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« Reply #1680 on: May 30, 2012, 03:53:25 PM »

Absolutely loving this diary atm mate, really interesting stuff. hope you run better at 1knl, keep up the gd work
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« Reply #1681 on: May 30, 2012, 04:50:48 PM »

Funny picture by Matchbook.. wtf is Jungleman doing? Cheesy

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I just don't really get matchbook's business model. Advertising a betting exchange with fairly unknown poker players? Matthew Benham is a smarter man than me though.
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« Reply #1682 on: May 30, 2012, 04:57:28 PM »

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« Reply #1683 on: May 30, 2012, 05:04:41 PM »

Yeh I agree, they are basically in order of both whats most likely to happen and what I would prefer to happen. Although ofc 3 >1 if I can find the next Facebook. I watched Social Network a few nights ago btw, definitely recommend.


If I aksed myself 2 years ago where I'd be in 5 years I think I would have had a very different answer..

At this time I was just graduating from university. I had graduated in Journalism, I enjoyed writing and was mostly passionate about writing about politics, law and sport. I would regularly go to Brammal (spell-check Cheesy)l Lane and write  a match report of just write reports from my University games. I often wouldn't even send them to magazines/newspapers and genuinely enjoyed writing about things I was passionate in. I write a lot on Blonde and I write very quickly and don't spell-check/reread etc but when I take time to write I write very differently and really enjoy it. It's very relaxing for me and kind of helps keep my mind off things.

So of course poker was still my passion and I continued to look into areas on how I could get involved. My dissertation was seperated into two parts, a) A boring essay that I spent a decent amount of time on and got a great mark. and b) A poker magazine which I spend absolutely ages on and got a shit mark. I had managed to get the top top worldwide poker players and people in the industry to contribute, I spent ages making sure the writing was better than Jesse May's and I had spent a ridiculous amount of time on the design which was something I had always struggled with.

The tutor who marked it didn't appreciate the time spent or the quality of all the research/writing. For those who did a business magazine I basically had their version of Alan Sugar and Mark Zuckerburg (sp) was pretty tilted but meh..

So around 3 months later I email Barry Carter about working in poker journalism. He told me that PokerPlayer were looking for a new staff member. As expected many many people want to be poker journalists and thus there was a lot of interest.  I was really excited about the interview as going down to London on the train in a suit and going to a big company whose magazines you had bought every month for 2 years is obviously great.

The first interview was good, I can't remember much, but I remember the guys making a great impression on me and 1 hour later I was going back to Newcastle on the train. I can't remember exactly when this was but I think Man United had just beat Roma 5-1 or something.

Surprisingly I heard back from PokerPlayer and they invited me down for a second interview. In this we had to plan write an article which I think remembering back now was related to PKR. I wrote a really good piece that I had went over and over to make sure it was perfect.  I was either playing Football Manager or playing poker on the PC on the side whilst doing this article. No idea what happened but kaboom and the Laptop is absolutely GG'd. I had like 45 minutes to send this article in and had to do it from scratch on my Dad's old monitor which didn't have word and thus send a really bad article iin a really tilting format to Paul Cheung who must have thought I was an absolute clown.

I had planned moving to London, I loved the hustle and bustle of the streets, people in suits, pretentious people walking about looking down at you. I just found it all so fascinating.

They replied that another guy had eventually got the job and I was quite devastated, they asked me to do some freelance stuff and I did a few articles. One was about Aspers Newcastle and the other was an interview I did with Jack Ellwood just after he had won basically everything in a 12 month period.. We went to a Weatherpersons in Newcastle and it ended up being a pretty nice piece Smiley

Around this time I started working for a financial advisor in Newcastle. I was in charge of social media and all things "networky" I really enjoyed the business aspect of the company and spent alot of time persuading the boss to allow me to do more hands on things. I enjoyed the challenge of trying to convince a 60 year old guy that he should invest all of his retirement money into a company that was basically being represented by a 22 year old guy wearing a Barbour and a stripey tie. Anyway I eventually was approached by PS and moved to Gib.

Since I moved to Gib I stopped writing as much as a lot of my job contains writing. Very different writing such as whitepapers and reports that are more formal than fancy. I'm really really happy to be working in the poker industry and think I would have found my way here some way or another but I think I could have been extremely happy working in London for the best poker magazine in the UK.


Looking back at ^^^^ makes me smile a lot. I really remember all of it so well.


If it makes you feel any better it was easily the hardest recruitment decision I've ever had to make. Two very different candidates who would have both done a brilliant job. I was genuinely gutted at having to give you the news and was made up when I heard about the PS job. It seems to suit you down to the ground and the poker industry definitely needs more passionate people in it.

Tyvm for the kind words. We try. And you will be pleased to know I wind up Keir the entire time saying 'Patrick Leonard would have known that...' etc etc
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« Reply #1684 on: May 30, 2012, 05:23:52 PM »



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« Reply #1685 on: May 30, 2012, 05:44:51 PM »

This is incred Cheesy

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« Reply #1686 on: May 30, 2012, 05:50:35 PM »

Funny picture by Matchbook.. wtf is Jungleman doing? Cheesy

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I just don't really get matchbook's business model. Advertising a betting exchange with fairly unknown poker players? Matthew Benham is a smarter man than me though.
I really enjoyed the videos ( pretty sure that's not what they are called ) that they put out from the wsop last year. The sound tracks ( I need a $ etc ) and the subjects were excellent.  I did not really get the broke F/T player Ruddy Mason??? But found em hilarious all the same. Only Tikays interviews came anywhere close to being as entertaining
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« Reply #1687 on: May 30, 2012, 06:29:14 PM »

Just followed tightys link to the live stream and saw this.

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Excellent place to advertise. Do you have any idea how much something like this would have cost?
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« Reply #1688 on: May 30, 2012, 07:31:11 PM »

first time I've seen it live, looks sick Smiley

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« Reply #1689 on: May 30, 2012, 07:38:54 PM »

first time I've seen it live, looks sick Smiley


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« Reply #1690 on: May 31, 2012, 01:07:09 AM »

If you were going to stake around 10 guys into the WSOP/Venetians etc for one whole summer including some 10k's etc what would be the overall outlay and what would be a respectable bankroll for doing it?

I was thinking about approaching businessmen, like reallllly big businessmen/companies and proposing it. If it is proposed correctly it is shown that the deals are definitely +ev for the backer and I would take a small cut out of it.

I'm pretty sure for 2013 I could assemble an AMAZING team, sorting out the accomodation/morale/making sure people were playing properly and not spunking off etc.

Maybe a really stupid thought..
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« Reply #1691 on: May 31, 2012, 01:09:43 AM »

JJ Hazan didn't have much luck with the dragons  Cheesy
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« Reply #1692 on: May 31, 2012, 01:16:10 AM »

yeh fuck him though, guy is an absolute clown. In one of my first ever live tournaments I had the displeasure of playing on his table.

He berated, shouted, groaned at me for 6 hours, I was a 18 year old kid and the £200 was a lot to me then. I took the tournament really seriously and he made my experience an absolute nightmare. Most people would have been put off and not played again, which is definitely the worst result for him if he thinks he is a profitable player. He's not of course.
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« Reply #1693 on: May 31, 2012, 01:20:43 AM »

Today I answered around 50 hand evaluations on PokerStrategy. Obviously the forum there is alot more strategy orientated so each variant is split up into limits and then you have people posting hands for different stakes. The guys absolutely love it, so many guys at nl10 trying to learn and improve, its really nice to see and one of my goals for June is to do over 1000 hand evaluations there. I do most of them in my own time, either after work or in bed and the minutes soon add up (I dont get paid like the normal evaluators do as I just want to help out the company)

One of the main problems is that for the nl200+ hands you either have a judge that is 1) Plays lower stakes and gives bad advice or 2) Plays higher stakes and doesn't have the time/hourly incentive to rattle through all the hands. Fortunately I know lildave and he's been helping out alot there as he obviously loves the game. Callum and a few others are all commenting more now and its alot more healthy than it was a few months ago. It really makes you see that blonde is special and having all these guys regulars comment on hands such as patonius, marc wright etc etc is really a big thing that most will probably take for granted. People actually taking time and choosing to spend X minutes trying to help you is such a big/nice thing.

#longlivePHA
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« Reply #1694 on: May 31, 2012, 01:21:13 AM »

Reagrding where do I see myself being in 5 years time I think there will be 3 options.

1) Carry on in the poker industry I think I'm one of the most knowledgable guys in the industry about poker. Not how to bet/fold/call/raise, but what is needed for the industry to survive, to flourish and to improve. I have many many thoughts about how poker rooms, networks, affiliates and players should strive to improve and really want to make a big difference. I envisage that I will most likely carry on working in this industry. I currently work for one of the biggest gaming companies in the world in a nice country with great weather and have a great family, I would love all of the above to continuing to develop and improve and think that either in this company or somewhere else I have the potential to move up to very senior positions and #makeadifference

2) Play poker full time I currently really enjoy the game and think I am continuing to improve on a monthly basis. I understand which parts of my game need developing and improving. Alot of people say that the downs alot are alot worse than the ups are good. This is definitely not true for me, I hate losing ofc, but I absolutely love winning Cheesy I think I have the potential to play full time and have the attitude and desire to make it a good decision. I think that if I decide to play full time I will play cash for 3 months and then go to Vegas. This is onyl really viable once the American legislation goes through.

3) Entrepreneur I believe I have a good business mindset, I try to learn about business as much as possible and have lots of good ideas and like to hear other peoples good ideas. In 2013 I hope I am in a position where I can financially afford to invest in different start up companies, preferably none poker so that it doesn't have conflicts of interest with PokerStrategy.com


When I'm 35 I think I would look back at all three of these options and be proud. Hopefully I can be successful in one of them and I think having different options is really good.

If I aksed myself 2 years ago where I'd be in 5 years I think I would have had a very different answer..

4) #teamMAXKATZUK
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