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.