GCBPT Nottingham Side Events

Spent about $2,000 in Nottingham playing the GCBPT side events and cash games. In the tournaments I only managed to finish in the top 50 out of 130+ in both despite them having a patience factor of over 10. They played a lot faster than the skill level seemed to suggest though.

I made some money in the cash games the first night I was there. The second day though I lost a bit playing blackjack and roulette and then after getting knocked out of the tournament I decided to donate over $1,000 playing under bad conditions in the the Dealer's Choice game. I was so tired that I even started hallucinating and despite that carried on playing.

Part of the reason why I just wanted to play was that I hadn't played poker for a couple of weeks since I have been without internet for a while. I'm typing this from my back up dial-up connection - can't believe how slooooooooooooow it is and I think it will be another week til I'll be playing online again.

I'll be using the time to improve my game I think and trying to sort out to use the $10,000 buy-in I won on WPT last time to play some events in the WSOP rather than the main event in the Barcelona WPT.

$10,000 WPT Package Win

Finally had a bit of luck and won a $10,000 WPT package after a hard fought tournament on the World Poker Tour online poker room.

I lost half my stack early on after I open raised with AK got one caller behind me and my C-Bet on the A95 flop was min raised. I put him on a set or A9 straight away but after the turn was checked (5) and the river was another 9 I fired out a blocking bet. The guy raised though and I knew the only hand a could beat was AQ, still, with big pot odds I made the call after I told him I thought he had quads. Sure enough he took the pot with quad 9s!

I got my revenge by busting him at the final table though and I then went on to win it:

Haven't decided which event I will use the buy-in for yet but I am looking forward to playing my first WPT event. Another $10,000 seat will be given away at the end of April and you can qualify for the final by playing on the WorldPokerTour.com!