About MeHi blondites. For everyone who doesn't know me (so everyone), my name is Tom High and i've been a professional poker player for the last ~5 years. Over that period I have spent time playing live cash games, live MTTs, online cash games and for the majority, online MTTs. For several years I lived alongside cambridgealex, stato_1 and PJ, and have been backed by Keith 'mondeoman' for most of this time too. As you can imagine, this time bouncing ideas off eachother provided me (and all of us) a great platform to succeed in the game and I feel made all of us significantly better players. Alongside this background I have spent the last 12-18 months putting in significant volume into training and working on my game using online training sites and session reviews, which i feel have improved my level of play immensely during that period. Living in Nottingham I gained a lot of valuable experience playing live poker, being a regular in the 1/2-2/5 games at DTD for the past few years, which certainly helps significantly when playing live poker of any kind. I certainly feel very comfortable playing live and making the significant adjustments I believe it is neccessary to succeed in these games.
The TripThis will be my first trip to Vegas, which I am really looking forward to. I will be there for 4 weeks and will be renting a 3-bed appartment within very close proximity to the Rio, which I will be sharing with a couple of the Notts guys. I'm treating this trip very much as a business trip first and foremost as I see this as a great opportunity to grind out a very decent month's work. As such I will be playing a mixture of cash and MTTs while i'm away, which should give me plenty of opportunity to adjust to the players out there and the flexibility to keep well rested for the big events I will be playing.
My ResultsMy results online over the past couple of years have been consistent, without having any really huge scores online or live. In this period I managed to win my first triple crown.
Individual results include wins in:
Big 22 (twice)
Hot 55
Hot 82
(Uppercut) Party $109 50k
iPoker Warm-up
2nd in Knockout Week $109 175k
I've also had lots of near misses in bigger comps (top 20 finishes in Kickoff, Warm-up, Million, Party Major, WCOOP Warm-up 1M) and given i've not had any huge scores i'm pleased to have remained profitable despite playing largely huge-field comps.
Live i've been consistantly profitable in cash games and have had reasonable results in live MTTs, without travelling to many events away from Notts.
These have included:
2nd, 4th, 6th and 7th place finishes in £330/550 DTD Deepstacks
3rd in the £550 'Big Game'
6th in Sky 6-max
I cashed both €2,200 buy-in events I played at EPT Dublin earlier this year (also played the EPT main and felt really comfortable, despite falling short of the money)
Hendon Mob:
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The PackageI am looking to sell 40% of myself in both the Main Event ($10,000) and the Venetian $3 million gtd ($3,500) events.
I will be selling at a mark-up of 1.283 in the Main Event and a mark-up of 1.145 in the Ventian $3,500.
I have discussed these mark-ups with fellow professionals who know my game best and feel this provides investors a very profitable investment opportunity.
Thus the package will look as follows:
Event Buy-in Mark-up inc. Mark-up Selling Totals
Main Event $10,000 1.283 $12,825.82 40% $5,130.33
Venetian $3M $3,500 1.145 $4,007.50 40% $1603.00
$16,833.32 $6,733.33
So 40% = $6,733.33 = £4,663.73
10% = $1,683.33 = £1165.37
5% = $842.67 = £583.66
2.5% = $421.33 = £291.69
1% = $168.33 = £116.53
I will lock the rate taken from XE on 17/5/16. Returns will of course be done at the rate I get when I come back and I will certainly do my best to get the best rate possible on that.
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