Doesn’t February come around quick?

Here we are again, time for another World Blogger Poker Championship on Pokerstars. The last two were great fun even though I didn’t win, so third time lucky!

The Pokerstars guys are keen to know what we would do with our winnings – top prize $5K would be fantastic.

In my case it is easy. I have a three part plan.

Part 1…
In a couple of months I’ll be on my third trip to Las Vegas. At the moment I’m planning to play a little $1-$2 cash and mix in a few cheap tournaments. But with the $5k my plans change completely: I’ll be rolled to make a daily pilgrimage to the Venetian to play the deepstack and take a shot at a decent cash during the fortnight.

Last time I was in Vegas I gave the Venetian a miss, spending time in the new Aria cardroom instead. I did go there during the ’09 WSOP, but was too cheapskate to play the proper deepstack and just had a bash at a $120 Second Chance instead. A little crapshooty but not a bad tournament, except that I was card and luck dead. With my skillz I need both cards and luck so that was that.

Anyway, I digress. The deepstacks proper sound excellent, being 2-day events with a decent stack and a decent clock. With enough money to not play scared I reckon I’ve got decent chances of luckboxing a decent score.

Part 2…
The next part of the plan is to put the Vegas proceeds (or with whatever is left, depending) back into Stars. From there I will perform a determined spin-up on the cash tables. I reckon from what I’ve seen of $200 NL it could be a good giggle. I’ll need to reduce that ft3b% stat though or I’ll get steamrollered!

Obviously if I’m down to my last $300 I’m going to have to start lower. But I have plenty of experience losing at $50NL 6-max so I reckon it’s only a matter of time before my luck turns.

This will carry on until the early summer at which point I will have a decent wedge, just in time for…

Part 3…
The Pokerstars spin-up proceeds will go back to Vegas with me in July to pay for some WSOP fun time. Hopefully there will be enough for a main event buy-in; otherwise it’ll be one or more of the smaller WSOP events. If I stick to NLHE the fields will be huge as will the prizes.

The resulting victory will be my passport to a residency at Stars mid-stakes and to the HSNL thread on 2+2. My natural wit, telegenicity and all-round-good-egginess will ensure me invitations to Sky Poker guest commentator, Pokerstars Red Pro and perhaps even the Palace.

I can see it all now. What could possibly go wrong?

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Anyway, you are probably wondering why I’m prevaricating instead of giving you my January 2012 results. Simple really … I didn’t play much and when I did I didn’t play very well. But then, I always lose in January. I blame SAD. That and fish making resolutions.

But here’s the score on the door:

Oh well. Still, February has already started better, so we’ll see what happens!