Getting personal
Sorry for the delay in posting. This post is a bit more of a personal blog type post. Going to keep these to a minimum but don’t think it’s too bad writing the occasional one.
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Finished just out of the money AGAIN!!!
Anyway once again I was in Madrid for a week from the 14th to 21st May. I played in the main event €1k + €100 buy-in of the 3rd leg of the second Spanish Poker Tour at the Gran Casino Aranjuez. I finished 11th out of 101, only first 9 finished in the money though 
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Live cash games are where it’s at
After two long days of playing into the early hours of the morning and coming so close to the money as you can imagine I was very disappointed. I did make up for it though later in the week though when I won about €3k in a couple of days play at the bigger casino in Madrid the Gran Casino Madrid. I don’t play live cash games so much but I really really should.
Live cash games are easier to beat than online cash games
There are many downsides with playing live cash games, the main one being the expense of it all. If like me you don’t live near a casino then you have the expense of travelling and hotels, then there’s the expense of playing, the rake is higher, tips for dealers and waiters, you get to see far fewer hands than on the Internet. However all this in my opinion is more than compensated by how bad most live players are. These days even relatively low stake games online like .5/1 NL are populated by the most part by people who know how to play poker.
Casinos attract fun gamblers
If you can beat .5/1 NL online then from what I’ve seen and heard in most European casinos you have an even bigger edge at 5/10 NL live. Casinos simply attract on average a more recreational type of gambler, some of whom really do not understand or even want to understand the game, they are eager to gamble, better again, some of them have so much money that it seems like they hardly care, as a poker player you can’t afford to feel too much compassion for other players at the table, but I still prefer taking money from a multi-millionaire than a struggling student.
Going all cosmopolitan on you
The other thing about casinos, especially in a cosmopolitan city like Madrid, is that you meet some very interesting people, that you obviously don’t get to meet on the Internet.
Tweaking ‘n stuff
On another note, I’m going to be concentrating for the next 2 to 3 weeks on adding pages and tweaking elements of the site so there might not be another post for a while, there should still be pages added and updated, so do come back during that time to check for updates.
