THE STORY BITI'm John George Charles Black and I've played poker for around 10 years now. For the entire time, ever since my first episode of "Poker After Dark", I've been looking over at Las Vegas, Nevada as a place that I want to go. I'm luckier than many people in that I get to travel a lot with my day job. I'm a techie for HMG and I've enjoyed the hospitality of huge Palaces in places like Paris and Prague, but I've also seen the mortar holes of Basra, the hovercraft you take in Sierra Leone and the armoured escorts in Libya.
During these 10 years I've gone from a guy who plays in his friends house for £5 in and everyone plays their best until inevitably we are hinted to leave by his wife and then we all go in blind last hand; all the way to someone who has literally invested £1000 in just monitors for his PC so when he plays poker it's the best it can be, it won't get in the way of my $10nl grinding (true story). For anyone who doesn't know there is a very full, honest and bare journey through my poker learning documented on this site.
An Ape and a Notebook
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56559.0In here I shared so many things, probably too many. I did it all with the best of intentions and with the want and hunger to learn this game we love and learn to win money and respect as well. I have both failed and succeeded in these endeavours.
I am here in order to offer an investment into a package of poker events in my first visit to Vegas. I am a majority cash game player but like many I also play tournaments, my results considering my volume have been very positive, if not yet furnished with a big result in a bigger buyin. My Hendon mob is here:
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=107714As you can see I have played a wide variety of buyins, in quite a few locations. I have also had some results unreported to Hendon mob or ones that don't qualify. I've won an Easter special nlhe freeze out event and a weekly rebuy at Big Bluff as well as a few more £100 irregular deep stack type events.
Adding to the tournaments shown, I have played a few UKIPT, GPS and WPT national events with last weekends UKIPT among them (I busted when my 88 could not win on 822 vs AA).
A mini claim to fame if you call it that is spending my first ever £1k buyin in direct position on a certain Jake Cody, we were polite and mildly chatty until we got fed up losing to the rest of the table. Only played a few hands with Jake and managed to hold my own. In fact when we both did bust we ended up going out drinking and dancing until the early hours in Nottingham with a fair few other blondites.
I've had a couple of chances at some big scores in a few of the £500+'s I've played:
- lost 10's to Rupinder Bedi's KJ aipf for about 1/3 of the chips in play in May 2012, he went on to come second for £35k.
- lost a pot worth more than the overall day 1 chip leader finished with, 2 levels before the end of day 1 of the UKIPT nottingham £1million GTD with AQs vs K10o after making a guy blow up from the hand before's successful river call
- had KK into AA for all of the chips vs a guy we could never not value bet in a recent dtd500 when we are both top 4 on day 2. (Qxxxx in 3bp - we overbet jam river)
I know this might be somewhere I get "called" by those who have read my blog, however I haven't bluffed my way out of any of the big comps I've played as I've always picked my spots to Bluff much more carefully than most. It may lose me some chips in the short term but I just don't believe in ego-mania for stacks.
I've played almost 80 days worth of live cash and tournaments since Sept 2013 when I started tracking it closer with an app. We are both positive in cash games and tournaments with my tournaments having me average the top 30%, however as said above my sample size is small.
I will be playing mainly cash games in my time in Vegas, among the likes of some well known and loved UK grinders. Even sharing a house for a while which I really hope can help me learn some valuable lessons the easy way.
However it is the WSOP and it would be a bad choice to not cherry pick a few good tournaments to take a shot at and see if I can't replicate some of my successes over there.THE BUSINESS BITI will be in Vegas from 2 June until 7 July.
I am looking to sell one of two packages, either a $5k package which will include a couple of WSOP events and a deep stack or two. Or to sell a larger package with more WSOP events and many deep stacks. However I'm uncertain of the level of interest in a proposal such as this,
The two options are
$5000
Event 16B - $1500 millionaire maker
Event 61B - $1111 little one for one drop
Event 62 - $1500 NLHE Bounty tournament ($500 on each player)
Event 66B - $777 lucky 7's deepstack
= $4888
For easy calculations I would sell this at 1.0229 which makes it a round $5000.
$10000 package
includes events above and.....
Event 28A - $1500 Monsterstack
a selection of suggested other deepstacks e.g. The Venetian Deepstack $600 250k GTD or the $1100 1million GTD and some smaller comps, potentially a main event small satellite tree shot.
These would aim to get as close to the 10k total as possible as my aim is to sell this package at 1.0 - please don't think this represents an uncertainty or worry about either the place, people or myself.
I am merely taking advice from a friend on here and registering that this is to be a good value investment for you as a buyer and I appreciate that there are many factors to performing well in the live arena, this is only a few tournaments and as such the variance is obviously higher than if I were playing 10k worth of $100 freezeouts.
I have both sold and bought %'s on blonde before and hope that people such as Tom Langley, Tom Kugelstadt, Eso Kral and any others who have done business with me or communicated with me can verify or vouch for my professionalism in business matters.
I will likely be playing the $5000 package whether I sell or not, however I will not be playing the 10k or any other extras without selling 50%.
I welcome any and all suggestions about event choices and locations.. I am more than happy to be guided if there is a more suitable or affordable tournament on somewhere else in Vegas.10% is either $500/$1000
5% is $250/500
1% is $50/100
I would prefer bank transfer but cash in UK or Vegas is fine and pokerstars transfer can be accepted (if needed)
Thank you very much for reading this far.
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