 46% of the time. Biggest win was £1600 and biggest loss was £890.
In tournaments, I was down 27% but final tabled 57% of the time and cashed 24% of the time.
2009
In the cash games (and I broadened my playing everywhere from Vegas to the Caribbean) I made 37% on the money I put onto the tables. Owning a share in my own poker club meant I was playing up to 3 times a week so I am happy that my return increased year on year. I won 55% of the time, another trend I want to increase. My biggest win was £1405 and my biggest lost was easily over £2000 (in Bulgaria against the local mafia!)
In tournaments, I made 28%, which is almost the exact opposite of the previous year (where I lost 27% of my buy-in bankroll). That made me happy, as whilst tournaments are never going to earn as much as cash games unless you win a big one, I wanted to improve without effecting my cash game too much. I final tabled 72% of the time, cashed 38% of the time and won 11% of the tournaments I played in.
2010
So far this year, I have won 60% of the time in cash games, but I am down 12% due to a couple of big losses. Not a great start, but if I maintain my winning percentage, I know I can get back into the black.
In tournaments, I have final tabled 56% of the time and cashed 44% of the time. I've won 22% of the time, so that's not bad.
So am I really running bad at the moment? Not really... I am down and lost more than I would have liked in one sitting but the hands where I lost, I either had the best hand when the money went in, or gave a player a tough decision to make for all their chips with a semi-bluff or slightly worse hand at the time.
The cash game seems to be crazy wherever you go at the moment, with players in the hand purely because the pots are big.
Example.
I make it £17 to go with pocket Queens and get three callers before a fourth player raises it up to £50 (which is all his chips at the time.)
The pot is £107 when it gets back to me.
I make it an additional £150 on top of the £33 to call the re-raiser.
This puts £290 in the pot. Villain 1 tanks for 5 minutes and eventually throws his £60 or so into a side pot, boosting the pot to £350 or so.
Villain 2 announces that he now has to call as he is getting value... what? He has to call £183 to win £350, which ain't even 2 - 1 !!!
I show my Queens and this is what I am up against:
Villain 1 - K, 5 suited... yes, King, 5 suited!
Villain 2 who was calling for value - Ace, Jack offsuit
Re-Raiser shows pocket 10s.
I say out loud that I know my hand is doomed.
Flop:
10, 7, Ace
Turn
3
River
Jack
Brilliant, I have the third best hand and win a side pot of £4.
About three hands later I hit two pair with Jack, 10 against two King rags who flopped a King, with one card to come. Another King comes on the river and they share my chips.
The important thing is to look at the stats, note where mistakes were made and keep playing if financially feasible! I am lucky in that I can take a bit of a hit thanks to the bankroll I have built up over the last few years. Tilting... YES! Running bad... NO!!!
See you at the tables...
jT
Sunday, 21 February 2010
FRIDAY FREEZEOUT
Congrats to Gazza for taking down the £50 Freezeout on Friday. We had 21 players contesting the £2K pot.
Kev took the challenge and made a showing, drawn out of retirement for a 'freezeout'. He got unlucky after limp shoving with AK when Nigel raised in the big blind. Unfortunately for Kev, Nigel was sitting on AA... must be nice!
I went out when my 99 hit Leigh's AA. Bullets flying all over the place!
This Friday we are running the super satellite to Sunday's £150 Deepstack Freezeout! The prizepool will be used to pay for seats to Sunday only and the club is also adding 4 extra seats.
Tuesday is cash game as normal.
See you at the tables...
jT
Kev took the challenge and made a showing, drawn out of retirement for a 'freezeout'. He got unlucky after limp shoving with AK when Nigel raised in the big blind. Unfortunately for Kev, Nigel was sitting on AA... must be nice!
I went out when my 99 hit Leigh's AA. Bullets flying all over the place!
This Friday we are running the super satellite to Sunday's £150 Deepstack Freezeout! The prizepool will be used to pay for seats to Sunday only and the club is also adding 4 extra seats.
Tuesday is cash game as normal.
See you at the tables...
jT
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
MIXING THINGS UP ON FRIDAYS AND INTRODUCING THE SUPER SATELLITE!!!
It's going to be a good year for tournament fans and cash game players alike.
We are going to keep running the monthly £150 DEEPSTACK FREEZEOUTS but only run one super satellite on the Friday before. This month's will be on a Sunday (see schedule >>>) but next month we are going to try a Saturday to see how that works.
We will mix things up on the other Fridays, sometimes running re-buys and sometimes £50 freezeouts and we will even put on some of the popular FISH HOOK POKER SERIES.
This Friday, we're running a £50 FREEZEOUT with optional £50 ADD-ON at the break. This means you have to last an hour in order to buy additional chips. 10,000 starting chips and an extra 10,000 at the break.
See you at the tables...
We are going to keep running the monthly £150 DEEPSTACK FREEZEOUTS but only run one super satellite on the Friday before. This month's will be on a Sunday (see schedule >>>) but next month we are going to try a Saturday to see how that works.
We will mix things up on the other Fridays, sometimes running re-buys and sometimes £50 freezeouts and we will even put on some of the popular FISH HOOK POKER SERIES.
This Friday, we're running a £50 FREEZEOUT with optional £50 ADD-ON at the break. This means you have to last an hour in order to buy additional chips. 10,000 starting chips and an extra 10,000 at the break.
See you at the tables...
Friday, 8 January 2010
Monday, 7 December 2009
XMAS £3000 GUARANTEED DEEPSTACK!
Whoop whoop!
The Xmas £150 DEEPSTACK FREEZEOUT is next Sunday (13th) at 3pm.
18 players have already won their seats and with the money added from Uncover Poker, we already have over £3000 in the prizepool... awesome.
Poker has been a mixed bag for me this month. I have just moved house and so money is tighter that usual so I am trying to be disciplined with my bankroll management.
Lord Whipp and I were in Bulgaria earlier in the month and we found a sick game in a casino in Sofia - dealer's choice, either NLH 10/20 or Pot Limit Omaha 5/10. Luckily I won the night before in London at the Vic because I lost about 2 large. Whippet smashed the table up hitting straight flushes and quads... the local mafia were NOT happy!
The night before the Pomme's big one (£300 Freezeout) I got hammered on wine and JD whilst playing in the £50 Deepstack at Planet Pool and somehow I managed to win it.
The next day I was very, very rough but managed to hold on until 11th place before my AK got buggered by the Beast's JJ, which turned into a lovely full house for him.
Oh well, won my seat into the £3000 on Sunday. I held a healthy chip lead for most of the night, especially when Dougie picked a spot to bluff off all his chips when I was sat on Quads... oops!
See you at the tables...
The Xmas £150 DEEPSTACK FREEZEOUT is next Sunday (13th) at 3pm.
18 players have already won their seats and with the money added from Uncover Poker, we already have over £3000 in the prizepool... awesome.
Poker has been a mixed bag for me this month. I have just moved house and so money is tighter that usual so I am trying to be disciplined with my bankroll management.
Lord Whipp and I were in Bulgaria earlier in the month and we found a sick game in a casino in Sofia - dealer's choice, either NLH 10/20 or Pot Limit Omaha 5/10. Luckily I won the night before in London at the Vic because I lost about 2 large. Whippet smashed the table up hitting straight flushes and quads... the local mafia were NOT happy!
The night before the Pomme's big one (£300 Freezeout) I got hammered on wine and JD whilst playing in the £50 Deepstack at Planet Pool and somehow I managed to win it.
The next day I was very, very rough but managed to hold on until 11th place before my AK got buggered by the Beast's JJ, which turned into a lovely full house for him.
Oh well, won my seat into the £3000 on Sunday. I held a healthy chip lead for most of the night, especially when Dougie picked a spot to bluff off all his chips when I was sat on Quads... oops!
See you at the tables...
Thursday, 5 November 2009
DEEPSTACK
£20 RE-BUY TOURNAMENT tomorrow night (Friday) at 7pm as per normal. It will be a straight pay out to the top 5 players (no league, no seats for deepstack, just pure CASH!)
Satellites for the next Deepstack event will start NEXT Friday. See side panel >>>>
Sunday saw 35 players competing for nearly £6000 in prize money, which is awesome!
Congratulations to Dougie Prentice for taking down first place. Dougie dominated my table from the start and took me out before the dinner break! I remember buying a bottle of wine and then playing a sick form of Chinese Pkr with Lord Whipp for hours where up to 4 cards were wild! I don't remember if I won or lost at Chinese and I don't remember how I got home! Awesome...
Dougie's new favourite hand has to be pocket 7s! He eliminated me and took a slug out of Dean's chipstack when his 77 hit a set on the flop making it hard for me to improve with AK suited and forcing Deano to fold his QQ (great laydown and what looked like a harmless flop).
Later on Dougie eliminates another player when his 77 hits QUADS!
Nice to see Dougie last longer that his better half for a change... he he he, only kidding, Doug.
Anyway, see you at the tables on Friday...
Satellites for the next Deepstack event will start NEXT Friday. See side panel >>>>
Sunday saw 35 players competing for nearly £6000 in prize money, which is awesome!
Congratulations to Dougie Prentice for taking down first place. Dougie dominated my table from the start and took me out before the dinner break! I remember buying a bottle of wine and then playing a sick form of Chinese Pkr with Lord Whipp for hours where up to 4 cards were wild! I don't remember if I won or lost at Chinese and I don't remember how I got home! Awesome...
Dougie's new favourite hand has to be pocket 7s! He eliminated me and took a slug out of Dean's chipstack when his 77 hit a set on the flop making it hard for me to improve with AK suited and forcing Deano to fold his QQ (great laydown and what looked like a harmless flop).
Later on Dougie eliminates another player when his 77 hits QUADS!
Nice to see Dougie last longer that his better half for a change... he he he, only kidding, Doug.
Anyway, see you at the tables on Friday...
Saturday, 31 October 2009
THE DEEPSTACK ON SUNDAY
OPEN TO EVERYONE
£150 BUY-IN
DEEPSTACK FREEZEOUT
20,000 STARTING CHIPS - 20 MINUTE BLINDS
REGISTRATION FROM 3:30PM
CARDS IN THE AIR @ 4PM SHARP
DINNER BREAK @ 6PM - £10 FOR 3 COURSE MEAL AND FREE WINE COURTESY OF LORD WHIPP
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
THE DEEPSTACK IS HERE!
Yep,
£150 BUY-IN (or win your seat this Friday)
£3000 Guaranteed Prizepool.
20,000 starting chips
20 minute blinds
No bingo
Plenty of play...
SUNDAY @ 4PM
Registration from 3:30PM
14 players have already won their seat at one of the Friday Satellites (see side panel >>>>)
This Friday is your last chance to win a seat for as little as £20 (um... well, it is possible!)
Everybody is welcome to simply buy-in on the day - let's make this a big one.
Full menu and the Club 72 Massage Girls on-site to ease the tension (especially if you have Lord Whipp on your table!)
Whoop Whoop!
Oh, and be sure to check out the Poker Lobster on my FACEBOOK page.
£150 BUY-IN (or win your seat this Friday)
£3000 Guaranteed Prizepool.
20,000 starting chips
20 minute blinds
No bingo
Plenty of play...
SUNDAY @ 4PM
Registration from 3:30PM
14 players have already won their seat at one of the Friday Satellites (see side panel >>>>)
This Friday is your last chance to win a seat for as little as £20 (um... well, it is possible!)
Everybody is welcome to simply buy-in on the day - let's make this a big one.
Full menu and the Club 72 Massage Girls on-site to ease the tension (especially if you have Lord Whipp on your table!)
Whoop Whoop!
Oh, and be sure to check out the Poker Lobster on my FACEBOOK page.
Saturday, 10 October 2009
WHOOP WHOOP VEGAS & THE FIRST DEEPSTACK SATELLITE
WHOOP WHOOP!
Congratulations to Lord Whipp for winning the $5000 Vegas Package, and to Alan Mason for securing his buy-in to the same WSOP BRACELET EVENT!
The final table was awesome and we even had a Royal Flush to crown the event!
Gary played really well, and leveraged his loose table image to really take advantage of the other finalists. Usually a maniac, he trapped, he made amazing laydowns (some that would have hit quads!) and even laid down trip Kings in the Royal Flush hand mentioned above.
Full respect! Let's hope he loosens up again for the Friday night re-buy tournies!
My final table was a nightmare, I was the shortstack before the dinner break when my trip Aces with a Queen was cracked by Gordon's Ace, 6 off - he hit a house when I hit my Trips! I lost 100K in that hand, and from there was just looking for spots to get all my chips in. I chopped with Gordon when my Ace, Jack and his Ace, 7 hit a two-pair board and was then dominated when Ricky's Ace, Queen crushed my King, Queen.
Nigel was unlucky against Alan and Gary when they got down to three handed, as it looked like Alan's tournament was over a few times but he just seemed impossible to eliminate.
All the major hands are on the twitter page as they happened.
MONTHLY DEEPSTACK SATELLITE
The first £20 Re-buy Satellite to the monthly deepstack was awesome last night, with a 1st place prize of £500 + Seat to the deepstack, 2nd place of £280 + Seat, 3rd place of £140 + Seat and 4th and 5th both winning seats.
Don't forget, we will run these every Friday, and if you have already won a seat, you can take the £150 in cash.
The main event is on Sunday 1 November @ 4pm and Uncover Poker is adding £500 to the Prizepool!
Assuming 20 people win seats at the satellites (of course a few may hit the top five a few times) there should be £3500+ in the prizepool. You are welcome to buy-in on the 1st for £150 if you can't make the satellites.
The FHP ONLINE TOURNIES are also great fun on Wednesday nights at 8pm, and congratulations to ROCK and ALANJSY for winning the first two over the last fortnight.
See you at the tables...
jT
Saturday, 3 October 2009
THE FINAL 10 PLAYING FOR THE $5000
Ricky had a dream result tonight with his win, managing to bump Nick out of the leaderboard and overtake Danny, who is now the short stack!
It's a great result and Nick was waiting around patiently waiting to see if Ricky would get the required 5th place finish... Ricky smashed past 5th and ended up beating Dougie heads-up to pick-up 10 points.
I had a nightmare tourney going out 2nd from last, denying me a straight 20 final table appearances across the 20 heats. Oh well, I am still chip leader at the final table on Sunday, but I was hoping to get a 100% top ten finish across the series.
The chip stacks on Sunday look as follows:
JT - 120,000
Nigel - 99,000
Alan Mason - 92,000
Gordon Troy - 89,000
Garret - 87,000
Gary - 65,000
Ewan - 51,000
Soxy - 45,000
Ricky - 41,000
Danny - 38,000
Good luck everyone, and God help Vegas when we visit next year!
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
FHP ONLINE TOURNAMENTS ARE BACK!!!
WEDNESDAY @ 8PM
UNCOVER POKER
JERSEY PLAYERS ONLY
$20 Re-buy tournament
Download the UNCOVER software by clicking on the icon in the side panel >>>>>>>>
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Well it had to happen... you can now follow my poker exploits on TWITTER:
Sometimes I will 'twitter' as I am playing tournaments and will also put the latest news and schedules up there.
MONTHLY £150 DEEPSTACK WITH £500 ADDED
SUNDAY 1ST NOVEMBER @ 5PM
£150 DEEPSTACK FREEZEOUT with £500 ADDED TO THE PRIZEPOOL
20,000 chips
20 minute blinds starting at 25/50
Starting Friday 9 October, we will be running weekly £20 re-buy satellites to win cash and seats for the monthly DEEPSTACK FREEZEOUT or you can simply buy in on the day for £150.
Prizepools at the satellites will vary depending on the number of players but a typical payout will look as follows:
1ST PLACE - £400 + SEAT FOR MONTHLY DEEPSTACK
2ND PLACE - £200 + SEAT FOR MONTHLY DEEPSTACK
3RD PLACE - £100 + SEAT FOR MONTHLY DEEPSTACK
4TH PLACE - SEAT FOR MONTHLY DEEPSTACK
5TH PLACE - SEAT FOR MONTHLY DEEPSTACK
The 5 seats for the MONTHLY DEEPSTACK will be funded first and then the remaining cash will be split between the top three finishers at each satellite.
The MAIN EVENT prizepool each month will be over £3500 so take part in the satellites and win your seats!!!
FULL SCHEDULE FOR MONTH:
FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER - £20 RE-BUY SATELLITE - 7PM
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER - £20 RE-BUY SATELLITE - 7PM
FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER - £20 RE-BUY SATELLITE - 7PM
FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER - £20 RE-BUY SATELLITE - 7PM
SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER - MAIN EVENT - £150 DEEPSTACK FREEZEOUT - 5PM
So after this Sunday, we will only play a tournament Sundays ONCE PER MONTH and that will be for the DEEPSTACK FREEZEOUTS.
We are looking to put on another night for tournaments and will update you all soon.
jT
2 HEATS TO GO!!!
The WSOP LEAGUE is getting very competitive, with quite a few players in with a shot at the last few places. Someone seems to get bumped off the top ten at each heat as players lurking just below the top ten slip ahead after picking up a few points.
Good win for Garret tonight, who is climbing the leaderboard again. I managed to pick-up another 7 points going out 4th when Garret's Ace, 10 hit a set to kill my pocket 7s.
Three straight flushes came out on the tables tonight and I witnessed a small pocket pair hit a set on the flop only for the bigger pocket pair to river a bigger set at least twice!
If tonight's final table had been online, you would swear it was a fix!
This is how the leaderboard currently stands along with the players just out of sight who could still feasibly enter the top ten with a win or consistent final table appearances at the final 2 heats:
Justin Thorne - 117,000
Nigel Holliday - 87,000
Alan Mason - 85,000
Gordon Troy - 81,000
Garret O'Brien - 78,000
Gary Whipp - 65,000
Soxy - 40,000
Ewan Le Marquand - 38,000
Nick Atkins - 29,000
Danny Paxton - 29,000
And catching-up:
Ricky Weir - 23,000
Phil Da Silva - 21,000
Mick Le Noury - 21,000
Charlie du Feu - 21,000
Craig Hartley - 15,000
Dougie - 15,000
Kev Hodkinson - 14,000
Nelio - 13,000
Kleber - 12,000
Good luck on Sunday at HEAT 19!!!
Sunday, 20 September 2009
Booyah!!!
Big hand in tonight's WSOP LEAGUE...
I pick-up the gutshot straight flush draw on the flop and bet it. Nick calls and another club on the turn feels good for me. Nick bets and I shove all-in. Nick calls and I know he has a better flush. And sure enough he does, so I am dead to the 9 of clubs on the river for the straight flush and BOOM! Nail it...
Went on to win too, so not a bad night.
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