Pokerstars WBCOOP 2012

It’s the time of the year when Pokerstars runs its WBCOOP (world blogger championship of online poker). Which means loads of freerolls and prizes up for grabs for all the people around the globe that jot their poker exploits down in a blog.

What I would do with the cash if I won the $5000 best blogger prize.

I am a 35 years old and married with a 3 year old boy, a far cry from the single 20 something year old wannabe poker star that I once was back in the days when I first discovered poker.

I have had this blog running since 2005 and in that time I have had a few near misses, a few dabbles in mid stake games, 100’s of good ideas and new challenges, but not much profit to show for it!!!

In all that time Mrs R (the wife), has stuck by me, supported me, sat in silence whilst I ranted about being the unluckiest person in the world, and constantly given me positive comments.

To be honest I sometimes wonder why and currently I am on my last crack of the whip when it comes to poker. I have started multi-tabling 18-man $1.50 SNGs with the aim of using all of my knowledge of poker and its pitfalls to hopefully succeed this one last time. In theory I pretty much know every aspect of mindset/bankroll management/managing yourself etc etc, but this time I really do need to put it into practice.

If I was lucky enough to win the best blogger prize I would not use a single penny/cent of it on the tables, it would be dedicated to treating Mrs R (and the boy R) to a nice holiday and days out, in appreciation to all the support she has shown me over the years.

It’s a win win  situation for me to be honest, If I happen to win, $5k gets used on a nice holiday, if not I may still get some kind of “favours!!” from Mrs R when she reads this blog post and realises its dedicated to her!!

ONE TIME!!!!!!!!!

Poker update

I haven’t played too much since my last post due to being at work over the weekend and I was out on Saturday at a party. When I have played it has gone ok and I have been playing sets of 20 sngs at once which I seem to have settled into, although at times it can get a bit hectic. However I think with SNGs, volume (if you can maintain a winrate) is definitely the way forward as I haven’t felt tilted since I upped the amount of tables played and my accruement of VPPs is noticeably quicker.

The main area I currently need to improve on is managing my time properly, I still reckon I could double my volume if I just stuck to a proper schedule and stopped getting distracted by other things. Playing 20 games at once is fairly draining on your concentration levels and sometimes my breaks at the end of each set are starting to get a little too long!