new pad/six figures/t.v/future plans.

Been quite a lot going on since my last blog as the multi-title above would suggest. The first piece of news is that Antony and i signed the contract on our new flat in East London. We're moving in on April 5th with a good friend of ours liam 'the big guy' Kelly and am very excited about the whole thing. This place is the definition of pad, the 3 double bedrooms are a very nice size and the lounge is cool but the best things are the extra features that are included in the price; gym, swimming pool, sauna, hot tub, pool table, snooker table and ping pong! so sick! The area also seems really nice which makes a nice change from camberwell and when we signed the contract we also got to have dinner in the local rstaurant which was expensive but well worth it. Think i'm gonna be paying about £120ish more a month total but i really don't care cause it is soooooooooo worth it, can't wait to move!
Very good news for me as a poker player, my winnings on pary has hit the six figure (usd) mark in just under 18 months of mtt's. This wasn't a specific aim of myn but am very happy about it obviously, all the results are on opr.com but the main stats are: total winnings $101,541. total profit $52,032 and RoI 105%. My current rank on party is 48th but these are only on the last 120 days and get changed a lot so although i would like to hit the top 10 someday its not my number 1 priority. It would be really nice to have really accurate stats on my stt's and cash game reults over the last 18 months as well but although i do believe both would be pfofitable i doubt the stats would be as impressive. One thing that does worry me is the amount of money i spend on total crap! I wish i had more to show for my hard work than hundreds of drunken memories and an ever increasing belly, fuelled by pizza and chinese food, i just hope the new gym being a 30 second walk will encourage me to get in decent shape.
Since my last blog am up about $7000 which is contributing to an ever increasing bankroll. Have won about $2000 playing $100+9 stts running quite steady which is what you want as a poker player. The Mtt result which brought up the six figure mark came last night in the 11pm $109 $20K gtd. I wasn't really planning on saving many hand but got a few in:

Think in this hand there were about 30 left and this got me the kind of stack i need to do the damage:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2343943

All donations are welcome sir! This next hand is a pretty good example of how i've been running over the last month:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2343957

As you can see the stack sizes were quite even and at 3000/6000 there wasn't much play. I put the guy on a hand but i can't fold 1010 for one bet here and when i see that flop ithink the shove is the only option imo. This was oneof the first hands on the final table so if i lose its 10th for $350 and if i win its the chiplead, atleast i had 6 0uts instead of 2 lol. After this hand i ran over the table for a while but i lost 3 or 4 showdons in a row and kept doubling up shortstacks 6 and 7 handed which was quite annoying.

Back to what i'm good at:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2343987

This got me the chips back and managed to use them to get heads up with 250,000 v 500K. At this point we did a chop with me getting $5.2K and him getting $6.05K which was fine with me.
Just a quick word on the good old television. The WSOPE is on pokertube which is cool, episode 1 is phil hellmuth at his very best,i couldn't stop laughing the whole way through and am really looking forward to see the final table cause watching the whole thing live i thought the standard was amazing and most of the time i was struggling to put the players on hands. Also good to see the Apprentice is back,one of the best shows on t.v. Glad they kicked out the guy they did cause he was such a prick! Such an arrogant toff and he wouldn't shutup about how clever he waseven though he was unable to correctly price fish, despite being given the wholesale prices and being surrounded by competitors MORON!
Just one final note on my plans for the future. Think i'm going to go back fulltime at the end of July and have a few live tournies i have my eye on for August and the rest of 2008. I'm going to make sure i have the cash to do so and am certainly not going to take this decision lightly.