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MAIR:
Although I write my own blog, I thought I would also write it here on APAT's new Blog section of the Forum.

My name is Mary and I live in Edinburgh, im a very amateur poker player, I have my ups n downs and I am involved in quite a few communities online which I enjoy as well as trying to make my fortunes playing Poker.

Here is my first posting:

FEW BITS N PIECES

Played in the APAT English Open tonight.  81 runners and right off I doubled up to 10k and then took a lovely pot when my A10 on a 10 high board was pushed by a guy with 710 and I took him out too.  I was CL until after the 1st break and then basically stayed tight and holding my own for some time.  I wasnt getting any hands or an opportunity to get any chips, taking the blinds every now and then but nothing much, was shortie for long enough and struggled to hang in there and make it to the FT and the money.  Bubble went on forever, with me hanging by a thread with my measly 10k in chips, but made it to FT.  Doubled up at one point and ended up going out in 7th when my A8 AI hit the big stack's 55 and I didnt hit, but was good and cashed for $40, so $29 profit there and some Ranking Points and felt good about my overall performance.

My mate Kenn is playing in the Partypoker $1 million Finale tournament on 31 May, structure is as follows:

Tournament name: May $1 million Finale
Buy-in: $640
Start time: 12:45 ET on Saturday, May 31
Guaranteed prize pool: $1,000,000
Starting chips: 20,000
Blind levels: 20 minutes
Well I've purchased a stake in him of 5% so VGL to Kenn will be railing and cheering him on.

Daniel Negreanu's new poker school has opened, www.Pokervt.com.  I quite fancy joining it, and have a promo code for 40% off the initial subscription offer.  Ive been reading mixed reviews on it and will look at them more over the next couple days afore I sign up.  A few are saying there are not many videos on at the mo, and to leave it a month but the offer is only open til 1st June so will look to making a decision shortly.

Bankroll is doing well, got a few things in the pipeline, new League about to start on 1 June on RTR, different set up this time and looks to be a goodie, so looking forward to that.

Might play the Sunday 100k on Stars and also the Britbloggerment this coming Sunday.  Nothing much else, will dabble in a few tourneys here n there and post any results.

GL at the tables all.

xx

MAIR:
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND...

Played 1 tournament yesterday, a $3.30 90 Man KO on FTP.  I played a tight aggressive game and I did very well in it getting to FT and sitting middle of the road chips wise.  Blinds were huge at this point and the chips were flying back and forth between the 4 of us left, CL going from one to other regularly.  Not one of us was giving in tho and it was ages before the chap went out in 4th place.  I was very short stacked with only $9k and blinds 1k/2k so I pushed on my BB with 710 and CL called with 8J and none of us hit.  Happy to take 3rd place for $31.50 as normally I used to play these and donk out early.

Didn't play any more poker last night, my mate from the States was online and I played Pinochle instead, was quite relaxing and away from the norm of a poker evening.

I have the APAT Ukrainian Open tonight on Bluesqare at 8pm.  Hope to do at least as well as I did on Thursday with my 7th place, but we will see, I do feel I have improved a lot in my MTT play and a lot of it is to do with the fact that I have more concentration.  I really took the time to review how bad it really was, I would easily get distracted, would be doing other stuff as well as playing, and really how can I concentrate when doing these things as well as trying to win a poker tournament.  With the increased level of concentration I have picked up so much more about the players during the tournament and also evaluating my own play more, which has helped a lot.

I do intend to get some sort of training online, either through PXF or PokerVT.  Ive been giving it serious consideration as to which is the best to go with.  PXF does have a huge database of training for the MTT player, and by far is the best and most respected in the MTT training field.  They primarily concentrate on STT and MTT tournament training and really that is my game, I don't do cash games I am a tournament player.

On the other hand, I have massive respect for Daniel's new poker site just opened this week.  The only thing that is putting me off is that it is relatively new.  From the feedback received, they do not have a lot of videos on as yet, but the huge features they offer to name a few, Daniel's Small Ball Strategy, Ongoing Hand Analysis, Poker Math, N-SPAT Testing, Interactive Games to improve your game, Online Poker Strategy etc etc the list goes on.  A lot to consider before making a final decision but the more I think of it the more I feel that some form of training is needed and needed now.  I need to get out of those bad habits in poker, I need to become more aggressive in my play, change my game to a large winning player, not just a player who mosey's along playing the game, enjoying it but not getting much return from it.

I am a small stakes player in the sense that I don't have the huge bankroll that some of my fellow poker players have, and I tend to stick to these low level MTTs and STTs.  I occasionally will play a lil bit of a higher buy in ($24+2 Gtd Tourneys on FTP) but not much, but moreso than not you will find me playing the $3 & $6 tournaments on FTP and Stars.  What I need to do tho is learn more skill of poker to enable me to move up within my bankroll rather than being afraid to up the stakes, even slightly.

You all probably read this blog and think, my gawd she talks some, but you know what, I enjoy writing about how I feel, and I enjoy writing about my poker.  It helps me analyse things a bit more and put things into perspective and the more I do it, the more I will learn from it.

As always, good luck at the tables all.

xx

AMRN:

--- Quote from: xxMAIRxx on May 24, 2008, 19:00:23 PM ---
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND...

Didn't play any more poker last night, my mate from the States was online and I played Pinochle instead
--- End quote ---


So, at weekends, you play with wooden puppets who have desires to be real boys?

:D

APAT:
Enjoying the blog Mary, but I had to admit you got me with "Pinochle" also.  A game designed to grow and grow on you, no doubt  ;D

Chipaccrual:
Isn"t wikipedia great.  Sounds an interesting game.

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