Chief's Take on Things ...

H...H...H...HOT !

I'm long overdue a new post on the blog, but the run has been so good lately I didn't want to disturb the Karma !
An early exit in the Crapshoot that is the Merrion freeroll last night, has given the licence to publish blog again!

In my last post, I mentioned that I won at The Mayfair Freeroll which was worth €100 to me, well anyways two days later, the place went out of business ! .. Ha Ha, trust me ! I had shares with a stockbroker in Cork that went out of business a few years ago as well, and got caught there as well, when once of the partners was involved in serious fraud of theft of clients monies (including mine and our share club !) ... so a Casino and a Stockbrokers go bust owing me money .... lucky or what !!
I believe they will send out a cheque for my €100 .... we'll see !

However, that final table in the mayfair was the first of 5 final Multi Table Tourneys tables in a row !

A couple of days later, made the final table in the Merrion freeroll, missed the prizes when going out on the bubble, but another good performance. Then won $412 on an on-line tourney on betfair finishing 3rd of 400 runners.
Then last week, the highlight of my shortish poker career, finishing 3rd of 90 runners in Drogheda for €650 last Thursday, and then the following night winning the tournament of 39 runners in the AUL for €1000 ....:) Happy Days !
Met Big Dragon before, met Dub 13 and Corben Dallas for the 1st time at the AUL, so 4 'boardies' on the final table I think speaks for itself.

Both Drogheda and the AUL tourneys are run by Shortstack and the quality of the tournament and of the players is very good, better than the casinos at this buy-in level of €25

I changed my game ever so slightly, getting involved in more pots, however the main reason for success is that I didn't receive any bad beats, I was putting the chips in when ahead, and the hands had stood up. I took some unbelieveable bad beats a few weeks ago that were unreal, and I would have cashed in a few tourneys if it wasn't for that, so overall I'm delighted with my game, and feel I now have the game to compete for the money in any tourney I enter.

That's not to say there's alot more to learn, I'm reading Harringtons 2nd book at the moment, and I'm just coming to parts of the book where there are some totally new concepts I'm trying to get my head around (Inflection Points ....(wtf!) )

I think my 'freeroll' days are behind me now, I'm going to make the AUL game on a Friday my 'home tourney', it's a 20 minute spin down the M50, and if I feel like a few beers as well, it's fine to get a taxi from there if needed. The game in Drogheda on Thursday is only 30 mins away, and that is a cracking tournament, so when I'm going home to Mayo at the weekend, when I miss the Friday game, I will play the Thursday one instead .... great to have a choice !

I think I'll also play the Fitz on a Wednesday anymore, so they will be my two live tourneys a week from now on. I'm getting bored of playing on-line, while it is profitable in the main, it is just not worth the effort and unsociable aspect of it.
It's OK if Sherwin is out, or gone shopping for a while, but not when she's in the house, it's not fair. Will log on for an hour or so, when 'Off the Rails' is on etc.... as she will be glad to be rid of me then :)


In other news www.magazines365.com is up and running, so hopefully that will go well. Got alot of nice comments and feedback from the 'boardies' so that's positive. Will commence a marketing campaign in October, booked some time on Newstalk 106 and working on some other promotions as well, including on-street activity.

Any of you guys who play poker can get Cardplayer (America and Europe versions)http://www.magazines365.com/searchresult.php?cid=2 (pimping I know), but our slogan is "Magazines For All Sorts!", so hopefully after a few weeks, we'll have a massive range of magazines that can live up to that slogan.

Will be going home this weekend for a visit, it's a month today since my pal Bernard was killed, I still can't believe he is gone. I was very upset when I didn't think I had a really good photo of us together (you don't think (do you?) of bringing a camera out for a few pints), but my wife Sherwin assured me she had a good one...and boy was she right. If I had to choose any night to have a photo of us together it was the night of the Millenium, and that is the one I have, you can see all the decorations up in the background, it's a brilliant photo, and now one of my most treasured possessions, especially poignant as Bernard's Birthday was January 1st as well.

Qualified for Grand Final of European Tour qualifier on PPP through a satelitte, so will play that tonight, and see if my good run can continue.
I'm enjoying playing good poker now, and I'm getting most of Hectorjelly's conundrums and scientific formulas right as well, so I must be making progress :)

Forest relegation zone Division 2 (3!) ... no more words necessary, they are only wasted :(

Keep Lucky Folks !

posted by Chief_OHara @ 12:00 PM