SwingSwingSwing's Poker Journey

My god, it was worth playing this just for the experience of registration. The Pokerstars Lamborghini Freerolls have a maximum of ten thousand entrants. They were filling up in under a minute when I was trying last night. That's right, ten thousand people signed up in under sixty seconds. Unbelievable. I missed out on my first attempt but these freerolls run every hour and I got in to the one an hour later.

And I did pretty well, finishing 75th out of 10000. Unfortunately, that got me absolutely bugger all as only the top 18 qualified for the weekly final.

Meanwhile, back on Full Tilt, I managed to extend my win streak in the $2 heads up SNGs to 12 before some random donk broke it. Still a losing player but my ROI has now increased to -2%

From last night's PokerStars £2000 Freeroll.

Ace King short under the gun
Push. Two callers both Ace Nine
Nine On flop

OK, it's not really a haiku but I liked it.

I'm now only a small loser at the $2 heads up SNGs on Full Tilt. A run of eleven consecutive victories brought me back into respectability.

Meanwhile on Stars, I've been playing freerolls and crap like that. I've managed to qualify the for Turbo Takedown next week and on Sunday night I final-table-bubbled the UK £2000 guaranteed freeroll rebuy, finishing 10th out of 4500ish.

This is a strange wee tournament. It's a free to enter rebuy. So you get in for free and you can rebuy and get 1000 chips for ten pence. The great thing is that very few of the participants know anything about playing rebuys. Only one or two of your initial table will rebuy at the start and not that many take the addon either. This means it is an easy tournament to cash in. Just rebuy at the start and take the addon and you're almost there. I've played most of them this week and cashed in them all, finished 10th on Sunday night and had a top 200 finish as well. As it's essentially a freeroll, it also means there's a fair bit of overlay. Sunday night's total of rebuys and addons was only about £250 meaning there was £1750 added by PokerStars. And PokerStars even give you a micro stakes SNG ticket if you cash having rebought at some point. 

Easy money. OK, easy micro money but easy money none-the-less.

...it keeps getting in the way of me posting.

As a few of the BritBloggers will know, MrsSwingSwingSwing and I had applied to immigrate to Canada. Now this was a couple of years ago. Well, they've only gone and accepted us! They asked for our passports at the end of June and last week, we got them back with visas attached! But what's really set the cat amongst the pidgeons is that the visas expire in August. Yip, August.

After the initial panic, we've realised that we haven't got time to get everything sorted before the expiry date. So it'll be a two stage plan. Stage 1 - go over to Canada, go through the landing procedure which activates our permanent residents status, stay for a week or so, apply for various bits and bobs and then come back. Stage 2 - get the house sold, pack up and go.

Needless-to-say, we've got a million and one things to do so the poker has taken a bit of a back seat. It hasn't been totally shelved though. I've stopped playing on Stars for now, just to make sure I preserve my bankroll. But I have been playing on Full Tilt with my massive $80 'roll. I was just going to play for fun and see how much I could grow the 'roll playing heads up sit'n'gos. I'm not too proud to say that I'm running at -10% ROI so far, playing the $2s. And that's an improvement as I was running at -24% for a while! I am a fish of the highest quality. People have been looking up my stats and calling me a loser. Now I don't know what's sadder - that I'm a fish at the $2s or that people actually bother to use Sharkscope at that level. One guy in particular made me laugh. He had looked up my stats, saw that he was in for an easy time and played me for a bit. Of course, I won the majority of the games which put him on massive tilt, particularily as I did have a couple of suckouts! During that tilt, he was berating me big time for my poor stats and likewise I was berating him for even bothering to look up opponents at that level.

If you need to use Sharkscope to get a handle on opponents at the $2 level you are destined to spend an eternity at that level.