Tony G #1

BugsysClub Skill League Update

August 27th A.M. Top 10

The August Skill League will end in 5 days and I am still top with a personal best score of 1945.49 set yesterday. Moving up into second place, helped by a 1st/164 result, is mightycricket with a 1909.24 skill rating.

I'm sure that I will be overtaken before the end of the month and the Skill League will go down to the wire with a tense final day on the 31st of August which could be decided by the very last tournament. I may have to reach my original goal of 2000 skill points in order to win the league.

Numero Uno

#1

High Stakes #1

Skill PB

Since my last post I have had 5 cashes at Bugsy's Club's Skill tournaments and 3 out of 5 of those cashes have been wins. That's given me a new personal best skill score of 1881.02.

Friday Morning Skill Leaderboard

The 3 wins weren't easy.

WIN1: One of my greatest ever comebacks. Came back from chip and chair 10-handed at the final table.

WIN2: Overcame a 5:1 chip disadvantage heads-up.

WIN3: Lost nearly all of my stack when my AQ lost to A8 and my KK lost to AQ. Arrived at the final table as the short stack and fortunately doubled up with AT v AQ. Still short stacked I mucked JJ preflop after my raise got re-raised and thus I took another knock back. From there I played my opponents well and 4-handed I busted all 3 other players.

Apart from my wins, the list of slowrollers has also increased: RobertoMac (slowrolled AA vs my QQ) joins bbanddd (slowrolled AA vs my JJ).

Skill & APAT

Had 3 skill cashes in a row yesterday at Bugsy's Club to give myself a little cushion in second place and close the gap to fairy_ring who hasn't played after reaching a hard to beat score of 1924.68.

My peformance in later games yesterday was hampered by the fact that I read a 52 page thread in one go on Blode Poker regarding the Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT).

Gave back some skill points as a result but today I've had 2 skill cashes so far to keep me going. Not bothered that I haven't won a skill tourney in a long time as I was expecting it since changing my strategy in these games.

Below is the Tuesday evening Skill Leaderboard (since posting it I've played a few unfocused games which will make me drop points):

Bugsy's Club Top 20 Skill Players

The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) is holding its inaugural live event, the English Amateur Poker Championship next month and I hope to be one of the 120 players that will compete. Recently, I applied to a poker company for sponsorship/turn professional but was rejected (their loss! lol) - maybe becoming English Amateur Poker Champion will pave the way.

WSOP Champions (plus 2nd & 3rd)

2006: Jamie Gold (Paul Wasicka, Michael Binger) 8773
2005: Joe Hachem (Steve Dannenmann, John Barch) 5619
2004: Greg Raymer (David Williams, Josh Arieh) 2576
2003: Chris Moneymaker (Sam Farha, Dan Harrington) 839
2002: Robert Varkonyi (Julian Gardner, Ralph Perry) 631
2001: Carlos Mortensen (Dewey Tomko, Stan Schrier) 613
2000: Chris Ferguson (TJ Cloutier, Steve Kaufman) 512
1999: Noel Furlong (Alan Goehring, Padraig Parkinson)
1998: Scotty Nguyen (Kevin McBride, TJ Cloutier) 350
1997: Stu Unger (John Strzemp, Mel Judah) 312
1996: Huck Seed (Bruce Van Horn, John Bonetti) 295
1995: Dan Harrington (Howard Goldfarb, Brent Carter) 273
1994: Russ Hamilton (Hugh Vincent, John Spadavecchia)
1993: Jim Bechtel (Glen Cozen, John Bonetti) 220
1992: Hamid Datsmalchi (Tom Jacobs, Hans 'Tuna' Lund) 201
1991: Brad Daugherty (Don Holt, Bob Veltri) 215
1990: Mansour Matloubi (Hans 'Tuna' Lund, Dave Crunkleton) 194
1989: Phil Hellmuth (Johnny Chan, Don Zewin) 178
1988: Johnny Chan (Eric Seidel, Ron Graham) 167
1987: Johnny Chan (Frank Henderson, Bob Ciaffone) 152
1986: Berry Johnston (Mike Harthcock, Gary Berland) 141
1985: Bill Smith (TJ Cloutier, Berry Johnston) 140
1984: Jack Keller (Byron Wolford, Jesse Alto) 140
1983: Tom McEvoy (Rod Peate, Doyle Brunson) 108
1982: Jack Straus (Dewey Tomko, Berry Johnston) 104
1981: Stu Unger (Perry Green, Gene Fisher) 75
1980: Stu Unger (Doyle Brunson, Jay Haimowitz) 73
1979: Hal Fowler (Boby Hoff, George Huber) 54
1978: Bobby Baldwin (Crandall Addington, Louis Hunsucker) 42
1977: Doyle Brunson (Gary Berland, Milo Jacobson) 34
1976: Doyle Brunson (Jesse Alto, Unknown) 22
1975: Sailor Roberts (Bob Hooks, Crandall Addington) 21
1974: Johnny Moss (Crandall Addington) 16
1973: Puggy Pearson (Johnny Moss, Jack Straus) 13
1972: Amarillo Slim Preston (Puggy Pearson, Doyle Brunson) 8
1971: Johnny Moss (Puggy Pearson) 6
1970: Johnny Moss

DaMatrix with Doyle Brunson

Pocket Pairings

DaMatrix -----------------------KK----------------------- Sammy Farha

Devilfish ----------------AA------------ DaMatrix

Skill League Update

I've maintained my position as Bugsy's Club's 2nd highest ranked tournament player despite stiff opposition. Looks like it is a race for second place as fairy_ring has extended his lead as the best with some impressive results.

Tuesday morning's Skill Leaderboard:

Bugsy's Club Skill League Top 15

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Tuesday Night Update:

Decided on just half a session today as I've been running very bad. My luck is at it's low point and I'm losing almost every race and getting rivered when a big favourite. I've slipped 3 places to 5th in the league and I've cashed in less than 20% of the Skill Tournaments - very disappointing as I expected to be closer to the leader if my luck had been average.

I'm making things worse by tilting and throwing games so I can go and chill - losing even more skill points in the process. I lost about 30 points today and a total of $600 on all poker in the last 3 days.

Slowroller

After a great start I've let my performance slip considerably due to an incident a couple of days ago. I was slowrolled for the first time at Bugsy's Club and I didn't react very professionally to it. Been on tilt since but I've realised I just gotta forget about it and the experience means that I won't let it affect me next time.

Below is the updated table for Saturday morning. Yesterday, despite 2 Skill Tourney wins, I played like a donkey and fairy_ring who's been playing very consistently took full advantage to build a lead.

Skill League Update

Will need to play my A game next week in order to be top by this time next week. Also might need to change strategy as I have been playing a style more appropriate for winning tournaments. Will revert to an In The Money style I think.

Bugsy's Club MTT Day

In order to begin plugging my tournament leaks, I spent the whole of August 2nd playing at Bugsy's Club. My challenge: to reach 1st in the MTT leagues.

Despite taking numerous bad beats and hitting the bubble too often for my liking, I'm happy to report that I managed to be ranked first:


August MTT Skill League

August MTT League