Challenge, done-ish

In 2 days of grinding thunders and a bit of PLO on dtd i withdrew the £250 i deposited and was left with the £550 for the dtd deepstack tommorow afternoon at 3:00pm. 15k chips and a 90 minute clock i think, should be good for me and i really think ill put on a good show.

had a 2nd in the $50w1(cubed) on tilt a few nights ago for $4,600. Was a strange night i was in the top 10 in chips of 5/6 of the tournies i had left. Took some brudel brudel beats but this made up for it.

Im concentrating on full tilt more than stars at the moment as i have rakeback on there, and i always seem to be better with the majority of my roll on one sight and just depositing bits and bobs on other sites for shots.

I really wanna get cracking on Ipoker but this laptop stops me from downloading it. arrrrrrrg.
there are a few good afternoon-early evening comps i like on there so ill see if i can fix this soddin laptop.

Ive been hovering around the early teens in the pocket fives Uk rankings. I feel that i should be Top 10 here however some of the guys play 7 sites contributing to their scores whereas i play just stars and tilt.

So a 4pm-9pm sesh playing everything on tilt, gotta be in bed by about 2:00am for an afternoon train to notts to win this deepstack. First prize should be around £22,000 so lets bring it home.

Also i gotta give my mate Jeannie a shout, she is one of only 2/3 female readers i have so Hi, your brill!

Rick

Little challenge...

Since last post things have improved slightly, Won the $70 ko 28k on tilt for $6.4k and won a couple of $75 45 man sng's as well as getting deep in a few. Confidence is back and im back playing to scratch.

So this week sees the DTD deep stack festival hit the club. Ive decided since, playing live costed an abs fortune the last few times ive travelled, to set myself a challenge on the DTD site for the next few days.

Ive deposited £250 into the account and the new balance is £251.79p lol.

I will start on the £11 thunders and use a 25BI roll and hopefully i will progress to the £30's if i put the right volume up. This should see me cruise to my target.

My target is £1500

• £250 back into bank which i deposited
• £550 deepstack freezout on friday
• £330 on the saturday if i am KO'd from the Deepstack
• £170 for hotel
• £200 for travel and expences

ill update this blog daily. More often if i win.

£250 = £11 thunders

£500 = £22 thunders

£750= £30 thunders

£1250 = £50 thunders. By this stage i should have hopefully completed the challenge.

So monday the 18th august im gonna start about 3ish and play 100 of these today and see what happens.

OBV im gonna have to put some massive volume in or run like god to do this in 4 days, so i wish myself GL.

Bits and Bobs

Since the $19k ship on stars my online form has been really bad.
The only saving grace's have been my form in the $69+5 45man sng on tilt.

The last few days have provided a little encouragement with a 3rd in the $70 4pm bounty on tilt and a win in a stars $100fo, alas only 36 runners entered, i must register late next time ;)

They were good to the tune of $1900 and $1380 respectively. But ive been having up to $1500 worth of buyins per day so could do with a few more decent wins, even though ive cut my schedule down due to the following;

If im 5-8 tabling the mtt's and deep in one, ill unconsciously focus all my attention on that one, and start doing retarded things in the others, like calling 3bets oop with sooted cons and suchlike.

Ive decided just to play 4 comps a day on tilt and stars, starting at 4pm and finishing at 8pm

However the FTOPS starts tonight with a $215 buyin 6max with 1million guaranteed so ill be playing that. I might do a report from every FTops event i play.

Ive played a few live comps with frustratingly little success recently

£750 at DTD 10k chips - never got above starting stack, had to make some big laydowns and ended up going out with 88 v AJ for a 15k pot.

£220 at DTD- had huge chips 14 out and managed to get 12th went competely OTT trying to hammer the table and they ended up hammering me.

£330 broadway, got a disappointing 16th/91 in this, the struture was ridiculous missing out levels, i was comfortable all the way untill the 1k/2k 200 level where i had to make a few reshoves, I open raised with 35k stack to 5200 with AJd and was called by the BB, the flop came AT9 he check raised me all in i called to be shown a set of nines. GG

£500- broadway, bumped into a crazy local rich donk who called by 3 bet on the flop with A4 on a J23 i had KJ and hit his ace to leave me short early on, called his raise with 89dd and flop of Jd Ts 4d was good enough for me to ship my remaining chips in, he had A5dd lol, and the black ace on the turn was no good.

£330 dtd - played really well on day one, not showing many hands at all, no showdowns, just picking up blinds and antes with ease. ended day 1 with 61k.
Day 2 started as day1 ended, picking up a lot of blinds. However they moved me tables, which i think cost me a final place. I had to adjust to this new table and tighten up. I raise TT and gets 3 bet and shoved on by two AK;s sigh, i raised QK sooted and guy shoves, again showing AK after i folded, Then a young kid raised the button to 7k with 37k back and i have 66 on the sb i decide im having none of this and pop it to 19k abs commiting myself is he shoves, he took a while and shoved AJo he hit a jack and i was low, Shoved 22 into wernick's AK and he spiked gg me.

Ill try and update the blog when i get time.

GL to Pab, moomin, gregior, flushy alexmartin, maldini, geeforce, johne147, and every1 else i know tackling the gukpt luton. Its my dads 50th on friday so i cant make it. GL ALL rick.