From Now Till Then

So the big move is still a few weeks away. So what am i gonna do in the meantime. Well tonight I'm gonna venture up to Dusk Till Dawn for the first time. I have heard nothing but good news about this place and im quite excited to see just what the place has to offer.

For those of you reading this blog that dont know me and maybe some of those that do. A brief background on me as a poker player. I turned up on the poker scene between 2 1/2 to 3 years ago now. I was completly a tournament player i had no interest in cash games whatsoever. I remember one of my first trips to the Westcliff at Southend, I busted out of the comp and there was a selfdeal nlh game running in the corner. I sat in the game felt hugely uncomfortable in it and proceeded to do my money until my lift later got busted out of the comp. The Westcliff used to run a £100 f/o in a room downstairs of the casino it was dull and dingey no windows and a low ceiling. They allowed smoking in the room, thankfully they stopped allowing the smoking after the first few visits i made. Westcliff was very profitable for me with a hugely high % of top 3 finishes. The reason why I stopped going was because it was only getting 20-25 runners and I decided to start cutting my teeth elsewhere.

So Luton was the next casino I came across. A new room with new players to work out. Luton at this time was quite a tough place to play with some tough seasoned regulars that more than knew there way around. So bigger fields more money on offer but not so easy to get hold of. I hold my own final table here final table there couple of top 3 finishes and every now and then a win. My first festival comes along and i win a single table sat into the £750 f/o with 3 left i was up against Michael Greco and Carlo Citrone. I beat Carlo heads up and was on a real high as the comp started. Well to cut a long story short i make it through to Day 2 onto the final table and we are now discussing a chop. 1 guy is worried about doing a deal as he will get less European Ranking points. I didnt have a clue what he was going on about. The deal gets made and i walk out the casino with £12k in my back pocket. Not bad for a day and a halves work. So I guess im now hooked and like a million and one other soles im playing poker as often as possible. The following week i venture to the Gutshot. I finish 2nd in the 100 rebuy and the following day i get a 4th in the £500 f/o. The final table was televised and is still rerun about twice a week on one of the poker channels. A few weeks later and Im in Vegas, about 8 of us went from Luton id just tagged on to some coat tails but id made my way out there and this is were i got my first taste of real cash action. My first night we go down to the mirage and i get a seat in the $1-$2 nlh game. I sit with the max $200. Within a couple of hours i have about $1200 in front of me, i properly covered the table. I didnt realise at the time but this was my first lesson in playing cash.

Well lots of things have happened in the meantime and I honestly didnt intended the last section of this blog to be this long. Im sure that ill fill in the missing parts at a later date. I guess the reason for me posting this is just to let you all know that these days i consider myself a cash player even though I still play comps and expect to cash in the majority of the comps that I play.

There are lots of things to learn in playing poker but the biggest lesson I think I have learnt is how to make a profit to control bankroll and very importantly never a lender be.

Well good luck to me at DTD ill let you know how things went after the weekend.