Welcome all

Hi,

Welcome to the official blog of my WSOP tilt! My name is Stuart and I'm from Australia. I have been unemployed and playing poker for a hobby for 7 years. I'm looking forward to being a part of Team PokerNews and meeting you all.

Anyway for my first post I thought I'd discuss what happened at my previous WSOP attempt in 2006. I'm a notoriously bad sleeper, and was still jet-lagged when starting Day 1C despite several days to acclimatise. This was compounded by playing a warm up tournament at Caesars the night before and accidentally final tabling it.

So I was ok for a while, gradually working my stack up to about 35k without ever being at risk. My table was fairly passive and only two people busted the whole day, which is a fairly poor table to be on considering some ppl finished the day with 150k+. Mark Seif was on my table, and was the source of a lot of my stack. The standard of players was generally poor and I felt I was the best player on my table.

With about an hour to go tho, I started to crash very hard. I had a watershed moment where I thought I should just go back to my room and lose the blinds. Instead I decided to stay and fold everything that wasn't AA. What I actually did was blast off my chips in a series of retarded hands and bust with about 15 minutes to go.

So this year I have a plan. I'm arriving on the 29th, and playing (hopefully) Day 1D, so I have a very long time to get over the jet-lag. I have a light-dark program to try and get my body into the right time zone. I also plan on using the time to play quite a few warm up tournaments, including Event #52 - $1500 NL, and whatever smaller tournaments are going. The other thing I'm planning on doing is getting some exercise every day, so I'm in the best condition I can be for a long day of tournament play.

Regards, Punter