Back To The Drawing Board

It’s Tuesday night, so it’s that time of the week once again. The time when the FullTilt sponsored Million Dollar Cash Game is on our TV screens.

Clicking the info button I see it features the FullTilt sponsored Annette Obrestad, FullTilt sponsored Phil Ivey, FullTilt sponsored Justin Smith, FullTilt sponsored Patrik Antonius, FullTilt sponsored Tom Dwan, FullTilt sponsored Andrew Feldman, FullTilt sponsored Mike Matusow.

I believed the only player not sponsored by FullTilt was Peter Jetten. But fear not FullTilt signed him up yesterday!

Just when will the broadcast authorities catch on? Before the general public realise the televised Premier League, featuring the likes of Luke Schwartz, does not entirely contain the premier players?

Anyway, I cannot watch a prolonged TV commercial so it is actually ‘that time’, time for me to compile an offering for Card Player.

New Years resolutions have led to me get off my backside, off of the internet and playing some poker in 2011. Only small stuff but I’m going to enjoy it.

It starts next week with a visit to Seefeld, Austria. A beautiful spot high in the Alps, I’m taking the family and making a holiday of it. Mind you four flights, a rented house, ski passes, equipment, car hire and clobber all adds up to a fair few bob.

In fact I could get myself halfway into the WSOP main event for the same money. I’m not sure the family would enjoy sitting outside of the Amazon in the Rio quite as much though. Family equals priorities.

Like any good ‘low budget’ airline cost, along with choice locations, is going to be key in 2011. Therefore I’ll be in Clonmel, Tipperary (the wonderful place where Bulmers/Magners cider comes from) for a €250 entry 300 player one-day tournament at the very end of the month.

Thereafter it’s the European Deepstack Championships in Dublin (early February) and all legs of the UKIPT and EMOP during the remainder of the year.

It is very much a case of back to the drawing board which I started scratching about on in 2002. Back then success was not hard to come by and I’m hoping the reduced entry fees of the aforementioned events may spark something of a revival in both interest and accomplishments.

Who knows a prominent finishing position in one of these and ‘premier league’ Luke Schwartz could have someone to rival his mighty record and Premier League seat although a place in a FullTilt TV commercial may still be a way off.