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Bunkup87 otherwise known as Arthur ‘AnyAce’
Peabody, an English poker player with experience of nearly 3
months playing online poker, reached the target of turning his
grandmother’s $10,000 inheritance into $10 within a 2 month period.
Slow start
“I got off to a slow start finding the action
a little pedestrian on 5c/10c Fixed Limit Omaha Hi/Lo when
playing 2 tables at a time ,” said Peabody from the lounge of his mother’s two
bedroom house.
“With so much 'thinking' time on the
9 seat tables, I found I was up by almost $3.00 after my first 4 hour session, mainly by shoving with any four cards if there had
been a pre-flop raise by a player acting before me.”
Trying to increase the number of hands played per hour Bunkup87
switched to $1/2 No Limit Hold’em playing up to 5 tables at a
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Artist’s impression of what a man watching
Internet porn may look like
However I’d counter that by playing tight until I
picked up a premium hand, then limp into a multi-way pot."
"Invariably I saw those hands being overtaken on the river by someone
playing suited connectors.”
After the pub had closed
Two weeks ahead of schedule, playing an average
of 2 hours per day mainly after the pub had closed, Bunkup87 reached his
target, $10,000 into $10. |
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“This is where my fortune really changed,”
admitted the 38 year old abattoir worker.
“Soon I was dropping $500 a session without
really trying. It seemed like the other players had a good read
on me and would call my all-ins with premium starting hands. As
they took my money, I raked in the frequent player points."
Internet porn
Bunkup87 admitted that he became so talented
at clicking the ‘all-in’ or ‘fold’ buttons, that even when
multi-tabling he still found enough time to watch Internet porn
on a side window.
It didn’t all go Bunkup87’s way; “Yeah there
was the odd time that my rag hands stood up and I found my
session in profit for a short while. |
Enough
“I got enough frequent player
points to ‘buy’ a hat and a T-shirt,” said Peabody proudly.
Not enough Not content with this, setting his sights on a hoodie, Peabody
embezzled £500,000 from his employer and had worked his way
through nearly ¾ of it before the police were called in.
“Aaaagh I was just 1,500 points short of my target,” Bunkup87
went on to say. “Oh well, I guess I’ll settle for a pair
of branded sunglasses.”
Peabody will appear in court facing 7 charges of fraud and two specimen
charges of false accounting. |
