Tuesday 23 December 2008

2 More leaderboard wins and a 2nd and i was robbed!

Well with my winnings of late,Ive rewarded myself by booking package to watch Spartak Moscow v Aston Villa in the uefa cup late in February. Ive always wanted since a kid go to Moscow and swore if Aston Villa played there, I will be there. So I will put some pictures up on here to brighten this blog UP!
Well i picked up approximately 1k just from leader boards last three weeks but the week i lost i was a bit myth ed. It was the first week of December and I was unsure if leader boards wear going to continue, so I rang up Betfair and they said they have stopped. So i played on full tilt for the rest of the day, I logged on to Betfair on Tuesday and leader boards were still running! So i rang up ad they said I'm very sorry but we miss informed you! So i was 36hours behind. I was unable to catch Gnasher 8 up, who had a 10k start and although he got a record point to beat me, I could have certainly gone higher with the 36hours help! But never mind, fair play Gnasher 8 for putting the effort in. Plus ASton Villa nailed his team Everton, so i got my revenge there with a dramatic winner from Ashely Young after Lescott equalized in stoppage time!
People who ask me who is better, you or Gnasher8 at super turbos. Well to put it simply Iam! I have a very slight edge, maybe 3-4percent and its purely on hand ranges to chip stacks at late blinds. IT is quite obvious at 3 handed bubble high blind play its best to be aggressive.
But if chip stacks are 2800,1600,1600 and sb and bb are on 1600 (blids 200) 2800 passes Gnasher would push something like 107 into my bb. IN my view it is not correct 2 push junk at this stage, although i would push a high range of hands from sb, pushing junk will lose u money long term in these circumstances. Now if u had800 chips(200blids), I would agree the fold equity to your blinds getting lower its worth the risk to pressure the other lower stack with junk hands.
Anyway the next week there is more confusion on Betfair. Yes Im comfortably leading the leader board then there is the introduction of crazy coin flips heads up!
You get one chip and your automatically all in first hand. So 123fold and tersa8 play like 500 of these in 4hours and make like 20000points!
So i say hang on a minute you cant allow points to be scored for a game wear you do not have to make a decesion, riase fold or call. Not even Betfair could have a leaderboard that has a champion at poker who has never had to make a poker decesion. Well they agreed and to tehre credit ad quickly stopped these tournys from being part of the point struture and it was a comfortable win.
The third week, i took a couple of days off ad still won, I let a guy called I play bad come close to me, but if he ever got near, I would just step it up and pull clear again. He did not have the game to compete so I was never overduly worried.
Well have a great Christmas, apart from all you FISH, hope you lose all your Xmas money to me! Will update figures next month.