Party Poker Million IV (and general update)
Things have continued to go well over the last couple of weeks (I speak here of poker - science is still poo!) and my bankroll is now not far off the $10,000 mark!
I've been playing a fair ammount of $5/10 and also been playing in some more online tournaments. I've had a couple of 1st place finishes in some smallish tournament and another couple of final tables, which had all helped in the bankroll growth, but I'm still waiting for my first really big score. I'm finding it hard to fit it many tournaments - the really big ones can take up several hours.
Party Poker Million IV: This is a WPT (World Poker Tour) event held on a cruise ship and sponsored/orghanised by Party Poker. It's a $10,000 buy-in event with an estimated $6,000,000 prize pool. Party Poker have a large number of online qualifier and sub-qualifier tounaments for a place in the final event. They have twice weekly direct qualifiers ($250 buy-in) but these are always in the middle of the night (UK time). They also have special weekends of qualifiers which are at more sociable hours for those of us on this side of the pond. $250 seems like quite a lot to stick in for one touney so I've been playing some of the $35 sub-qualifiers and have so far one my way into 2 of the 4 semi-final events which are being held over the first weekend in November. Needless to say my finacee is also quite enthused by the idea of a weeks cruise off the coast Southg California!
General Update: Over the last couple of days I've styepped back up to $15/30 and have felt more comfortable than I did last time, although I'm still aware of many leaks that still need plugging.
Last week I went through a few few days of playing quite a lot of No-Limit (and Pot-Limit) ring games. Party Poker's NL and PL games aren't ideal as the maximum buy-in is too small in relationship to the blinds, but - as ever - there are sufficient number of fish to make it profitable nontheless. I was playing on the $200 buy-in tables (blinds of $2/4) and over the few days I was up about $800. I was pleased with that, but I still made a fair number of mistakes. The swings in NL can be brutal and I dont think it's something I'd want to play all the time. One mistake at Nl can be so much more costly compared to limit poker, but NL is definately useful in highlighting some of the general areas of my play that need work on.
Now term has started here in Oxford, the University Poker Society has got back up and running and we had our first session on Sunday night. There were a hell of a lot of people there, which is an excellent sign and we got some good games playing. There were several single table tournies, but I was more interested in playing in the cash games. I played for about an hour on a 10p/20p NL table but I couldn't hit a hand (which was a shame because play was very loose/agressive) and when the table broke for a £10 tournament I was down about £10. While waiting for space at another cash game I played heads up for £10. I didn't know the guy I was playing aginst, but he definately looked familiar. It turned out that he was the guy who came 2nd in the £5 rebuys touney down at the Gutshot - he was the one who knocked me out in 3rd place! Well I certainly wasn't letting that happen again and beat him after about 15 mins! Once I finally got aplace at the cash game I , again, couldn't hit a hand. At one point I hit a set of 5s on the flop only to loose (a lot!) when the other guy hit his staight on the turn. I ended the evening down by about £10, which wan't too bad conidering the crap I was getting delt. I'm definately looking forward to next weeks session.
Generally it's a pretty good standard of play at 'Poker Soc'. There are about 5 of us who make decent money on the internet and there are very few fish, although with the influx of freshers this year, that may change.
I think that's quite enough for now - anyway I need to go and do some biochemsitry (again, I promise an ipdate on all that shortly).
I've been playing a fair ammount of $5/10 and also been playing in some more online tournaments. I've had a couple of 1st place finishes in some smallish tournament and another couple of final tables, which had all helped in the bankroll growth, but I'm still waiting for my first really big score. I'm finding it hard to fit it many tournaments - the really big ones can take up several hours.
Party Poker Million IV: This is a WPT (World Poker Tour) event held on a cruise ship and sponsored/orghanised by Party Poker. It's a $10,000 buy-in event with an estimated $6,000,000 prize pool. Party Poker have a large number of online qualifier and sub-qualifier tounaments for a place in the final event. They have twice weekly direct qualifiers ($250 buy-in) but these are always in the middle of the night (UK time). They also have special weekends of qualifiers which are at more sociable hours for those of us on this side of the pond. $250 seems like quite a lot to stick in for one touney so I've been playing some of the $35 sub-qualifiers and have so far one my way into 2 of the 4 semi-final events which are being held over the first weekend in November. Needless to say my finacee is also quite enthused by the idea of a weeks cruise off the coast Southg California!
General Update: Over the last couple of days I've styepped back up to $15/30 and have felt more comfortable than I did last time, although I'm still aware of many leaks that still need plugging.
Last week I went through a few few days of playing quite a lot of No-Limit (and Pot-Limit) ring games. Party Poker's NL and PL games aren't ideal as the maximum buy-in is too small in relationship to the blinds, but - as ever - there are sufficient number of fish to make it profitable nontheless. I was playing on the $200 buy-in tables (blinds of $2/4) and over the few days I was up about $800. I was pleased with that, but I still made a fair number of mistakes. The swings in NL can be brutal and I dont think it's something I'd want to play all the time. One mistake at Nl can be so much more costly compared to limit poker, but NL is definately useful in highlighting some of the general areas of my play that need work on.
Now term has started here in Oxford, the University Poker Society has got back up and running and we had our first session on Sunday night. There were a hell of a lot of people there, which is an excellent sign and we got some good games playing. There were several single table tournies, but I was more interested in playing in the cash games. I played for about an hour on a 10p/20p NL table but I couldn't hit a hand (which was a shame because play was very loose/agressive) and when the table broke for a £10 tournament I was down about £10. While waiting for space at another cash game I played heads up for £10. I didn't know the guy I was playing aginst, but he definately looked familiar. It turned out that he was the guy who came 2nd in the £5 rebuys touney down at the Gutshot - he was the one who knocked me out in 3rd place! Well I certainly wasn't letting that happen again and beat him after about 15 mins! Once I finally got aplace at the cash game I , again, couldn't hit a hand. At one point I hit a set of 5s on the flop only to loose (a lot!) when the other guy hit his staight on the turn. I ended the evening down by about £10, which wan't too bad conidering the crap I was getting delt. I'm definately looking forward to next weeks session.
Generally it's a pretty good standard of play at 'Poker Soc'. There are about 5 of us who make decent money on the internet and there are very few fish, although with the influx of freshers this year, that may change.
I think that's quite enough for now - anyway I need to go and do some biochemsitry (again, I promise an ipdate on all that shortly).
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