Hi guys,
This is my first ever staking thread on Blonde, so please be gentle...
I'm headed back to Prague this year for the Prague Poker Festival. Had a great time out there last year, the games were soft and i've decided to grind more MTTs this year, rather than cash, so I will be following suit in Prague.
About Me:My name is Thomas High. I am a full-time professional poker player. I come from a background of online cash games and played heads-up online cash for a living for 2 years. For the past year or so I have been living with Andrew 'Stato_1' Hulme and Alex 'Cambridgealex' Goulder, so I have found myself drawn into more live and online MTTs, with some success and certainly learning a lot in this time bouncing ideas off of eachother. Unfortunately I have not been able to play anywhere near as many live MTTs as I would have liked (mostly due to cricket commitments over summer), hence my fairly bare Hendon Mob:
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=194282I have however played a lot of live cash poker and therefore feel I have a good understanding of the quite clear differences/adaptions that must be made in this format.
Online Usernames:Stars: Min-raiseFTW
Stars.fr: Quelles_Sont
Winamax.fr: Quelles_Sont
Bwin: WotRTheChances
888: Quelles_Sont
Party: Quelles_Sont
Notable Scores:4th place for $19,655.96. The Bigger $162 [$150K Gtd], on PokerStars. 2/9/12
1st place for $16,404.36. Sunday 6-Max [6-Max] (€100), on PokerStars.FR. 14/10/12
4th place for $7,528.24. The $100,000 Mega Deep , on 888 Poker. 9/9/12
I also last year won the Big 11 and 11r on Stars for 9.5k and 12.5k respectively.
What I will be playing:I plan on taking this trip seriously and will be grinding as many MTTs as possible during my ~2 week stay in the Czech Republic.
What I am selling for:
King's €1,000 - 30% = €300
WPT Prague €3,300 - 50% = €1650
Eureka Tour Prague Main €1,100 - 35% = €385
Buy-ins at spot = €5,400
Package cost at spot = €2335.00
Selling at 1.14 =
€26621% = €26.62 = £21.35
5% = €133.10 = £106.73
10% = €266.20 = £213.46 (note 10% of package = 3% of King's, 5% of WPT and 3.5% of Eureka Main)
(%s refer to total cashes of the listed tournaments)
Money:I can take payment in £ bank transfer or Pokerstars $/€/£.
Returns will be paid in full allowing for conversion rates (should be able to get a good rate on this)
The Teamsm00035 - 35% PAID (€ cash) refunded € cash
jakally - 15% PAID (£ cash)
titaniumbean - 10% PAID (bank xfer) refunded bank xfer
muckthenuts - 5% PAID (bank xfer) refunded bank xfer
scotty77 - 5% PAID (bank xfer) refunded bank xfer
Amatay - 5% PAID (bank xfer) refunded bank xfer
action man - 5% PAID ($ Stars) refunded $ Stars
George2Loose - 5% (PAID (£ cash) refunded bank xfer
Honeybadger - 10% PAID (bank xfer) refunded bank xfer
Eso Kral - 5% PAID (bank xfer) % moved on to Al