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August 1, 2020The Poker Jungle

At this time of year, I’d usually be loading up the car and heading down the M40 to Warwick to stay with my friends for the next 2 weeks, just 20 minutes away from the Ricoh Arena.
While I still have the week off, I’d be lying if I said that my level of excitement and anticipation for the Online Goliath was anywhere near what it usually is for the live festival.
The Goliath has been a huge part of my poker calendar for the last 4 years and is how I choose to spend 2 weeks of my holiday each Summer. With the event now being held online, I’m interested to see how many of Grosvenor’s live event attendees will make the leap to the online felt for the Goliath 2020 Festival.
There’s no denying that online poker is different and there will be many live players who will give it a miss this year. This is because there’s more to the Goliath than just the events themselves: players come from all around the UK to play, meet old friends and catch up over a beer or two. The shine is taken off that a little when you’re sat at home by yourself in front of your laptop!
However, I am hopeful that many players will be attracted to the generous tournament schedule that’s on offer and that the series might even encourage a few more players to enter the online realm.

Tournament Schedule

As online events have no need for dealers and rarely have any time or space restraints put on them, it means they’re able to offer more tournaments within the same time-frame. With multiple tournaments running over each of the weekends and a new tournament each weeknight, you no longer have to use work as an excuse not to get involved in the full Goliath Festival! There are buy-ins from £5 all the way up to £560 which is perfect for the online arena and there really is something within everyone’s price range.

Tournament Structures

A slow structure for an online tournament is usually around 15 minutes per blind level. Interestingly, Grosvenor have chosen to use a ‘live clock’ for their bigger guarantees such as The Main Event, The Opener and The High Roller by choosing to use a 30 minute clock! This is unusual for an online event but with many players looking to get as much play as possible for their buy-in, I think they’re going to love the slow structures.

What I’ll be playing this year:

As I mentioned earlier, I still have the week off to play poker, so aside from Tuesday evening, when I plan on watching Brentford make their way up to the Premiership, I’ll be playing many of the lower (£55 and below) events plus the Main Event on Saturday 8th August.

I may hop into some of the 6-max events if I’m feeling particularly good but I think I’ve already got enough to keep myself busy with the games I’ve chosen to play!
Now that I’ve got my week planned out and I’ve had a good look at the tournaments on offer, I’m excited to play this year’s online Goliath. Even if the shine has been taken off it a little, I’m hoping that the Online Goliath 2020 is a huge success as I would love to see some online events added to the schedule next year.
I’ll make sure to keep you all updated on how each of the events go.
Good luck if you play!

August 13, 2019The Poker Jungle

Today’s blog is coming slightly later than planned!
Poker took up so much of our time and energy during the Goliath that there just weren’t many hours left in the day to keep you all updated!

I’ve been debating what to share with you in this blog because there’s just so much to talk about. The atmosphere, the staff, the events themselves – Where do I begin?!
So I thought it best to review the GOLIATH 2019 and REDTOOTH POKER’s events in separate articles to give each of them the attention that they deserve.
As for this blog, you’re in need of a Goliath update. So here’s my Goliath wrap up…

WHAT A WEEK!

The GOLIATH 2019 has easily been mybest Goliath ever.

Jen and I played 6 events in total over the course of the 11 days we spent at THE GOLIATH 2019.

That’s a lot of poker!

Now it doesn’t take a genius to work out that you can’t play 6 events in 11 days and have a super successful Goliath. And results-wise, that was pretty much true for the both of us.
However, the GOLIATH 2019 wasn’t just about returning home with a trophy and stacks of cash stuffed in my undies. It was more about the experience for me this year – getting out there, chatting to people and playing the best poker I could.

Writing this blog has brought a whole new dimension to playing poker and introduced me to hundreds of players I never would have met. With The Poker Jungle only being live for 15 days when the Goliath began, it was pretty cool to have new faces come up to me and compliment me on a blog I’d written.

Whilst there were no major scores or victories to celebrate (I played 4 Day 1’s this year and still missed making Day 2…), we did have a few small successes:

>> Jen made Day 2 of THE GOLIATH, finishing in 414th place with a £330 cash.
>> I finished 15th in the Win The Button event for £80 (the most enjoyable tournament I played all week!)

And then there were these hands…

My hand of the Festival

Picture the scene: It’s Day 1F. The alternates list is already as long as your arm and Day 1G is already full. The days of GOLIATH 2019 being a re-entry are long gone!

17bb to my name, I look down at Jh Jc in early position. I have a few options here, but ultimately decide on the open jam.

It folds around to the HJ. Of all the players at the table, THIS GUY is not the player who you want to see debating whether to call your all-in or not. He’s played exceptionally tight, extremely passively and is reaching for chips…

Ultimately, he decides on a call and to be honest with you, I’m fairly sure I’m facing an 80%-20% here – and not in my favour!

However, he turns over 7h 7c and we’re going to need to hold!

Check out this run-out…

Jen’s Hand of the Festival:

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Button limps, small blind completes and Jen looks down at Jh Jd.

She raises to isolate the limper. Unfortunately the limper folds but the small blind then rips in his stack for around 40bb.

Waving his arms around in the air, he exclaims, “Might as well spin it up!”

Jen calls.

He shows 65o

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THIS is the result of that hand:

So there’s my brief update on how the GOLIATH 2019 went for us. I know I’ve only given you just a few of the highlights – but that’ll teach me for not keeping up with the blog during the week.
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