up and down and up day
Aug. 9th, 2005 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksI played for a couple of hours in the 5-10 on Betfair today and I can honestly say it was just about the worst 5-10 game that I have ever sat down in. God bless the FT and its big spread on poker at the weekend. Except, needless to say, I promptly set fire to $300 and scattered the ashes off Betfair Pier.
Eventually, thankfully, things came good and I ended up thirty bucks to the good. But, my goodness, what an opportunity missed. But, one thing was proved. I can still beat truly awful games. It's those Stars/Binions-on-a-wet-Thursday games that get to me.
Simultaneously, and unusually for me, I played in an FPP tournament on Stars (this definitely shows how weak the Betfair game was). I paid so little atention to this that it took me half an hour to work out why the raise button wasn't working properly -- it was because I was in a pot-limit tournament. And then, about three-quarters of an hour in and who should I come face-to-face with? Why, Mr Fred Titmus, AKA Alan Engel. BTW Alan, I meant to mention a good book -- The People's Act of Love, by James Meek. Get it when it comes out in paperback. It will be seen as a classic.
Anyway, both Titmus and I managed to qualify, although I needed a three-outer to do it. After that it was plain sailing. None of this pissing around on the bubble. By then I had accumulated 50 gazillion chips and was spraying raises around like a demented gatling gun on heat, As Alan observed, it was a pity it was just a satellite. I noted that if it hadn't been a satellite, I wouldn't have had as many chips as I had.
Although these 90FPP sats (10% get 900 FPPS) are resoundingly soft, it still took me three hours to get the points (worth ten of her majesty's sovereigns, is my estimate). That's hardly worth getting out of bed for. Assume a qualifying rate of one in three and your ROR is about a quid an hour. Stuff that for a game of soldiers. However, the PLO sats look ridiculously soft, and faster.
They are running four or five of these 90 FPPers a day, so for the financially strapped with plenty of points on Stars, there's quite a bit that can be accumulated. The trick is to turn these into tournament dollars, which can now be traded on the open market at a rate of about 8 or 9 to 10, I think.
Currently toddling along in the Stan James Hendon Mob game. If only I could knock out a mobster, I would be pissing this league. But the opportunity never seems to arrive. So it goes.
Eventually, thankfully, things came good and I ended up thirty bucks to the good. But, my goodness, what an opportunity missed. But, one thing was proved. I can still beat truly awful games. It's those Stars/Binions-on-a-wet-Thursday games that get to me.
Simultaneously, and unusually for me, I played in an FPP tournament on Stars (this definitely shows how weak the Betfair game was). I paid so little atention to this that it took me half an hour to work out why the raise button wasn't working properly -- it was because I was in a pot-limit tournament. And then, about three-quarters of an hour in and who should I come face-to-face with? Why, Mr Fred Titmus, AKA Alan Engel. BTW Alan, I meant to mention a good book -- The People's Act of Love, by James Meek. Get it when it comes out in paperback. It will be seen as a classic.
Anyway, both Titmus and I managed to qualify, although I needed a three-outer to do it. After that it was plain sailing. None of this pissing around on the bubble. By then I had accumulated 50 gazillion chips and was spraying raises around like a demented gatling gun on heat, As Alan observed, it was a pity it was just a satellite. I noted that if it hadn't been a satellite, I wouldn't have had as many chips as I had.
Although these 90FPP sats (10% get 900 FPPS) are resoundingly soft, it still took me three hours to get the points (worth ten of her majesty's sovereigns, is my estimate). That's hardly worth getting out of bed for. Assume a qualifying rate of one in three and your ROR is about a quid an hour. Stuff that for a game of soldiers. However, the PLO sats look ridiculously soft, and faster.
They are running four or five of these 90 FPPers a day, so for the financially strapped with plenty of points on Stars, there's quite a bit that can be accumulated. The trick is to turn these into tournament dollars, which can now be traded on the open market at a rate of about 8 or 9 to 10, I think.
Currently toddling along in the Stan James Hendon Mob game. If only I could knock out a mobster, I would be pissing this league. But the opportunity never seems to arrive. So it goes.
