Life as a Blind Bully

A new season gets underway here at dotcom. While it wasn't a great start by the bullies on wednesday, me mostly I think , friday saw a slightly better result but that still left us where we always seem to start the seasons lately Bottom . Then comes the weekend and what a weekend. An excellent result in the 5x5 followed by agreat result in the 40 player mtt. 2 bullies on the FT, this hopefully has propelled us up the league where once again we shall challenge tooth n nail for that elusive 4th league win .

Meanwhile..........

In place far far away there was set up another bullies team. Using the invaluable skills aquired playing in the dotcom league we set out to conquer the scandinavians at Lassur

After a couple of go's in league 3 we finally managed to get promotion to league 2 as runners up. A very nice consolation prize to . Now half way through the season in league 2 after an awesome display by our new recruit in owning his table. Plus 2x 2nd places for me and Kat, we find ourselves in 2nd place. Hopefully we can continue with this rich vein of form and push for promotion to league 1..

What with such great friends to play alongside life as a Bully just can't get any better. Fingers in 2 pies again, I wonder can we cash twice again . Well I know we'll all give it our best shot.

Interested in a shot at another league? If you can gather/recruit a team of 4 players PM me. I'll let you have the details. Else sit back and enjoy with us all our victories

Lassur has arrived in English

Come and join Scandinavia’s premier poker forum now available in English.

Do you play ring games? We an excellent rakeback program starting from as little as 500 pts a month to get €25 back up to the serious players who can earn 60% rakeback for 30,000 pts a month. With many stages in between there’s sure to be a great reward for your play.

More a sociable player? You like playing with and making friends. Get yourself over to Lassur with 3 friends and make a team. There’s €2,000 on offer in the monthly team league on Lassur. Just 4 or 5 games a month in which to show your team is best with some great rewards.

Tournament play is enjoyed by all. With lots of guaranteed tournaments you’re sure to find one that appeals. It doesn’t stop there though as Lassur offers over €2,000 in leaderboard prizes each month. With 3 levels of tournament available there’s something for every pocket.

With many other site specific bonuses and promotions isn’t it time you came over for a look.

20k-10k .com

Another Sunday another 10k freeroll and 20k guaranteed. This weekend, however, my shifts allow for me to participate in the later so all geared up for 2 large tours I set about trying to win.
Doing pretty well in the 10k I quickly run up to about 10k in chips. This is how I stay for nearly an hour slightly more slightly less, just hovering around the 10k mark. A feww hands then start to click together and I race up to about 30k here I stay until there are about 180 players left. Having spent most of the tour in the top 10/15 I find the cards take a change for the worse and I fall right away. The bubble bursts but alas no more hands of note and I eventually end up going out at 78th picking up $25.

The 20k is a harder event. Not so many people willing to throw all away cheaply. Still I manage to get up to about 3/4k in chips and spend most of the tour in and around here. Staying in and around here I last until about the last 40. 10 to go till the bubble and I now have the opertunity to steal a few blinds. As I have played relatively few hands all tour the occasion that I elect to push to steal blinds, I find that I take them unchallenged. Even pushing twice in a row meets no opposition. I get up around the 10/12k mark using this tact enabling me to see the bubble burst. As the blinds and antis increase coupled with a reluctance of players to let me steal now that they have cashed my stack starts to dwindle. 2 hands finally put pay to me, sitting on 12k needing to I once again push. Holding 99 I have 1 caller showing AQoff catches both his whole cards to clear 4k off me. Good job he was short stacked. 2 hands later I get 88 and with most of the table folded I again push. 1 caller again n guess what shows AQoff. this time catching a Q on the turn takes me out in 19th place. $200 for 3 1/2 hrs work not a bad return but would have liked 1 of the pairs to hold up. The final table wasn't to far away and not that many chips needed to get there but that'll have to wait till my shifts next allow a crack at this tour. Thats the last 2 I have played I have managed to cash in. May be a lucky tour for me. Heres to next time

Pointpoker 100k

Januarys 100,000 euro guaranteed saw a little over 500 players all trying to take home the top prize. For all of you who are curious as to this event it is a 200 euro freezout toury. Each player starts the game with 5000 chips. All levels are 20 minutes.

As you can see opposite last months payed 63 places. The last nine places all recieving 350 euro's. Once you managed to make the final table, on pointpoker that is 9 players, you would be guaranteed 2,300 euro's. With the top 3 players getting the best payout 7,670 3rd, 11,510 2nd. The winner taking home a cool 22,950 euro's. An awesome tourny to either buy into win into via a sat or for 40 players entry via 2 freerolls, the top 10 of the 1st going into a weekly final that gives out 10 places to this end of month monster.

Lassur Team League

The Lassur team league is now again underway. Our team had its first games on Sunday. With Barry sitting this one out, Me, Kat and Pierre played. We all managed average results in our individual games, both Kat an Pierre finished 6th and I finished 5th. This gave us a 13pt tally putting us in joint 7th of the 9. Upon seeing this we can see just how important it is to try and get to those top 2 places points wise.
With Kat's turn to sit out this Sunday, lets look for a better return this time round and start to move up the table. Good luck to Pierre and to Barry in his first game.

Differing results

After playing in poker.com's big 2 this Sunday I ended up getting knocked out of the $50,000 in around 375th place. The tourny started paying from 300 up. Oh well if it wasn't to be.....

The final Winter championship tourny, a $30,000 guaranteed sporting a $60 buyin, was slightly different story.

From the begining I made a little/lost a little. So it went till the 1st break. After the blinds/my stack where now getting quite high. Not sure if it was the tourny structure but the rose to a fairly high level quite quickly even though they where 15min levels. This made it easy for those that had aquired a fair size stack to bully the tables. I had on both that I was at one such player immediately to my right. He would not let me see a flop, pushing all his chips in if it was folded round to him in the sb. As i was somewhat card dead I was not willing to call any of his plays. Instead deciding to play very tight. Tight thats a laugh I never had another hand. getting desperate for a few chips to help keep me in a little longer I got 44 in sb. A big stack raises 2x in mid as he had done most times it was folded to him so he could pos collect the blinds and anti's. So I push allin my last 3.5k bb folds as does the raiser lol. Thats the only action I had until the bubble. Top 60 pay, I find that the anti's and blinds have whittled away at my meagre stack to leave me now facing the prospect of the bb putting me allin and in 61st position :(

As always it was folded round to the sb who duly pushed allin just, for show, as he had done all night if he could on my bb. I'm holding J9 off not too bad a holding got possibilities. Sb shows 84 off flop comes J82 not bad I actually caught may just be hope yet. Turn is a 4 giving him 2 pair and with it my last hope in tonights tourny. River 9 Woohoo 2 pair I'm alive. With enough now for one more round I'm not bothered as 2players get knocked out in the hand for hand mode. I have made the money.

Very next had I am dealt KK, whats this a new deck of cards or what. I ofc push allin get on caller and with the anti's a bb make a little more. Next hand AK suited eek...........

Unfortunately no action with this hand and so just scoop the anti's n blinds. But it was just enough to see me blind out again this time while in 38 th place. Holding 56 off I get called he's holding KJ off I manage to catch once again. A 6 onthe flop but along with 2x J's the to make sure I am out a K on the river to give him the boat. All in all not bad not much in the way of cards to play, nearly dead and burried on the bubble so to come away with $150 is a nice present.

Big day today

A big day at poker.com today. The monthly $50,000 freeroll kicks off at 15:00Lb. I have my comp pts so all ready for that. Tonight also sees the final winter tourny game. A $60 buyin tourny with a $30,000 guaranteed prize. Well I'm up for that as well. It also starts at 15:00Lb. Its gonna be a busy evening. Heres hoping

Liking this site

I am begining to get used to playing on point now. Staying mainly on the freerolls I have managed a few money placings. Also having kept alive till the top 6 in a few is giving me LB points to. Next week sees a new month. It is the start of the 1st league seson for me and the newly formed Bullies.

A new team

We have now managed to form a team for LassurUK hopefully we will prove good enough to perhaps even take some of the 2,000 euro's on offer as prizes from the site. The season gets underway on Feb 4th so good luck to the LassurUK's Blind Bullies.

Stormswift
Kat
Pajasen
Bazza2601

All regular members of poker.com and now possible lassur/pointpoker.

More Euro Friendly Games

I have been introduced to a site that may be of interest to our European friends. Some may know it or played there. There is an abundance of rings, Sng's single table-double table-short handed-etc. But best of all larger guaranteed tournys at a much more euro friendly time. There is a weekly 25,000 euro teed, and most days a 10,000 - 7,000 - 5,000 - 3,000 teed tourny can be found. With evening start times of 6 - 8 pm. Theres also a monthly 100,000 euro teed Decembers paid I think 22,500+ euro for 1st place. As the site is for europeans the currency is the euro this means that us brits gain a little bit extra than we would if we played at poker.com as the £ is worth close on $2.
There are various sized/type of sats to the larger teed tournys, also a daily freeroll > weekly freeroll final > 100,000 teed entry.

There is also a community poker site linked to the above that adds a little bit extra. Here they run aseparatee leaderboard for its members using the above site as host. They have 2 specific tournys 1, a 200e teed 1e buyin : 2, a 500e teed with a10e buyin. Along with these they utilise the sites weds night 10,000 teed. for all of these there is a monthly leaderboard prize. You can play in 1 or all of them your choice. The payouts are standard tourny payout structures (details found on site) plus for each tourny this community pays a leaderboard prize of:-
The 1€ tourny The 10€ tourny The 75€ tourny
200€ teed 500€ teed 10,000€ teed
1. Prize: 150 € 1. Prize: 400 € 1. Prize: 600 €
2. Prize: 100 € 2. Prize: 300 € 2. Prize: 500 €
3. Prize: 75 € 3. Prize: 200 € 3. Prize: 400 €
4. Prize: 50 €
5. Prize: 50 €

There is also a month long team league season.A team consists of 4 members 3 players and 1 reserve. Match's are currently played on weds evening each consisting of 3 seperate games played simultainiously requiring 1 team member in each. Games are 10e buyin with normal payouts.
This months prizes for the top teams is
1st 650e
2nd 450e
3rd 300e Also 100e for the top scoring player

Plenty to think about there. If you would like to give this a try you will need to do the following:-

1: Go here go to cashier and sign up using st0rmswift (note the zero) as referer.
when you write your city add -LUK to the end i.e i'm Birmingham-LUK
2: then go here click on new user and sign up at the 1st link, ignore the 2nd link you have already done that above, again same referer stormswift ( This one is not a zero).
3: Either post a comment here, or e-mail the username/s you have used on both sites so I can get them confermed

A new Year

Well 2006 has finally come to an end. A year that has seen me take up poker after winning a little in freerolls. From this small beginning I have managed to win enough to take me on a modest holiday as well has keep me afloat for the year on the site. I have also withdrawn a little to try out other sites but I haven't found one to match poker.com yet.
I shall endeavor to improve my game but I'm finding it hard to push on at the moment. Still a good friend of mine has pointed me in the direction of another site to try. So I start the new year afresh with another site to try while still trying to get an accolade from poker.com LOL

This time around I'm hoping to keep updated more regularly and look at ways to improve the look of the blog.