PL Blog Freeroll - Final

The PL Blog Freeroll final will take during the Paradise poker $ challenge (The PL Focus game) on Wednesday 20th June.
The highest placed finisher in that event of the 10 qualifiers will take the $100 first prize.


Errrrr..
Well it's not quite that simple.
I, The Cloud, will be playing in the same event. And if the highest placed finisher finishes below me, then the $100 will go the lowest placed finisher.
And of course, if any of the qualifiers manage to knock me out, then the prize money will be split between the winner and the person who got the bounty ($50 each).

PL Blog freeroll Seat 10 - Fast starter

The final seat is now up for grabs, and here is how to qualify.

The person who is the leader after the first hour of Monday Nights focus game (BetonBet League game) will claim the seat.
If the leader is a player who has already qualified, then the next best will claim the seat etc etc.
For the purposes of this event - I, the Cloud will not be eligible for qualification.

The Players - Episode 8 : Paul Ross

Paul Ross once again has a train carriage to himself

Your best moment in Poker?

It would have to be winning my first MTT, I beat nearly 500 players to win it and came back from a huge deficit head to head with ultra aggressive play.

Your worst moment in Poker?

After I qualified for the Betfred Manchester £20k final with only 200 entrants and falling asleep before it started. Jamiebhoy from PL won it.

What is your main goal in Poker?

Just to have some fun, but to win a bit along the way.

A one line word of advice you’d give to a new player?

Enjoy it, nothing worse than poker getting on your tits and complaining about bad beats all the time. Accept the bad beats and smile knowing you made the right decision and will win in the long run.

How do you deal with the worst of bad beats??

Well, I usually go nuts for 20 minutes, laptop gets a good dig and then I start slating the person in question, only ever lasts 20 mins tops though.

Trickiest Punters Lounge opponent?

It would have to be Jaded, he epitomises the word "Kamikaze".

You enter the Big Brother house – who would be your three ideal housemates??

Samuel L Jackson, Pamela Anderson & Billy Connolly.

Your best ever moment in betting?

I had a £20 double on Cambridge to win League 2 Handicap and West Ham to win the Premiership Handicap. Cambridge pissed it, West Ham won 3-0 on the final day of 99 Season, to secure me a £5400 payout. I bought pretty much the whole pub a drink that night and we get very drunk.

Paul Ross v Penelopeys – heads up. Who wins????

She's the better player, but I would probably beat her heads up because she never knows wtf I'm gonna do.

One thing you are scared of ??

Wasps, I run a fcukin mile and at serious pace away from these!

Worst record you have ever bought?

Probably something like Kylie - Do The Locomotion.

You’ve just won the lottery. What’s the first thing you buy for yourself ??

I'd like to buy an Island, somewhere where nobody else can just turn up, that's assuming I've won more than a tenner that is!

What is the fastest you've ever cleared a train carriage full of PL'ers??

Double quick time. I think well under 10 seconds.

PL Blog Freeroll Seat 9

To qualify for the 9th seat will test your usage of the Punters Lounge.

At some stage in the next seven days (before noon on monday 21st May) I will put up a post on the Punters Lounge. It may be a new thread, or it might be a reply to another thread - and it could be on any section of the Punters lounge - not just the poker section.

In this particular thread I will use the word

"Hairy"

The first PL'er to reply with the words

"I claim seat nine in the PL Blog Freeroll"

will win the seat.

Blog Freeroll - Seat 8 - Bounty Time

To qualify for the Pl Blog freeroll seat 8 is a simple task.
All you have to do is knock out me - The Cloud - in the monday BetonBet focus game.
If this is achieved by someone already having qualified, then wednesday's sporting odds game will be used instead.

If nobody knocks me out of either event - and I manage to win both - then the heavens will open and surely it will become Judgement day - so poker will not matter anyway!!


Some details about the "freeroll".
In the tradition of this event so far, it won't be your usual freeroll - though it will be a true test of poker at the poker table. The prize fund is a winner takes all $100.

Welcome Back

Winning a $5 Single Table Tournament

$25

Winning a $20 MTT

$784

Winning a pot after going all in with 2 7 off and getting called by AA

Priceless



Welcome Back to the Punters Lounge Poker blog. Mr Cloud is back competing in tournament poker (I say competing in the loosest sense of the word), and shall be regaling you with tales from all things Punters Lounge Poker.
So what has changed since I've been away??
Well we have WSOP qualifiers, we have big money winners and we have Backgammon?&%$?
Personally I am lobbying for a Punters Lounge Bingo championship - these games of skill are really not my cup of tea.

Teazz currently sits top of the tree as the BPP (best poker player), Hodgey won the Sporting Odds (Boss) MTT league and CrouchPotato has the best user name - although nothing can match AJ's avatar - ever.

I shall continue to write about Punters Lounge players and interview Punters Lounge players, which will go along side a mix of other random stuff - and hopefully Bingo!!

Time Out

This blog is currently in the middle of a Time Out.
Due to a relatively new arrival in the household, Mr. Cloud is unable to commit any time to partaking in Punters Lounge Poker Tournaments.
I envisage to get going again sometime around mid-late spring.
The PL Blog freeroll is currently frozen - and will restart when the blog is up and running again.

When the blog re-appears - it will have a new look.

Watch this Space.

PL Poker - The History (1960-1970)

The swinging sixties saw a renaissance period for the Punters Lounge.
The club relocated to the Kings Road, and various celebrities were seen on regular occasions going in and out. Poker became cool again, and it was played amidst the sixties culture of flower power and free love.
Although it is common knowledge that Elvis Presley never visited the UK, this is not strictly true - as only the people in the upper echelons know only too well. In 1963 Presley did a private gig in the Lounge, and apparently proved to be "one mean poker player".

One famous night in the sixties there was "the game that spawned a song".
The table consisted of George Best, the British spy Anthony Blunt, Heniek, Kevsul, Twiggy, Terence Stamp, RedFear, Paul McCartney and John Lennon. There was one huge pot - where Anthony Blunt tried to bluff the pot from Heniek with 4 and 6 of diamonds - unfortunately for him Heniek was holding KK - and took it down.
Lennon said to McCartney - "Loose play by the spy with Diamonds*" - to which McCartney replied "That sounds like a good title for a song".

The rest of the 60's were a boomtime for the PL, but unfortunately the 70's were not to be so good.

To be continued...


*The official lyrics were later changed to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" after a complaint by Anthony Blunt - but if you listen to the song it will confirm the original lyrics.

The Players - Episode 7 : Avon Girl

Your best moment in Poker?

My first (and so far only) MTT win last August, especially since it was a PL tournament, the $1 challenge on Sporting Odds. This gave me a place in the following month’s 50 up freeroll where I came 2nd for my biggest money win. I’d been playing about 8 months then. This will only be surpassed when I finally become BPP later this month.

Your worst moment in Poker?

For me personally, nothing too horrendous yet: When I’d only been playing a few weeks I remember thinking I couldn’t lose a hand because I had a flush and the A was out on the board. I didn’t realise the next highest card counted. Lesson learned. And the first time my lovely AA lost to some rubbish I was so mad I couldn’t speak for about an hour. Now I just put it down to odds, luck, or betting it badly. As a poker-playing household: Thinking that after about 4 months of twice-a-day tournaments we’d just missed out on Runadrum qualifying for the Maxim live final.

What is your main goal in Poker?

Unlike many on PL, it’s not to go to WSOP. I’ve had no success in the very few live games I’ve played and don’t enjoy it as much as on-line. I’m not a natural gambler and I don’t think I’d ever be comfortable playing with even a 3 figure buy-in. I’m told (by someone lower down the BPP table than me) that I lack the killer instinct to win. True, I am rather a ‘safe’ player (although I probably bluff more than you think I do) so my goal is to become more aggressive whilst remaining a profitable player. Oh, and to finish reading Harrington 1.

A one line word of advice you’d give to a new player?

Set yourself a daily spending limit (especially if you’re losing on STTs), and join Punter’s Lounge.

Your favourite hand?? (If you want to reveal it!!)

I’m a bit too fond of A 10 suited. No good reason. Can’t even use the excuse of having got a royal holding it. (I’ve had a red one and a blue one with AQ and KQ ;-)) I’m trying to wean myself off it and making myself fold….if I’m out of position or there’s a big raise before me!

Favourite poker site?

Should really be Sporting Odds, where I’ve won most money, but I’m not liking the Paradise software as much as the old Boss version. I’ve been doing well on Virgin recently – 2 ipods and enough Vmiles to get me somewhere over the Atlantic, one way.

You enter the Big Brother house – who would be your three ideal housemates??

My best mate Judith, because I don’t spend anywhere near enough time with her these days; the doctor – all 10 of them will only count as 1 – with the tardis of course, so the current timelord and I could nip away for some “adventures” and come back at the same moment in time so no-one missed us; and Tommy Cooper to make me laugh (we’ve gone back in time of course before he died).

Which TV/Film actor would play you in a movie?

Runadrum votes for Mary Steenbergen, but I thought Demi Moore, or maybe Dawn French when I’ve eaten all my Xmas toblerones. Probably should be Gaynor Faye for the accent though.

One thing you’re scared of ??

Being found out. I’m good at pretending I’m good at things when really I’m just a lazy beggar.

What is your pornstar name? (Name of first pet followed by mothers maiden name)

Sunny Dawson. Hm, that’s a good way of finding out someone’s security question answer, so that’s my grandma’s maiden name instead! (The real one isn’t any more interesting by the way.)

Worst record you have ever bought?

Too many bad ones with the benefit of hindsight. I’ll plump for Save Your Kisses For Me by Brotherhood of Man.

You’ve just won the lottery. What’s the first thing you buy for yourself ??

Next door’s house, so we can knock through and get some storage space, followed by a house in the country where we’d actually live along with our equine family.

Freeroll Seat 7 - Lucky 7's

So here is the qualification for seat 7 - in the first week of 2007 - Lucky 7's (a lot of 7's going on there!).
At the end of the 7th January, the player ranked 7th in the PL rankings will gain seat 7.
If the player ranked 7 has already qualified for the freeroll - the player ranked 77 will gain qualification (if by a miracle both these placings have already qualified - then Cloud will take the seat!!!).