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Marky_Crash Hopes to Avoid Crashes at the Valencia WTCC
May 6, 2008 Marky_Crash needs no introduction to most NewsRoom readers, as the PlayerMod and Pokah regular (7135 posts and counting) is a regular at both the tables and the message boards, crushing his opponents and encouraging discussion in equal measures.It's his success at the tables, though, that's the focus here, as he's off to Valencia, Spain to take part in that leg of the Poker Race Trophy competition, hoping to land himself a seat in the $500,000 Guaranteed finals to be held in November in Austria. We caught up with him to get his thoughts about poker, his chances in Spain, and a host of other topics:
"I've been playing poker for just over 18 months now and play mostly online. I've only played a few times live so far at the local casino and at last year's WSOP but hope to start playing a lot more live poker soon.
I play a large mix of stakes/games, mostly Omaha hi/lo cash games but also NL HE cash games and some sit n go games and recently a lot of O8 multi table tournaments. Stakes vary from .25 PL to $5 PL and $1/$2 to $5/$10 limit and $1 - $2 NL HE; for multi table tourneys I mostly play $20 and upwards.
I found it fairly easy to get motivated for the SnG leaderboard for the trip to Spain as 1st place was guaranteed a seat and I think this is a very good promotion PokerRoom is running with a very nice prize at the end of the road. I'm trying very hard to get my seat in Austria and obviously a trip to Valencia and the WTCC has to be good. The blog for Brazil made it all look very appealing.
I'm planning to try just as hard for the Czech leaderboard and the others as I want as many chance as possible of getting a seat in the Austrian final and there are a nice bunch of regulars who play them so they are usually fun games anyway.
I played last year's WSOP OH8 event which I qualified for through PokerRoom. This was my first big event and although I didn't cash I was happy with my performance. It was a tough table I had with Johnny Chan and Marcel Luske and I was pretty card dead, however I got Chan's chips all in twice and had him drawing almost dead but both times he managed to sneak a split pot on the river. Then I made a move on Luske and had the best hand but he had amassed a tower of chips and could afford to call slightly behind to try and bust me which he£ did.
A typical poker day for me would be to wake up around midday, have some breakfast and several coffees and catch up on any happenings in the forum, check my emails, etc. Then a long stint at the tables with a movie on in the background.
If I get off to a great start for the day then I will usually knock off early and go out for a meal or a few drinks; if not then I usually grind it out and play as long as needed. I know a lot of people advise a break from the tables if things aren't going great but I usually work rightly or wrongly in reverse to that and hate to leave a session down for the day and this seems to work for me personally.
Away from the poker tables I like a round of golf but haven't played anywhere near as much as I'd like to have recently as poker has took up a lot of my time; hopefully this summer I can fit a good few games in."
Our next stop on the WTCC circuit is Valencia in sunny Spain and it looks promising so far make sure to read our full and exclusive WTCC Spain blog over the next couple of weeks!
Latest comments for this news
- RE: Marky_Crash Hopes to Avoid Crashes at the Valencia WTCC (Marky_Crash) May 9, 2008
- RE: Marky_Crash Hopes to Avoid Crashes at the Valencia WTCC (amh11) May 9, 2008
- RE: Marky_Crash Hopes to Avoid Crashes at the Valencia WTCC (Marky_Crash) May 9, 2008
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