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Wherever I lay my hat - as long as its Vegas
Swinebag:
Great stuff dunc.
Not fooled by the self deprecation of your NLHE game. I have been on your table a few times now and have never rated you as "easy chips"
You must have good fundamentals to play mixed games successfully so that must extend to the "cadillac"
I would guess you just get bored playing NLHE
Looking forward to reading more
duncthehat:
So its getting close - 5 weeks till the WSOP, Bag still half packed from last year!!
Didnt get to the Apat Worlds. First time I have missed them completely. Well done to Derek on his bracelet for PLO. @oneforusoldies!!
Ended up firing 2 bullets at the DTD Grand Prix which meant I lasted a massive 2 hours!! Decided against firing a third and dashed down to Hill Street Birmingham for their £3000 guarantee Big O Tourney.
Managed to late reg just in time and was down to 2 big blinds a few minutes later at the add on break. As I was playing like an idiot decided I wouldnt invest any more money and was prepared to get out of the casino and go home after a poor days poker. 6 hours later I had chopped it for just under £600!!. Strange thing this game of poker :)
Having last played live in early March again at Hill Street and again doing a 2 way chop (At that pesky NLH) it is certainly becoming my card room of choice having had 3 results in 4 visits!!. added bonus that their tournaments are now being added to the hendonmob database.
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As a few know I have sort of fell out of love with DTD and the Grand Prix did nothing to encourage me to return quickly. I think Rob and the rest of DTD have done a great job to improve the standard of tournaments in the UK and they continue to push boundaries with their great guarantees and that the huge majority of poker players love the place. I have nothing but admiration for DTD its just no longer for me. I am I know in a very very small minority but it is just a personal thing. I almost find the place too clinical. I cant just pinpoint what it is, the continous changing of schedule hasnt helped. I do find the payouts quite flat for example I tend to look and what the odds are for getting a ten fold return on your money.
Here are some examples: Odd are very approximate!
DTD Grand Prix buy in £60. Finishing position to get £600 is 15th. Odds of doing that 190-1
PLO Big O - Hill Street £57 Finishing position to get £570 3rd - Odds 25-1
WSOP Horse 2013 $1500 Finishing position to get $15000 - 10th Odds 86-1
WSOP Main event 2013 Finishing position to get $100000 - 72nd Odds 88-1
Having chopped the big O i was quite happy to have got knocked out of the grand prix so early :)
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So this post is droning on a bit, time to look forward to the highlight of the year - Vegas 2014
The schedules are now all out. The choice of mixed games has dropped again. Ceasars Poker Room is not having any tournaments (they had a crap structure anyway imo) The Venetian mixed tournaments last year were poorly attended and they have knocked the limit tournaments on the head. Nothing for us limit players at the Aria or Wynn either. Might wander down to Planet hollywood for a small daily as I have never been in the casino.
Thankfully the Nugget is still the mecca for low buy in mixed gamers, albeit they dont help with tax forms on wins over $5000.
The Seniors are well catered for as well so my schedule has been pretty easy to sort out.
my draft schedule, subject to lots of change, lots of making day 2s , plenty of sit and go satelittes and of course the fact I take at least one day off!
4th June - Golden Nugget NLH $115 satelittes
5th June - Golden Nugget NLH $115 satelittes or the $235 Daily Deepstack at the rio
6th June - WSOP NLH $1000 Seniors Event - nice early 10 am start!!
7th June - Day 2 ( :) ) or Day 1 Golden Nugget $230 Seniors
8th June - Legends of Poker Seniors Event £240 NLH - Binions (got to go have a look at the hole in the wall where i kicked it back in 2011 after a seriously bad beat and being dealt the wrong card in stud hi lo !!)
9th june - Golden nugget $230 Stud Hi Lo
10th june - Golden Nugget $230 Horse
11th June - Binions $200 Horse
12th June - WSOP Horse $1500 - The main target of the trip!
13th June - Day 2 naturally or WSOP $1500 Stud Hi lo if a winning trip. Day off if out of Horse and a losing trip
14th June - Day off or Golden Nugget $230 Limit Omaha 8
15th June - Probably a daily NLH at the Rio - other options include the WSOP 1000 NLH or WSOP 1500 Stud
16th June - Golden Nugget $230 Stud 8
The Seniors and Horse World Series events are a given.
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There was some really interesting news from the EPT this week in that in season 11 they are having 200 Euro Seniors Events and a couple of mixed game £1000 side events at each venue.
EPT London will host a £1000 Horse so that has got to be pencilled in for October though will probably need to sell a bit of my action on that.
So a nice boring post with very few prose or stories, but if you are in vegas in june look me up. Probably wont be any posts now until i am there where hopefully I will update with my progress most days.
See you at the tables - dunc
duncthehat:
As a bit of a deviation thought it would be interesting to give my opinion as to the best 3 mixed game poker players I have played against. One of them won 2 bracelets last year but none are "household names" I count 2 of them as good acquaintances.
Starting today with Number 3 in the countdown:
An Englishman though from his name you wouldnt guess:
Maxcel Verdugo
Came across him last year in a mixed tournament at the nugget. A real character and table captain. Annoys half the table but we hit it off well. A real dry sense of humour that most americans dont get and boy can he play Horse!!
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=133648
Extremely aggressive player that really puts you to the test. Was unlucky to get busted early in the Horse tourney I played against him and again the next day in the Carnivale horse tournament before having a deep run in the 1500 Horse last year. Has 8 hendonmob horse cashes including a couple of wins after that WSOP Horse tournament.
A real love to hate character that will hopefully be around this year
duncthehat:
Note to self must write more blog entries its good karma.
Last time i wrote something i chopped the sunday nighter at hill street.
Last night i make 2 entries then 2 hours later sit down to play the 7.30pm $3 rebuy on stars.
10 hours later i am sat drinking a cup of tea having binked 2nd out of 2600 plus players for $2826.
Been running good for the whole of 2014 so far.
First line of first blog entry may have to be amended :)
Happy days!!!
redsimon:
--- Quote from: duncthehat on April 26, 2014, 18:04:00 PM ---
As a bit of a deviation thought it would be interesting to give my opinion as to the best 3 mixed game poker players I have played against. One of them won 2 bracelets last year but none are "household names" I count 2 of them as good acquaintances.
Starting today with Number 3 in the countdown:
An Englishman though from his name you wouldnt guess:
Maxcel Verdugo
Came across him last year in a mixed tournament at the nugget. A real character and table captain. Annoys half the table but we hit it off well. A real dry sense of humour that most americans dont get and boy can he play Horse!!
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=133648
Extremely aggressive player that really puts you to the test. Was unlucky to get busted early in the Horse tourney I played against him and again the next day in the Carnivale horse tournament before having a deep run in the 1500 Horse last year. Has 8 hendonmob horse cashes including a couple of wins after that WSOP Horse tournament.
A real love to hate character that will hopefully be around this year
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Max has the most American accent Ive heard on a Brit :)
He busted me in the APAT HORSE :(
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