Greetings from Philly
Greetings from the BA lounge where I am waiting for the 21:55 to London - and reading in the paper that they are expecting snow overnight so who knows, maybe we'll have to land in Manchester...wonder if the super casino will spread and decent games.
Anyway, no real update on the dreamteam - last week the tournament got cancelled after 15 minutes since it appears some people started with 1,500 chips whilst others started with 2,500! Nice one Betfair. I shall stick with it though - so I have just signed up for tomorrow's tournament and played some cash games to cover the buy-in. Been having a pretty good run on PLO recently, mostly on UB but also on BF. Trying both a big-stack and small-stack approach and it does seem that people will call you down incredibly light if you have the min buy-in. So on UB's $3/$6 game the min buy-in is $120 and it's not unusual to stack off once or twice but then spin it up to $500-$600 in a 3 or 4-way coup. At times the game is very lively to say the least.
On the live front went down to Brighton to play in their festival a couple of weekends ago. I thought there was a super satellite on the Friday for the £500 main event but they were only running £50 STT for it. Played a couple and came nowhere (getting KK all-in vs. AJ and A3 seemed a good move only for an A to come on the turn), entered the £200 on the Friday and came no-where, and then entered the main event anyway and...came nowhere. Fortunately the cash games were soft and I ended up leaving with exactly the same bankroll I went down with - and I mean exactly to the penny. Very strange.
Right - time to board I guess, let's hope I can get some sleep so I am at least half-awake for tomorrow's tourney.
Anyway, no real update on the dreamteam - last week the tournament got cancelled after 15 minutes since it appears some people started with 1,500 chips whilst others started with 2,500! Nice one Betfair. I shall stick with it though - so I have just signed up for tomorrow's tournament and played some cash games to cover the buy-in. Been having a pretty good run on PLO recently, mostly on UB but also on BF. Trying both a big-stack and small-stack approach and it does seem that people will call you down incredibly light if you have the min buy-in. So on UB's $3/$6 game the min buy-in is $120 and it's not unusual to stack off once or twice but then spin it up to $500-$600 in a 3 or 4-way coup. At times the game is very lively to say the least.
On the live front went down to Brighton to play in their festival a couple of weekends ago. I thought there was a super satellite on the Friday for the £500 main event but they were only running £50 STT for it. Played a couple and came nowhere (getting KK all-in vs. AJ and A3 seemed a good move only for an A to come on the turn), entered the £200 on the Friday and came no-where, and then entered the main event anyway and...came nowhere. Fortunately the cash games were soft and I ended up leaving with exactly the same bankroll I went down with - and I mean exactly to the penny. Very strange.
Right - time to board I guess, let's hope I can get some sleep so I am at least half-awake for tomorrow's tourney.
posted by Tall Mat at 2:15 AM
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