Dear friends,
I have been touched by all the members who have approached me via the forums and skype suggesting I should enter the vote for community champion. Much
to you all. I am really touched by your kindness.
This has been an extremely difficult decision for me because representing all you awesome people would be a great honour, the league looks great fun (as all PokerStrategy events do) and as a seasoned STT player and occasional league/tournament player I would perhaps do quite well.
I have however decided that I will not be putting myself forward due to the following reasons:
I firmly believe that there are much better tournament players in our community (some have already entered applications), they would represent you, the community, much better than myself in this event and they fully deserve a shot at the added value more than I do.
I've actually got a busy couple of months coming up, not least looking after the forum for you guys and a long planned trip to Gibraltar for a few days to visit those nice Admin-guys
It would not be fair to enter and then potentially miss a couple of the league games.
A close family member has spent the last 8 months battling (and hopefully beating) cancer, it would really be nice to just relax and spend some time with them without any additional pressure. I really wouldn't want to let you guys/girls down so would feel pressured to perform well lol.
I've never run very good on Party. Nothing against Party Poker they're great guys, I just seem to run better on other platforms that perhaps suit my game style better. Just a personal thing.
Having said all that, you just try to stop me from supporting all the vote candidates and railing the eventual vote winner to overall victory. ♦
I will be behind our guy/girl 100% and railing them at every possible event like there's no tomorrow............. English Community for the win !!!
I do hope you will all understand and respect my reasoning for not entering and of course join me in getting fully behind our eventual vote winner.
As I said before, I am deeply humbled and touched by your kind words.
Respectfully yours,
Bart