I am still alive, in case anyone is wondering… !
I haven’t posted in a while because basically I have been (and still am) on a business trip back in England and so have very little time for poker. I have played a few hands one evening on my laptop, but not very many hands because I don’t have my PT database or HUD installed on this computer and so I can’t really multi-table it. Actually, playing just 1 or 2 tables with no PT stats is quite a good exercise for honing your hand-reading skills as it really forces you to pay attention to what your opponents are doing – I really recommend you trying this every now and again.
Live poker
While I’m here, I’d really like to play a live game somewhere because in France, live games in casinos are still quite high stakes and too expensive and pretty crappy service to boot.
There is £10 freezeout tonight in a local Rileys snooker club. I went down there at lunchtime to check it out but it looks a bit crap. Clearly, they are just offering poker as a sideline to their main business and it shows – They have a load of crappy mobile tables which I think they’re just gonna put in the noisy bar area, right next to all the pool tables and I doubt for a £10 buy-in that it will be a proper croupier, but just self dealt maybe or a barman dealing. Hmm..
My other choice is a £75 ($150) freezeout tournament at Luton Casino.
http://www.gcasino.co.uk/luton/pokerschedule.php
This is quite expensive I know, but Luton casino is supposed to be excellent for poker, a really classy place and good service and croupiers. It’s not as if I’m going to be doing this every week, and I think that at those stakes, I would be really concentrated! I think this is the one I am going to go for – I’ll call them up later, and get some more info from them.
Bankroll: $1145
2 responses so far ↓
luckystraights // November 15, 2007 at 7:46 pm |
up my way I’ve got 3 casinos all in walking distance and there all really different, but haven’t played poker in any yet.
Napoleons is the more classy of the three and have ranging stakes from £10 up to £200 cash games. Theres also a Gala, which is a bit too non-poker orientated for me, too much like a bingo hall, which is what Gala is known for I suppose. Then we’ve got Grosvenor’s they do a few casino games, but have poker tournaments of varying stakes starting as low as £2 most evenings and have cash games running later on.
In a low limit game you’ll probably after take your turn dealing, thats what its like for us up here, until the final tables at least, then we get a dealer, for tournaments anyways.
Good luck finding a good game
Pipedream // November 23, 2007 at 8:49 am |
It’s been awhile man…very impressive!!!! It sucks when work gets in the way of poker doesn’t it
I’ve been going through the same thing. Anyway, just wanted to drop by and say congrats. Keep it up!