lemming (Anonymous) says

I really preferred your old style of writing... It seems like now you pay too much attention to how you write down your thoughts so that a lot of your thoughts get lost on their way under a "false" and unsuitable style of writing for you...

Too bad, I loved your previous posts a lot more (than the last 3-4).

03/16/08

Anonymous says

Whatever your doing...keep doing it. I recommend a fatty.

03/16/08

lakeoffire says

Man, your running good! Maybe a little bit more of the Bond humor for good measure.

03/16/08

Tiltshark (Anonymous) says

I generally agree with lemming, although I enjoyed your last post.

You might wanna try a mix between your old and your new style, so neither too informal nor too formal, because the biggest downside of your recent posts seems to be the missing sarcasm.

Please watch out that your blog doesn't become a pure formal-reports kind of thing, as this would take away its originality...

03/16/08

Bond18 says

Thanks for the comments guys. I've kind of been feeling the same way lately. I think I've gotten a little overly careful.

03/16/08

Bumboklaat says

Goddamn BOND, niceeee showing in the UB 30r, hereafter known as "muckthenuts 30r"! Ummmm, yeah, Bond is not bad at poker, ahahahahahahahahahahah!

03/17/08

s0stndrd (Anonymous) says

Congratulations on your scores mate! Keep on keeping on!

cheers
Max

03/18/08

Anonymous says

Hi Tony,

Grant L here.

Add me to msn.....I have some things to discuss re:Macau

glevy79@hotmail.com

03/21/08

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With a season full of major live tournaments including the World Series fast approaching there are quite a few satellites running on the various poker sites at the moment. The fields are often small with a winner take all format, or occasionally the next few places get a small profit. I’ve come close a number of times recently but bombed out just short.

Today there was a $500 UB satellite to the WSOP, a $500 UB satellite with 25 Aruba packages guaranteed, and a $200 Full Tilt winner’s choice satellite worth $12,000. I got a nice start on both the UB tables but lost quite a few chips early. A couple hours later I’d bombed out of both UB tables and was left with a very short stack on Tilt. I got up to run to the bathroom and asked Bondgirl to cover for just a moment. When I got back a few minutes later she’d somehow doubled me. An hour later I was sitting with the chip lead on the final table. Thirty minutes after that I’d won the whole thing. Additionally I managed to make a deep run in the UB $30 rebuys, where I finished second for a little over $3000, the same $30 rebuys which I happened to have won last night for a bit over $5000. I can’t seem to do anything wrong late in tournaments anymore, but the real cause for a streak like this is winning my big flips deep and just about never getting three or two outed in major pots.

People have been asking what tournament I intend to use the package towards. I fired up my Tilt cashier after the win to find that the $12,000 had been credited directly in my account in the form of $T dollars, which when you play as many tournaments as
I do is just as good as real money. It doesn’t really matter what tournament I would have used it towards anyway, Timex would have bought the action and I’d be pocketing the cash.

I went over to pokernetwork today and bumped my post asking about when APPT Macau will be. According to newly sponsored pro Grant Levy he believes it’ll kick off on May 6th. If that means the main event starts on May 6th then my intention of going to the Party Poker Million is completely screwed and I’ll be looking for a new route for my trip. If that’s the case I’ve got two options:

A. Go from Melbourne to Macau in early May. Then go from Macau to Hawaii and kill a few days before the LAPT event in Costa Rica since it cuts down my flight and who doesn’t want to go to Hawaii? Depart Hawaii late May for LAPT Costa Rica. Go from LAPT Costa Rica straight north to Las Vegas for the WSOP.

B. Go from Melbourne to Macau in early May. Then, depending on when Macau gets done, go to the Grand Prix de Paris which runs through the 18th of May (this may be impossible.) From there fly home to Wisconsin for a few days and attempt to do my best at not waving my newly found money around my friends and family. Give up on being modest, go to a store I know in downtown Milwaukee, buy the dollar $ suit they have sitting in the front window, as well as a very pimp top hat and cane. Walk up and down the streets slapping people with a wad of $100’s and tell them “Just try and stop me bitch. Hahahahaha!” Then go down to LAPT in Costa Rica where I stay before flying up to the WSOP.

At this point the first option looks considerably more probable considering the Macau event will likely run around eight days like it did last year, making it impossible to get to Paris in time. I’m also not sure I want to bother flying all the way to Europe for a single event. However, not doing this turns my trip into a ‘Around half the world in 90 days’ situation, which turns everything I was intending to do into false advertising. Thoughts on this situation people?

Tomorrow is Monday here, meaning the big Sunday in the states. I’ve planned this one out perfectly though. It’s currently 10:18pm and the first tournament I want to play, the Full Tilt $500 1 million guarantee, starts at 9am. I’m going to finish this writing and a little more I need to do, then smoke a small joint so I have no troubles going straight to sleep, but before I do kill a bit of time playing Call of Duty 4 before I settle myself into bed around midnight. Who knows, I may even get up in time tomorrow to have a run before a big Monday, which would be a first.

The Grand Prix has ended here in Melbourne and the World War 3 like noises exploding outside my window have ceased. Things would appear to be very quiet up until my intended trip which is approximately seven weeks away. Considering I have little to do, am a highly motivated and greedy person, and have a shot of winning the monthly PLB leader board on pocketfives this month I think I may just go all out and see how much I can win before the trip comes up. My friends are getting increasingly occupied, one moving to Malaysia for a time tomorrow, another in school, so I have little to do with myself outside grind and work out. I think if I can collect a couple truly big scores and keep up the volume this just might be possible. We’ll see.