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The Apprentice in Lego - week 7

The best eposide of this series of the Apprentice yet finally the two that irritate me the most have been fired - Jennifer the ginger one dropped the ball again this week and the tight lipped one has gone too. Still amazing how little common sense there is but Margarat and Nick are brilliant with their shrewd comments … I vote for a spin off series with them doing a helping failing businesses series like Sir John Harvey-Jones did years ago.

More Lego Apprentice

More “great management” from the muppets on the current series of the Apprentice.

The interesting thing in this weeks apprentice is the “Vicky Pollard” look a like completely dropped the ball … by bringing the wrong person into the boardroom. When the ginger cow bag suggested celebrating the environment for an idea (the worst and least thought out idea to date), then back tracked in a presentation saying she wouldnt even send them - Yeah but no but still failed to realise he could have easily got off the hook in the boardroom by actually fairly blaming her for being the idiot and talking him into it … instead he brought in the quiet girl who if anyone had actually listening came up with the best idea for cards … multicultural celebrations and dates.

Still I still think none of them should be there … not one ounce of common sense or people skills

There is no doubt they would make terrible poker players although if you gave them 5 minutes with themselves I’m sure half of them would convince themselves they had already won the World Series of Poker.

The Apprentice in Lego - week 5

This isn’t remotely poker related but I have to admit I’m yet again addicted to The Apprentice. The contestents are completely useless as per usual and yet again their ego’s are so big they seem to be incapable of seeing just what a bunch of muppets they are. Can’t remember who said it but every episode reminds me of the comment that “it’s odd that common sense … isn’t really that common” however on the apprentice sh*t stirring, back stabbing and general self delusion seems to be available in abundance.

I love the Lego animations and combined with the apprentice boardroom moments is classic.

More 4king Poker Tournaments

The current 4 private poker tournament leagues running at 4kingpoker.com are coming to a climax in the next couple of weeks. We will be setting up a new series of league games starting early in April. In order to make them even more competitive we will be putting both freerolls and $1 buy-ins into the same leagues all with $50 added to the prize pool.

There will be two new leagues -

The US Open at sites open to all members including US players which will run over 12 weeks with a $50 freeroll on Thursdays followed by a $1 buy-in with $50 added on the Sunday - so thats a total of 24 games over 12 weeks.

The Euro / non US league will run at an earlier time slot better suited to European members again running over 12 weeks with a $50 freeroll on Thursdays followed by a $1 buy-in with $50 added on the Sunday - so thats a total of 24 games over 12 weeks.

To fill the week gap between the current and new leagues I’ve sorted out some special one off $100 freeroll tournaments …

$100 Freeroll at RedKings Poker

On Thursday 27th March we will be holding a $100 freeroll at RedKings Poker for our non US / European members. RedKings is on the very popular OnGame network and we have a choice of 100% bonuses up to $1000 in our RedKings Poker Review.

$100 Freeroll at Cake Poker

On Sunday 30th March we will be holding a $100 freeroll at Cake Poker for all our players including US members. Cake Poker is a rapidly growing site which is proving very popular especially as its open to US players check out our Cake Poker Review for a 100% up to $500 bonus.

888.com Freeroll - Win $1000 seat in WPC Final

It doesn’t stop there we have got our biggest ever tournament coming up in April - We are running an exclusive tournament to Win a $1000 ticket to play in the World Poker Crown final for our signups to 888.com Pacific Poker. The WPC Final has a massive $3 million in prize money with a million going to the winner of the live final which will be played in Barcelona.

Our tournament to win a seat at the WPT final will be held around a week before the online final at the end of April. The tournament is open to all existing and new signups to 888.com Pacific Poker via our links (Unfortunately 888.com Pacific Poker is closed to US players).

6000th Member celebrations - $660 added to $1 tournament series

All is not lost for all our US players we are currently organising a week long series of ten $1 buy-in tournaments each with $60 added to the prize pool at one of our recommended sites open to all players including the US. This is to mark the poker forum reaching the 6000 member mark (hopefully during the event) … so watch this space for more information or check the 4kingpoker.com poker tournaments page for updates.

so that’s great news all round

cheers scrawnybob

Updates coming on 4kingpoker forum

As well as the massive promotion we have for our non US visitors and members who signup for a Pacific poker account using our links / banners (see our 888.com World Poker Crown Tournament ) we should finally be doing some of the poker forum upgrades I’ve been talking about this weekend. The forum layout was getting a bit confusing for new members to understand and so things should be clearer about rules & posting requirements. Also members will be able to find our private tournament results and schedules more easily rather than them being tucked away.

On my mimimum deposit poker challenge front - I haven’t had much time to play so in brief I’m around $5 up at Titan Poker this week and around $5 down at Pacific Poker but still up overall. I should get a bit more time on this challenge in the next week and also a couple of MTT’s in at PKR for the other multi-table tournament challenge.

We are getting close to the end of the current leagues which will finish towards the end of March. I will also be announcing a couple of additional non league $100 freerolls in the last week of which will be at Cake Poker (open to US players) & RedKings Poker (Ongame which is closed to US players) so check out our reviews and get signed up to the sites ready for the the freerolls.

We have been developing some improved newsletter software for our monthly newsletter for our visitors and members which should be up and running soon - this will include a short “27 simple secrets to online poker success” for all subscribers.

Back from my poker break

Well it almost seems like a lifetime but it was just a week off on holiday. Things are hopefully getting back on track in the forum with the spam and iffy posts swept out the way.

I’d been hoping to do a bit more of the admin while I was away at an internet cafe but as you probably know they can be something of a mixed bag. The one I ended up frequenting was on the nextdoor to useless variety. The keyboard was missing keys and being in France featured a very frustrating keyboard only useful if you needed all the accents etc or liked to have a layout only loosely based on the qwerty keyboard.

Needless to say the ski slopes proved more tempting than bashing my head against a brick wall trying to get PM’s and admin done at a snails pace.

Anyway I’ve come back from a few days on the piste in Andorra suitably refreshed dispite a 5 hour delay on what was meant to be a 90 minute flight.

I’m playing in the final satellite tonight at PKR Poker for a seat at the GUKPT final in London. And (using a handy time machine) I can tell you I came a none to impressive 49th out of 270 odd players ($3000 GUKPT packages went to the top 12 players) but it was really enjoyable to be playing in a MTT for a change. The buy-in was $150 so my bankroll management hasnt improved for the break but I figured what the hell.

This leads me into what is going to be another occasional side project in addition to the minimum bankroll challenge (havent had time for that at the tables in the last week or two). So now I’m also going to be playing only MTT’s at PKR starting with a $350 bankroll (less the $150 from today) and see what happens. I’ll try to stick to some kind of bankroll management from now on as the GUKPT thing was just something I promised myself a couple of months back. So I’m going to be playing sub $10 Multi Table Tournaments (ok maybe up to $20) mainly to get back into the swing of the longer games but hopefully showing some positive results before the bankroll gets too low.

The backlog of work has piled up since going away but hopefully with re-newed energy after the break I’m hoping to get more done on 4kingpoker and the other sites.

UPDATE: In order to help keep the forums spam under control and the forum duff post free we now have a “report spam / posts” button at the top right of all the posts - look out for the red and white triangle - So if you spot something that doesnt look right hit that button and I’ll check it out.

Good Luck at the tables
cheers Scrawnybob

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