I have been playing and learning about poker for about 3 years. In that time I have never played live...ever. The only time I remember playing with actual physical cards is one Christmas when I was about 12 with my family. About 5 of us played a 5 card draw game, and I crushed (naturally) taking home a cool £2.50 in 1 and 2p coins!
I would like to have a go at a live donkament at some point. It would have to be a big one, say £1,000 buy-in or more, otherwise why bother with all the travelling, hotels etc. Now there’s no way I would play a £1k tourney unless I won a seat via a satellite. So I had a go at a few sats to the GUKPT events on BlueSq over the last week, but failed to get very far. The best I did was to win a freeroll into a $10 rebuy sat. feeder. Sadly I busted 7th out of 17 (prizes were 2 $160 seats to ANOTHER satellite, and $60 for 3rd). I played well, which in this type of tourney means simple ABC stuff, allowing the donks to call with trash and forcing them to re-buy. I didn’t need to rebuy once, I just bought the add-on for $10 at the break to leave me poised in the middle of the pack on 6k chips with 10 players left. I lost a few chips when a blind steal with K10 went wrong, and with about 10BBs left waited for a decent hand. If you can’t beat A9 when you have AJ AIPF you’re going to struggle to win in this sort of game…that hand left me short so I shoved A9s when it was folded to me on the button and lost to J10o and that was that. I will try again I think, the freerollls are so easy – played 6 (approx 2-300 entries in each) and won a seat to the next stage in 3 of them.
I'm kind of changing my thinking about why I'm playing poker in my current situation. I could grind out $25nl 6-max or some sitngos for hours on end and make a few hundred dollars a month, but what difference is that going to make to my life? If I had a lot of time I would steadily grind out the games but I don't, and with an income from a full time job I can go for that 1 big tourney cash, online or live.
So my new strategy is (until next week when I change my mind!) - try to sat. into a big live event, the big Sunday tourns online or the big online events (FTOPS etc) and see if I can come up with a big cash.
Gl at the tables all
Simon
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Why not juust grind hard to make enough to play the bigger sats??
I know you have good SnG skills, so just smash em out and use the profit for Sats.
Another idea is to get hold of a few poker mags, as there are always freerolls to the major events. These are simply just good old plain value.
TBH though, i think you need to try and play more live games before going to one of those big games. Live experience can;t be accounted for IMO.
Anyways, good luck with it and keep us posted mate.
ATB
BM
Yeah if I did qualify I would try and play at a local casino first, to get a feel for things. No luck so far, bubbled a $5 rebuy coming 3rd out of 27, just missed out on a $160 sat seat :(
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