As the above title would suggest the last two weeks have been steady but certainly not spectacular. I'm up about £1500 in May which is nice but if it wasn't for some bad luck at the wrong time it could have been so much more. Truth be told i still feel a sharp pain in my stomach when i think about my deep run in the stars $500K gtd, god making that final would have been sweet!
Overall though i'm pretty happy with poker in general. I feel like in a large percentage of tournaments i'm playing my best game and am finishing in the money about 20-25% of the time which is cool. Also playing $55-$215 buy-in comps so i feel quite comfortable and know i'm not going to lose to much in one go. Posted a few hand below that sum up the last 2 weeks quite well:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2652571
This hand is funny as fuck! I was happy when i saw the first raise but i couldn't believe how many people called! Nice call by him/her for basically the whole stack with 5 high, lol which way to the roulette pit?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2652573
I've never been a fan of the minimum raise and feel like it is rarely the correct play, this hand however is an exception, imo. I'm just hoping the bb does this and my plan works, shame about the flop!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2652574
Quite simply this is the way i play and will continue to play, i'm so sick i actually enjoy these hands more than winning with set on set, i'm a sick puppy!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2652578
This was a horrible spot with 11 bb's. Very happy with the fold.
So like i said at the start i'm happy with my game and just hope i can have a $4K plus payday soon.
Anyway enough of rubbish old poker, life is great! Just do a quick paragraph on all the other aspects of being a full time bum.
Exercise routine is going well. Am swimming about 5 miles a week on average and hitting the gym a couple of times a week as well, feel like my upper body is getting much stronger but i fear the beer belly may take a bit longer to get rid of, 4 years of eating badly and getting pissed 4 times a week is a lot to get rid of.
I'm being a bit more selective with my t.v which is good, means i don't watch as much crap. The inbetweeners is a new show on E4 and is absolute genius. It's kind of like a british version of superbad but as a series and i love this humour to bits. The Apprentice is great again this year but was very sad to see Raef go, like most people i though he was a posh moron at first but quickly grew to love him and his amazing wardrobe. Also have got into great british menu in a big way, the final is tonight at 6pm on BBC 2 can't wait, i'm so sad!
Half way through Harry Potter 4, i promised myself i would read them all and to be honest am quite enjoying them so far. The first three were good but quite easy but the 4th is a bit darker and so far has been a step above.
Ok so that sums things up quite well. Cheeky 10p/20p cash game tonight with some uni lads which will be great fun as always. Going home saturday for a night out with some of the boys from school then coming back monday for a week long festival at the gutshot:
May 26th Monday 4pm £100 Bank Holiday Freezeout 10,000 chips Dealer Dealt
May27th Tuesday 8pm £30 S.Sat. to Main Event
May 28th Wednesday 8pm £30 S.Sat. to Main Event
May29th Thursday 8pm £200 N.L. H’em Freezeout 8,000 chips Dealer Dealt
May 30th Friday 8pm £150 P.L. Omaha Freezeout 8,000 chips Dealer Dealt
May 30th Friday 11pm £30 S.Sat. to Main Event
May 31st Saturday 12pm £30 S.Sat. to Main Event
May 31st Saturday 6pm £500 N.L. H’em Main Event 10,000 chips Dealer Dealt
June 1st Sunday 3pm Main Event Day 2
June 1st Sunday 8pm £30 Extreme Stack 6,000 chips
I'm defo gonna play the comps on monday thursday and friday not sure about the main event but if i make a final of the first three i will for sure. If not will think about it anyway and will probably play, bring on the live poker action!
Friday 23 May 2008
Tuesday 13 May 2008
Intresting start
So i'm still kind of getting used to the amount of freedom that comes with having no job. I can get up when i want and basically do whatever the hell i want so on the surface this would seem like a great thing, and certainly something that i'm used to over the last 3 years. The problem is however that i'm a total degenerate gambler and this has its own set of problems that i have to deal with. So with this in mind i've decided to draw up a list of rules that i'm going try and stick to in an attempt to maintain a positive structure to my life and to my poker:
1) No more table games. I'm down about £2000 on the year and even though i love them running up hill is stupid as hell.
2) No more online cash without stats. When i play low stakes online i tend to get bored and play like a twat. When i play higher i'm at a disadvantage cause most of the regular players have stats that help them make the big decisions, where as i feel like half the time i'm guessing. Jambon is gonna help me with my 6 max game and teach me about the software to use. Until this happens no more cash online.
3) The most i can lose in 1 day is 10% of my bankroll. I currently have $13,000 so i will stop playing for the day if i drop $1300. Also no buying into comps for more than 10% so live this would mean, because i've never heard of a £650 pound comp the most i will be paying is £500+50.
4) Exercise everyday. With a gym and pool in the complex there is no excuse not to get in better shape. Healthy body = healthy mind.
5) $200 on sports betting per month.
So those are the rules. I'm sure i'll struggle to stick to them but if i can i'm sure things will be ok for me in the near future.
Poker has been a bit funny over the last week or so. Running like total pig shit in stt's and am down about $3000 playing $109 buy-ins which is pretty sick. Obviously lots of bad beats but 1 or 2 shit calls and far to many bluffs in the heads up matches when i know i'm getting called. Fortunatley i took down a $55 speed comp (first ever turbo victory) for $2.2K, only 160 runners but still pretty cool. Obviously i needed a bit of luck; KK v AA with 40 left for big stack and A2 V KK 4 handed, but with a structure like that you need a bit of luck to take these comps down. So i'm down $1K on party but up $2K on stars thanks to getting 22nd in the 500K gtd on sunday. Things were going great for me all tourney and felt like i was playing my best and getting the luck you need for the good hands to hold up. Was in the top 10 in chips for most of the comp and not to final table was gutting. I ended up bluffing 0ff 2/3 of my stack with J2 and then pushed the J10 into AQ to send me to the rail. Although i regret both those hands now i'm proud that i didn't change my game to creep ut the money and i stuck to my own aggressive style. I saved a few hands from the comp and was gonna post but to be honest i'm still hurting from not getting the job done so i'm not gonna bother.
So i'm up about $1400 in May which is ok seeing how bad i'm running at stt's at the mo. I'm gonna play some comps tonight and thursday on stars/party and take a few days off playing stt's to re-focus. Hitting Essex this weekend for my friend brads' 22nd. Golf in the day then night out in town which should be cool. I wonder how long it'll be before i break one of my rules, anyone fancy a bet?
1) No more table games. I'm down about £2000 on the year and even though i love them running up hill is stupid as hell.
2) No more online cash without stats. When i play low stakes online i tend to get bored and play like a twat. When i play higher i'm at a disadvantage cause most of the regular players have stats that help them make the big decisions, where as i feel like half the time i'm guessing. Jambon is gonna help me with my 6 max game and teach me about the software to use. Until this happens no more cash online.
3) The most i can lose in 1 day is 10% of my bankroll. I currently have $13,000 so i will stop playing for the day if i drop $1300. Also no buying into comps for more than 10% so live this would mean, because i've never heard of a £650 pound comp the most i will be paying is £500+50.
4) Exercise everyday. With a gym and pool in the complex there is no excuse not to get in better shape. Healthy body = healthy mind.
5) $200 on sports betting per month.
So those are the rules. I'm sure i'll struggle to stick to them but if i can i'm sure things will be ok for me in the near future.
Poker has been a bit funny over the last week or so. Running like total pig shit in stt's and am down about $3000 playing $109 buy-ins which is pretty sick. Obviously lots of bad beats but 1 or 2 shit calls and far to many bluffs in the heads up matches when i know i'm getting called. Fortunatley i took down a $55 speed comp (first ever turbo victory) for $2.2K, only 160 runners but still pretty cool. Obviously i needed a bit of luck; KK v AA with 40 left for big stack and A2 V KK 4 handed, but with a structure like that you need a bit of luck to take these comps down. So i'm down $1K on party but up $2K on stars thanks to getting 22nd in the 500K gtd on sunday. Things were going great for me all tourney and felt like i was playing my best and getting the luck you need for the good hands to hold up. Was in the top 10 in chips for most of the comp and not to final table was gutting. I ended up bluffing 0ff 2/3 of my stack with J2 and then pushed the J10 into AQ to send me to the rail. Although i regret both those hands now i'm proud that i didn't change my game to creep ut the money and i stuck to my own aggressive style. I saved a few hands from the comp and was gonna post but to be honest i'm still hurting from not getting the job done so i'm not gonna bother.
So i'm up about $1400 in May which is ok seeing how bad i'm running at stt's at the mo. I'm gonna play some comps tonight and thursday on stars/party and take a few days off playing stt's to re-focus. Hitting Essex this weekend for my friend brads' 22nd. Golf in the day then night out in town which should be cool. I wonder how long it'll be before i break one of my rules, anyone fancy a bet?
Thursday 8 May 2008
Up and Running
So this is my first blog from the new flat. The Internet got sorted yesterday and just about everything is now in place. The big news of the week is that i handed my notice in at work; 4 shifts and i'm a free man! Although i havn't quite got the finance that i was planning i couldn't wait any longer, the weather is far to nice to be at work and am now really looking forward to the summer.
Poker has been a bit rubbish of late and ended April breaking even, I didn't play a great deal though and am not to disappointed. The first three months of the year were all quite good to me and i'm sure i'll be back to winning ways soon. Just played a 5 hour STT session (10/6/2 handed $100/$200 buy ins and won an impressive $0.84 so May is a winner already lol!
Life away from poker is all good. Went to Greenwich to explore yesterday and had a great time, the park there is amazing and the view from the museum at the top of the hill is stunning. I cant think of a better way to spend a nice sunny day. I only managed to get through 4 chapters of my book in 3 hours however cause i spent the rest of the time looking at the hot female students, i'm such a pervert its sick. My friend Sean is at Uni over there and am meeting for a beer tonight so i hope he can tell me the best places to go, now i have all this free time i think getting a hot student girlfriend is very high up the list of priorities.
My Chest infection has got a lot better and am glad to report that i'm back on the exercise routine. Currently swimming sets of 10 on 3 minuets which works out to 1 mile in half an hour so hope to build on this over the next few months. Would be good to be up to 2 miles in 1 hour but that seems a long way away at the moment. First official day as a pro Tuesday the 13th May, wish me luck.
Poker has been a bit rubbish of late and ended April breaking even, I didn't play a great deal though and am not to disappointed. The first three months of the year were all quite good to me and i'm sure i'll be back to winning ways soon. Just played a 5 hour STT session (10/6/2 handed $100/$200 buy ins and won an impressive $0.84 so May is a winner already lol!
Life away from poker is all good. Went to Greenwich to explore yesterday and had a great time, the park there is amazing and the view from the museum at the top of the hill is stunning. I cant think of a better way to spend a nice sunny day. I only managed to get through 4 chapters of my book in 3 hours however cause i spent the rest of the time looking at the hot female students, i'm such a pervert its sick. My friend Sean is at Uni over there and am meeting for a beer tonight so i hope he can tell me the best places to go, now i have all this free time i think getting a hot student girlfriend is very high up the list of priorities.
My Chest infection has got a lot better and am glad to report that i'm back on the exercise routine. Currently swimming sets of 10 on 3 minuets which works out to 1 mile in half an hour so hope to build on this over the next few months. Would be good to be up to 2 miles in 1 hour but that seems a long way away at the moment. First official day as a pro Tuesday the 13th May, wish me luck.
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