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Regards,
Des.
Good morning!
Last night saw the conclusion of Boot-Camp Phase 2, & each of the Mentors were required to make the near impossible task of reducing their Teams from 3 to 2.
Below are the Surviving Six, by Mentor Team.
Team Gidzo.
GliterBabe
Dantb10.
Team Matt
Sharksbite
Sparce
Team Tuck
Nutter5932
Dohhhhhhh
Many congratulatrions from me personally to all 6 of them - none of them could have been confident of going through, but all of them had every reason & right to feel they would.
Well done them!
Matt said my head dropped but I think it had a valid reason too. Knowing once I made a loss twice it is literally impossible for him to pick me. Firstly it wouldn't be fair on Naomi and Sparce who had done so brilliantly in the phases and also even if he selected me with two losses the weight on my shoulders would be ridiculous, along with some people may turn against me or Matt for selecting some one who lost twice.
Obviously in the 2nd phase it was only one pot that decided I made a loss for phase 2 and it was a big pot but most of the viewers wouldn't know that and jump to conclusions. I think Matt has got two fanastic players in Sparce and Naomi, David who I would say is a similar player to myself breaks down hands and thinks about the game on a different level to most of the other contestants. This is a big part of our edge in the game. Naomi who has a fantastic allround game and who is a brilliant MTT player. Both are more than deserving to of gone through. If I won a SNG and had made a decent profit in cash I would of been alot more gutted to of not of gone through. I would of perhaps felt robbed but this wasn't the case these 2 are both good players and will do Sky proud if either win.
On the case of dohhhhh I have to say he is the player that impressed me the most in the competition that I hadn't played before. I could understand why Tuckman chose him. He has some leaks, but he is a very brave player and I think he has a good chance in the competition.
Best of luck to everyone left in Total player!
lJAMESl
Sadly, but inevitably, they had to lose three players last night.
They were.....
Team Gidzo
Yipeeyappee
Team Matt
lJAMESl
Team Tuck
Phil12UK
My heart goes out to all three of them.
Yipee was much misunderstood imo. He decided to "bet the shop" in an attempt to find an "angle", & in my view, for that, he was very brave. I would not have dared do it, nor would many others. The gamble failed, either because his oppo was better than he thought, or he ran bad, or maybe he is not as good as he thought he was. Whatever, it was a courageous decision, & he has my continued respect.
James. Many have said he was the best player in TP, & he might have been. He just run bad at the wrong tiime, & gave his Mentor an unimaginably difficult decision. I shall have more to say on James shortly. He is a friend of mine, as are many of the TP-ers, & my respect for him has grown due to the way he has handled himself in TP. It's safe to say that the other TP-ers, in a strange way, will be relieved that James is out for all the best reaasons, because James is a stunningly talented player.
Phil. Oh my word, what to say. As "the moment" approached, I had pencilled his name in as an "looks very likely" to have got through. Ity knocked the wind out of me a bit when he was dropped, it really did. Not bcause it was a right or wrong decision, but because I know what this meant to Phil, who has been a Sky Poker friend of mine for 3 years now - he was probably my first friend in this Community, & he's a good man.
I wrote to Phil yesterday morning (I wrote to all 9 TP-ers actually) to wish him luck, & though it's not usually right to quote personal replies, here is part of his reply to me.....
"....Getting all my school work done today as either way Im not gonna be in the mood tomorrow - either too elated and buzzing or too deflated!...."
Today, therefore, he must be hurting real bad, "deflated" to use his words. I'm 100% confident that this Community, we together, will be respectful & understanding towards Phil, he must be devestated. But that's the nature of TP, & poker. Highs & lows. How we handle them both shows our real character.
Anyway, to all three who came to the end of their TP adventure last night, unlucky guys. Next time, eh?
Firstly, thank you for copying this Post across to the TP thread after it re-opened - you saved me a job. It's too good to be lost to the TP thread.
As to the Post, all I can say, is that under ther circumstances, it's one of the best Posts I've ever seen.
People point fingers at me sometimes, because I'm proud of my friends in poker, I choose them with great care, & I'm not ashamed to mention them. It will always be so, I have no reason not to.
James & I are good friends, have been for a long time, & will remain so. In the grand scheme of things, this setback is nothing.
Today, because of how he has handled himself in TP, particularly in that Post, I'm incredibly grateful to count him as a friend.
You have a very wise head on those young shoulders James. I'm very proud of you mate.
Just a quick question when does the next round of TP start ?
Well done all that got through last night, personally thought 5/6 contestants were pretty much guaranteed to qualify, with it being a toss up between dohhhhhhh and phil for the last remaining spot, so very unlucky phil !!!
He's been absolutely fantastic (as he is on the pstars commentary (I prefer the english guy though)).
Judgement second to none.
May the losers "Go in the muck" long live the Tuck.
Secondly my thoughts go out to James, Phil, and Yip. James and Phil what class you have shown in your post, I am gutted for you guys and theres nothing really I can say that hasnt already been said except, heres to 2 fantastic players who I know will go far in their future poker careers.
Phil went out because he could never win, he was going sooner or later so why not now. Dohhh, i don't get it myself, but he's going soon anyway, so why get upset.
The only true wildcard for me is shark but the skill difference is too wide for her to bridge. Having said that the river cards on here are remarkable, so the chances are someone with only a 4% chance of winning will probably emerge victorious, so Glitterbabe still has a chance.
I too give my post a 4% chance of staying up.
This looks to me like a personal vendetta Browndog. I posted MY opinion. I didn't slate shark I simply gave MY opinion that I believe Sparce is a better player and there is in My opinion a skill gap. As for making friends on here, I don't need any more friends thanks, that was never my intention.
'What gives you the right to even comment?' It's a forum for discussion is it not?
Come on Browndog, who made you the voice of TP? I don't post often because I rarely feel the need to and your personal attack makes me feel vindicated in this. As for your advice, thanks but I'll stick to listening to those that I pay to listen to. And before you demand it, yawn, no I don't want to play you HU.
I guess you are still fizzing over the hand i posted a couple of weeks back, there were a few on here that found it hilarious. As I've said before I do not think i'm a great player, i'm simply another player trying to improve, so please stop with the "jealous forum troll" it makes you sound like Gordon Brown.
The first week, we had a bit more time to 'mentor' the players and I must say I quite enjoyed that aspect of this competition. Last week was a bit different as each of the remaining 9 players only got about an hour of time with their respective mentors. I would have loved to give each of my players a few more hours, but knowing I wouldn't be able to, I had to make the difficult decision to be more of a judge last week. All of my players know what parts of their games I wanted them to work on and they were all doing just that with flying colors. I didn't think it would be fair to 'help' one player knowing we didn't have the time to help all of them.
As for Phil, I can understand why you must be frustrated and disappointed. I meant what I said last night that I think my three are better than anyone else in this competition. That being said, one of you had to go. It wasn't an easy choice.
I think you are a great player Phil and I hope you go on to win tourney after tourney, ending up with a WSOP bracelet around your wrist. Go ahead and do your best to make me feel like I made the wrong decision.
I had a wonderful time working with you and I hope we can continue in the future.
All the best to everyone involved in TP - while this has been a lot of fun and very rewarding, it's also proving to be very difficult.
I respect your opinion, but I have to disagree. Being relatively new to Sky Poker, I had no preconceived notions about any of the players. In fact, one of my players told me that James is the best player on Sky and he's no longer in the competition. As for my players, I chatted with them, looked over many, many hands they played. I did my best to mentor when I could and at the end of the day I had to make a judgement call on who I think would be the best candidate to be the Total Player. I'm not really very familar with any of the players on this site yet, but I'll tell you...I flip-flopped on Dohhh and Phil for the past week and didn't actually make up my mind until I looked over a series of hands yesterday afternoon. As for who will be my 'One' - both players are qualified and no decision is even remotely close to being made yet. I've got some time with them this week and I'm looking forward to every minute.
As for Phil, once again, I can only imagine how frustrated you are, but I do consider you a friend and if you'd like to, I'd love to continue helping you hone your game. No decision was made until yesterday and really there was nothing you did wrong. You were just up against very tough competition. To be honest, I'd be proud to have any of the three of you representing me and Sky Poker.
David said that EACH of the players only got an allotted amount of time.
Why do you think that David's availabilty impacted on the allotted time for the 6 players supervised by the other mentors???
Also, Tikay stood in to supervise Matt's players on one evening due to Matt's unfortunate circumstances - I don't believe that he mentored them.
David had a very difficult decision and I, for one, do not envy him his role.
He would have access to all the hands that were played by his candidates plus his correspondence with them on which to base his decision.
It is a bit "off" for you to be criticising his actions on this thread, imo.
I said I would - & I did - simply rail them, & act as a messenger boy, a "sponge man," in Matt's absence, a conduit for info really. In fact, Matt "took over" from me towards the end of that evening, & I continued to Rail the TP-ers that night, as I have Railed most of them, on most nights, throughout.
I really would like to see Sharksbite win this however!