Spring blossoms in my garden. The winter snow has melted for good, and the brown and yellow oak leaves that had been caught by surprise five months ago lie all around outside my house. I gotta spend a little time to prepare the next season.
Being successful in a poker festival is like gardening. It requires a little preparation every day before the season starts, in order to be ready when the right time comes. Planting seeds, monitoring the growth, harvesting the fruits, taking care of the flowers, cleaning and cutting the trees : all these tasks have to be planned.
The SCOOP Poker Festival will take place in May, forty days from now : the time is right to prepare my plan. A poker festival requires free time, money, and goals. Time is important, as playing from four to ten hours every day for almost two weeks is a constraint on your life. Money is important, whether you are playing for fun or for money. And if my goal is to be successful in the tournaments I play, I have to compete in a field that is not too big. Beating 10000 skilled and not-so-skilled players is quite more difficult than beating 500 skilled players.
The poker tournaments that meet these requirements are listed below. Low-stakes tournaments will have a huge field, I cross that; so will the no-limit Hold'em medium stakes tournaments, I cross that; high-stakes tournaments are out of my budget, I cross that. I can play middle-stakes, non-Texas games, I check that. Eighteen tournaments are on my list.
04-M Badugi $162, limit
06-M Draw Poker $109, pot-limit
10-M 7-Stud $320, limit
11-M Omaha HU $215, pot-limit
13-M Hold'em Ante-Up $162, no-limit
14-M Omaha HiLo $530, limit
16-M Hold'em Triple Shoutout $215, no-limit
18-M Hold'em $215, limit
24-M 2-7 triple $109, limit
25-M 7 HiLo $215, limit
27-M Razz $215, limit
29-M 8-game $320
30-M Omaha HiLo $109, pot-limit
32-M Hold'em $530, limit
33-M Omaha HiLo $215, no-limit
34-M Omaha $530, pot-limit
35-L Hold'em HU $270, no-limit
36-M HORSE $215
Should I have extra money to spend, I will play the main event (38-M Hold'em, $1050, no-limit). April will be a month of satellites for these events.
Being successful in a poker festival is like gardening. It requires a little preparation every day before the season starts, in order to be ready when the right time comes. Planting seeds, monitoring the growth, harvesting the fruits, taking care of the flowers, cleaning and cutting the trees : all these tasks have to be planned.
The SCOOP Poker Festival will take place in May, forty days from now : the time is right to prepare my plan. A poker festival requires free time, money, and goals. Time is important, as playing from four to ten hours every day for almost two weeks is a constraint on your life. Money is important, whether you are playing for fun or for money. And if my goal is to be successful in the tournaments I play, I have to compete in a field that is not too big. Beating 10000 skilled and not-so-skilled players is quite more difficult than beating 500 skilled players.
The poker tournaments that meet these requirements are listed below. Low-stakes tournaments will have a huge field, I cross that; so will the no-limit Hold'em medium stakes tournaments, I cross that; high-stakes tournaments are out of my budget, I cross that. I can play middle-stakes, non-Texas games, I check that. Eighteen tournaments are on my list.
04-M Badugi $162, limit
06-M Draw Poker $109, pot-limit
10-M 7-Stud $320, limit
11-M Omaha HU $215, pot-limit
13-M Hold'em Ante-Up $162, no-limit
14-M Omaha HiLo $530, limit
16-M Hold'em Triple Shoutout $215, no-limit
18-M Hold'em $215, limit
24-M 2-7 triple $109, limit
25-M 7 HiLo $215, limit
27-M Razz $215, limit
29-M 8-game $320
30-M Omaha HiLo $109, pot-limit
32-M Hold'em $530, limit
33-M Omaha HiLo $215, no-limit
34-M Omaha $530, pot-limit
35-L Hold'em HU $270, no-limit
36-M HORSE $215
Should I have extra money to spend, I will play the main event (38-M Hold'em, $1050, no-limit). April will be a month of satellites for these events.