This week has been an up and down week really. I have been a bit under the weather and a bout of man flu, which meant that I didn’t play or feel like playing any poker. Tuesday night was my second game in the Champions Poker League, which I won to take joint top place with furnesspkr. As I have previously mentioned though, there isn’t any pay out of funds until later in the year, as the competition last all year long. So while this was a good result there are still nearly 100 games left to play.

Wednesday night I was feeling a little better and played in the bounty game on Nasty Duck Poker, I was a good chip position, but had said I would go and help a friend set up his xbox, so when I thought that they said the bubble gets €10 and it will be for 6th place, I pushed all in. Only to find out that it was 5th place that got the bubble prize… Doh.. I was not happy, but it was my own stupid fault as I wasn’t paying attention enough.
I didn’t play any poker for a few nights and wasn’t until Saturday evening that I decided to load up PokerStars and play a few Double up games to get my points up and hopefully release some of the bonus that I am due. 10% done and should get part of it released soon I hope. I’m still hovering around the same bankroll on PokerStars. In the evening I thought I’d have a look on PKR, as I have not been on for a while. I seemed to be waiting ages for Sit N Goes to start, so decided to load up $4 in the micro stakes cash tables. I went as low as $2.13 and then got it back up to $3.47 before deciding to come off and call it a night.
Sunday night was the best night. There were 2 main games on Nasty Duck, a Champions Game and also a freeroll starting an hour later. I signed up for both and set out on a good roll. I won the champions game, which has left me top of the league current prize pool is 37.31€ of which top prize receives 20% and a trophy

After the Champions league game I played in the freeroll. I had a good feeling about the freeroll, as I didn’t go out before the last add on break. I paid €0.25 to buy and extra 5000 chips and used them to their full potential. My chip stack was up and down like a yo-yo and before long I thought I was going to bust out. Hitting a few nice and lucky hands I managed to scrape in to the top 10 and was guaranteed at least 1€. I know not massive, but the idea of this blog remember is to track my progress when starting off with £100. A while longer (I seemed to be sticking round) I was creeping my way up the chip stacks and down and up. Even longer later it was down to heads up and I ran in to AK. Lucky for me the other player held AJ and re raised me all in. As I was massive chip leader I called and won the had and took down 18€ for first place.
I started off with:
Nasty Duck – 20€
PKR – $50
PokerStars – $50

Current standings
NastyDuck – €26.08
PKR – $48.13
PokerStars – $58

Just thought I would drop a quick line to let you know how I have been getting on.

I’ve been full of a cold and not played as much as I would have liked to.  I have so far been playing on Nasty Duck Poker and lost a couple of €’s, but nothing much.  Main losses have been down to playing freeroll re-buy in games and re buying in too much.  I have realised this and will now play a tighter game early on and stop doing stupid all in moves.

What has helped me learn to play a much more patient game is by playing the double or nothing $1 games on PokerStars.  I’m up about $10 in the week and have been trying to work off my bonus of $12 from my initial deposit.  The double or nothing games can be quite slow and involve a lot of folding until I get a premium hand.  To get around the boredom of this I will sometimes play up to 3 tables.  Playing enough hands and winning enough posts to stay about average chip stack seems to be good enough.  If you decide to play in these types of games, then don’t rush in too much.  There are normally 1-2 people that seem to think they will win something if they just sit out and hope that other players end up taking themselves out.  Don’t you be the person to take yourself out.  By doing this you are playing a very impatient game and need to calm down.

Plan for the coming weeks is to carry on playing in the bounty/freeroll and champions games on Nasty Duck Poker and the rest of the time I will be grinding out my FPP’s on PokerStars.

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