Turbo Takedown and Pokerstars Moderators

I will try and keep this post short because in all honesty I haven't played much poker recently! This is because, as part of my college course, I go out on work placement for 8 months. Aviva are the lucky company to have my services! This coupled with the start of the gaelic football season, has made me a very busy boy during the week. I train with a gaelic club (Clann na Gael) in Dublin on Tuesdays and Thursdays, my home club (Sean McDermotts) in Louth on Friday and Sunday, and gymming on Monday and Wednesday. Hopefully all this effort pays off this season, but there is only one way to find out!  This just means I am too tired to play poker after work and Saturday is the only day I really play anymore.


There is no chance I will keep up SilverStar status for March but I did parlay 100 fpp's into a min cash in the $30,000 VIP weekly freeroll which was good for $6. Today I played a 25 fpp freeroll for the turbo takedown organised by rakeback uk with 25 added seats. 488 registered and luckily I scrapped a seat. It is the first time I have earned a seat for the turbo takedown and I look forward to driving off with the first prize next sunday!


Now onto Pokerstars moderators and in this case moderator267. During the turbo takedown freeroll I got berated by a player for one of my (many!) unorthodoxed plays. Now normally I take this all in jest and never call the moderators into it but on this occasion the player decided to continually call me "negro" and I felt this was unacceptable.  But when I did call the mods I got the same response they give every complaint:
"Hello players"
"Please be reminded to keep chat clean nlah blah blah"
Now the mod in question said they had checked the chat log but it is easy to see that they hadn't. I f they had, there response would not be the automated tripe they always spout out. It looks really bad on Pokerstars for this behaviour to be entertained on their tables and they just arn't enforcing their rules on the players. Anyway here are the stats so far for February:

February:
Bankroll =  $381 (+ $32)
vpps = 293

January Review

January was one of my best months on-line. I have ditched the 1c/2c dollar tables for the 1c/2c euro tables and the results have been great. A big difference between the two tables is that you can buy in for up to 250 BB's on the dollar tables but only buy in for a maximum of 100 BB's on the euro tables. I don't know if this is all changing with the Pokerstars cash games revamp, but I hope not! It makes for a much looser player base on the euro tables and a good place to accumulate vpp's. I also threw in a few 2c-5c tables and 5c-10c(short stack) tables just to say goodbye to the old format!


I have already achieved one of my goals for the new year. I attained SilverStar status for january and I am enjoying the extra fpp's it brings in. Also the two shiny stars on the avatar is a nice change! I might play in the 100 fpp $30,000 freeroll for VIP players this week if I have time. The WBCOOP  was also on during January and I secured myself two $11 and a $22 ticket for the SCOOP series. I earned my ME ticket in the first pot limit omaha tournament, which was nice as I only ever played it twice before. I also cashed in a NLHE tournament later on in the series and then finished 107th on the ME. At least it was better than bubbling the same tournament last year!!


I gained my first stellar reward for reaching the 750 vpp level, so thats an extra $10 for the bankroll. I have no real plans for February and I definately wont be able to play as much as I did in January. I guess I will just keep tipping on trying to double the bankroll but the January play really helped this goal! Laters.

January:
Bankroll =  $349 (+ $79)
vpps = 795