Unsustainable Success Update
Posted by Blue Man on 12 Mar 2008 at 12:38 pm | Tagged as: Poker
Ten weeks. Three wins. Three times runner-up. Eight final tables.
I promise you, nobody is more surprised than me.
I’d played no-limit maybe five times ever prior to getting involved in this, so there’s definitely a fair amount of beginner’s luck / people not being familiar with my style going on here. That being said, I’ve played a lot of one-table sit-and-goes online over the last couple of months and been wildly more successful than I ever was in the limit ring games I’d been exclusively playing to that point.
The problem is, the final is being held on Easter Saturday at a casino in Bolton. Much as the chance to play in big live tournament is exciting, much as I’m sure it’s be a good experience and a good game of poker, much as it’s a chance to boldly go where I’ve never gone before, that’s a total of 400 miles and about 6 hours of expensive and awkward travel no matter what method I use to get up there.
That’s a long way to go for potentially one hand.
So, gentle reader, I’m genuinely torn. Should I stay or should I go?
Stick or twist? Oh, sorry, wrong game.
Dude, go for it. How many chances will you get to do something like this? You’ve got a DS to help you cope with the journey (assuming you don’t drive, that is). As long as you can get it past Mrs Blue Man, I say go.
I definitely wouldn’t go so that probably means that you should.
For the love of God, Blue Man, go.
Is that you, mum?
Do you often call your Mum John? Or does she?
Get your ass to Bolton this weekend. I’d go with you myself, but I have a documented allegic reaction to The North.
And the wife would say no.
And .
With a glowing recommendation like that, I’m sure you’ll go.
(waddaya mean “No”…)
It just sounds like the sort of thing she’d say.
Although my dad IS called John, spookily.
Going to Bolton THIS weekend wouldn’t be very helpful, would it? Except possibly as a trial run.
“Yep. Yep, this is a very long way. Oh well, time to go home.”
You could put jam and wasps in El Hadj Diouf’s shoes. That’d be worth going for.
I thought THIS weekend was Easter Saturday. Oh bollocks, that means I’m rota’d to work on Easter Saturday.
Should have seen that coming…
OMGH I can’t believe you’re blogging about this when I already told you what to do days ago. How disrespectful:) Cripes! I like your mom’s style and I know from personal experience elaine is cool as hell so what is holding you back?
nothing
go make it happen, Rocky
ilu
:(((( aw dave