It’s been a couple of weeks and i apologise but being busy at work and socially has meant little time for the game i love. I want to go back a fortnight when on the saturday morning , I opened up the Racing Post and to my surprise they have a poker pullout. Now the reason I was shocked to see this , is that it’s no real secret that the paper really couldn’t be arsed with poker in the past. Hey I am always willing to forgive and seeing that they were holding a freeroll to readers for a trip to the Arc in France, I was quite willing to register to their site and have a crack at it.
It suddenly dawned on me that on the same evening was the PokerNews Headlines League game and for anyone not involved, there is a great prize on offer which really is winnable considering the amount of people that play in it. Which unfortunately was cancelled due to a lack of runners. Anyway this gave me the opportunity to concentrate on the freeroll.
It had entered my mind that the Racing Post was just doing this as a publicity stunt tgo get a few people to join their poker site, this was due to the fact that the poker articles they did have were old news basically but as i said, i will give them a chance to convince me otherwise. Get a good structure in this freeroll right and a decent bit of play in , then the praise and forgiveness will come in abundance.
So why on earth did they bother? Within an hour the blinds were up to 2000/4000, we had gone from 300+ players down to 32. Players were moaning at each other for poor play which was unavoidable to be honest. It wasn’t so much bad play but some people couldn’t grasp the fact that the blinds were going up so quick , you just had to press the all in button then close your eyes and hope for the best. I hope the person that won has a great time , i really do.
The Racing post has since continued to have a 2 page spread on poker which consists of an article by Roy Brindley, which isn’t a bad read but the rest is tripe I am afraid. So do us all a favour and improve it or stop it now as it is just painful to look at as it is at the moment.
