A big weekend ahead in London for poker players....

OK todays post is going to cover the weekend ahead in London. One of the greatest cities in the world has a busy poker weekend ahead. In the centre of london we have the wsope starting and in the suburbs we have a betfair forum game called bwcop running. The wsope is an amazing event hosted by betfair, many of the worlds top players shall be in attendance. Forget BAPT which most of the pros shunned to play at foxwoods, this is the real deal. I expect no less than 50 TOP american players to play and a field in excess of 600. This is the real deal, poker has finally hit the shores of the U.K.

The last trip i made to Las Vegas i was so impressed at the quality of play from the young americans. There is a whole new force coming through stronger than anything ever seen. It makes me laugh to see some english kids winning a few $100 tournaments online and declaring themselves the next best things. These american kids are different gravy, start a tournament with 4000 chips and by the first break they have 10000-20000 chips (they make dubai and hawko's chip accumalition skills early doors look weak!).

One player I will be shocked if he doesn't make the top 20 is Justin Bonomo , another young american on a hot streak is Jared Hamby (88th in wsop main event). I am not sure if Jared has entered the wsope. It is a big effort for a young american to travel to London and pay $20000 to enter a tournament, especially as they then have to race back to play Borgata which is one of the best tournaments in the world.

Now on to the suburbs, the previous two winners who play as 'Reactive' and 'Strokeit' i know both quite well. I am tempted to say they are better live players than online, but when actually analysing the facts I think it may merely be a case of stretching ones resources. Playing live you will never play more than one table at a time. I am sure that when reactive or strokeit are playing just one tournament online they will do well. Just my opinion but I feel many players dilute their chances with multi tabling.

I was going to go to the forum game to see a few familiar faces, but after the recent STAX farce this simply isn't possible. Add to this a well known cheat Fastfoot will be in attendance, he is the guy who had the audacity to cheat with ontheup in 6paks and heads up games then report me and get me a chat ban for calling him cheating scum. It has taken me many years to have some kind of control over my temper, every now and then I lose it and usually over the most trivial thing. The last thing I need to do is lose it over betfair rigging a promotion or some two bob cheat called fastfoot who rigs $50 sit and goes. For these reasons I shall be avoiding the live game. Amazing how I was on course to be playing WSOPE £10000 buy in until the strange goings on at Betfair. Still no information on how the point scoring worked is out, who believes betfair will ever run a STAX related promotion again! I scored 75% and someone who scored 64% is ahead of me, everyone knows the truth.Everyone at the Betfair forum game have fun, after all that is all you are playing a fun game.

These kids in america really are a million miles ahead. Best of wishes to Justin (zeejustin) in the main event and hopefully i shall see him over the weekend. If one of the older pro's is to win then i wish it would be 'The Bear' a.k.a. pound for pound the greatest poker player in the world Barry Greenstein.
















Justin Bonomo and Jared Hamby two of the best young players in the world. (that sounds a bit wrong, perhaps i should have said Justin and Jared two of the best players in the world?)




Tomorrows post will likely be '25 cents and a buffallo wing'. Betfair threedom farce is on temporary hold as hopefully they can still give something to unstable who final tabled in BAPT and was advertised on Betfair poker for some time as a threedom pass winner.