One new year resolution I made was to try and get myself onto the Ladbrokes Poker Cruise (see http://poker.ladbrokes.com/pokercruise/en/ for details) this year (or onto TV event again)
To this end, I loaded my Ladbroke account with £30 and entered the $5 daily final satellites. With 3 minute blinds and rebuys for 30 mins, you couldn't hang about and the action was fast and furious. It was certainly a lottery rather than a game of poker after the first couple of levels, but I did OK until it got to the point where you were going all in or folding. I ended up 12th from 25 (top 4 went through to daily final) I had another go, but got fed up with the randomness of the poker playing, especially when I lost my all in bet, so didn't bother to rebuy and ended up 22nd from 24 this time.
It seemed to me that earning enough money to enter the Daily Final directly would be a better way forward, although at $66 plus one $25 rebuy and one $25 rebuy, it is not cheap ! I decided to go for the $22 five seat STT to earn enough money and started off very frustratingly with 3 second places, before crashing out early in the next game. With the Daily Final almost upon me, I had to go for the 10 seater hoping to win enough cash, but ended up 5th and only $8 in the account.
This time round I wasn't lucky enough to get in, but will have another go at getting into the Daily Final. My strategy is to play two daily finals and hope to get into the Weekly Final where 1 in 10 players will win a cruise ticket. I think that will be enough to show that I am not lucky enough to get in this year and move onto something else instead.
Will update progress after my next attempt.
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