Gr8 value torneys - Virgin Xmas Booty

There are going to be some really good value tourneys in and around the festive season - so look out for them!!
Ive been mainly playing on Virgin and the odd satallite on stars, but im sure that both will have some good value tourneys coming up. Im looking forward to having a go at the $1m guaranteed on stars over xmas - never tried it before bacause they have 8000+ runners, and it finishes around 8am on monday morning, so no chance unless im off work!
The $25k guaranteed on virgin on sundays is always good value as is the $100k every month.

Just to let you all know that on the 21st Dec Virgin are holding a Virgin Booty tourney. From my experience I reckon there will be 50 or 60 runners. The buy in is $5 and there are 2 trips to vegas and lots of other prizes for grabs - i think top 20 get a prize on top of the usual pay out.
If you join via my link for this absolute great value tourney you will also get 30% rakeback.

Monte Carlo here i come!!

Well what can i say!
Entered a $240 buy in tournament with a guaranteed seat for the Grand final of the EPT in Monte Carlo - the most prestigious poker tournament outside the USA - and guess who came first? hehe!!
What I didnt realise was that this was a shootout. 61 people entered and were were distibuted on 9 tables and the winner of each table would go on to the final table and teh eventual winner takes the prize!

Well i was chip leader after about 3 hands and with 3 left in the first stage I managed to win all the chips.
On the final table i started well and was 2nd/3rd in chips for most of the game.

The most trickest player was Jonny who was chipleader for most of the game until it was heads up.
I had some luck on the way, when it was 3 handed, the german guy wasnt playing a hand, i even joked if he had gone to sleep, and told him sacastically that I thought it was heads up with Jonny. A few hands later he came to life and raised preflop 3 times. The 4th time he raised preflop I went over the top and jammed my stack in the middle with 96o. He thought about it and called with AJo and the flop came 972. The turn and river was no help and he was eliminated in 3rd.
So heads up with Jonny it was and we were about equal in chips. The prize was $14750 for the buy in to monte carlo, hotels, buffet meals for the players and $1500 for flights and spending.
Jonny asked if we should let the winner take the prize and the loser take the $1500's. I agreed as he was a very strong player and he had slightly more chips and the fact that i thought that was fair (in case i lost, lol). But really i knew i wasnt going to lose heads up.

The turning point in the game was when I had A10 v his A9. Jonny raised preflop and i instantly went all in. The flop came 1054 and the turn was no go to Jonny so I had 75% of teh chips. Once I was in this position there was no way i was losing. Without blowing my own truppet, I have far to much experience in heads up play to be losing this one.

Eventually i bullied Jonny out of the tournament and ended the night a very happy man!

Rakeback at Virgin Poker

As you can probably tell, I play at Virgin Poker and I firmly believe it to be the best skin on the Boss Network. It’s the only Boss Media site which has a great loyalty scheme, it offers the best value tournaments, and runs unique promotions. What’s more I can get you rakeback there :-).

I’ve heard that Sportingodds Poker will be leaving the network in their attempts to shift their player base over to Paradise Poker, however if you are an existing player from Sporting Odds and want to carry on playing on the Boss network, you can sign up through one of my links and you will receive 30% rakeback. Virgin are offering a referral scheme too, so anyone who recommends cash players will receive hefty bonuses. For more info email me!!
m3monsterr@btinternet.com