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.

A small payout at last

After what seems like an age I have finally managed to money in a tourney again. $15 in the $10,000 freeroll. Not a lot, but at least it may be a start of better things. especially with the $50,000 this weekend.
Still not managing anything in the blogger, just about give up on that now.

Another win at last

Last night bought a much needed win, not so much for the $'s but for the confidence. It came in the $1 turbo. Playing all hands that came my way kept me in the hunt for most of the game, for the first 5/6 levels always in the top3. But as the hands became more scarce and the ever increasing blinds I found my self with AJ off. Betting hard and a flop of QJQ ended up losing half my stack to trip Q's. With not many more hands after that I found myself making the final table but only in last place. I had no hands to recall for the first part of the final table. I now find myself in 6th place with enough chips just for a BB, Doh! Praying for a hand to call before the BB takes me out. Nothing comes, oh well here goes BB and I get dealt 92 off. Settling for 6th place I just watch as the Sb calls and and I WIN can't remember if it was 2 pair or a boat. This change in luck sent me on an upward spiral of wins AK, AJ and back to back JJ's that both caught. I found myself top of the last 4 and never looked back. An amazing turnaround and much needed win.
Not sure whether to call all the 92 off's I get from now on ROFL

Trip T's

Well after going out holding trip T's after the flop, to a runner runner st8 4to the board I might add. I seem to be doomed this week by them. Playing quite well in the 10k teed made the last 30 or so lying just outside the money with I think 200/400 blinds. The table folds to the player next to me who limps, I push allin holding AK off. The SB & BB both fold leaving he 2 of us. He does nothing then just as he is about to time out he calls showing AT off. Nice good chance to double I think....till the flop. T3T thats all she wrote dam trip T's lose then they beat me in both the 10k tournys.
Oh well have to wait till i get another monday off or late start to attempt the teed again, try again next weekend in the freeroll. Can't believe I can't money it yet still theres time yet or is there. More on that later

Dam

I am liking these sats, $2 - $11-$60. Manage to get to 10k teed quite easily.
But I'm not liking these set up hands, I always seem to be on the recieving end lately, to cap it allafter spending 3 days hard work to get into the 10k freeroll this happens.
Dealt TT
Bet 4x BB (80)
sara raises 40
i call
flop JT3 Bet 80
sara raise t0 120
I re-raise to 640
sara allin I call
sara shows QQ
turn 8
river 9
that sucks always set up to throw my chips away unreal.
Hope things go better in the teed later..........

50k

Didn't last long my kk ran into AA early on virtually wiped me out. AQ a few hands later finished me off when it lost to a pair o 5's.
Not to sure what to make of the payout. Was expecting around a 10k 1st prize, only pays 5k.
Still all the final get 1k+ and top 100 get $100+. The top 300 payout which seems a little excessive so i'm undecided as yet.

Oh my Oh my

Blogger tour finally got under way last night. After a few weeks anticipation we finally managed to get started. A few decent hole cards that missed the flop by a few hundred miles saw my stack slowly dwindling down to less than half the initial 2000 starting chips. Finally a couple connect and I manage to claw my back what i had lost. In this time watching a donkey stealing most pots, just can't catch right to take advantage. But then.........


burnley1 Posted Small Blind 50
Stormswift Posted Big Blind 100
Dealing CardsYou Were Dealt (Kh, Kc) Could this be the hand, Hmmmm


lightning36 Folds
ViezeMan Folds
RaisinYa Folds
bergeroo Folds
Kipper01 Folds
Illotus Folds
OhioMike Folds
DedMansHand Folds
burnley1 Calls 50 Lets try and get alittle out of him

Stormswift Raised to 500
burnley1 All In for 8,630 EEk Whats this another steal

Stormswift All In for 1,565
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burnley1 has (8d, 9s)Stormswift has (Kh, Kc) Things look as expected STEALING lol
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Dealing Flop (Ac,9c,5s) My only worry, did he have A-rag
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Dealing Turn (Ts)
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Dealing River (9d) You have to be kidding, What a joke. Chip leader curse strikes again
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6,665 Returned to burnley1 from pot 2 If you chip leader call anything you cant lose!!!!
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burnley1 Wins 4,130 from pot 1 with : Three of a Kind, Nines
Stormswift OUT


Just too much for words, thankfully he never made the money but has done a little harm to my qualifing for the final WHAT ON EARTH

Hope things go better in the 50k Sunday

A hard days work

What a horrid day Sunday was just about everything I played conspired against me. I tried various tournys during the day but to no avail. Starting with the $10 mtt at 3am no cards of note so a very very tight game kept me in the hunt for either the $10 or 1 of the $60 coupons. But alas right at the end on the bubble, dealt KQoff Q rags flop I re-raised allin only to see AQ against me..... Is this the start
The 200teed, 300teed and the 1kteed just not getting a chance this dosen't bode well for tonites 2 10k's.
I decided to leave well alone till the 10k freeroll. Once this started I found that I was starting to catch, things are changing lol. Was doing great till the break after which the hands just dried up a mix of chasing and bad luck sees me out around 220th doh 150 to money. Meanwhile the 10kteed has started and in a similar vain it starts of very well. I manage to get up around 10k in chips then the hands start to dry up. As there are only 28 players left in I tighten right up after all that has gone before today. Determined to at least get into the money. Although I have no hands of note and the blinds are starting to bite my stack is high enough to money. Now to try n improve. With antes and blinds now eating into my stack I make a call at the wrong time dropping down to 17th and last 5k left the blinds 600/1200 with 100 antes means I wont last long. Having to wait for the right moment to try now and double up. But alas nothing comes. I know have just 400 chips still 17th and resigned to getting $100. I push all in on the next hand 10J. I hit a st8 getting 4x my stake. Then another allin push and another brings me back to 10k. A few hands later a pp loses a big chunk of my stack again, but I have at least made it to 11th. I have A8 off and push allin it is stacked round to the same guy who has taken my chips all night. After a long pause he calls 45 suited. On the other table a player exits. I'm now 10th. We all join together at the final table. Flop turn and river he catches a 5 and so as soon as I join the final table I'm out. Still I made it to 10th and $175. Much more than I expected when I was 17th and holding 400 chips.
What a hard game. Alittle over 500 points now needed for next Sundays 50k freeroll. Hope I get the chance to do well in that

Points?

I have managed to amass enough points for a bash at my first 10k freeroll on Sunday. Along the way winning a $60 coupon to enable me to enter he $10k guaranteed also on sunday. This could be a nice day, or not depending on how the cards fall lol
It also puts me well on the way to the end of month $50k tourny, I only need another 1300pts 500 of which ill get when i play the $10k guaranteed so looking good for the big one.
Heres hoping to money on Sunday....

New points

The new freerolls and their point requirements have once again lured me back to the tables. The enticement of the $50,000 tourny each month is just too great.
So far I have been having mixed results, up a little then down a little. Slowly losing a little each day or so. Just can't seem to make a profit often enough. Perhaps its because I'm point orientated at the moment?
I have stumbled upon another way to gain the points.......
The Aussie Mils Sats. Their are currently $2 sats short handed, 5 players, winner takes all a $11 coupon. These tables give 30 points. After winning this you have a coupon to enter the $10 short handed sat, again 5 players, winner takes all a $60 coupon. This pays out 150 points. This coupon can then be used for any sat, mtt ect. So you can either go for the Aussie final coupon, or use it for entry to Sundays $10k guaranteed. The Aussie sat is a 10 player SnG that pay's a $275 grand final coupon and 750 points. The $10k is a Mtt with a $10,000 prize pool guaranteed that gives 500 points. So for a few $2 games potentially theres a lot of points to be made.

A cap

Oh well holidays all over now. Time to get back to the grind.
Interesting to see that there's a lot of changes to the site . A new lot of freerolls and some altered while others lost....
But the main prize is what seems a monthly 50,000 dollar freeroll with I have to say a very lenient comp point entry.

Oh and I ordered a Cap to go with the blogger goodies i recieved. That has arrived, and so I have been wearing that all day since. Even at work, lol, lots of advertising for poker.com on the buses to and from birmingham this week

Nearly holiday time

I've been spending the tme before my holiday comes analyising where I should be using my time. I have decided after checking out a few differing tournys that for time being I shall try and concentrate on the $1000 guarenteeds. These generally have about 40 - 60 players which makes for good value. Being a guarenteed they are made up for 100 players so you get the payout but have less players to beat.
I have also tried a 10k again, my second. Came about 65th had only 3 hands TT won, AKo all stacked and QQ which lost to a pairedK. All in all another disapointing time as I saw lesser hands of mine winning pots, but I had already stacked they. So I must try to find a way to play these but I play too tight in the large tourny's lol.
There is to be another change to the large freeroll eligabillity criteria, hopefull this will enable me to once again get into the 20k I really miss this one.

There here......

Finally got my goodies from the recent blogger tour @ poker.com . A nice array of things to use and wear. A t-shirt, "thongs", key ring, coasters, cards..
The only disapointment was the fact there was no cap. Oh well something to use my comp points on.
There's a winter starting up soon with even better prizes i've heard so get blogging and sign up at poker.com to stand a chance to end up somewhere wonderous playing in a live event.
Our team mate Egon, winner of the last blogger tour, managed to last for 8 hrs in the main WSOP event. An awesome experiance I bet, meeting and playing with some of the worlds best