Welcome
Hi,
(I posted this on my own blog but apparently it's supposed to go here)
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
