So then why don't I take advantage of this? Yes it is meant to be alot of hassle and quite the grind, so I read, but having also read what can be made, ya know I think I could pwn it hard! Whilst at the same time expanding my socialising a trillion %, and seeing 1000000% more women hopefully aswell.
Today I browsed the poker blogs on blondepoker.com, a British based poker forum that for it's size is pretty darn active, to find encouraging results. The very first one I came across for example had a 2012 summary looking like this!
£63/$100 an hour live and pretty sure he rarely ventured into £2/£5!!!
So my biggest problem with this is obv my total noobness in both the live field and travelling of any kind. So general life noobness then...at the grand old age of 35... facepalm.png!!!! I would much prefer to do stuff like this with some form of poker partner/homie/nagga. Obviously poker is a lone sport, you can't be paired with your buddies at tournament tables and even on the same cash table would be debatably -ev, but for all the rest of it, dinners, partying etc etc a companion would make everything infinitely better.
Am literally talking about leaving the place I live now (to save on £7k a year!!) and living on tour like a freakin musician or something. If one was to do that then I'm pretty sure a mobile home would >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hotels in terms of expenses, but then not being in hotels, especially adjoining ones during times of big events, might miss out on certain partying opportunities and whatever else comes with that.
So I guess the best thing I can do realy is start off slowly by just driving to some event. As I've already mentioned my nearest casino is Southend which was recently refurbished into a Genting, who have multiple casinos across the UK resulting in a poker tour they actually host, the Genting Poker Series (GPS). There's 3 tours that I know of now, the GPS, the GUKTP which is similar but hosted in all the Grosvenor places, and then there's the UKIPT which is obviously the biggest one. UKIPT is weird, it's schedule this year actually buggers off to Spain for one event. WHAT? I believe it just finished this month with the London finale and doesn't start again until June, then August, then two in October. Like, that's not many is it?!! What about April, May, July???? Silly. But obviously GUKPT and GPS fills those gaps and everything inbetween is obviously whatever, fair sized buy-in tournies run every week all over the county, but I think more lucrative than anything else would be cash! Pretty sure I'm rolled to play £2/$5 which for a start helps with rake hugely compared with £1-£1 and £1-£2 iirc.
Whatever happens, if it means going alone or not, I'm defo going to go to my nearest casino's leg of the Genting Poker Tour and try sattying into the £400/$600 main event. But this is in August so I definitely need some live practice before then. We'll see.
This morning,I asked the wife what her thoughts were,if I traveled around the uk playing some poker and it would mean maybe, stopping in some hotels,or w/e.She said ''I would divorce you,you twat.I never you as it is'' rofl!! So count me in,ragz.
ReplyDeleteNo,but seriously - If you're up North playing some of those,I will def' hook up with you.Having said that-It wouldn't take much to jump in the car and shoot down the M1,what 4 hours? Hmmmmmmmm........I'm taking the 3 of them to Kefalonia (Greek Island) for 3 weeks in two months time.So,I could use that as a bartering tool,IMO.