Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

I'm in for 5% of whatever^* you decide to play.

*excludes $111,111, $50,000 or $25,000 events!

Likewise "IN".

Was in for the $3k first. 

I'm sure once MereNovice has done his thing everything will be in order.

We can't expect you to keep track of everything and win.

Yes, CONFIRMED, sorry if I am making this confusing.

EVERYONE who was in the original package is in for ALL the additionals, including the $3k WSOP PLO8.

Most folks, including you, paid for the original package, but not the "additionals" so it will just need adjusting on the "returns due" thing. It will be x% of the profit only of the additionals. 

[tikay]

So, with that done & dusted (subject to Audit & repayments), now I need to get my head in gear for the Main Event.......

Will you prepare? 

How will you prepare? 

If you could have 30 minutes with any other player to discuss tactics who do you think you'd choose?

1) Crap myself.

2) Repeat 1.

3) I think I'd need to choose a "mind coach" rather than a poker coach, self-belief & confidence, or lack of, is my issue. I actually would be more confident if I were playing the $10,000 Omaha, in truth. I'll need to think who would be the best person to take advice from. Myself, probably, that's where the problem is. I'll spend a bit of time looking at my THM I think, to give me a boost.

I did chat with Alex, & he told me that if I found Aces, with a raiser in front, it would be best, given my image, to just flat the raise, as everyone would run a mile once I raised. KENDALL HAS ACES.

Hmm, Aces 4 way.......

[Tal]

Just imagine them all in your underpants.

I'm sure I read somewhere that's what you're supposed to do.

[Machka]

I'm in for 5% of whatever^* you decide to play.

*excludes $111,111, $50,000 or $25,000 events!

Likewise "IN".

Was in for the $3k first. 

I'm sure once MereNovice has done his thing everything will be in order.

We can't expect you to keep track of everything and win.

Yes, CONFIRMED, sorry if I am making this confusing.

EVERYONE who was in the original package is in for ALL the additionals, including the $3k WSOP PLO8.

Most folks, including you, paid for the original package, but not the "additionals" so it will just need adjusting on the "returns due" thing. It will be x% of the profit only of the additionals. 

I just read your additional reply to Karabiner above, didn't see that when I posted, makes sense now.

This is a good time to ask a question I'd been wondering about for a while.

Do you, or poker players in general, enjoy taking backers (stakers?)?

I understand it from a professional poker players point of view but as a recreational player do you find it adds unnecessary stress to the game?

Don't get me wrong I'm immensely glad you do, I've had a great time following your antics for the last 2 years.

[Karabiner]

You do realise that anything less than a final table appearance will be considered to be a failure by your investors so get your ripping moves sorted.

No pressure like.

[tikay]

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[booder]

That's one to cross off your bucket list.

[Machka]

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1) Crap myself.

2) Repeat 1.

Here we, the royal we, go!

[kinboshi]

Rip them all a new arse.

[Sheriff Fatman]

So, with that done & dusted (subject to Audit & repayments), now I need to get my head in gear for the Main Event.......

Will you prepare? 

How will you prepare? 

If you could have 30 minutes with any other player to discuss tactics who do you think you'd choose?

1) Crap myself.

2) Repeat 1.

3) I think I'd need to choose a "mind coach" rather than a poker coach, self-belief & confidence, or lack of, is my issue. I actually would be more confident if I were playing the $10,000 Omaha, in truth. I'll need to think who would be the best person to take advice from. Myself, probably, that's where the problem is. I'll spend a bit of time looking at my THM I think, to give me a boost.

I did chat with Alex, & he told me that if I found Aces, with a raiser in front, it would be best, given my image, to just flat the raise, as everyone would run a mile once I raised. KENDALL HAS ACES.

Hmm, Aces 4 way.......

I get the impression that you very much like to 'feel' your way into the bigger tournaments, as with the $3k jobbie earlier on.  The beauty of the ME is that you have loads of time to do this with the 2 hour levels.

I think they play an extra level on day 1 now compared to 2010 when I played it, but day 1 is very much a day where you can pick and choose your spots without much pressure to get involved unnecessarily.  With each little milestone (e.g. first flop CBet that gets through, etc) you'll relax a bit more and the old instincts kick in.

It'll never feel like any other tournament, because of the whole media circus that comes with it, but any feelings of being out of place soon subside and you'll soon realise there are tonnes of players around you who are literally clueless by comparison.  Eventually you'll hear about a 'big name' exiting early somewhere in the room, and those little "ha, I outlasted so and so" moments are a great little boost.

If doubt kicks in, just remind yourself that you're living the dream and remember to enjoy being a part of it.  From what I've read over the last few weeks, no-one thrives more from being involved/soaking the experience up, etc than you, and that's when your A-game kicks in.

[tikay]

So, with that done & dusted (subject to Audit & repayments), now I need to get my head in gear for the Main Event.......

Will you prepare?  

How will you prepare?  

If you could have 30 minutes with any other player to discuss tactics who do you think you'd choose?

1) Crap myself.

2) Repeat 1.

3) I think I'd need to choose a "mind coach" rather than a poker coach, self-belief & confidence, or lack of, is my issue. I actually would be more confident if I were playing the $10,000 Omaha, in truth. I'll need to think who would be the best person to take advice from. Myself, probably, that's where the problem is. I'll spend a bit of time looking at my THM I think, to give me a boost.

I did chat with Alex, & he told me that if I found Aces, with a raiser in front, it would be best, given my image, to just flat the raise, as everyone would run a mile once I raised. KENDALL HAS ACES.

Hmm, Aces 4 way.......

I get the impression that you very much like to 'feel' your way into the bigger tournaments, as with the $3k jobbie earlier on.  The beauty of the ME is that you have loads of time to do this with the 2 hour levels.

I think they play an extra level on day 1 now compared to 2010 when I played it, but day 1 is very much a day where you can pick and choose your spots without much pressure to get involved unnecessarily.  With each little milestone (e.g. first flop CBet that gets through, etc) you'll relax a bit more and the old instincts kick in.

It'll never feel like any other tournament, because of the whole media circus that comes with it, but any feelings of being out of place soon subside and you'll soon realise there are tonnes of players around you who are literally clueless by comparison.  Eventually you'll hear about a 'big name' exiting early somewhere in the room, and those little "ha, I outlasted so and so" moments are a great little boost.

If doubt kicks in, just remind yourself that you're living the dream and remember to enjoy being a part of it.  From what I've read over the last few weeks, no-one thrives more from being involved/soaking the experience up, etc than you, and that's when your A-game kicks in.

Thanks Curtis.

It depends to a large degree on what quality table I get. If it is full of Farmer Joes, or Aggro Hotshots, etc.

As you say, once I find my feet I'll be OK, though if I get in a hole early, my head will be in bits. I was in deep poo in my $3k thing early doors, but I re-assesssed what was what, took stock, & gathered myself together quite well, & only then did I actually settle, & start to enjoy it.

I plan to sit quite for a few orbits, unless an opportunity arises, & see what's what.

[pokerfan]

Would the old  utg count as an opportunity ?

Gl Sir.

[tikay]

I'm in for 5% of whatever^* you decide to play.

*excludes $111,111, $50,000 or $25,000 events!

Likewise "IN".

Was in for the $3k first. 

I'm sure once MereNovice has done his thing everything will be in order.

We can't expect you to keep track of everything and win.

Yes, CONFIRMED, sorry if I am making this confusing.

EVERYONE who was in the original package is in for ALL the additionals, including the $3k WSOP PLO8.

Most folks, including you, paid for the original package, but not the "additionals" so it will just need adjusting on the "returns due" thing. It will be x% of the profit only of the additionals. 

I just read your additional reply to Karabiner above, didn't see that when I posted, makes sense now.

This is a good time to ask a question I'd been wondering about for a while.

Do you, or poker players in general, enjoy taking backers (stakers?)?

I understand it from a professional poker players point of view but as a recreational player do you find it adds unnecessary stress to the game?

Don't get me wrong I'm immensely glad you do, I've had a great time following your antics for the last 2 years.

Brilliant question.

We are all different. Some thrive on it, some wilt. I truly don't know how folks cope when they are staked & it all goes tits up. There are some in 5 & 6 figures of make-up, & it does not seem to bother them a jot. (Not saying that is wrong, far from it). But if that were me, I think I'd have to shoot myself. We are all different, as to money, especially other peoples money. Mostly, I think, a generation thing, as to money management. The older generation are more inhibited, the younger, less so. Not a dig, & not necessarily bad, just how it is, or seems. 

Me being staked? It un-nerves me a bit, I do worry that it'll all go wrong, & I'll feel silly. Truth is, I think it has probably helped me. I was actually chuffed to bits that folks wanted a bit, so that boosted my confidence.

If you've been sat at a PLO8 Table for 14 hours, are low-stacked, & getting no material, & the chat is a bit edgy, or flat, there IS a temptation to say "oh sod it, I'll just punt it off", but in those moments, I always thought of the stakers. As a stakee, it is a matter of pride to return a profit, so you dig in that bit more, or I do.

I would have played my little PLO8 schedule with or without staking, as I had saved the dollars I won last year, $6,000, which I took with me. Sharing that fun with others made it 100 times more fun, but if we had lost, the pain would have been horrible.

As to the Main Event, no way on God's earth, ever, could I see myself paying that. $10,000! I still remember the awe & amazement I felt when I played my first £100 Tourney, at Gala Notts. I vividly remember thinking "what would my Dad think, £100!"

There are some other side issues which have complicated matters, too, (next door-related) more of which later.

[tikay]

Would the old  utg count as an opportunity ?

Gl Sir.

Ha!

Not UTG, no, but I've resolved to play, depending on table villains, & position, action in front of me, a particular range of hands paying heed, mostly, to position.

It includes most suited connectors from 5-6 up, ALL pairs, & the obvious paint-paint stuff. Just ABC poker, basic stuff. In NLH, I only know ABC. Hit a few sets, off we go.

I've also resolved NOT to limp in, though I will peel in in various situations.

I have a dreadful temptation to dust off the occasional 3 bet if I think villain is a bit weak, too. Not sure the aspirations reach as far as 4 betting though.....

[tonytats]

Best of luck tikay in the main

I've just got back from a great 2 weeks at the nugget , I chopped one at binions ,bubbled an aria lunch time tourney  had a couple of small wins at cash , won about 5/6 k on roulette ,played the least amount of poker ever ,had the best time ended up spending 1100$ in 2 weeks ,had some epic meals really enjoyed it all goo luck enjoy it