Topic: Bitcoin Beamer 2015 WSOP World Series of Poker Sponsorship‏ (Read 7760 times)

Very bad luck with KK preflop its impossible to fold almost all the time, then when you go into flop if an ace doesn't hit nothing much you can do but get the money in.

27th May and it will end the next day at 14th July and there are still 182 players now You can find all the information here http://www.wsop.com. It will be just a few hours left before the final table

When WSOP event starts? I've read message on fb that it finished month ago? LOL? Sorry for this stupid question I'm just lazy to find out ....

Thanks Sy! I appreciate all your positive energy and support.

Hello ranlo, I definitely agree with you on the positive points you've made about playing online tournaments. However, in order to make a massive impact through poker, I would need to be playing live in the larger live events like the WSOP, WPT, etc. The $10K+ buy in events are the ones that get all the worldwide attention and make TV. These are the ones that I feel need to be targeted for exposure to help bring much more awareness to Bitcoin. All I need to do is win one of these events or make the TV final table and this should get it going.

Good job Beamer , you did your work and the cards did their work
there is always a next year

Thanks for the response. In regards to other tournaments, I was thinking like online ones. They're a lot more versatile in terms of time commitments, and much cheaper to take part in since there's no travel, room, etc. fees associated. And many of them still have high rewards.

Hello ranlo, fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you view it, I don't have a recent history for poker tournaments. I played semi-professionally for about 7 solid years (1999-2006) before deciding to give up poker as a job while running my business. I've played with the best players in the world both online and live and they were my professors of the game. Even when I quit, some of the best pros offered to back me and put me in to tournaments but I had to decline. The problem was that it put too much strain on my business life and personal life. After quitting poker for a couple years (which was not easy), my wife said that she had no problem with me playing during the WSOP every year. So then I played every other year or so after that depending on my finances. What's great about poker is that the experience you gain from it stays with you forever. Although it's good to be seasoned and in the game playing full time, sometimes taking a big break from the game makes a player become greater and play at a much higher level. You truly never forget the prior experiences you've learned and after all this time, I consider myself to be a much more developed person in life which only improves my play at the poker table. They say life is poker and poker is life. I've had several humbling years to rethink my game and life itself. One other thing to consider is that poker is a volume game. The reason that you see many of the greatest players winning tournaments and making final tables is because they play so many events. Eventually each of those pro players has a great run and finishes well which makes them the most well known players in poker today.

After finding out about Bitcoin a couple years ago, I fell in love with it. I haven't gotten rich as a result of it but really like the idea of it and would like to help promote it. I feel that it's the wave of the future. The key thing we all need for Bitcoin is some good ambassadors to help promote it through many channels, not just poker. I'd like to be one of those ambassadors through poker but would need some backing. If there are any Bitcoiners out there that agree that my idea is good and want to back me then feel free to have them contact me. Sorry that I don't have any recent play history but I can assure you that I am not only a solid player but also have the will and personality to get the job done. Regarding other tournaments, depending on the circumstances yes I would consider playing more larger events. It just has to make sense for everyone.

Out of curiosity, since this flopped (maybe pun intended), do you have a full listing of your recent track record in other tournaments, and would you be interested in staking for other tournaments as well?

Thanks LFC!

Bad luck bro! All you can do is to give it your best. Practise hard & get ready for next year. Same again, I will sponsor you next year.

FWIW, you did the right thing. You could have hit trips/straight as well. In any case, KK is good enough that it's worth going all-in pre-flop. I'd have done the same.

Wow it is so bad luck.
The worst way to lose is kk vs aa. And especially few places before the money.
I think you had a great preformance and I will follow you in the next tournaments.
Good luck though

Have to agree with that. The markup was huge specially with no cashes since 2006 specially if you are active in the WSOP circuit or not active for a long time.

Missed the money by a few hundred places unfortunately. I got tangled in to a pot with one of the chip leaders in the tournament that was at my table. I'm not sure that I could have ever folded those pocket kings preflop. It's just unfortunate that the guy had aces. Oh well, there's always next year. I love that Bitcoin has been going up the whole time I'm in Vegas though. Maybe it's on a big uptrend now. Thanks again guys for rooting me on. I played my heart out and tried my very best!

Oy, wish I saw this before it started.

In general with poker staking if you are getting 1% of the payouts you should pay around 1% of the buy in. Guy hasn't cashed live since 06 and was looking for people to give him a 55% freeroll in the the main event.

The poker players that get to keep 50% of the profits and put up no money are usually on long term deals that have a better chance of success and have to pay back the makeup for all the tournaments they didn't cash in.

Looks like it didn't end so well for him. Loss out with KK vs AA preflop all in . What position you landed in ?

Go Beamer and those who invested in this awesome bitcoin player/representative at the WSOP. This is getting to my favourite part of the game, shame I've just found this thread although it would have took a lot to invest in a newbie account. Will be watching you and keeping an eye for the future! Good luck and take it down maan

Good luck today , looking at the updated on WSOP websites seems you have pretty good chance of cashing. 117K looks like a decent stack at this point. Get some pictures clicked and we can post it around .

Thank you and are you all in Vegas and does your hat have a Bitcoin logo on it? Please feel free to PM me a proposal and if it's a Bitcoin hat we can talk.