The Wild Rollercoaster - Just A Kid With A Lifelong Dream

[JGill_DTD]

As a slight alternative if you want to do it this much, perhaps put some aside for sats (e.g. £100). Then if you don't make it through sell the £100 worth of action?

SHouldn't be a huge chunk out of winnings but the sats listed are pretty great and worth a go imo.

[Ice Shade]

you think youd be better off putting the £440 into 2 bullets of the side event and the £100 tourny they have? just a thought, the side is a great tourny, adiman67583966 won it at star city last year, and hell vouch for it being a great structure and in no way a crapshoot.

Found 4th in one of these before, it is a lovely lovely tourney, although you may turn your nose up a little bit at it having being spoilt by DTD deepstack events.

All i turn my nose up at is the £25 comps....especially as they are back to being reloads...i mean what is this...
I'd sell for an entire package, but that all kinds of would never sell out, i was struggling for the 440 before i even considered doing it myself

[Ice Shade]

As a slight alternative if you want to do it this much, perhaps put some aside for sats (e.g. £100). Then if you don't make it through sell the £100 worth of action?

SHouldn't be a huge chunk out of winnings but the sats listed are pretty great and worth a go imo.

I'd rather just get through without needing to distract myself from preparations, sounds retarded yes but that's done me favours before

[Rexas]

As a slight alternative if you want to do it this much, perhaps put some aside for sats (e.g. £100). Then if you don't make it through sell the £100 worth of action?

SHouldn't be a huge chunk out of winnings but the sats listed are pretty great and worth a go imo.

I'd rather just get through without needing to distract myself from preparations, sounds retarded yes but that's done me favours before

Interested to know what sort of preparations you're talking about here?

Also wouldn't turn my nose up at any tournament, my start in the game came from grinding the "bowls" in my local casino after learning in the pub tournies.

[JGill_DTD]

As a slight alternative if you want to do it this much, perhaps put some aside for sats (e.g. £100). Then if you don't make it through sell the £100 worth of action?

SHouldn't be a huge chunk out of winnings but the sats listed are pretty great and worth a go imo.

I'd rather just get through without needing to distract myself from preparations, sounds retarded yes but that's done me favours before

Interested to know what sort of preparations you're talking about here?

Also wouldn't turn my nose up at any tournament, my start in the game came from grinding the "bowls" in my local casino after learning in the pub tournies.

Agree, think people are too worried now a days to move down in stakes to save face (not specifying you btw, just meant in general). Bread and butter games are needed to succeed long term

[verndog158]

before i played the SPT, i had played no tournys at all, all cash. week before played 2 or 3 xxl and gala comps, gets you in the tourny mindframe. think playing, no matter what level or buy in, is the best preparation. my opinion of course

[Rexas]

before i played the SPT, i had played no tournys at all, all cash. week before played 2 or 3 xxl and gala comps, gets you in the tourny mindframe. think playing, no matter what level or buy in, is the best preparation. my opinion of course

Agree, nothing like busting a bunch of tournaments to get you in the mood to bust another one

[Ice Shade]

As a slight alternative if you want to do it this much, perhaps put some aside for sats (e.g. £100). Then if you don't make it through sell the £100 worth of action?

SHouldn't be a huge chunk out of winnings but the sats listed are pretty great and worth a go imo.

I'd rather just get through without needing to distract myself from preparations, sounds retarded yes but that's done me favours before

Interested to know what sort of preparations you're talking about here?

Also wouldn't turn my nose up at any tournament, my start in the game came from grinding the "bowls" in my local casino after learning in the pub tournies.

Agree, think people are too worried now a days to move down in stakes to save face (not specifying you btw, just meant in general). Bread and butter games are needed to succeed long term

Its nothing drastic in terms of preperations...i go over videos for tournament strategy and a few podcasts, along with talking to the odd person about live hands ive noted down...then closer to the time i usually (no homo) get myself a massage or spa session...failing that an evening meditating usually does the trick...i want a clear and calm mind going into tournaments

It'd be less of a move down in stakes...more of staying where i am aha. I just know the comps are fundamentally different and as such i want to play more in tournaments that lend themselves to that kind of upper strategy...playing against fucknuts doesnt help in deepstacks...well, not as much anyway.

[verndog158]

As a slight alternative if you want to do it this much, perhaps put some aside for sats (e.g. £100). Then if you don't make it through sell the £100 worth of action?

SHouldn't be a huge chunk out of winnings but the sats listed are pretty great and worth a go imo.

I'd rather just get through without needing to distract myself from preparations, sounds retarded yes but that's done me favours before

Interested to know what sort of preparations you're talking about here?

Also wouldn't turn my nose up at any tournament, my start in the game came from grinding the "bowls" in my local casino after learning in the pub tournies.

Agree, think people are too worried now a days to move down in stakes to save face (not specifying you btw, just meant in general). Bread and butter games are needed to succeed long term

Its nothing drastic in terms of preperations...i go over videos for tournament strategy and a few podcasts, along with talking to the odd person about live hands ive noted down...then closer to the time i usually (no homo) get myself a massage or spa session...failing that an evening meditating usually does the trick...i want a clear and calm mind going into tournaments

It'd be less of a move down in stakes...more of staying where i am aha. I just know the comps are fundamentally different and as such i want to play more in tournaments that lend themselves to that kind of upper strategy...playing against fucknuts doesnt help in deepstacks...well, not as much anyway.

   or some retail therapy with the girls for some day 2 clothes?

[Ice Shade]

As a slight alternative if you want to do it this much, perhaps put some aside for sats (e.g. £100). Then if you don't make it through sell the £100 worth of action?

SHouldn't be a huge chunk out of winnings but the sats listed are pretty great and worth a go imo.

I'd rather just get through without needing to distract myself from preparations, sounds retarded yes but that's done me favours before

Interested to know what sort of preparations you're talking about here?

Also wouldn't turn my nose up at any tournament, my start in the game came from grinding the "bowls" in my local casino after learning in the pub tournies.

Agree, think people are too worried now a days to move down in stakes to save face (not specifying you btw, just meant in general). Bread and butter games are needed to succeed long term

Its nothing drastic in terms of preperations...i go over videos for tournament strategy and a few podcasts, along with talking to the odd person about live hands ive noted down...then closer to the time i usually (no homo) get myself a massage or spa session...failing that an evening meditating usually does the trick...i want a clear and calm mind going into tournaments

It'd be less of a move down in stakes...more of staying where i am aha. I just know the comps are fundamentally different and as such i want to play more in tournaments that lend themselves to that kind of upper strategy...playing against fucknuts doesnt help in deepstacks...well, not as much anyway.

   or some retail therapy with the girls for some day 2 clothes?

You don't even want to imagine what my day 3 clothes look like...

[verndog158]

might not ever be an issue

[Ice Shade]

might not ever be an issue

Ooooooo touche good sir, touche

[rfgqqabc]

I don't understand why people put such emphasis on one comp. I mean I completely understand if your playing for fun and want to play in your local when a big series comes to town, or if you want to punt the Main/EPT etc but if your hoping to turn this into a proper career then bankroll management is of the utmost importance. Investing heavily both emotionally and financially is rarely the way to succeed in poker and making sure you put yourself in the best situation to play the best poker you can is the key. The sats at DTD are unbelievable value and should not be ignored at any cost. They give away absolute heaps in equity and there isn't really an excuse not to play them. Honestly transitioning to a full time poker player is next to impossible soley playing live comps. The bankroll required and variance involved means that expenses eat into a lot of profits even for £440 comps, never mind anything smaller. Obviously you have a good shot of making something happen with DTD being down the road and make sure you use that to help you on your way. Live comps simply don't have a very good hourly for the most part, but as long as they are beatable (not having prohibitively high rake or a terrible structure) then you need to be playing. You need to think long term, and putting the £440 into an online bankroll on one or several sites would make much more sense then one gargantuan punt at a tournament that really isn't any more special than a random deepstack. The best way for you to transition to higher stakes would be to continue grinding the comps you do now, keep working hard off the table and take selective shots in sats to help you play bigger events. How much studying do you do? In November 2012 I started playing O8 comps and since then I've probably done 1-2000 equities in different situations. I can all but guarantee that I ran the most hands through propokertools last year for o8. I also played many "bowl" comps, with small prizepools. I worked hard to make sure I had the tools I needed and the experience to adjust well in taking down bigger comps. Just get rid of bowl out of your vocabulary apart from when describing a stack that is a pittance and you'll be much better off. Ridiculously tilting phrase.

With regards to your preparation, it is all very personal. I know I tend to do better coming into comps more relaxed, when I build tournaments up in my head I tend to do much worse.   I also know I tend to struggle in the first few hours after waking up, so making sure I'm up and active instead of rofling out of bed is key.

Cliffs: Stop dreaming, start grinding.

[celtic]

Ok, some honesty.

I think I've seen you at dtd twice. And each time, I've thought, what a knob.

I've read this diary a few times over, and I'd like to apologise. I may have got you wrong

Been really interesting so far, and the way you answered all the questions has been good. Only my opinion of course.

Really interested to know more about your family, if you want to discuss them, that is. No prob if you don't, or can't.

Anyway, looking forward to reading more. Really enjoying it, and will say hello next time our paths cross.

Ps. Do you like nandos?

Pps. Fuck the careful ones, take a shot son. You never know what could happen

[celtic]

Haha, wrote that before the hairy one made a sensible post.