Big Chief Poker News

Well, here it is!

This is a seat ticket for what could be my last event. (See previous post as to why).

Thank you to all the people who have been supporting me over the years especially the loyal crew from the Mint Casino in Torquay and Chris Ferguson for being such a great chap offering good advice.

This is just to show you all where I am seated so feel free to come along if you like.

For those of you not fortunate enough to be here right now I will be updating the site on my twitter account from the table, so you can view live reporting on the left side bar.

I am loving all your comments, so please keep them coming. In This site maybe a little quiet over the next few days as my campaign begins next Wednesday.

Can’t believe I won’t be popping down for a quick gander in the next day or so, so I may post the odd bit of gossip.

All the best to everyone – The Chief!

Today was interesting….

For those of you who are interested in the poker you will have to wait a moment whilst I tell you about who I was playing with – Shannon Elizabeth from American Pie. Click her picture for more info.

Now to the boring bit.

All was going to plan and again, I cannot believe what I was seeing! The truth is, you do not have to be a good poker player to win, even though you would think that being in the biggest events in the world would bring only the best players. The younger crowd are truly crazy and rely on luck to progress. There are just too many of them to fight against because whenever you get rid of two or three, another 2-300 are waiting round the corner to play ‘crazy poker’.

I played solid poker for 9 hours and knew exactly what I was doing. I had a good read of every player and was waiting patiently to make my move. We started with 3,000 in chips today and I grinded my way up to 15,000. It was hard work and I watched in amazement as kids came along and went all-in with the most outrageous hands such as 9, 4 or King, 2 – PRE-FLOP! Naturally many times they won because other people couldn’t risk going all-in just in case the nutters had a real hand. When people did call they would often take out the nutter only for us to find another taking their place. There are 1,000s of kids with too much money and no common sense.

Truly, this is not sour grapes but factual.

This is how it ended for me today. I had Ace, Queen suited and a nutter raised as usual. I thought he had nothing so I re-raised. He called. The flop came Queen, 8, 4 (unsuited). The Internet nutter was first to act and pushed all-in. I called immediately and was relieved when he showed King, 8 (also unsuited). The turn card was a King.

Patience is a virtue but stupidity seems to be paying dividends for idiots this year.

I promise here and now ‘in writing’, that if I don’t come anywhere in the main event I will never come to the World Series again as it pays dividends for fools. Be aware though fools, because for every one of you who wins, there are 1,000s of you who lose fortunes out here every day.

Gone are the days where true skill has anything to do with winning at poker.