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I agree with you regarding the Bounty Hunter tournaments, they're by far my favourite MTT on any poker site. They're a whole load of fun and it's easy to make a decent ROI too. What is there not to like about that?
What a fab day, despite bad beat after bad beat after beat...I had alot of fun!
I decided to move up to £11 DYMs too..
Rich Orford gave me £11 in the BR thread
Played 1 £5.50 DYM and lost so - £5.50
Played 17 £11 DYMs won 10 lost 7 so + £13.00
Played 2 £11 BHs won £3.75HP so - £18.25
Played 4 £22 BHs lost 1 won £31.88HPs, £15.00HPs and £110.00, £38.67HPs so + £107.55
Day 16 + £107.80 285PP
Total BR £449.83 1727PP
Going away tmw night till sunday night, loving life right now
Day 20
£5.00
Day 20 + £300 0PP
Total BR £749.83 1727PP
Total days challenge met 13
Back tomorrow for poker
Ummmm.... thanks Sky....not
Bankroll's fairly jumped up!
Last time i seen one of your posts it was like 100-200!
Very nice going.
Overall, I've been up and down by a few hundred, over the week.
I tried a few £22 DYMs but haven't been able to conquer them, so think I'll drop back to the £11 ones... I wonder if it's a mind thing?
So for yesterday -
Day 24
Total BR £641.09 2361PP
Total days challenge met 17
Will update for today when I've finished these two DYMs
Thanks for the advice, I agree with you, so gonna go back to £11 DYMs. Still gonna play £22 BHs though as they're my favourite
So Day 25
Played 2 £22 DYMs won 1 lost 1 so - £4.00
Played 1 £22 BH came 2nd won £41.26HPs and £88.00 so + £107.26
Day 25 + £103.26 60PP
Total BR £748.35 2421PP
Total days challenge met 18
Nobody's ever asked me those Q's before so very happy to answer them!
I was always interested in card games as a child, infact I've always loved all sorts of games and am very competitive. I've never been a girly girl, so at breaktimes at school you could find me playing cards with all the boys in the corner and I was pretty good. A few of the guys at school invented this game we called "the game with no name" which we busted out for years. I loved Canasta too.
I don't know how I decided to start playing online poker, I think it was at Uni I missed playing cards so joined BWIN and started playing some low stakes MTTs. I guess this was around 8 years ago..
Back then there was a Monday $3.30 UK Weekly tourney for $300 I think. I met some lovely people playing there and after a while started to have some success. I played there for quite a few years, maybe 3-5? The 1st year I went down around $600, the 2nd I decided I would quit at the end if I didn't come back to break even.. I think at the end of that year I got to $2K profit and the 3rd year I made $10k profit. After that my dream became to go semi-pro by the time I was 30.
Another passion of mine is travelling, after Uni me and MrDuck travelled South and Central America (so zero poker time) for about 8 months. It's the best thing I've ever done and we loved it so much after a year or so back in England we decided to go and live in Argentina and then Colombia. We took a CELTA course in Buenos Aires and became EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers. We ended up with good jobs and a very cushy life in Bogotá, Colombia for almost 2 years and very happy. My (fulltime!) teaching timetable meant that I only had to work 16 hrs a week...Pretty much 4hrs a day mon-thurs 6-8am and 5-7pm (we worked at Siemens, so we taught the staff around their work day, before they started work and after they finished) This gave me almost a full day to concentrate on poker inbetween work! I managed to find a decent MTT on bwin that fit my gap. It was a $5.50 rebuy tourney with about a $5K guarantee. I loved this tourney so much and I played it most days and I got some big cashes through it a couple of times (+$1k).
MrDuck's life dream was to do a PHD at Oxford Uni so eventually we came back to the UK, nearly 3 years ago. We moved immediately to Oxford where neither of us had ever been before and we had no friends or contacts here. It was pretty hard for a long long time.. I couldn't find a job for about 6 months. At first I saw this as a great opportunity..was I good enough to maybe become a poker pro?! As soon as I was playing to pay the rent, poker became a horrible chore all about numbers and I just wasn't good enough. This was over winter, I had no friends, was applying for 100's of jobs a month. I couldn't claim benefits because I'd been out of the country too long and the solitude was killing me. To make it worse MrDuck hated his new PHD life too.
Over Christmas I had a mini breakdown at my parents and they put me back together just telling me to keep on trying. I made a decision, that I would not allow myself to be unhappy past my birthday (Jan 31st). I managed to find a teaching job in Jan and MrDuck dropped out of the PHD program (much to everyone's horror!) and starting teaching again.
Two years later (now) we are both working in the same little school in Oxford and extremely happy there.
During the time here in Oxford, bwin changed hands and I hated the new format..so I joined Sky. I immediately went into profit and fell in love with the BH tourneys. I work alot of evenings at the moment (student's coming to classes after they finish their work day) so I play more in the day in general. Sky is the only site I play and it really suits me
I'm 29 now and have no intention of trying to go pro or semi-pro. I have almost never played live. At bwin there was some kind of UK league table thing. I came top 5 I think and we won tickets to a live event in Luton casino. I didn't do too bad but didn't cash and I hated every minute of it!!!
So now I never try to win entry to any live events...I used to want to be Liv Boeree but now I'm happy being MrsDuck online
Glad to hear things are still going well for you, may I ask what year you teach?
Mr Freshfish is also a teacher (Y6 so we've got the dreaded KS2 SATs in 2 weeks). Only 6 weeks ago Mrs Freshfish got a job as a 1:1 TA at the same school Mr Freshfish works at (albeit not in the same class!)
Keep crushing:)
I'm an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher, so I'm working at a language school...the only subject is English! There are probably over 30 language schools in Oxford as it's such an attractive place for foreigners to visit! I teach all levels, privates, groups, general english and exam classes (for students who want to go to Uni/or need a certificate for a job here for example) My students range from 16-70 years old...I love it! This is reading a bit like my CV lol!
Good luck with the SATs!! I don't think I could teach children, although some of my students act like kids sometimes!
Consecutive hands...
Played 1 £5.75 SBH won 1 HP so - £3.87
Played 5 £11 DYMs won 2 lost 3 so - £15.00
Played 2 £22 BH lost 1 came 3rd won £33.75HPs and £63.00 so + £52.75
Day 26 + £33.88 98PP
Total BR £778.23 2519PP
Total days challenge met 19
We'll give it our best shots at the SAT's, I sometimes think scholl teaching is a little bit like poker in the fact that you live and die by the results but they're frequently out of your hands:)
Bring on that £1K in the next week for you!
Crushing Duck, long may it continue.
Played 1 £5.50 DYM lost so - £5.50
Played 1 £11 DYM won so + £9.00
Played 4 £5.75 SBHs lost 2 won £9.37HPs, £13.12 and £7.52HPs and £9.07 so + £16.08
Played 3 £5.75 BHs so - £17.25
Played 2 £11 BHs won 2 HPs so - £14.50
Played 2 £22 BH so - £44.00
Played 3 £1.05 HUs (for the Forum League) won 2 lost 1 so + £0.85
Played 3 SATs 2 x £12 1 x £6 won 1 so + £80.00
(was playing for the cash...not to play the tournie)
Can't believe I ended in profit...such a nightmare day, bad beats all over the place.
The 2nd £22 BH was full of absolute nutters, absolutely hated that game!!
Anyway chuffed to still be on the up...should I add SATs to my repertoire?
Day 27 + £24.68 159PP
Total BR £802.91 2678PP
Total days challenge met 20