blonde poker

 

Just got back from Barcelona today with my tail between my legs. The guy I lost to was a really nice bloke although I sort of went off him when he declared that "this was his first heads-up game he had ever played". I'm pretty cheesed off with the way things went, we were dead level in chips after 4 levels and he raised with Kh Ks, he'd been raising virtually every hand irrelevant of position so I called him with Kc Jh (how stupid - if I thought he was weak I shoud re-raise), the flop came Jd 5c 7s, I check raised him and then moved-all in when he re-raised me back. Pretty poor play by me, but I did it out of pure frustration that I hadn't managed to get the chip lead by now. I was still on tilt after he had hit a 3 straights against my 2 pair in the previous levels, it seemed like no matter how much I bet, or raised, he called and hit his hand, this happens sometimes in heads-up so I should not have tilted, how I was level chips after these hands was a small miracle in itself - I'm very unhappy and depressed, nevermind.

On the positive side, Devilfish, Marcel Luske, Bruno Fitoussi and Surrinder Sunar also got knocked out in round 1, so I was able to earbash them about coming to DTD (actually, Chubbs did slighlty more earbashing than me!). Its important that DTD can give "us mere mortals" the chance to play and mix with players of this type, quality and standing in the poker community. Although some of the "name players" don't get the conistant results compared to the days of smaller fields and less super aggressive players, I love playing on the same table as them and it would be great fun if members of DTD could get access to this experience without having to fly off to Vegas and pay a massive buy-in. Marcel Luske is one of my favourite players, he always makes time to speak with everyone .......in one of first comps I ever played in, he took the time to tell me how badly I played a hand and gave me good advice calling raises about KJ offsuit (which I have obviously  forgot). He's also a good person that could help bring in the scandy players over to our live tournamants and therefore boost our fields.

I strongly believe DTD needs to have players of all levels on our side, there is so much live poker available now in the UK and Europe, tournments are starting to overlap and clash. Surely in the long term the venues that are most popular with the players will flourish and those who don't cater for all type of players, will decline. Attracting "big names" is only one part of the equation but it would be give some credibility.