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£11s Head to Head Challenge | thedazzman 89 - 49 Asho28
thedazzman
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As some of you may be aware, myself and @Asho28 both had diaries/blogs last year. Because we were pretty much similar in our poker ability and played primarily the same type of games, we had a thought that it would be a nice idea to have a joint forum challenge/blog. That intention was put to the back of our minds.
Fast forward to now, and we have finally settled on a concept.
Since we are both kind of bankroll nits - mainly sticking to MTTs with buyins of £5 or less - we felt a perfect challenge would be involving one buyin higher than our traditional games. The £11 tournaments.
We dismissed the premise of a volume or profit based challenge, as that would be a little unfair if one played a lot more than the other. So we devised a scoring system.
When both playing in the same £11 MTT points would be awarded as follows;
Last longer: 3
Heads: 1 per head
Eliminating each other: 2
Cashing: 2
Final Tabling: 5
2nd: 5
1st: 12
We will use this thread to document our results and progress. There is no plan for ending this challenge. It could be a success, it may not. We will play it by ear for the time-being, and may reevaluate things once underway.
It's just a bit of friendly rivalry and healthy competition and furthermore, a little bit more activity for this excellent forum.
We will likely begin this challenge in the coming days.
See you at the tables, and thanks for reading.
Fast forward to now, and we have finally settled on a concept.
Since we are both kind of bankroll nits - mainly sticking to MTTs with buyins of £5 or less - we felt a perfect challenge would be involving one buyin higher than our traditional games. The £11 tournaments.
We dismissed the premise of a volume or profit based challenge, as that would be a little unfair if one played a lot more than the other. So we devised a scoring system.
When both playing in the same £11 MTT points would be awarded as follows;
Last longer: 3
Heads: 1 per head
Eliminating each other: 2
Cashing: 2
Final Tabling: 5
2nd: 5
1st: 12
We will use this thread to document our results and progress. There is no plan for ending this challenge. It could be a success, it may not. We will play it by ear for the time-being, and may reevaluate things once underway.
It's just a bit of friendly rivalry and healthy competition and furthermore, a little bit more activity for this excellent forum.
We will likely begin this challenge in the coming days.
See you at the tables, and thanks for reading.
Comments
Yes @bbMike I am always keeping track of my P/L anyway, and definitely something we can include.
I am sure I can speak for both of us, but we'd be delighted if we came out with any sort of profit from this.
Will you be including £11 rebuy bounty hunters in this? Ukops will be here soon and nightly Ukops Mini is usually an £11r.
I'm not sure if there's [m]any regular 11r in the schedule, but personally I'd be reluctant playing them until at least made a bit of profit from 11s. Rebuys can become costly!
However, I always like to take plenty of shots during the online series, and if the 11r you speak of happens to fall on a convenient evening, I'd be keen on including it for sure.
Now which team to support??
Erm, you could go with your heart, and support your fellow countryman...
or you could go with your head and support the better player...
...
That should leave you with no other choice than to support meeeeeeeee, ofc!
@Asho28 may have another argument to the contrary though, so don't make your mind up just yet
There is a clear favourite for this challenge (for the avoidance of doubt, it is not me!
Think the plan is to kick this off tomorrow, but as thedazzman says we'll just play it by ear and see how it goes.
The £500 BHs at 20:15 & 21:30.
Let's do this!
Our first evening of the challenge, proved quite uneventful. We played 2 games, and both thought the standard of play was not much higher than our normal games. Perhaps a few more regs playing, which will always make life more difficult over time.
We lasted longer in 1 game each, however, having no cashes between us, @Asho28 did however take 3 heads to my zero, giving him the lead after day 1.
Funnily enough, we both got seated on the same table at the start of each game. We failed to knock each other out,
Current Score
Dazz 3 - 6 Asho
All being well, our next challenge games may be on Saturday.
Until then, good luck at the tables.
And it wouldn't be much of an understatement saying that one of us did much better than the other.
Game on, is what I say!
Totals & Stats To Date
Current Challenge Score
Daz 7 - 31 Asho
I guess I better get the finger out. That @Asho28 guy seems the type to start getting too big for his boots.
As much of our free-time doesn't coincide much, we will unlikely be adding many more games for another week or two.
Thanks for reading,
Good luck at the tables
I'll enjoy my lead while it lasts.
I could say it's my plan all along. False sense of security yadda, yadda. But I'd be lying!
Totals & Stats
Current Score
Dazz 10 - 48 Asho
Our next challenge games will likely not be until Easter Weekend.
Good luck at the tables.
Thanks for reading
They say to never stop while on a poker heater (loosely defined here, of course). Unfortunately for @Asho28 , that's what he did. He went gallivanting around the country for a week. He did admit though, he missed us all and enjoyed his return to the tables.
Fortunately for me, though, the tides turned a little.
I don't want to gloat or brag... much, but my fellow opponent caught my bug and totally came out pointless tonight. Hahahaha hahahaaaa, ha ha ha!
That's enough, dazzman!
The results speak for themselves and Asho is still firmly ahead. It was getting slightly out of hand, so I am pleased to gain some ground.
Totals & Stats
Current Score
Dazz 25 - 48 Asho
Thoughts going forward. We had the idea that the complete challenge would be a race to 500 points. So for at least the time-being that's how and when we will conclude it.
@gibbzy regarding your question about the standard of play. We both still believe what we initially thought. The standard of play doesn't differ a whole lot from the lower buyin games. No disrespect to anyone, there's still plenty of questionable play, but there's quite a few more solid regular players which ultimately make them that bit more difficult.
We may play more games tomorrow evening.
Good luck at the tables
&
Thanks for reading