Secrets of the Amateurs

Yes I can. I've been taking the odd shot at the Stars Warm-Up and the Party $300K of a Sunday and two days ago I took it to the hoop on Party for $60K. Kerching !

Here's the PokerXFactor playback

By the way I'm not going to post here every time I upload something so if you're interested it's probably worth just going to Combined Multi-Hand Histories and searching for 'Bonified' in Posted By every now and then. Can't seem to link that directly for some reason, never mind.

So that was my 9th attempt at the Stars/Party Sunday comps. Easy game :-). Well, the Warm Up and the Party $300K are certainly easier (in variance terms) than the Sunday Million because they have 1500-2000 runners instead of 5000-6000. It was still an 8-hour session which is about double what I can normally manage but I suppose the adrenalin keeps you going when there's a decent wedge in sight. It certainly seemed to go by very quickly.

There's a brief write-up of the final table here, which kind of implies that I flopped a bunch of straights on everyone, which I did, but after the money was allin pre-flop and I had the better hand :-). Anyway that was a very nicely timed result to give me a bit of a cushion before the WSOP. Now I can (and probably will) do $20-30K taking a big shot without any qualms.