Time for a refresher on my challenge update but first things first! I was waiting with eagerness for the World Cup but it all fell away and left me feeling somewhat disappointed. Even the final was an anti-climax although I am glad that Holland didn’t win. But the World Cup was a very productive month for me as I backed England before the Slovenia game and then laid them back before the Germany game to lock in a profit.
I then laid England full-stop as I felt that the 11.5 on offer was way too short to win the World Cup and if you think that this is wrong, consider the chances of four consecutive coin flips going in and then compare that with the odds on the exchange of 11.5. On top of all that is the fact that England wouldn’t have even been a coin flip in most of the games that they would have played in order to get to the final. As soon as I knew that the USA had scored late on against Algeria then I knew what that meant for our chances.
Another successful lay of Andy Murray at 3.95 to win Wimbledon before his semi against Nadal saw me make some money there as well. So all in all, the World Cup was disappointing in a football sense but profitable. Anyway what of the 10k challenge on www.888poker.com . Well the good news is that I am still fighting and am currently on $535.44 from my original $100. Another $65 and I will move up to $30 games after beginning in the $2 games with $0.01-$0.02 blinds……boy that was tough.
The next stage after that is to try and claw my way up to $1000 and then move up to $50 games. I tried playing some low stakes limit and double or nothings to try and spice things up a bit and it worked for a while but the double or nothings are just too boring for me to take seriously. Although the ease at which you can play them means that multi-tabling them is a doddle. I think that any player with the proper strategy can grind out steady profits in these games and the variance is so low that they appeal to loads of people. But I am happy with $535 as I never expected to survive the first week and so it just goes to show that even an idiot like me can grind sometimes.
Anyone who would like to know more about my Double or Nothing poker strategy in SNG’s can contact me at Carl@Pokerquest.f9.co.uk
