Pleasure (part two): poker
It's appropriate to tell you about my poker career tonight, since the tournament I "played" in this evening, (will explain the "" shortly), was the reason I set up this blog.I blame my other (and sometimes better) half for getting me into this game. He's been playing a couple of years, happily keeping out of my way on his PC upstairs. These were the days when we only had the one PC and every 3 weeks, when my Avon order had to be submitted, I would have to kick him off it. I don't remember it being a particular problem, but it probably started to be so around the time he bought me my own PC and installed it downstairs!
So then it began that he lived upstairs and I lived downstairs, and I googled and played yahoo games on mine, and he, apparently, played more and more poker on his.
Then last year he played the Maxim King of Poker competition, which consisted of 2 freeroll games every day from November til March (or thereabouts) and points earned every game towards final placings on a leaderboard. Poker now began to impact on our limited social life, requiring early starts so we could be back home for the afternoon game, and I think probably no going out in the evening at all. So I slyly watch him play a little (he does not like being watched; and never ever speak, on pain of death) and I remember the basics of the game from the days when you played with actual cards and not pictures on a PC, and I start to want to have a little go myself. However my PC will not have any of it. Go and get a wireless connection, it says. And eventually we do.
So now, at last, I can download the Victor Chandler site and play the free MKOP tournaments. What a great way to learn how to play (except for the fact it was for points rather than money) and after playing for only the last month of the tournament I ended up 231st/1200 in the table, with as far as I could see, the highest average points per game in the whole table.
At this point I joined Punters Lounge and began to really learn how to play properly; I downloaded several more sites; I started working my schedule round game times; I learned how to play poker, cook tea, read the forum and watch TV at the same time; and all of a sudden I seem to be playing every night.
So after starting only in February this year, I won my first MTT in August and smashed my PB in September by coming 2nd in a Sporting Odds freeroll for $487.50.
So what about tonight's tournament? The Punter's Lounge Bloggers freeroll on Betfair, for members of the forum who have blogs linking to the site and various affiliates. Well I was going along nicely, sitting in 5th, when I was moved to sit at the same table as the other half (who was not doing as well) and made to sit out the remainder of the tournament as this site will not allow us to play at the same table as we have the same IP address (whatever that is). I fizzled out in 13th without being allowed to play another hand. Annoyed does not really do my feelings justice, even though the other half upped his game and finished in the money in 4th.
Just hope the next one is played on a different site.
That's it for now - will call you later (a little poker joke there!)
posted by AvonGirl @ 2:31 am
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