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Update on Vegas 247 12 August

August 12, 2007 on 10:51 pm | In General |

I’ve just played a couple more games in my Vegas 247 challenge. My BR going into the games was 32.40 so I was only able to play the $1 SNG’s. Fortunately I have made a bit more progress tonight. The first game I was knocked out in 5th place but in the other I finished in 1st place. I was fortunate in this as the chip leader went awol for about 15 hands which meant that we could steal his blinds and when they were 100/200 it meant that his stack went down to the other players benefit and I made sure that I got more than my fair share of benefit!! Anyway this win takes my total up to $34.50. My target for game reevaluation is $40 but I think there will need to be a fair bit of hard work put in to get there.

 I also played 3 games in my BetFred challenge at $0.10+$0.02 level and unfortunately I bubbled in 2 and was well adrift in the other. What I am really surprised about is the quality of game at $0.10 or $1.00. For instance I have played some $20 and $30 games on Pacific and frankly the skill level is not that different. Perhaps with the US ban on money movements and a lot of players still up for a game a lot of them are playing at the low levels or on freerolls and working themselves up the ladder without having to deposit. It is the only explanation that I can think off for the games at this level compared to 3 years ago when it was always an all in fest at the low level games that I played at! My Betfred balance is now $1.44 from a starting point of zero.