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Bigfella42:
OK, here goes. My plan was to start an occassional blog in the New Year, as I"m looking forward to 2012 and giving the poker circuit a bit of a go. I"m enjoying the game at the moment, so let"s start recording a few adventures on here. Decided to start it a couple of weeks early. as I played the Sky Poker Tour thanks to ChezGer at the weekend so will do a trip report as my first meaningful entry.

So what are the hopes for 2012? I"m not setting any financial objectives but hope to play well and run good as often as possible. January the plan is to play the DTD deepstack which has a 30k starting stack and of course the APAT event at Brighton.From there I"ll plan on a month by month basis. I expect I"ll go weeks at times without playing live, but hope trips will be frequent enough to keep this going. 

Vegas is of course a must and this year I"m planning a trip around the wsop main event once the dates are confirmed. I"m not expecting to play the main of course, although I"ll try the odd satellite. But I am looking forward to hopefully rail at least one of my nephews - Danny turns 21 in May so will be eligible to play the 2012 event. Both Joe and Danny are trying to make a go of it full time so I hope to make the occassional post about their progress on here too. 

The intention is to end this at the close of 2012, hopefully that will give me enough of an end point to keep it going.

So, onto the Sky Tour event......

Des:
Welcome aboard the good ship blog Glenn :) Look forward to keeping up with your travels.

AAroddersAA:
This should be well worth reading - gl with it Glenn will be an avid follower.

Bigfella42:
Sky Poker Tour December 2011
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I managed to bink the Chezger league so last Friday headed up to Newcastle on the train. Day off work so a nice early afternoon journey up. Royal Station hotel was fine and headed up to Aspers about 6.30.

I don"t tend to drink lager much but just fancied it for a change so got a Fosters and saw Tighty for a quick chat. He told me Scouse had bottled out of playing so apart from Tighty I knew a grand total of zero people there. More Fosters flowed before the 8pm warm up event. Nothing eventful happened, I went out early when my  8s 8h were no match to an overpair. So a relatively early night, fell asleep watching The Outlaw Josie Wales.

Saturday arrived so up to the casino for the main event. It was a one day event with just 5k starting stack so I decided to go for chips early (very different to my apat strategy of course where I always have the nuts).

Interesting hand in level 1. Raised to 150 in mid position, I have  7h 8h n the cut off and flat. Both blinds call. With 600 now in the middle thats worth winning when you only start with 5k. Flop is  Qc 7c 3d I think. Defimitely 2 clubs on the board includng the Q. Original raiser bets 300, I flat others fold. Turn is a rag, makes no difference to board - bet is now 600 and I call again. Dont really like my call on reflection as I"m bleeding chips potentially, but I"m still beating AK and can get stubborn sometimes. River is  5c and the aggressor now bets 900. I look at the board and feel certain they have the Queen. The flush has hit and theres loads of chips in the pot. I feel I have played the hand the way you would have played a flush draw, so I push all in. They sigh fold and show a queen. Phew! Not sure my play would score high on an analysis thread, but it worked!

From there I went on a roll, winning two three way all ins. After a few hours I found myself with over 100k and the chip lead. The structure was fierce and the Fosters flowing. When the bubble burst I was still top 3 I guess. Unfortunately I hit a couple of spots where I raised pre with hands like  Ks Qh and  Js Qc and then had someone shove for just a few more bb"s so I sort of had to call. I lost both races and suddenly was short. A suited Ace in the bb was enough for me to shove over a raise for my last 10 bigs so I exited in 13th. All in all though I was pleased enough with my effort. It was a good day out and I ended the evening with a couple of pints, and headed back to the hotel where I watched an old Morecambe and Wise Christmas special. It was the one where Eric played Steve Davis at Snooker and where they did a song with Alvin Stardust dressed in their best Teddy Boy gear.They really dont make them like that any more.

So a couple of hundred quid and yet another failed attempt at making a final table sigh. But I"d have taken that before I set off so can"t be too bad.  Thanks to ChezGer and sky for the seat.

Roll on 2012..........

SirPercival:
Good luck with the blog Glenn, look forward to reading it.

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