Ok so we haven’t had any updates for a while, were nearly in March now and this year seems to be busier than ever for myself with plenty of things going on.... anyway thought I’d give you a catch up!!
Most of you will know that at the start of the month we ventured off to the brand new “Genting Poker Series” with the first leg being held in Birmingham ‘Star City’ casino, it doesn’t have the glitz of the Bellagio but the poker certainly was very good! Genting are relatively new in the online poker scene, and are on the same ipoker network as our very own UNCOVER POKER, but they have plenty of pro’s on there, including all the Hendon Mob who were all out in force in Birmingham, just to name a few. Their huge network of UK casinos is made up mainly of the ‘Stanley Casinos’ and they are growing quickly adding places like ‘The Fox Poker Club’ to their portfolio.
Whippy and myself were joined by package winners Phil Da Silva and Jason Fraser, and with one place spare Jason’s brother Jamie joined us for our first poker trip of the year. Overall it was a great weekend, with my birthday thrown into the mix it was always going to be enjoyable.
The structure was a good one, with 25k starting stacks followed by 1hr blind levels, which seemed to suit all the Jersey boys. It was a 3 day structure and everyone made day 2, a feat that hasn’t been done before on any of the other trips I’ve been involved in. I started day 2 in a very healthy position with 105k in chips, and around about 20th from a starting field of 350 players, mind you it quickly changed as in the first level I’d lost over 40k when my Pocket Queens got bust by a flush and My Ace King was bust by two pair after flopping the Ace. With the top 45 getting paid I painfully went out 49th, with both Whippy and Phil being eliminated earlier in the day.
The real story was the Fraser brothers though, Jason making his first major UK event was playing very solid and after starting day 2 with about 60k managed to make the cash and eventually went out in around 25th place. Jamie had started as the Jersey short stack for day 2 with around 35k however, that never stopped him, and after making the final day with about 15 playerS left, the final table was firmly in his sights. Jamie’s chip stack had never been massive but he managed to stay solid throughout and after making it to the final 10 we thought he was on the final table. After the dealer declaring it was 10 players he realised he had made a mistake and they were actually playing a final table of 9! The poker gods weren’t on his side, and when he made a good call against a button push he had the guys 7,5 dominated with Jack, King however after the guy hit two pair on the turn it was all but over. A fantastic result in the end but just a shame he was so unlucky late on!
The next leg of the “Genting Poker Series” is the end of March @ The Fox Poker Club London, so if anyone is interesting in joining us, let me know and we can sort something out......
The Friday Freezeout league with the new buy-in structure is proving very popular. This week the prize money was over £2000 with £1000 paid to the winner, a great return for a Friday night out! The league is only 5 weeks old so plenty of time for anyone to start building points and with two chances to win a FREE £1000 UK Poker package there is great value in playing the league.
See you at the tables
Doc
