One of my former backers came looking me up this week and asked me if I were still interested in playing free poker at the $25-$50 levels and if I thought that there was any value in them, what he meant of course was me playing with his money. It is always nice to be thought of in this way but the NL5000 games are populated by the very best players in the world and I simply do not belong in that area anymore and in fact maybe I never did to be quite frank.
This was what annoyed me when I got attacked on the Hendon Mob forum last year by some short sighted people who said that I had claimed “big things”. When you consider that I write about what I do then it is silly to claim that I am claiming “big things” based on a tiny number of articles that I have written. I also write about bad sessions, bad times and bad everything else and there have been more of these than I can care to remember.
But anyway I gave a polite no thanks to being staked again and it is me who does the staking these days. So is there value at $25-$50? Well that kind of depends on how good you are but not just in how good you are but in how driven you are to make money at that level because believe you me, to stay at that level involves far more than just switching on your computer and logging on and playing poker.
The very best in the world play those levels and players who would like to play nosebleeds but simply don’t currently have the bankroll. Those days are gone for me and thankfully so. I am happy to let other people chase the rainbows and the glory and my own philosophy has changed and I have reached a sort of poker nirvana. Poker is my life and probably always will be but there is more to poker than playing serious levels. My poker challenge has shown how much interest can be derived from low stakes. My latest venture is to road test my new small-stakes limit six max system which is “The Fox” starting 1st October and I am really looking forward to that.
