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Hello Blondes!

My name is Nathan Davies and I plan on entering the UKIPT and EPT Main Events next week.

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I am offering 40% of my action in these events to Blonde members only.

My History

I started playing poker in 2009, but it wasn't until 2010 that I started taking the game very seriously. I watched many videos and began reading an awful lot of hand histories in various poker forums. It wasn't until 2011 that I found Blonde and I very much liked what I found, with great resources in PHA. Over the last two years I've learned a great deal with help from this board.

At the beginning of 2013 I decided to take the game even more seriously. I have since watched dozens of elite videos on RunItOnce, as well as having private coaching with a couple of top level mtt coaches. This has taken my game to a whole new level.

My Background

As previously mentioned, I began to take poker fairly seriously in 2010. Although I was a small winner in local card room and casino tournaments, I had a hunger to improve. (I don't think I've ever lost this hunger since tbh at whichever levels I've played) I was technically deficient, although I feel I have always had innate people reading abilities, which kept me afloat. Once I'd found all the reading material I could ever hope for in pha forums my technical ability improved massively. Through 2011 and 2012 the majority of my volume in live play came at the cash tables, playing £1/1 and £1/2 at the Vic, DTD, Aspers Northampton and Luton mostly. I did play the occasional live tournament here and there, but it was 2011 that I began playing mtt's online seriously. Due to work taking me to places that didn't have the live game nearby, a decent chunk of my volume became online mtt play. Since the start of 2013, 95% of my volume has been online at Pokerstars.

I play mainly large field large guarantee tournaments. I feel the games I play best in are deepstacked games, like the rebuys and cubed/quad tournaments. I have many very deep runs in these games for the volume I play. These are the games I feel I have learnt the most in, due to the high percentage of excellent players compared to the size of the fields. My deep runs in many big guarantee Sunday tournaments have definitely been influenced by techniques I’ve learnt in these rebuy+addon games.

Throughout this period, I have run my own non-poker related company very successfully. Although I do not earn my income through poker and thus not able to play the volume of a full time player, I do not feel I take it any less seriously than 99% of grinders out there.
 
My Results

My Hendon Poker Mob page honestly is very sparse.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=253543 (http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=253543)

It has the St.George’s cross next to my name. I am actually as Welsh as a Welsh person could be (I grew up in the Welsh equivalent of Mordor), but I’ve lived in England now for many many years, not that you could tell from my accent. :p

I have played very little volume live events that qualify for ranking. (4 UKIPT’s, 1 GUKPT, 1 EPT side, a handful of DTD events inc the MC, and the one Omaha series event that I cashed at in The Vic.)

(I feel I should mention, my last live MTT was the Monte Carlo at DTD. This comp had an excellent structure. (But not as excellent a structure as the EPT Main imo.)
As many people will I’m sure know, I made a deep run in this comp. I enjoyed it immensely; it really brought out the best in me. I feel the EPT will do so too to an even greater magnitude.
However, I pure bubbled this comp with a massive stack.
I blew, attempting to make Kev Allen 5b/f blind vs. blind, which I calculated he would do with over 90% of his 5b range with the given situation. But villain had dem Kings and I didn’t get there with Jack Ten of Blue.
I was happy with my play at the time, the min cash did not mean a great deal to me and had all my own action bar a 5% swap with a good friend.
But soon after and ever since, I have regretted making this play greatly. Although I felt utterly confident that this move was correct in terms of cEV, I feel it is certainly incorrect from a $EV perspective. I just wanted to be totally upfront and honest with you all and say that this taught me a valuable lesson, one that I do not plan on replicating in the future.)

I feel my online results show my true potential.

I play online with the screen name Ultraballs18

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My online MTT results as well as all my screen names can be found here:  http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/pinchop73/ (http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/pinchop73/)

Although I have played relatively small volume, my results include:

5th in WCOOP#1 KickOff Sept 2013 for $47k
Chopping the Big$109 heads up for $17k
Outright victories in the $55r, the $33c, the $55c and the $33q.
Many separate Stars FT’s in the above events as well as the $33r, $22c, scheduled $109fo’s, rebuy events on Party, 6th Trex on FTP.
A very deep run to 14th in the Sunday Warm-up
A very deep run to 11th in the Party Sunday comp (disgusting AK<AT aipf with a 678K9 board for CL to bust lol)

(I've had the last week off work and have grinded the WCOOP version of my favourite deep games. It's been great fun playing in such tough fields! I've hardly played since my event 1 coup and so was hungry to do well. I managed a 52/1042 in the $320 HLHE/PLO WCOOP #49 comp and 70/1526 in the $320 WCOOP #55 as well as a lot of other deep runs that didn't quite culminate in a huge bink. I am overall very happy with how I've played in the toughest series on the internet though, and feel I can carry this confidence over to these live competitions.)

Overall, due to my live people reading skills (and imo my own controlled demeanour) I feel I have a bigger edge versus the field in a live bird compared to an online comp even though my results don’t necessarily show this due to my lol sample size. This just means I’m due a live score obviously. :p

Previous Staking Threads

See links below for my previous staking threads. I have only ever been staked for previous action sold through blonde. Any other volume I have ever played has always been my own action. All my financial transactions have imo been very quick and concise, whether it be returning winnings or buying small pieces in other good value packages.

Sunday Deepstack Package

 http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60999.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60999.0)

Sunday Package inc deep Warm-Up run
 http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60802.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60802.0)

Live EPT550 side
 http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60595.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60595.0)

UKIPT London
 http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60470.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60470.0)

Preperation

On my deep run in the MC this year I felt bright as a button all throughout, whilst I could visibly see others loosing their concentration intensity levels late in the days. I have put some monster cash game sessions in in the past too. I feel confident that I will be able to maintain high concentration levels throughout this whole event.
I guess regularly working 13+hour days for days on end does have it’s uses.

Action

I am offering 40% of my action to the UKIPT Main (£1100) and EPT Main Events (£5250).

£1100 + £5250 = £6350


Therefore 1% = £63.50


I plan on playing day 1A of UKIPT (Wed Oct 2nd) + day 1A of the EPT Main (Sunday Oct 6th)

Although I have a decent record against high level thinking pro’s at HSMTT’s on stars, I feel I am even better at extracting value from lesser skilled opponents due to my live cash experience.

I will of course provide as regular updates as I can in the thread, hopefully we can get a decce sweat going!

In the event that I am on the Final Table of the UKIPT Main on Sunday I will be on the next flight to Brazil either be delaying start of EPT to day 1B or just refund altogether, see how I feel.

Payement can be made to my stars account, or Bank wire. PM for details. EDIT: If I don't sell out I will have to reconsider my EPT entry. Let's cross that bridge when we get to it, hopefully won't need to.

Please post any queries you may have about my offer and I will be happy to answer. If there is any information that I have not provided in the OP then feel free to ask and I will be happy to reply.

Let’s win the lot!

Cheers now,

Nathan Davies

I'll have 1% why not, glad to see no mark up.

A cheeky 2% please

2 percent please. 

2 pls.

2% pls and good op

I am short of sweats and work is getting in the way of this EPT - so I will have 2.5% Nathan, really fairly priced as no doubt mark up in UKIPT would have been fine.

I will ship on starts tonight when confirmed.

Booked.


cheers man, booked.


Meet you down there bud? I still owe you a Nando's! :P


Booked.


Thanks mate, see you down there hopefully?  :)


Booked Shaun, cheers for the kind words.  ;hattip;

Bit of a dreamy team so far!

Woodsey - 1%
Atkinator - 2%
Ryan - 2%
Rfgqohfjaswguwhuadfhbgpahui - 2 %
Eso - 2% (literally can't loose now)
Claypole - 2.5%

28.5% remains

2 please Nathan

2.5% please.

I'm not as Bala as Eso but I'd like 1% plz, can't see me playing much poker for rest of year but still need the sweats...

Great op and good luck us  :)up

Will take 2 if you type out nobody folds 90% of their 5 bet range.

Honestly I worked out all the combinations he'd 5b/f compared to his 5b/c and then... ;marks;

Nobody folds 90% of their 5b range.

:kiss:

Woodsey - 1%
Atkinator - 2%
Ryan - 2%
Rfgqohfjaswguwhuadfhbgpahui - 2 %
Eso - 2% (literally can't loose now)
Claypole - 2.5%
Todd - 2%
Sunny - 2.5%
Leatherman - 1%
TapisDoobs - 2%

21% available

Guys, apologies for this, but I've just had some business commitments come in for next week that I literally can't turn down.

I'm going to have to cancel this stake.

Anyone that has sent already I will try to sort out tonight.

Apologies once again and thanks for the support.

Guys I feel awful having let everybody down.

Just had a thought. Would you guys prefer to substitute the EPT main with the UKIPT £2k event,  instead of cancelling altogether?
This event is on the Saturday and Sunday only which fits into my schedule?
Just that I'm now committed for every week day next week.

Could you guys whom have shown interest let me know what you all think? I can carry over the £ equity and increase your % stake accordingly, or readjust your £owned and maintain your %. Obviously in the event that I'm still chugging in the ukipt main I will refund for the £2k event. (£2200)
If we do a straight carry over 1% would becomes 0.01924% of the new package. I can't take any more action though, as a full carry over would be 36.56%, I wouldn't want to sell any more.

If you'd prefer it to stay cancelled then that's obviously fine.

Apologies for the messing about.

Am happy for same ££ expresssed as a % and will ship later on.

No problem. As a good gesture for m3ssing you all about I will round up your %. I realise its std to round down and mark up in this spot and this kind of puts me out of pocket, but what's a few quid between friends.  ;angel; Right?

So 1% simply becomes 2%

So to take Eso as an example, his 2% for £127.00 now becomes 4% of the new package.

As an aside, due to it's weekend slot, I think this 'high roller' event will have it's fair share of city boys. If you know what I mean.  ;whistle;

I imagine that the UKIPT 2k is bound to be tougher than the UKIPT main, and probably tougher than the EPT.

It is GUKPT Luton in a couple of weeks, and their Grand Final in November.  The former must have a softer field than a 2k on during an EPT festival, and even though I have never played the Grand Final, I'd expect that to be true too.  I wouldn't even think about playing that 2k you mentioned.

I'll take 2.5pc of the 2k HR.

Whats going on with UKIPT?  Just totally cancelled?

The new package would be ukipt and ukipt high roller.

So if you so wished, you could carry over you £equity and have 4% in both

If you do not wish to carry over then this is absolutely fine. Will not disagree on which field will be the toughest etc. Who knows at the end of the day. Afraid I'm unavailable for Luton otherwise I'd be there. But I wouldn't look for backing for it anyway.

Please could all other investors get in touch to let me know what they'd like to do. If you also wish to cancel then that's fine.
Cancelling the lot is the cleanest way out but I didn't want to feel like I've let you guys down so thought I'd offer an alternative.
Maybe I should've just started a new thread.

Cheers

Regards the £2k. Its a 20k starting, 45min clock day1, 1hr clock day 2. Sounds like a game I'd relish.

Woodsey - 2% ?
Atkinator - 4% (confirmed)
Ryan - 4% (confirmed)
Adam Pick- 4 % ?
Eso - 4% (confirmed)
Claypole - 5% ?
Sunny - 5%  (confirmed)
Leatherman - 2% ?
TapisDoobs - 2% (confirmed)

That's 32% provisionally.

Once everybody decides I'll see if there's any % left.

Ah ok cool. Yeah 4pc in both is cool for me. Thanks

Alright pal, bought mostly for ept sweat/ good value, not too bothered with ukipt £2k, would personally rather cancel and buy in you in a future ept etc....



...... This guarantees the stake a profit :)

That's cool Todd, fully understand bud. Will ship back to you as soon as I'm home.

Put me down for 2 of the new package.  Cheers

I'm happy for it to be rolled over to the new package.

Ok guys updated the list above.

With Todd's cancellation and Doobs' reduction there is now an additional 8% available in the new package, available at the same rate as the original investors. More may become available, depends on the above decisions.

So 2% is £63.50

I need to put a caveat. If i do not sell the full 40% by the start of ukipt (12 noon tomorrow) then I will have to cancel the stake. Cheers

Nice one pal, if poss could you send back via bank (pretty sure you have my details) as pretty much never play online anymore and wont have time to play through £127 etc... If not np.


GL in ukipts

Yes that is ok.  :)

Obv np Todd, you know I'm good for that. Sent.

Cheers Woodsey

Confirmed -

Woodsey - 2%
Atkinator - 4%
Ryan - 4%
Eso - 4%
Sunny - 5%
TapisDoobs - 2%
Adam Pick- 4 %
Leatherman - 2%

That's 27% confirmed.


Claypole - 5% ?


So certainly there's 8% left of the package still to sell, with a possible additional 5%.

2% is £63.50

I'm in. How do you want the coin? I'd prefer stars but Bank xfer fine too.

Whichever way you prefer buddy.

List updated.

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Soz only just caught up with this, yep I'm still in obv...

Eso will vouch 4 me....  ;whistle;

If ya can send me digits I'll ship via bank..

 ;slavedriver;

Cheers bud. I'm pretty certain Shaun will want in too, but just in case he doesn't I'll keep him prov until contact.

8% left

4% if available please

Sorry mate haven't looked at blonde -

I'll take the 5% so what do I owe you? Will ship bank later or stars let me know

Woodsey - 2%
Atkinator - 4%
Ryan - 4%
Eso - 4%
Sunny - 5%
TapisDoobs - 2%
Adam Pick- 4 %
Leatherman - 2%
Shaun - 5%
Redfox - 4%

4% available

bank transfer please

PM sent

Shipped

Send me bank details once you know u are deffo playing please.

PM sent.

Yes regged both these now. Guess I should lock it there.

Moniez sent £64

Ref:- Leatherman

gl us ;)

Will send money tonight - good luck!

No probs. We're underway!

Been a swingy one. Uo to 24k, down to c5050, now on 16k at 3/600.

KK in 3b Ahigh flops twice. Value cut myself a couple times too inc K9<KK on 359KA board. Got there couple times vs Middy too though, not even real.

Back to it.

I sent you money on Stars earlier but I didn't get an email so wonder if it hasn't sent :-/ will obv sort out when next at computer if not

Gl mate

npnp

Just doubled, guy calls it off with 66, we set over set him oi oiii!

28k

Shit didn't realise this started today, sending now.

Heattttttt

66k   AK>99

win all ins.

Sent £158.75 by bank transfer. Hope this is correct.

Best of luck - great start, let's hope it continues!

120k

Oioiiiiii, gee lll.

oioi chip leader.

Sorry guys I'm out.

I attempted to get an overly aggro large stack to fold a turned top set. Gutted.
Value cut myself AQdd vs T8o on A28T5
Bust KJs into AA.

Hello all!

We've just kicked off in the HR. Playing 3 handed with two older gentlemen.

  :)

glglgl!

Ha! Diplomacy rules.

Good luck.

Yeah this and good to meet you the other day Nathan.

60k

Bryn Kenney just sat 2 to the left of me in the seat of the trader I just busted though.
I will warn everybody that I have literally never won a pot vs him online no matter how far I ahead I've been.
At least he doesn't know me.

Good luck, good luck!

Online is rigged. We're due against Bryn now. It's 50/50, either he has it or he doesn't. These 100% completely true facts about poker should help you win! :)

Down to around 45k at dinner, pretty sparse three levels. Rather have heat later anyways

170 entered btw, bout 100 left, pays 27

Bust guys :(

C/r'd Ac Qd on a Ad Kd Td flop, called it off and bricked vs the 5d 6d that I'd peeled out the big on of an elder gentleman.

Just want to thank all investors for this opportunity. Having had a little time to to contemplate I wish to apologise for the mistake in the line I took in my final hand. If my 32% had come in I'm confident we could have cashed decently but it wasn't to be.
Considering I was sat at the table of 3 of the Final Tablists of this event I feel we faired really well, felt more than confident playing vs each of them. We'll get em next time.

Cheers