DAVE "EL BLONDIE" COLCLOUGH - European Player of the Year

[TightEnd]

Fascinating stuff

These low starting chip WSOP events must be the biggest/fastest way to burn $ in tournament poker.

[AdamG]

keep enjoying urself and unlucky about the tournaments so far fella.... your time will come and hopefully it will be more than one cash in the WSOP for you !! hopefully better one in the Main Event!!!
good luck m8 keep up the +BR!

[I KNOW IT]

Even though you are getting double the starting stack against entry fee this year ,but with them removing some levels do you think its making much difference ? Better , worse, no difference?

[jezza777]

Hi Dave,

If you were not a sponsored player would you bother playing the tournaments or just stick to the omaha cash games where your edge must be pretty significant?

Good luck at the tables.

Jezza

[elblondie]

Saturday June 16th
Yes now we are definitely in typical Vegas WSOP de javu! Todays tourney was a $1500 NLH and I again scratched around without finding any hand. Again, I lasted about 4 hours until possibly losing patience (is this a crack in the armour?) I had dribbled down to 2100 chip and made a move with AJ suited. The small blind made a reluctant call with the boots AA and I was on my way to the cash games again.
The cash Pot Limit Omaha game is a $25/$25 blind game, but the winner of the previous pot has to put a $50 blind in from whichever position he is. This appears to create a lot of action and the game plays bigger than the average 25/50 game. I was rather unlucky in a couple of big pots today and was 7000 down at one point. Fortunately I made a partial recovery and left losing 1800.
Not a good day at the office!
Bankroll   -$400
IPOD favourite of the day… Ceremony, Joy Division

Even though they have doubled the staring chips they are still pathetic compared to other major competitions. Its like playing themain event at walsall £1000 buy-in and being presented with 4000 chips starting at 25/50 on a 1 hour clock....there would be uproar... and this is meant to be THE WORLD SERIES OF POKER... what a joke.
As you say Craig, they have pulled a flanker by saying they are doube last year, so thats an improvement. What they fail to mention is that last years small events started at 25/25... so they have doubled the first level... overall affect at the start of the tourney is of course NO CHANGE.

[elblondie]

Hi Dave,

If you were not a sponsored player would you bother playing the tournaments or just stick to the omaha cash games where your edge must be pretty significant?

Good luck at the tables.

Jezza

I'd probably still play the tourneys. I find cash games pretty boring ... well 4 card PLO is anyway. Now a good game of 6 card PLO keeps my interest.
I generally like to play a mix , so I think I'll always end up playing both to be honest

[I KNOW IT]

Saturday June 16th
Yes now we are definitely in typical Vegas WSOP de javu! Todays tourney was a $1500 NLH and I again scratched around without finding any hand. Again, I lasted about 4 hours until possibly losing patience (is this a crack in the armour?) I had dribbled down to 2100 chip and made a move with AJ suited. The small blind made a reluctant call with the boots AA and I was on my way to the cash games again.
The cash Pot Limit Omaha game is a $25/$25 blind game, but the winner of the previous pot has to put a $50 blind in from whichever position he is. This appears to create a lot of action and the game plays bigger than the average 25/50 game. I was rather unlucky in a couple of big pots today and was 7000 down at one point. Fortunately I made a partial recovery and left losing 1800.
Not a good day at the office!
Bankroll   -$400
IPOD favourite of the day… Ceremony, Joy Division

Even though they have doubled the staring chips they are still pathetic compared to other major competitions. Its like playing themain event at walsall £1000 buy-in and being presented with 4000 chips starting at 25/50 on a 1 hour clock....there would be uproar... and this is meant to be THE WORLD SERIES OF POKER... what a joke.
As you say Craig, they have pulled a flanker by saying they are doube last year, so thats an improvement. What they fail to mention is that last years small events started at 25/25... so they have doubled the first level... overall affect at the start of the tourney is of course NO CHANGE.

I thought so. I think they have removed a few of the later levels in the main event making it worse ,even with the 20k starting stack this year.
Good luck on the rest of your trip

[elblondie]

Sunday June 17th
Well today brought a refreshing change if not any success. Each time I had sat down at a table so far, I had been surrounded by fresh faces. Today’s starting table contained Evelyn Ng (coincidentally after Snoopy spilled the beans in his blondepoker interview), Andy Black, Humberto Brenes, Mark (Full Tilt) Vos, Josh Arieh and did I mention Evelyn? 
We had 6000 starting chips as we were playing $3000 NLH. I got off to a flyer as most of the stars took an early exit. Andy Black picked up pocket Aces 3 times in the first two levels and managed to get them cracked twice; a common occurrence in the early levels of big competitions. Mark Vos & Humberto also failed to make level 3 and Josh didn’t last much longer.
Meanwhile Evelyn and I both reached the heady heights of 20,000 and may have been amongst the early front-runners. Unfortunately for me I then started a very slow U-turn. I didn’t pick up a hand for 4 hours and managed to play a succession of marginal AceJacks and small pairs rather badly.
I think I may have been a little too scared to lose my above average stack and perhaps got stuck in a defensive mode of play. I can’t help but feel I should have played slightly more aggressively… but maybe I just got a run of bad cards and bad situations. Tomorrow is 6 handed, so I will definitely have my Roland DeWolf head on for that.
I eventually bit the dust just before the dinner break after a very long slow and painful decline in chips. This also meant I didn’t fancy the cash Pot Limit Omaha game as I don’t like to overdo things to much whilst here (I need to pace myself for 6 or 7 weeks hopefully!)
I’ve got to say the tournament turned out to be very painful indeed after getting off to such a good start. I thought I may have been able to give this one a shot. The day with Evelyn wasn’t too bad though… beautiful, classy, tall, slim, (high heelsJ), softly spoken, polite and fun … oh and under all this cunning disguise, she is quite a poker player. Whilst I went backwards, she continued as table chip leader right through to my exit. I hope she goes on and wins it.
Bankroll   -$3400
IPOD favourite of the day… Saturday Night, Suede

[GlasgowBandit]

DC is the bankroll the figure for the day or is that your total loss at the tables since you headed out to Vegas?

[elblondie]

DC is the bankroll the figure for the day or is that your total loss at the tables since you headed out to Vegas?

total since I got here...but it doesn't take into account any expenses 

[Royal Flush]

DC is the bankroll the figure for the day or is that your total loss at the tables since you headed out to Vegas?

total since I got here...but it doesn't take into account any expenses 

Add a zero or 2 then....

[wsopin07]

DC, I have great news...... I won another bracelet...... just kidding.......... but I just read a blog by Eveybaby........  she even named u as a player at her "tough table" the other day,(she knows who u r )  at least u have that going for u? She did look good in those heals but I think she is a little tall for u???  Maybe that is the point

Did I ever tell u the story about the time I pushed on her w/  and then showed her???  Guess i blew my chance

[elblondie]

Monday June 18th
I definitely prefer short-handed games nowadays. So I was looking forward to the $2500 6-handed NLH. I find the game much more intense with the opportunity to get involved all the time. The Simon & Garfunkel was ditched from the IPOD and it was Pistols and loud thrashy pop all the way.
I had an excellent starting table with the young gun ‘ElkY’ being the only recognisable face. The other four fitted into the ‘older honest player’ category…perfect. I was astonished to watch ElkY donk off all his chips trying to run a succession of bluffs against guys who were clearly not going to be bullied into passing second pair. I think this young gun may still have a little to learn.
Anyway everything went swimmingly well and I made the dinner break (woo hoo!) with 70,000 chips and was probably in the top 20. There were about 200 remaining from the original 750.
Unfortunately the dinner break also brought a break in my good fortune. The older honest players had now all been replaced by younger more aggressive models and the chips were beginning to move.
I lost a 75k pot with 99 v AK and lost a succession of smaller flips and suddenly I was struggling to make the money…16k when the average was 50. Fortunately, and surprisingly, I got a couple of walks on my Big Blind during the bubble period (especially considering John Juanda had joined my table).
Straight after the bubble had burst I picked up the blinds with AK and the looked down at 99. I had only 18000 chips and each round was costing 3000. there was no escape as I walked into pocket Aces and a 9 failed to materialise on the flop.
I cashed for a measly $3,507 after having dreams of half a million…that’s Vegas. It was a fun day though 
Bankroll   -$2400
IPOD favourite of the day… Trash, Suede / Problems, Sex Pistols

[tikay]

lol @ "older, honest players"......!

I made a steal once, 2004 it was I seem to recall.. Well, an attempted steal.

[boldie]

lol @ "older, honest players"......!

I made a steal once, 2004 it was I seem to recall.. Well, an attempted steal.

lol..be honest now TK..you thought you had the nuts, didn't you?