So Near and Yet So Far

Last night i ended up finishing 4th in the Poker Dome Qualifier. Unfortunately it's a winner takes all competition so i ended up with nothing, but getting 4th out of about 470ish players was another good result .

Still........................... flights to Vagas, accomodation, $500 to gamble in the casino and a place in a televised final would have been nice.............................. Maybe next time.

On the final table my hands just seemed to dry up, i got AQ once and knocked out a short stack (which kept me in the running) but i didn't get much else and was up against 2 giant stacks so opportunities to steal were very limited.

But i can't really complain as earlier on in the tournament i dished out a bad beat which doubled me up and put me in a great position.

In the BB i flat called a min raise from the button with 88. The flop came down 8c 10d Jc. He bet the pot i re-raised, he went all in, i called and he turned over Q9o.............................. he'd flopped a straight, giving him the nuts.................................... fortunately a 10 came on the river to make my full house and i doubled up ................................... using up my supply of luck for the evening.

I seem the be getting the hang of this MTT business

All of a sudden i seem to be consistently getting decent results and hitting the money in a high percentage of MTT's i'm playing ................... on thursday i was playing 4 mtt's at the same time and got 5th place in the virgin PL league game, came 16th out of 400- odd people in the Mansion poker dome qualifier (unfortunately only 1st place paid out) made it to the last 60-odd for the pacific poker wsop tournament and then i won the Mansion $500 added tournament ( the same comp i came second in on sunday) then last night i came 10th in the $500 added.

I'm really enjoying playing poker again and the results are going well, so sometime soon I'll get round to writing a post about why i think that is ........................ but i can't be bothered doing it now. lol

Sunday was a very good day

As well as the ibiza trip i also came 2nd out of 294 people in the mansion $500 added tournament ......................... 2nd was slightly disapointing as although it was a great heads up game with the chip lead going back and forth, i was confident i would be able to beat him. Unfortuanately time was getting on and by 1.40 am i had to face the fact that i was getting up for work at 6.20 am, and that 1st place only paid about $45 more than 2nd.................. so i took a few risks which didn't work out :-(

On the plus side i also got my third ever Royal Flush in that game

Goal Poker World cup Ibiza VIP Party

I Won a tournament on Saturday on goal poker, first prize was for me +1 to go to the goal Poker Ibiza world cup Party, The tournament had a $10 entry fee, but amazingly only 6 people entered.......................... the winner also took all the prize money as well :-)

The flight leaves from Gatwick on the morning of the 8th july and i fly back on the evening of the 10th .................. the only thing that i know will be happening is spending the Sunday evening (the 9th) watching the world cup final on a big screen on a beach in Ibiza with a free bar and some models from Maxim magazine ............................ Happiness

Getting up to date

Ok ........... so since the blogger Freeroll i've still not been playing any where near as much poker as i used to, with hardly any cash games played and mostly playing freerolls and Punterslounge league games. Looking on the brightside, i have managed to get a few good results in the games i have played, which included winning the virgin v-points freeroll.

1st prize was 30,000 v-points, which if you covert them to cash have a value of 1p each , so a prize of £300 ...........................making it my biggest Multi Table Tournament win so far. I've also made quite a few final tables so things have been going not too bad lately

Obviously sometimes less is more

oops ............ not exactly a prolific blogger am i?

Well i haven't got round to making an entry since the Virgin Bloggers freeroll that i set it up for .................. ok , i'll try and update things a bit in the next week or so