Rubbish!

August 19, 2009 by Maria Demetriou

I knew I would be crap at keeping things up. I struggled as a child with yearly diaries lasting longer than January 8th and it appears that when things don’t go so rosy I don’t fancy talking about them – something that hopefully keeping a blog I can address.

So I’ll start with the Sky Poker Tour Grand Final in June that I was so looking forward too – I believe my 10k stack lasted a grand total of 43 minutes. I told myself on my way to DTD to play steady and not to bluff inexperienced players etc etc. Of course I couldn’t help but try and assert myself as the table captain. After doing in half my stack, I called a raise from a serial raiser and C better with A3 suited. With a flop of A 2 5 and 1 heart, we both managed to get in all our chips and was amazed to see my oppo turn over 10h 6h. By the time I had computed that a swift double up was coming my way, 2 hearts hit the turn and river and I was heading for the car park with my head spinning lol.

July and August have been non starters for me live tournament wise. I just cant get past level 4 for some reason, I don’t feel like I am playing badly, just not winning those crucial flips or even the 70 / 30’s for that matter! I don’t worry though, I know things can change quickly and then you think poker is an absolute piece of cake and you are a genius at it.

August has been pretty good for me in online huge runner donkfests. I try not to play them on a regular basis because going through 2k – 3k runner fields can be brain screwing at times, but on the flip side of that I mostly enjoy them as a blow out. Last week I came 5th in a 60k GTD for $3,800 then 9th in another for $1,000. The week before I finalled 3 times in an Omaha $10 rebuy in a row and lost heads up in one of them but a nice couple in K in those too. It’s all setting me up nicely for a good bankroll to take to Vegas in November for some of the Venetian Deepstack festival!

I’m so so so pleased for James Akenhead making the November 9 in the WSOP. It is an awesome achievment, if not a little sureal, particularly since being runner up in a massive field last year in Event2 and losing in ridiculous fashion after owning Grant Hinkle heads up. I can’t wait to rail the final table and the freaky dynamic of having Phil Ivey in the mix too. I’m not just saying this because James is a mate, but I seriously think he can do something massive here, shortstack or not - no pressure luv!!

I have been invited for the second year running as a guest by Boyle Poker to the International Poker Open in Dublin in October. It was a great event last year, not only for the very affordable $200, 1,300 runner main event but all the side events that were expertly run and the european carnival like atmosphere. It has to be seen to be believed, honestly a great fun and light hearted poker weekend. Get yourselves there if you can.

Lastly on a rare staking outing for me, I was reading a page on facebook on buying a share of Paul Zimbler in the Poker Million. I quite fancied a couple of % and clicked on the link to sort it out. Duely the link didn’t work for some reason so I decided to do it later on in the day. I forgot, and of course Paul goes and makes the Semi Final in October – well done Paul, GG me!!

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