PKR

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Tourney Update

My tournament month has been 'interesting' so far.  I feel like I'm learning a lot about the best way of grinding these things and my tournament game is definitely improving all the time.  Each time I play a session I have an intention of playing a certain amount of tournaments or registering for everything I feel like between certain hours.  This would typically be from 6pm GMT onwards.  However, I tend to feel burnt out after a few hours and stop registering even when there are potentially good tournaments starting.  I guess this is to do with being used to playing shorter cash game sessions.  Being able to grind multiple tables of tournaments for long sessions is a great attribute to have as a pro MTT player.

In terms of my results, they have been pretty rubbish so far at either breakeven or a bit in the black, I'm not sure.  I do realise I could have a run A LOT worse which is worth acknowledging.  I have final-tabled three Full Tilt tournaments with five figure first prizes only to come 7th, 8th and 9th for relative pocket change.  Frustrating.  My best result has been in a PKR WSOP satellite where I shipped it for a $4.2k prize.  This includes entry to a $1k WSOP event, really sweet accomodation for a week, and $1.4k in cash for flights and expenses.  The WSOP event I'm being put into comes very near the end of the series, so I'm considering staying on for the main event which comes soon after.  I'm going to try some satellites, but failing this will sell some action and just buy in direct.  Vegas should be fun anyway.

Other live tournaments I've got coming up is a £500 double chance down the road at the Brighton Grosvenor this Saturday, and then PKR Live the weekend after so hopefully I can do some damage in one of those.

I was shown this thread which has a load of cool pictures on it.  Some of them are quite disturbing so be warned.  I rather wish I didn't watch the video of the politician that commits suicide live on televsion (I won't post the link from here but you can find it in the thread if you look hard enough).  On that cheery note, goodbye.

3 comments:

  1. Thx for link, very interesting pictures!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Ok, I've been traumatised. That clip of Budd Dwyer putting a bullet to his head, live on television, has to be THE most disturbing and shocking thing I've ever seen on the net. I wish I hadn't looked it up either myself now.

    ReplyDelete