Monday, January 14, 2008

Sunday 100k Donkfest

I made the final table of the Stars 100k guaranteed last night.

It's a 20,000 player field and I ended up finishing 8th when I finally lost a flip. I played exactly zero interesting hands, since nearly all of the poker I played was preflop. It was fun though, and at least I can say I have made the FT of the biggest weekly online tournie.

I think I used up my luckbox for 2008 already though.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

ROYAL FLUSH!

Dealer: arestone has a Royal Flush

I was having a bit of a brutal night until this just happened. I have been playing online for nearly 3 years, logged over a quarter of a million hands and tonight I hit my first Royal Flush.

On the river.

It was an EPT Dortmund sat and I had AdTd in the BB. A short stack shoved from LP and I made the call. I didn't even see it until I read the chat.

Now to get one of each suit...

2007

I had a great year in 2007. Considering the relatively low volume I play I had some great scores over the course of the year, ending with my win in the Stars $35k gtd in December.

I cashed for over $50k in total with an ROI approaching 120% over nearly 1000 tournies. I also managed to win 2 WSOP Main Event seats. It's not a massive sample size, but I think that's about as much volume as I'll ever be able to put in as a recreational player.

Playing the WSOP was definitely the poker highlight of the year for me. I really enjoyed my time in Vegas. When I left I felt like I would leave it a few years before coming back, but after a few months I started to feel like I was ready to go back again. I'll definitely be making an effort to play some sats this year and hopefully I'll be able to get out to Vegas again this summer.

The WSOP schedule isn't great for me this year, so what I might do if I win a seat is fly out and play $10k worth of prelims. I did say I'd do this last year though and still ended up playing the main. It really depends if people I know are going to be in town during the main or if there is a big meetup during the preliminary events.

I flip good in 2008 so far. Went out of both the Stars Million and the Full Tilt 750k on Sunday to big flips. I hope it's not a sign of things to come.

Here's to running as hot in 2008.