Struggling For Inspiration!

I want to play these MTTs like all those great little £2 Thread merchants but really struggling to find the time. Meant to play the Sky Poker stuff last week but just don't either have the time or the enthusiasm for it. STTs now bore me and until I learn to stop playing cash games like a freezeout we shall steer clear of them.

Played a few MTTs recently, made it to the penultimate table in a headhunter but that has been my only cash out of the 5 I've played (2 on Sky, 2 on Blue Square and the Crypto Headhunter).

Basically they go like this, tight early on, start attempting to steal at 50/100 and stop limping (raise/fold only). If you do raise, then only raise with position unless you have a top 6 hand. Eventually though you reach the key hand where you are all-in with pair/overcards ... AND I DON'T SEEM CAPABLE OF WINNING THIS HAND!!!!

And that frustrates me, play good poker for 2 hours and win nothing. Multi-tabling may help but I just don't have the time. I shall maybe watch one of the experienced MTT people play from the £2 thread (Not saying who) and see what they do, how they approach MTTs. I will also try and play the free WSOPE Betfair things this week and take them seriously (Raising out of postition 2nd hand with 87 high and going all-in on a A44 flop is NOT taking it serious).

I think I've got the game/knowledge. But at the moment I don't have the right mindset/patience and I need to take my successful STT strategy and enlarge it into what will hopefully become a successful MTT strategy.

Good Luck All (But especially me)

The Velocity

There was no The Open on Sky Poker tonight.

Instead it was a £5 MTT called The Velocity (4 minute blinds, 1500 chips). Not exactly what you might call a deepstack game but I lasted 45 minutes and it was good poker, quick, enjoyable and action all the way, none of this fold nonsense. Unfortunately though when the blinds got to 600/1200 I departed as my K3 sooted was soundly thrashed and I finished in about 300th of 1000 entrants. Proper mans poker though, why waste a whole evening winning nothing when you can waste 45 minutes instead!

My TV appearance must wait for another day.

Sky Poker

Well my Windows XP partition is buggered. Keeps going 'ping' and just rebooting at random times making it nearly impossible to play poker. Shut down almost every service, deleted almost everything, stopped most apps starting up and virus checked the thing but still the same!

So I'm using Ubuntu and the only poker you can play with Ubuntu is Sky Poker. What a good application it is, runs on any OS with no Software download, surely the future and so much better than the dreadful Betfair software.

Therefore starting Tuesday I will be playing The Open which starts at 9pm and has 7 minute blind levels which are just perfect, not quite a crapshoot but none of this dull boring waiting around for things to happen. Played a few low level MTTs/Cash games to get a feel for the software and it was just full of mentalists re-re-re-raising with A4. Yes, I was basically outplayed.

Doob will be coming to a TV near you soon .......