And of course they all looked great in their Ladbrokes clothing. Waiting with anticipation to see teh goody bag of sponsored merchandise that I get sent...c'mon Laddies, make it a good one, hoodie, baseball caps, T-shirts and shirts, beach towel (summer can't be far away can it) and a chipset maybe...oh and a coffee cup of course for those late night online games!
Talking of which a recent online sucess playing Omaha, which was a timely confidence boost.
Though the 00:45 finish was NOT great with a 05:30 wake up for fitness bootcamp with Jody Blunt!
Anyway, back to teh poker and thoughts of playing my first high stakes live poker tournament. As a small stakes online player teh biggest concern for me is what to expect in teh standard of play moving to £100+ buy-in tournaments. I guess I'm imagining that to play at that level you surely must be a better standard of player, possibly more aggressive...or be lucky enough to have won a grassroots promotion package.
Also, with a normal online tournament you usually only start with 1500 to 3000 chips (unless playing deepstack) so having 10,000 chips to start with will be a new concept to come to terms with and will be interesting to see if that changes peoples playing style or strategies.
Finally I guess the face to face banter and chat will hopefully be fun as well as perhaps a challenge, depending on whether there are any exuberant characters at my table or not.
To help gain some advice I've been tweeting various poker players from all over and at various standards and will put their advice in a future blog. But for now, focusing on a re-read of some of my early poker books...and i do wonder if my omaha win and this simply a coincidence or did it kick in some subconscious skills/awareness.
Anyway, bootcamp tomorrow and a 05:30 alarm call, so as Zebedee once said..."time for bed!"
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