Bounty Hunted

Got my chance to go on the Bounty Hunter tonight and blew it! Maybe it's my fault - I suggested they come to me first, but what that meant was they (Michelle Orpe and Tom Sambrook) were interviewing me while I played my first few hands. Turns out that the hand they showed, I played pretty well, but within a couple of minutes I'd lost 80% of my chips. I tightened right up, hoping to survive, but finally went all-in in the small blind against my nemesis, AnneJo, in the big blind and I was gone.

Went out even quicker in Velocity - reraised all-in post-flop with three tens - the other guy had a straight...

My plan now is to take a short break (my play's been too inconsistent lately) and read a couple of books, including Super System.

Ouch

Wednesday nights have gone back to normal on Sky Poker: there's an Open again at 9 pm, and the WSOP satellite is now at 9.30. I entered both, crashed out of the Open, and was doing well in the satellite until I raised all-in from the SB with K9. The BB called... with K9. And caught a flush. Ouch.

I have upped my game a bit. The night before, I played one of my best ever hours of online tourney play, going into the break with 25,000 chips. Unfortunately, soon afterwards I tried to raise with 44 against AA and lost quite a few, but I still came 14th out of 670. Not bad.

Poker v Scrabble

Because I've spent the evening playing poker, when I sat down to write a blog post about a Scrabble tourney I've just been to (as a spectator) I found myself comparing it with poker tourneys. One important difference is I don't fancy eating a dictionary, which is what most of those guys have had to do in order to play at the top level. That's one of the great things about poker: anyone with an average IQ can learn to play it well in a few hours, or at least well enough to be able to win a few cash pots or get a money finish in a tournament.

A bit of a flat evening, pokerwise. I came in the money in the Velocity, but the tourney was spoilt by a system crash at Sky which meant that most of the players (i.e. the ones playing through their TV boxes) got cut off. So coming in the money wasn't much of an achievement! (Though I did already have a healthy stack when the crash happened...) Meanwhile, even though the tourneys were continuing, it appears that the live TV show couldn't show any of the action. Not sure why not - I wouldn't have thought that the two systems were connected.