The Worst Winner

I love PartyPoker's Grand Prix Poker Tour format. $109 buy-in, multiple live and online Day 1s, decent prizepools and just generally very well run. As the main tour travelled around various UK cities, there were also a series of 'mini' GPPT events, which followed the exact same format, just with smaller guarantees and less razzle dazzle. I will happily make these events the primary focus of my poker playing.  Double With the smaller guarantee and resulting smaller field, making it to Day 2 didn't mean locking up a cash like the main GPPT event, I think roughly 50 players made it to Day 2 and we had to lose 20 or so before making the money. That being said, it was surprisingly plain sailing into the money but I lost a flip shortly after the bubble and headed to the cash desk for a nice little payday of a couple of hundred dollars. As part of the GPPT schtick, any cash includes a $109 ticket that can be used either online at PartyPoker or for a side event taking place ...

I read this blog by Kat "the Poker Baffer" Arnsby and it completely changed my outlook on satelliting into big events. What I took from it was that small stakes players such as myself would be better off trying to win their way to smaller, more local poker events, in my case UK tours, rather than the international big buy-in WSOP/WPT/EPT type events. It makes sense, get a few £200-500 events under your belt before you try to win a million against the best in the world. Despite how much sense that makes to me now, previously my mind was firmly set on the idea that if you could just be lucky enough to run like god in one of those events, you'd be set. The reality is, with a small stakes bankroll, you need to run like god just to get to that big tournament in the first place. With this new approach, I had a bit of a look around to see what the upcoming events where taking place in Scotland and found that PartyPoker were conducting the Grand Prix Poker Tour (GPPT), wi...