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Afternoon Blonde

We are back again, with a little more notice this time.  Long term readers of my staking packages will be disappointed to see we didn't bubble nor blast off 20k chips in 2 levels in the last one:

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=67387.0

We did pay the wrong person for a small bit of japes though.  Which is now fixed.

About me

My name is Chris Roberts, been playing poker best part of 18 years.  I have played throughout the UK, and played a number of mid level competitions with occasional success:

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=178987#

I play online mainly as Rab90 Stars/Tilt.  I ran a profitable stake on here online for 6 months or so, as well as a couple of busts.  Playing regularly I guess I could probably beat low limit online MTT's however most of my play now is pretty lol Friday night punting whilst my Mrs watches Vampire diaries.

Tournament


I am off to Vegas 23rd February for a week.  My plan was to play the $250 Venetian deepstack, but this WSOP event has just been brought to my attention:

http://www.wsop.com/tourney/tourneydetails.asp?groupID=1280

The main is a $1,675 buy in, $750k guaranteed.  I plan to play day 1B (26/2).  I will likely play regardless, my wife is an utter punter and doesn't even want me to sell any.....however she also has an unquestionable faith in my ability to do anything so might be somewhat mad/biased


Vegas Experience

This will be my 9th trip to Vegas I think, admittedly I was 13 on my first and didn't play much :) I have won daily tournaments at Imperial Palace, Ceasers and MGM.  I have booked wins in the majority of cash sessions played.  I do Vegas properly, I will not be heavily rested eating All American Dave's and doing yoga.  I am more likely to be wearing a pink tiara drinking frozen Margarita from a Statue of Liberty shaped glass.  I need to make that pretty clear.  However, I will have a chunk of my own money on the line and I find my results drinking are exponentially better than those sober.

The Sell

Not really sure how much I want to sell, so an interest thread at present.  I will probably sell a minimum of 25% max of 50%.  I will update regularly and I have a US tax exemption reference so will be fine to get any wins free of tax etc.  That was from a fruit machine win, not poker lol

10% $167.50
5% $83.75
2.5% $41.88

I haven't decided to do with the exchange rate yet.  I clearly will work something mutually fair.  So will keep it in $ for now.

Flame away.  New territory for me.

Confirmation my wife hates money.

5% please.

Brilliant OP.

5% please.

5 please Chris

Geo

5% pls Chris

5% please

Cheers all. That's all booked. Anything after may be waitlist. I have been told by the boss I am not allowed to sell 50%.

A weird and wonderful plan on $ conversion to follow

5% if any left.

Steve

I'll book you Steve. Lucky money. Def on hold there

I'll take 5

Too many heros. Booked Todd.

I am definitely capping there.

65% Me
5% Longines
5% Edgascoine
5% Steve Swift
5% Dewi
5% shipitgood
5% Toddswain
5% Geo

I will be changing dollars at various times this month. I propose to lock the rate at what I achieve on my next trade.  I tend to use Debenhams with the Money saving expert special so not complete mug rates. I'll post slip straight after to show and lock £ amounts.  If anyone has $ at spot and I manage to get it then it will be at spot.  Clearly currency is fluctuating big at the moment and I don't have $ so if I give XE rates I will be losing straight away on zero mark up. Any return dollars will be advertised on blonde and likely at spot due to people wanting WSOP $$$. This will be at the day of trade rather than date of score.

Does that make sense? It will be roughly £67-£68 I think per 5%. I'll wait for some opinions on that and then circulate bank details next week. No rush for payment. Ideally before I travel.

Please just PM an amount and a bank account and I'll get it there. Not fussed on FX and don't be shy to chase if I am slow as I'm not on Blonde as much as once upon a time.

+1 to this

OK. It's £1,000,223 each :)

I will post an amount and bank details later this week

Rate I got today was 1.228 which also felt like a swift kick in the nuts.

By my maths that's £68.20 per 5% share. I'll PM bank details later.

Ideally cash to be received by the 23rd so I don't have to worry post travelling.

Thanks again

Money sent

Good luck mate

Geo

Thanks both, received! Also from Dewi.

Sent, good luck and enjoy the trip!

Received. Tyty

Sent, enjoy and good luck!

Received tyty

Sent Gl and have fun.

Steve

Received tyty

Pics of you playing in a pink tiara drinking frozen Margarita from a Statue of Liberty shaped glass and I'll donate 5% of the buyin to a charity of your choice 😄

Great OP, all the best for the comp

I should warn you I have form.....

And before Vinny says it, yes I was thin then :)

All paid up. Thanks guys. Better start my packing. We leave next Wednesday.

Having 65% is relatively tough maths. Will release another 5% if anyone wants it. Think the Mrs has suddenly realised the exchange rate.....

I'll take it if no one new wants to join the team

I will have 5% if there's any spare
Pm bank details please

Thanks Tony.  I will take Todds note as a suggestion to expand the team.  Plus paying everyone the same amount is better for my maths.

I will PM you, welcome aboard.

Revised Team:

Toddswain - 5% (paid)
Dewi Cool - 5% (paid)
Steve Swift - 5% (paid)
Edgascoine - 5% (paid)
Longines - 5% (paid)
Shipitgood - 5% (paid)
Geo the Sarge - 5% (paid)
Tonytats - 5% (pending)
Overtheborder - 60% (hopefully in suitcase)

Yea happy with that

Sent thanks good luck

 All paid up. We are off in 3 days. Chaining vitamins and working every minute until Tuesday night most likely, then somehow winged it to go Man City vs Monaco in the prawn sandwich boxes whilst my Mrs packs!  Not 100% sure how we got that one through. We fly off 915 Wednesday. Will chuck up a few fun updates and then the real stuff starts Sunday.

First four days we have Diana Ross, Jeffersson Starship and Bon Jovi. You best believe I am paying for this comp....

Solid start, just noticed I have three nights comp at the hotel I have already paid for.  Nothing like shopping around and that.

Anyways....getting exciting now!

We have arrived safely. Still not status of liberty shaped cups. Got 4 Excalibur chalices though. So we are stepping up....

Wife can't hack the pace, so we got our first poker tournament, chopped it 3 ways*. Then stepped to cash and rivered quads first hand to stack a bro**

The heater is real. Pressure is on. Pretty sure our budget is reliant on winning lol both Vegas and Annual. Playing 1B Sunday. 3pm Vegas time. Will be in from the start.

*was 15 runners. We got in 9 handed with 8BB,  got it in good once, 34hh >QQ A7o >AQ....skill game
**blasted it off.

Ha ha great start mate gl gl

Still no Statue of Liberty margarita glass :( chalice game is strong though

#tooballatorefill

We are off tomorrow. Spending today in the lab studying...jokes just ordered a Long Island with breakfast :) did watch a Doug Polk poker hand this morning whilst my Mrs was doing make up. Guy turned a gutter and scooped the biscuits. We might just try that. Seemed to work fine ha ha

Next challenge is getting all the $ out before tomorrow without getting stung for charges. The plan was win days 1-4 [ ] went well

338 so far in day 1. Some big names, updates on WSOP

Meanwhile, hero still on the long islands :)

http://www.wsop.com/m/updates/?grid=1280&tid=15499&dayof=154991

81 through from yesterday from 408. It should be a biggy. We survived the Saturday night too.

Scary in all my Vegas trips this is my first time at the Rio. We are bought in, so non playing grimm is off.  Evidence below. Off in 3 hours ish.

Enjoy

Have fun!

We are off. 10 handed. Joy joy

Gl us

Table a bit passive. We are seat 8.

Very little pre flop stuff. Tame on streets. Think we may have to nit dodge.

Seat 1 a little aggro. Seat 6 may have moves.

Starting stack 25 mins into level 2

enjoy the experience!

Thanks pads

First hand of note. Open early from rocky looking player. we flat AK on button. Deception and pot control. SB calls (aggro seat 1) K84 flop flop we bet 400 about 60% pot. Call call. Q turn no flush. Seat 1 leads for 1100. Fold we call. He bets 2300 on 4 river.  Not a bad card for us. We now beat Q8, air and most Ks. Seems FOS we call and he mucks

25k ish from 20k going to 75/150. 15 levels today so plenty to do.

Aggro guy gone already. Got 100BBs in pre with AKo against blatant rock who had 4b my open with aggro 3b'ing

We lose two ugly ones. Board puts a straight on which we already had 4567, we have 8, 8 river, we have to sigh fold river as flush out too.

A few hands later. Button limps and we catch runner runner flush. We lead and call raise. He has better flush. Check raise was option. Picked cheaper one likely. Down to 14k. Going to lock up a bit.

Still got about 14k. Tables opened up a bit. Doing a lot of folding.

150/300/25

Seeing some pretty savage stuff play wise coupled with some tricky players.

Phone in red so will need to charge. Therefore no news not necessarily bad news.

Rented a charging cube so back in game.

Just stacked a bro. We have 109hh on 269ss we make it 1800 he raises to 5k with only 1.5k behind. His range is draw heavy. We stick it in and hold against 78dd. Up to 26.5k at 200/400/50

Down to 8900.

House over house and raise cut off AAx flop into BB. Continued and had to give up with draws etc

300/600/100 edging to dinner break

Got down to 4.5k doubled last hand before dinner. QQ <A9 10k at 400/800/100 need the double double

Back above starting stack 21k. Various good shit. Splashy table so still not comfort zone.

Sorry guys. Shove KK for 11k called by 44. Goes x3564

Thanks for the chance

Vul Chris, Gg and enjoy the rest of the holiday!

Yeah ul mate enjoy the rest of it

ul Chris

Gg