SNG League Challenge
April 19, 2007
Well the League has decided to try a SNG Challenge.
The premise is that teams are randomly picked, then a SNG table is set up and the teams play against each other. There are 9 different teams and the challenges will be played on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
I like the set up. It makes it a little different than the regular league games because there are teams involved. I am not really sure what the winning team will get. But, I am not doing it for the money or prizes, I am doing it for the bragging rights.
Just not enough hours….
April 18, 2007
I’ve played absolutely no poker since the OFC game on Saturday. Not that I can’t be bothered, just that I’m snowed under organising the forums sit and go league. Such a simple idea on paper, but by golly-gosh it’s not been simple in reality!
With players spread over several time zones in the world, just trying to find a suitable time took an age. Getting responses from all those who signed up for it took an age. Trying to work out a formula that ensures everything is above board and fair has taken an age. I’ve had almost 60 personal messages in the forum in the last week alone with 90% of them about this league.
But, with just under a week to go, there’s just a few odds and ends to be taken care of, and hopefully it will all go without a hitch.
I know I’ve been a tad pernickety in the way I’ve went about it, but I felt I had to be. One misjudgement, and I know there are people just waiting to sink their teeth in, screaming that it’s not fair! Then again, I might just be getting a wee bit paranoid!
Anyhoo, now that (almost) everything is in order, I might get a chance to play some poker this week. I’ll probably save myself for the forum game at PKR on Friday. But then again, I can hear the cash tables calling me…..
Or am I just being paranoid again!
Stream of Consciousness
April 17, 2007
Bit of an ‘off the cuff’ meander through my thoughts today, as I sit here with ketchup smeared lips and sticky hot dog fingers.. Yummy..
Ok let’s talk about ‘fish and sharks’.
Not the kind that swim around in water or arrive on your plate with a wedge of lemon stuck on top, but the ‘fish’ that populate our online poker world.
For some reason the aquatic terms of fish and shark have been adopted by poker players to describe two kinds of players.
Woohoo to the forum!
April 17, 2007
The forum participated in its first foum challenge games for a few years at the weekend. We won one forum challenge when they were held at Royal Vegas poker a few years back and done well the following year, but there was blatent cheating going on in the 2nd game.
Anyhoo, we signed up for two events organised by the Online Forum Challenge team, both played at Absolute Poker. The first on Saturday was a freeroll, which I missed because I was rather full of ‘beverages’ and basically couldn’t even bite my fingers!
The 2nd game was a $5 buy-in on Sunday. I had sobered up by this point but was still undecided whether I was going to play or not fifteen minutes before the game kicked off. In the end I did play. It was not my best game, even though I managed a creditable 38 place from 377 starters, which gave me the huge profit of $4 for almost 3 hours play!! The few times I had good cards, I was paid off handsomely and managed to stay up there with the chip leaders. Then just as I was enjoying myself, I was moved table. It was a nightmare of a cold deck that welcomed me. Any time I had a hand that was good for limping in with, someone raised it up before me – usually an all in. The hands were not good enough to call. In the end, I was more or less blinded out of the game, and even though I knew I was getting bullied a bit, I could do nothing about it.
Anyways, not to worry, as some of the other forum members played some exquisite poker and finished a lot higher than me. Pokerbully and Steph both finished in the top 20 but Ashmaniac (6th) and the Dog (8th) made the final table! Monkey luck as usual killed off there challenges, but their efforts mad a difference.
Considering the amount of players from the forum who entered – 27 I think – we had 6 who made the money and another 3 inside the top 50!! Thats a hell of a good showing and this reflected in the overall foum winners. The Pokerchipsquad managed 70 points in total for this game. Our nearest rivals had 38. The first time any forum has won a challenge by almost double the points the 2nd placed forum had.
So we are now up for a $400 freeroll thanks mainly to Ash, the Dog, Steph and Popa, but also to all of our team.
Congrats have to go to the OFC organisers for the way this event was set up. The best forum challenge set up on the net to date by far. Looking forward to the next challenge game already!!
Great Weekend for the League
April 16, 2007
For those of you who don’t know, I am a member of the Poker Chip Squad League.
It is a League and Forum of some really nice people and some really good players.
We participated in the On Line Forum Challenge this weekend. We didn’t do too well in the Freeroll on Saturday but, in the Buy-in on Sunday, we kicked BUTT!
For Kicks….
April 13, 2007
My 3rd part on starting hands for novices will be around soon. But I just thought I’d change the pace and tell you about my poker this week.
Well in short, I’ve hardly played. I entered one of the forums private s&g and found within a few hands that I just couldn’t be bothered. This resulted in some overly aggressive play from me (not on purpose) and I got my hand caught in the cookie jar a few times and was dismissed early on.
But I’ve played a couple of S&G’s at PKR. Played a couple of $3 games (as my bankroll will allow). I won one of them and placed 2nd at the other. The 2nd game was great as I went heads up to a guy from Estonia. Very friendly and a very good player. The chip lead swapped between us for a good while, before an all-in raise with J9s was called by pkt 3′s. The 3s held up, even going on to make trips on the river. But it was an excellent heads-up and one I wish could happen more – with me winning of course!
Having enjoyed my little chat and game with my Estonian friend I headed to the 5c/10c cash tables. I normally prefer to play the 25c/50c tables or at the very least 10c/25c tables but these low limit games at PKR are a feeding frenzy for any half-decent player. Within less than 30mins I had turned the $7 I had taken to the table into over $20….. and I only played 4 hands! Unfortunately, I couldn’t continue my stay there as I had stuff to do 
Have been back to the cash tables since and made more profit. I have noticed though, that these short sessions – 30 mins or less – are really profitable for me. If I double my money in a short time, and then seem to be getting some cold cards, I leave. I’ve been quite strict with myself that I will wait for one round of blinds and If I haven’t hit any sort of hand the I up sticks and go. It might only be a $6 or $7 profit, but its still profit after all.
Well I’m offski for now…. the league game at PKR awaits!
See ya soon!
