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on my way out... welcome to the six on your way in.
t's a great experience with brilliant people. have fun.
4000 chips. Starting with a small stack wont be strange to me. I have been playing shortstacked a lot lately !
The 6 new Team Sky Poker members are...
Tournament Complete
Finished at 22:19 - 11 Jan
This is a £100 Guaranteed Pot Limit Omaha Hi Lo tournament - 6 Seat.
This is the daily results submitted to another thread updating team cashes for 2012. The list has been limited to those members of TSP at the beginning of the competition (1st January 2012) plus those who qualified on Sunday.
I started playing online for real money all the way back... last May. I made a $200 deposit and donked it off on my first weekend. I came back the next month, and this time it lasted a little longer, but I was still a total fish.
After that site shut down I moved over to Sky Poker. By then I had figured out that I'm bad at cash and that I enjoy MTTs much better. I finished 2nd in a deepstack for £150 (probably would've won if not for disconnecting during heads-up) and combined with the new player bonusses I doubled my initial £200 deposit. During that time I also discovered PLO/PLO8 and realised that 4 cards are much more fun than 2. I started to move more and more away from hold'em and concentrated on the few available Omaha MTTs, having lots of fun and making a steady profit. My 'biggest score' came when I came 4th in the first 1k gtd PLO MTT on Friday nights for £121.
Due to a combination of playing a lot, cashing a lot (small fields) and PLO MTTs getting double league points I qualified for the TSP playoff, starting with 6k chips. I guenuinely believed (and still do) that I was by far the worst player in the field, especially since it was a hold'em tournament. I was very fortunate to run really well all the way through. In the early stages where there was some post flop play I won a couple of decent pots from Solack. In the middle/late stages I got enough good starting hands to steal blinds with confidence and I didn't have to make any moves with marginal hands. I wasn't at risk until there were 8 players left, when I doubled QQ />AQ. Things looked bleak when with 7 left I was at the 3 handed table (hand-for-hand didn't work) with penguin7 and JingleMa. Both had me covered and they raised every hand. With about 6 big blinds left and no super short stack at the other table I shoved over a min raise with QcTc, get called by K9s, flop 987 2 clubs, turn 5c. I double and a few hands later there is an elimination on the other table and so I am now a member of Team Sky Poker. This is by far my biggest poker achievement yet.
My goal is to make the most of this opportunity as it is highly unlikely I will qualify for the playoff again, much less bink a spot. I have neither the bankroll, time or skills to play huge volume at high stakes, so the double c4p makes no difference to me (I think I hit 500 points twice last year), but I will try to sat into SPT Brighton (and maybe buy-in directly if I fail, priority ftw) and I want to make the most of the GUKPT Walsall buy-in I will get. Just yeaterday I played live at a casino for the first time in my life. I came 6/27 and had a great time, but I have to improve a lot in a short time to not embarass myself and Sky Poker at GUKPT. Any support will be greatly appreciated.
.........I don't know if I'm allowed to butt-in as a non-Tsp'r but I just wanted to say what a nice, articulate and humble post by Giant811......a really good read imo and hope you go on to greater things.....good luck but above all, enjoy the experience.
hi billy.. yes, you are very welcome to post. everyone can. thanks for your comments too.
+1 great post giant811
hi dan... 3 things; thanks for your note, sorry for missing the best cash of the night and, congratulations for another fine roller result.
£8k Sunday Roller