time to party

so i was talking to dtrain (pxf member) on aim the other day and told him how i was hoping to hit a nice score so i could put some money back on party poker and play their 7pm $109 20k guarantee.

well now that i hit the score i'm going to put 2k back on party to play this tourny. i mentioned in one of my first blogs about putting $500 on there this past spring and playing that tourny a couple times and taking it down once for a 5k+ score. 2k is obviously not a big enough roll to play a $109 tournament regularly but it's 2k im willing to gamble with.

the tournament is super soft. i'd say the play in it is equivalent to a $10 tournament on ftp. i guess my sample size is short but in the long run i truly believe this tournament can be a big money maker for me. it usually draws about 205-220 players so the field is very managable even though the party structure leaves something to be desired.

i guess the field is so soft cuz
1) party doesn't allow US players
2) a 7pm est time tournament might be a tad late for some of the big european players
3) a lot of the top Canadian players are probably chasing down bigger scores in the pokerstars $109 and the various rebuy tourny's.

anyways, im really excited to start playing on party again. the software is crap, the customer service is frustrating and they seem to freeze funds at will but it's where i started my online poker career and i guess there is just something about it that makes it feel like home. i think a lot of players have a soft spot in there heart for the site they first started on.

other than adding the $109 7pm and possibly the $33 6pm on party im going to stick to my regular schedule on ftp during week nights. since i work a regular day job i like to get to bed at a decent hour so i don't usually start any tournaments after the 7:15pm limit holdem. i might start playing the nightly $150 at 8pm occasionally and depending on field size the 20 rebuy at 7:30pm but thats about it.

on weekends i'll step it up and take a few shots at the higher buy-in tournaments like the $109 i won and $150's they run. i might mix in some rebuy tournaments but probably nothing higher than the 30 to start since im not crazy about rebuy tournaments.

as far as sunday majors go i'll probably be mia (missing in action) on most sundays as im usually spending it with family. i probably get to play on sunday once a month or so and when i do i will start playing the big sunday guarantee on ftp along with the mulligan. i'll also play the sunday 300k guarantee on party which starts at like 1pm est i believe.

i haven't really thought out whether i would buy-in direct to the big sundays or if i would try to satellite in. im a real nit so i think i'll probably at least play the huge satellite where they guarantee a whack a seats before directly buying-in. we'll see though.

i also looked over the ftops series and pretty much decided to stick with my original schedule. a lot of the tournaments are either 6-max, rebuy or both and im not really comfortable with those style of tournaments yet. the ones that i would think of playing have a $500+ buy-in and thats just way to high for me. so i'll probably stick to my original schedule and see how that goes.

i had never paid attention to the wcoop before since i never had a roll big enough and dislike stars in general. i looked over the schedule and there is really nothing there for me. i hate stars and the odd tournament that i would like to play starts before i typically get home from work. i also noticed on stars website that they have a weekly (or bi-weekly) $109 limit holdem tournament which intrigued me until i checked it out on the pokerdb and it only gets like 20 players.

im done rambling for now.

tg