Pokerstars WBCOOP 2012

So Pokerstars are running WBCOOP (World Blogger Championship Of Online Poker), with $5000 for the best blogger. I had never heard of this before, but it sound great! So thank-you Twitter and @pokerstars for showing me the light!

I have a homegame set up on Pokerstars, and like to play some non NLHE games there with "JeesusHeist", "nickdcfc" and others. So at least I won't be going into WBCOOP clueless as a lot of the games are "different", even though I'm still shockingly bad at Stud games, I'll crush the Badugi!

I've only started blogging not too long ago, but I can still tell you what I'd do with $5k! Obviously most of this would go towards BR, and probably to the new higher price for the UKIPT, having not yet shipped a satellite for Nottingham this could give me the option of direct buy-in (without having to sell almost all of myself). I pretty sure I'm going to Dusk Till Dawn anyway, even if I don't win a main event seat, then just to play the sides, but with $5k then I'd obviously play... and ship the main. Traveling from Glasgow isn't cheap, and having been to DTD before I've found its best / cheapest to drive the 4 - 5 hours, I stayed in Derby last time, it was a very nice hotel, but again more expensive than a B&B, so $5K would be much more comfertable.

Then, as I'm a greedy degen, I'd buy an iPad2! Because today Pokerstars have announced you can play in the UK on iPad, iPhone and Android! Pretty sick!! This could be the greatest thing ever for the pros that are always travelling and stuff, and this will surely take off, big time! Twitter is already going nuts for this, I have an iPhone so I'll be trying it out, but its apparently even more spectacular on iPad, so this is a must! Didn't think it would be too long before this happened, I follow Pokerstars Team Online Pro @Wizard0fAhhs (Kevin Thurman), he tweeted not so long ago he was playing Pokerstars on his iPad whilst having a bath!

Finally as I work full time, and even worse than that, I do shifts! I don't get much time for a routine, playing poker when I can really, so as I've done over the last 6 months with the weeks and weeks of holidays I get at work, with winning $5k I'd take a week or two off work and grind. This has worked out well for me before as the last twice I've taking holidays from work to grind I've had my most profitable weeks ($2k+), which is probably more than I make a month in the real world (LOLZ). Pretty sure i could sneak in a little week to Tenerife before a week of grinding, when working 3 different shifts in 3 weeks its not very healthy, and breaks in the sun are much needed. So UKIPT Nottingham, iPad 2, a week in Tenerife and the rest for bank roll! That's pretty close to $5000 IMO :) 1 time?

Check out the WBCOOP Schedule here! http://www.pokerstars.co.uk/tournaments/wbcoop/

GL all!!

SchmidtSting