Hey readers, been a while. Haven't been up to much since Estonia, went to Blackpool and donated £2k there and played one sunday online grind. Blackpool confirmed my suspicions that GUKPT Main Events aren't that much value at the minute. Problem is that these days you never get a table full of fish to yourself, you always have to carve up the fish-EV with a Ben Vinson or a Rick Trigg etc. which really impacts on your bottom line. In 2 years of live tournaments my ROI has been 150-200% so far, but I have run very well and if I had to guess at my ROI long term in the GUKPT Main Events I have played recently I'd say it was probably between 1/4 and 1/3rd of this since on my tables I have always had to share the fish with 2 or 3 other good players. I'm gonna be in Spain for the £3k Grand Final so I'll be forced to give it a miss, but tbh I think this is a good thing and I probably wouldn't have bothered with it anyway. I would have had to sell a load of action and I feel like I used up a ton of goodwill selling so much action in September and whiffing everything, so I don't really want to go cap in hand to backers again for a while. Going forward, with live poker I think I will stick to events that I'm rolled for (which thanks to Estonia now just about includes £1ks) and maybe swap with players at the event.
The online grind wasn't very rewarding, I started out hating life after busting nearly every event in a $3k schedule within 3 levels, but I got quite deep in the Sunday 500, the million and lasting for about 5 hours in the FTOPS main without really getting anywhere. In the end I mincashed the 500 and managed about 200th in the million (after being in 1st with 500 left) to recoup about $2400 of my losses total. I could tolerate playing the same schedule more often I think, maybe leave out the 100rebuys which I never felt a favourite in and it might even be a good (+EV) idea.
In London at the minute for PKR Live. Should be quite a soft field so hopefully have a good chance of binking something.
Inbits lads.
12 hours ago