Modus Operandi

Well, this was meant to be the last “scene setting” post before I actually have to man up and give this outrageous proposition an attempt, however I have to go to America for two weeks where internet poker is not something I'll have time for. I'll instead fob you off with a few poker posts just to whet your appetite further.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to try to a run like this, and I'm sure I won't be the last. Between Rounders and the aptly named Chris Moneymaker, I'm convinced umpteen people have given this a shot. Even more recently, the guy who won the APT Macau event was a $5 satellite qualifier – stories are rife about poker players turning a pittance into a fortune.

(I also vaguely remember Full Tilt running something similar years ago with Jesus Ferguson as a marketing ploy, although I've drunken several litres of whiskey since then and I may be having a bit of a moment.)

Anyway, no matter how fun tangents are, lets get back to business. How will I do this? Simples.

I'm going to use a mix of internet and live play. When I play live, there are a few free-to-enter pub poker leagues that I'll give a shot at, and online obviously means freerolls. The pub league stuff, I will admit, I'm not confident on. I won the first “season” to get through to the finals tournaments and everything when it was a standard format no problem, however the second “season” is a turbo tournament with 15 minute blinds, and the amounts doubling each time to boot. Its an odd blend of needing to be ultra aggressive yet, because its league based, having to outlast the other lemmings. It is a fun format, and rather stressful, but you need the skill of a sack of potatoes to play it.

Freerolls, are much the same for the first few levels. You get the people who just shove with anything to try to accumulate chips as quickly as they can, but once the field thins of them they turn into pretty competitive games.

With any live progress, I will just go as far as I can in tournaments and then re-invest the cash in either online play or bigger stakes tournaments. With any and all freeroll winnings, I expect a mix of one table Sit and Go's (I'm forever playing them...) and tournaments with decent guarantees and low buy ins.

So that is it, the modus operandi. In theory it all sounds perfectly reasonable. In practice...