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I've decided to go and play the Monte Carlo Event at DTD before Xmas. There's already 148 entrants, with seemingly only around 10 or so bought in it appears the rest are likely to be satellite qualifiers.

On the whole I don't think the event will be a great deal pro heavier or a lot tougher than at the £300 weekends, except with a better structure. Of course this is just my opinion and I could be wrong.

Event:

Monte Carlo £250,000 GTD, Dusk Til Dawn, Friday 18th December

Buy in:

£1090

Proposal:

I will be selling 100% of my action for 80% equity. I.e. If you buy a 10% share you would get 8% of any winnings in the tournament.

Record:

This is the first year I've really started playing tournaments as I've always been predominantly a cash player. I return a steady profit from cash most months, though I can't grind as much as I'd like due to working full time. I have however lost a lot of money this year playing house games & taking shots in big games and not stopping.

I chopped the £200 Freezeout at the Vic for £4300, came 5th in the £200 at the Big Slick club for £1500 and most recently 8th in the £150 at DTD for £800 as well as a few mincashes.

Cashes in £150-£750 events total £7050, with me having played 5xDTD £300's, 1 big Slick x £200, 1 Vic x£200, 1 LPC X £750, 3X DTD £150's which = £3,544 in buy ins.

Smaller donkaments aside where I'm probably around £2k up for the year but I've prob only played 10ish.

Other Potential Considerations for stakers:

One thing that may be seen as a potential downside for stakers is that this will be the biggest event I've played to date after the £750LPC. I don't think this will affect me negatively at all. I'm quite used to playing for similar amounts in cash games etc and never play scared etc. I think it will make me focus and try harder if anything but it could be a potential downside for anyone wanting a piece.

I feel I'm playing well in tournaments this year, pretty much always ammassing a stack. Apart from the IPO where I completely blew up and spazzed my chips off I was chipleader in the £150 at DTD losing 2 300k flips before the final table (with 2mil total chips in play) and then a 600k flip with 8 players left to exit 8th. I was also chipleader after day 1 of the £300 and got outdrawn in big pots when all in pre to mincash.

Cliffs notes for section: Feel I've run below ev and felt even more like getting it out of my system here.

Monies:

5%= £54.50
10% = £109 etc....

Payments:

Payments by bank xfer pls.


Any questions? If not, flame away.

Cos

30% gone to Blatch and 10% to Hopkin Green frog.

I'll take 5% mate

cheers bud.

Will pm you for payments nearer the time.

i will have 5% mate

Links to Hendon Mob and OPR please.

Also I'll take 0%  :D

Cheers, booked.

I took prescription medication which got rid of my OPR long ago.

[  ] First time you made that joke. :D

Kind of thinking about turning into a long running one, where the humour comes from the repetition rather than the actual being funniness of it.

Also to quote you on a staking thread for the same event:

so com - Greeky put in his place :)

Erm not at all actually. My hendon mob is inaccurate so I didn't want to mislead people who don't know. I displayed these results in correct fashion in the OP.

I don't think I have a sample of more than 10MTTs in the last 3 months to a particular nickname online as I'm predominantly playing PLO cash but split my other play between Victor Chandler, Blonde, Boylepoker, William Hill and FTP accounts. Hence no OPR. More than willing to supply any of these names to anyone who's not Barry Carter and asks seriously.

I don't use trackers for PLO but some of my small stakes grinding results can be seen in the online tournament staking area.

Finally, my post on Jason's thread was constructive and not trolling, yours was. I put together a sufficient proposal.

Thanks,

For the record, I was 100% trolling, however you might have wanted to mention something was wrong with your hendon mob db in your original post.

What is the error on the DB btw? I had a look and it looks about right:

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=77450

10% ;flushy;

wp Sir

Thanks mate, booked.

Still need to speak to you about something!

Whilst you still dont take poker seriously enough to have a tracker for online I couldnt invest in this or the staking. How you got a stake without a db of hands played is beyond me. Shows how much people like ya I guess!!

Also I enjoyed the quote of how to put up a good request, having said that though your post was detailed enough to tell us what we need to know.

Gl with your staking request and i'm sure i'll see you soon!

I'm not a professional player. If I played for a living I would probably use a tracker for the sake of feeling I have to have one rather than truly benefitting from it.

Probably my biggest strength online is adapting and following gameflow even when multi-tabling. I also quickly develop good notes on opponents which I use.

Also, a win rate for PLO cash may not directly correspond to an ability at NLH tournaments although it will give a sense of a winning player and someone with card sense I agree.

Thanks for your invaluable input Mr Bannatyne.

FFS give him a spin u nit..............

5% please cos

admission of trolling must be a instaban????  ;) my last ban was for trolling and i never even admitted it  ;D

Just in case I have opened a big can of worms here, I just want to add Cos is a mate and I was just yanking his chain in my post(very well imo). Very few on forum I would trust with my money more and although I have never played with him directly, he has always talked a very solid game. Only reason I am not staking him is because I made a decision a while back not to stake anyone for individual tournaments (or Greeks) anymore as I much prefer long term staking plans (I wanted some of his PLO action but he had sold out).

Its ok to troll threads started by Greekstein.

oh yeah of course its in the forum smallprint.... my apologies  ;)

Cheers Paul, booked bud.

Not now thanks.

I took too much with ma skill at omahahs.


not a dig at you cos. I like you and glad you came back!


To be sure, I have no problem investing in you/ no problem sending you monies/thinking you are worth of an investement skill wise.


This whole I don't use a tracker bugs me and has done since you first said it.


IMO the fact that you aren't professional means you should have it even more. it's like 70$, the information you gain looking back on hands and sessions and other players is invaluable. I don't think it would help you or add anything to your game for game flow etc and obviously in plo 'the hud numbers' would matter alot less.

Thing is with poker and a hh for example is one tiny change/mistake can completely change how a hh looks and could change how the hand looked like it played out etc. I just feel that as you are risking other peoples money [because you don't have enough control with your own, I hope I haven't remember that wrong i'm not trying to be rude.....] that you should be able to provide to the cent everything about every hand you play.



Also i'm totally more of a Peter Jones than a Bannatyne.  ;nana;

Cheers guys - 65% gone so I'll be playing whether any more goes or not.

10% gone to BAM via pm. Booked - tyty.

25% left.

Last 25% gone via pm. Tyty.

Will send all stakers a pm soon with payment details.

Cheers,

Cos

fml

Ill sell some of my 30% at 1.7:1 if you want?

Received money from most. Think Blatchington and Hopkington are paying me on the day. Can anyone who hasn't paid pm me with preferred options.

Cheers,

Sure am bud!

Okay I'm going up to Notts tonight to play the last satty and hopefully bink a seat.

I've received payments from Woodsey, Leeds Rhodesey, Bam Bam Bigalow the gimp jigolo, and Sunny.

On the day paying in cash are Blatch, Turny and Hopkin Green Frog. Pls remember guys as I'll either take the piece myself instead or give to someone else.

One time!

Managed to bink a seat in the satty on thursday night which reduces my makeup with Blatch to under £2k. Wiiii.

Had a nightmare table when I first sat down today, on my right was Will Martin and John Eames and on my left Ben Vinson and Rich '8-bet air' Hare. My usual style in tournaments is to accumulate chips early by opening lots and lots of hands but I wasn't getting the rub of the green and was down to 21k and Andy Bradshaw giving me the hairdrier treatment.

One hand I opened 74o and got a call from Bradshaw in the blind. Flop 652 with 2 diamonds. I bet and he called. Turn was the 4 of diamonds and now Bradshaw leads. I know he's full of shit and call. I'm holding 7d too. River is a black queen and I pay off a bet as his KQ black got there. So I'm getting rubbed down, smiled at, just anything to rub me up the wrong way and I wait to make a hand against him. He duly pays me off and I rub him down hard. He starts spewing and I just jump on everything he says. I really think I got to him and he was out not long later, with me on 66,500 and half his chips in my stack.


I managed to leave that table in level 6 or so with 70k before moving to table Snoops and Marenholz for a while. This was the one bad hour in the tournament for me. I doubled up someone blind on blind and tried to bluff Karl 'I sure project an image of happyness at the table' Marenholz who, to his credit made a good call. Luckily the table broke quickly. Not that it was a hard table but I was down from 70k to 43k, not playing my best and just needed the change. So I get moved to table Bradpiece and double up, winning an 80k pot within 2 orbits. I opened AK utg and got 3-bet by the button. LOL i was sure letting that one get through. I 4-bet to induce and he insta shoved. I couldnt snap him off fast enough but it's always horrible when you have AK vs two live ones. His 910 looked scary. The door card was an Ace and just as I felt home and dry the dealer pealed back the J8hh to give oppo an up and down. Turn was the King of hearts and he has a heart, i dont. afhdslkgs. Luckily the river bricked. I picked off a bluff from Jerome to get to 100k. Peaked at 113k and finished on 94. Playing well and with a good table. Let's gogogo today.

Sighhhhhhhhhhhh.

Lost KQ vs AQ for a bad start to the day but grinded back a bit raising a lot and then getting AA all in pre vs AK and chopping.

Not that it's any consolation to anyone who's likely to be reading this apart from Blatch but I'm now in the final of the 300 with decent chips.

Will do a trip report tomorrow. Sorry guys and thanks for the opportunity.

Good consolation IMO