blonde poker

 

Got a text message from the no.2 heads-up player in the world, Chubby Nowab announcing his, Colchester Kev, and Burnley John's arrival in Vegas at about 4pm. I took them over to the Palms $200 tourney but none of us made the money. I lasted longest but went out in a huge 3-way pot holding 5h6h on a 4d7d8d flop. One guy had AdKd and I donated him all of my chips not believing that he had a made flush. I pushed all-in to protect my hand against another diamond on the turn and the guy must have thought it was Xmas AND his birthday. I'm really looking forward to tomorrows $5000 PL as the structure allows a lot of play and I'm expecting 400-500 runners making a prize pool of $2-2.5m. My strategy will be to try and look for opportunities to get involved in multi-way raised pots with suited connectors when I have position. However, I won't be playing hands out of position to avoid feeding the pot for later position raisers and then having to bet draws out of position. The blinds starts at 25-25 and there is no antes so I feel $5000 chips is enough to be patient. Due to the nature of PL, it is very important that I am prepared to lay down AA, KK or top pair after the flop, as trickier players will be calling with lesser hands looking to flop 2 pair or trips which they would not do as much in No Limit. Changing the subject, Simon Nowab and Burnley John (curretntly ranked number 3 in Europe) have over won $500,000 dollars in the last 12 months between them, but neither of them have a current sponsorship deal, I think these 2 guys are great characters on the circuit and it would be nice if one of the web sites decided to invest in them, as they would definitely get their sponsors more PR than most of the sponsored players who are not as networked as they are - these 2 guys talk to everyone and have a rapour across all sectors of the poker community, and it would be great for this double act to get some support. Without meaning to be rude, some of the players who are currently sponsored cannot hold a candle to the results that these 2 odd balls have achieved. I have no personal axe to grind here myself, as I don't get on with either of them, but they have brought in the results.....