Well that was the Weekend that was…
November 20, 2006
I apologise for any “lameness” of the blog today, I have been down with a bug for a couple of days and am not really firing on all cylinders…On Saturday my league held 5 freeroll tournaments. The majority of the league members were and are very dismissive of freerolls, but most agreed it would be a good idea to have them, hoping they would promote our league name and hopefully we would manage to find a few players that would stick around and actually become regular members of the league.
Bajamama-Bahamama-B’mamaha
November 17, 2006
A long-ish blog today, to last you over the week-end. I will be away from Friday until Tuesday.Why? Why? Why?
Why is it, I can not seem to have a night of poker without incident? Either the gods of destiny are just screwing with me, to enable me to have something to write about in here, or that ‘Fickle Finger of Fate’ has somehow got its’ digit irretrievably wedged up my rear end.
Ginger nuts are the best dunkers
November 16, 2006
WooHoo! Last night I was fully 100% wide awake when my regular private league started!Perhaps I should explain, I am in the UK and even though the league I belong to is UK based, most of our games do not start until 11pm UK time. This is to accommodate our overseas players (mostly USA) and it is not uncommon for me to nod off on the couch after my evening meal and waking up just as the games are starting. Subsequently for the first 30 minutes of most games I enter I am half asleep.
No Play Today
November 15, 2006
Well, ……truth be told I wasn’t “Fully Wide Awake” when the game kicked off in the league game this evening. It was Omaha H-Lo again and I just didn’t fancy playing it. Probably the first game I have not entered when sitting at the computer all ‘poker-ready’ so to speak.
I ain’t played much Omaha before, in fact I only started a couple of weeks ago, when there were no other games around and I just click-joined a league game. Then promptly sailed through to the final table, in complete ignorance of how I ever got there. Pestering the guys in the chat room all the time with, “is this a good hand?”, “what’s a good hand?” or a “how come I won that?” etc…
Introduction
November 14, 2006
Welcome to Blaggers’ online poker diary.
I play online poker regularly (almost daily) in a smallish, select private poker league. Hopefully I will not upset any of the people in the league with my ramblings and I apologise in advance if any do take offence.
Hopefully the regular members know me well enough by now, to realise that I am sincere when I say I really enjoy the camraderie and banter we all share when in a game or in thePaltalk© chat room and that no offence is ever intended.
About Me..
February 6, 2005
Hi I am Paul or Paulie, your choice, or online to my poker buddies I am known as Blagger or Blagz. I am a 49 year old (going on 19) male, living in Swindon (yeah I know my bad) England UK.
I started playing poker online about three years ago, after watching an episode of some poker show on the TV. I signed up with two of the more established bookmakers here in the UK and deposited about £25 into each one.Then for the next three months I proceeded to play free-rolls exclusively.
Having eventually won a couple of these marathon games (often lasting 6-9 hours) and pocketing the obscene amount of £2.37 or there-abouts for my trouble I girded me loins and entered my first real money game.
It was at William Hills and it was a £10 ($20) MTT and this is where the barbs on the hook that is online poker really took hold. Only having played poker in any form for three months I felt well out of my depth, so decided on a plan of only playing good pairs or an ace with a picture card.
Unbelievably this tactic saw me get to the final table, finishing 3rd and pocketing a nice little wedge of money! That was it, the proverbial hook, line and sinker was gobbled up eagerly by yours truly. And here we are today.
