jason (Anonymous) says

Sounds like a good decision to go it alone online with that bankroll and good luck in the FTOPS. Are you going to be playing all of the NL events or are you playing some additional events too?

11/10/07

Swami54 says

I'm going to snipe you Bond when I get my new 360...old one broke :(

11/10/07

Adanthar says

there's no way that Halo 3 is the greatest thing ever, because either Hellgate: London or Super Mario Galaxy are the greatest thing ever

11/10/07

Swami54 says

I heard Hellgate London wasn't that good

11/11/07

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It’s FTOPS time again, which is in my opinion a whole hell of a lot better than the WCOOP since it goes off on a reasonable time for me and the events don’t last 21 hours straight. Hard to say if we’ll see as much multi accounting as during the WCOOP (Hi Mark Teschler, you stupid fuck) considering Tilt has yet to make a big issue out of it like Stars has.

I’ve played events one and three so far with nothing to show for it. I played well in event one and lost some unfortunate hands, today I made a mistake in a BVB hand with about 18 BB’s where I raise/called A8s in the SB instead of just limp/shoving like I should have. Not a huge deal.

However, one interesting development as of late is that I’ve broken off from my original online backer, Rob. I grinded our online accounts to over $120,000 before deciding to go my own, and after shipping him back what he gave me to start with and his cut I’ve got about $75,000 of my own to still work with online. I’m still giving up the higher buy in tournaments to Timex since I both need to work off the make up and am a huge bankroll nit, but the amount I have online is way more than I need for what I play. If things for some reason go disastrously wrong I can always go back to Rob, though it seems unlikely at this point.

I’m sort of excited to go to Macau in about 10 days time. I say sort of because on the one hand it’ll make for some great material and I get to play live poker in a new location against awful players. However, on the negative side I’ll be dealing with the same degenerate atmosphere of Vegas but nobody speaks English and all anyone plays is baccarat.

I’m going to Crown tonight for a live tournament just so my head isn’t completely out of the live mindset. It’s a $550 buy in weekly tournament with what will likely be an awful structure that will put me on tilt. The players will be shocking no doubt, so it’s certainly value to play, especially if it means getting some practice in before Macau.

My girlfriend had a meeting with Tony G and Damon Rasheed of Pokernews this week to talk about possible sponsorship or doing work for them. They expressed an interest in both her and I doing some writing for them and down the line perhaps putting us in events. They are apparently totally devoid of people to write Hold'em for them so it seems like a natural fit. Unfortunately, it turns out i busted the guy who will be my editor in the Poker News Cup. Man i hope i didn't suck him out.

One last note, I’ve recently got Xbox live with Halo 3 and have been wasting my youth on it. No, scratch that, wasting is by far the wrong word. I have been making EVERY MILLISECOND COUNT BECAUSE HALO THREE IS THE SINGLE GREATEST CREATION IN HUMAN HISTORY. So if you’d like to play with me online add me to your friends list, Bond18 on Live. See you on there.