New year resolutions

Ok well overall 2009 has been an ok-togood year. There things i havent achieved which i'm absolutly gutted about and things which have just not changed which are a mixture of being gutted but also good not to change all so.

The whole decade has been very up and down tbh. 1 of the best things i reckon is 10 years ago tonight i went out with a group of pals and it more or less the first time we had really gone out drinking together and these are the same boys I had spent my time playing football with going to school with, fighting with and making up with that i just THOUGHT were really good mates. ones that wud be there through all the good, bad and ugly times with me.
Tonight I will be going out with the same group of pals and this time I KNOW they will be there through the good, the bad and ugly with me. :) (I dont think i have explained it very well but boys if you ever get to read this what this is supposed to say is thank you i guess and I love you all) WOW hope no one ever gets to see it lol - proper gay!!!

My girlfriend just keeps getting better and better she's like a fine wine. :) I never thought it could happen but i have an even better time hanging out with her than i do my mates. Really do think she was put on this earth for me. She just kills me shes so funny. :-)

Right the reason why i started this blog. THE POKER
New year resolution is gonna be pretty much same as last years i bet. I am going back to the sit and go front i think. and am going to try get in 300-500 6 max games a month. I know people can piss that in 8 days or whatever but just dont have the time. And i aim is to be over bankrolled for the $11 ones by the end of the year. I want a couple of thousand in there at some point through the year. If i feel im flgging then i gott stop whatever i had planned and play some. Only way i will get better and get some money is to play the games. I gotta invest in poker training site next year too. I gotta stop thinking i'm better than i actually am. I gotta read my hand histories aswell. maybe try do that once a week. My mate said just question yourself on moves you have made and that will help u develop too.

Bankroll. $200

I am in the mood again

Right... I decided a few months ago to take most of my winnings out. Left myself with a tiny little bankroll for playing the smallest of small games. started of a month ago by playing very bad and unfortunately bad beat after bad beat. Then i started playing $1 heads up sit and goes on Ftilt and won like 15 in a row but dont really like this coz can really only concentrate on 1 table at a time :)where i can play 4 tables 6 max gsames very comfortable so wud be mor profit. I guess those wins in a row really sparked me of wanting to play again really. Best mate and WPT mag writer :) is being backed playing 6$ 6 max games at the mo and is winning quite abit. Only plays like 150 a week as well. He is always rushing them fitting in 50/100 on the sunday. I really beliee i cud be a winner at these games with the same amount of logging time so am gonna find some time weekly and really go to work on it. onc ive lost 5/6 in a row ill probably wont wanna ply again lol.
I'll post again very soon

played alot. but no luck watsoever.

played ton of gaames. including loads of sit and goes. but just breaking even. not sure if i just need sum coaching or bad luck.

Bankroll: 400$

DOWN

Played a bit since last post. especially the birthday week on fultilt. Have hit a major downswing. Biggest ever. Just down to playing badly tho (thank god) :). I lost $70 last week and a little the week before. Hell of a lot for me really. Funny thing is it didnt bother me that much.
I really felt like my next post wud be a story of being broke.
Started playing a bit of heads-up again. really do enjoy it. I won $40 ina 10 min period this morning. Felt pretty good.

went horse racing yesterday and won as well so doing ok at the mo

Bankroll: $370

Fultilt player points

Birthday week for Fultilt so am gonna play as much today for the 5x player points. wanna get as many as poss. I wanna new t-shirt and hat, and maybe a pool cue :)

going A ok

Poker is up a bit. Played about 5 half hour sessions since last post and made bout $25 :)

Wish i was in vegas, Wud love to be able to afford a seat for main event. Been reading http://exsnowman.blogspot.com/ and he seems to be doing awesome, Played some really good hands. One hand i think was were he pushed q8 off at the cutoff when was reraised by bb who was short and bb folded. Still would of been a big chunk of his chips gone if guy calls. But guess thats the power of having chips in tourneys, People just wanting to stay alive and a push like that seems a good strong move. Good luck to him anyways :)

Bankroll: MOST TO DATE $410

Partying WAY too much

Been a busy last 3 weeks. Mum and Dad have been away for two weeks and are due back today after a days delay and it has been my birthday :) Had a real good time but have also been working pretty hard too. At work and doing jobs around the house. So havent been on my computer as much so therefore hav'nt played much poker.

The bits i have played have been pretty crap. deff am down a little bit.
I will be putin a few hours in tonight due to having a golf day tomorrow which starts at 1pm instead of getting up for work early. Maybe i shud think about hustling :) i aint very good but i know the people im going with arent either :)
On my birthday i thought i was gonna have the time to play a bit but turned out i didnt. I played about 6 orbits of 25c/50c and made 3 or so bbs :) When im playing well out of my comfort zone like that i am always looking through for the tightest table i can find. The big pot size tables i stay away from. I just know with my luck i would miss on the flop on these table and loose big. Least i know i can work the players out pretty fast on these tight tables without loosing my stack in the process

Bankroll: $385

up down up down!!!!

Same old story reallyy. although this has a bit more of a fairytale ending LOL - Basically had been doing pretty shit my last two quick sessions which one table was playing 25nl table. was probably down $30 ish. basically card dead. and was trying to make moves which i cant really afford to make. Anyways my mate also been been on a bit of a cooler and asked if i want 50% action on him but in a bigger tourney. I did question it because he was on abit of tilt himself but i sent him $40 dollars and persuaded him to play 3 $24+2 sit and goes. He did and came a good 2nd in one. which gave us a win of $270 and net profit of $192. So has increased my bankroll by quite a bit.

UPDATE: had to save it, so am writing a day later. Today was another success Dan text me to say he was playing $22 PLO tourney and did i want 50%. I remeber he has had a few near misses with the PLO toruneys so said yeah. Text me a couple of hours later to tell me he had credited my account $63. He had come 4th. Not a bad bit of business on my part i feel :)

Went to another funeral yesterday afternoon (3rd in 7 months). it was dans auntie. went was well as funerals can go.

Might start playing sum $5 45 man sitngoes now. Might take me a couple of goes to get into it. Going thru a bit of a bad patch in the cash games at the mo

Bankroll: $403
My highest bankroll to date :)

Good mood

Right now i am in the best mood. The main reason for this im sure is the weather, I just LOVE the summer. Mind you, this is first time since being an adult where i havent been abroad :(
Another rason for this good mood is my bird just got her first teaching job as Art teacher at downham market in norfolk which is only 30 odd mins from where i live which is brill news. and just feel for me things could be on the up. Am only part time atm well in two jobs and am in the need for a break in ajob i would enjoy. Have applied for one with british gas which feel i would love. But if that dont pay off then im sure something is just round the corner. Just feel it!!!

Yet another reason for this good mood is poker - Have been making steady progress. Could of had a bit more profit if werent for some bad calls but hey ho!, also find myself with bit more extra time at the mo so am gonna try put few more sessions in plus try play a few long ones too. When i say long i mean 3 hours lol. Bet that is so short for a lot of players.
Mate dan is doin 10000 hands at 10/25 cent at the mo. think he will be over halfway now. Been doing well. I hope he does show good bankroll management this time!!!

Bankroll: $302
Sharkscope: same

up again

played a few sessions since last post. about 45 mins each and have won bit more. Playing 3 tables mainly at $4nl with a few $10nl games. Feel ive played quite solid really. Feel if i just played more hours i would be up alot more rather than me thinking ill lose it.

Bankroll: $280
Sharkscope.: unchanged due to not playing any sng's for a while

Up..

Life aint bad at the mo. seem to have a really good balance between work ,study, friends and girlfriend. Even found a bit more time for poker at the mo. Found a website alle rakereduction.com or summit and it lets you calculate up how much rake you earn. Just type details in and then it shows per day, month & year. I have been pissing about with it. like seing how much rake you earn 3/6 at 15000 hands a month and so on. Also got given like 200 poker mags from my mate the other, he was gonna chuck them but i sad id have them and found a couple of interviews a bit inspiring. first one was isabelle mercier - She just thoufht fuck it one day and sold everything she owned. had a house sale and ended up with 10k. stuck with it thru a rocky period then had a great result and then got a sponsor. she basically says one life. live it how u wanna. I do love that idea but just have way too many ties to be able to. Plus u need some BIG BALLS lol. The other interview was pat antonius. Talking about his online experience with $200 and started playing 200limt. Hast really had alosing period to recently really. He said he never had back to back losing months. Redic!! So on this logic i decided to take up 50/1 limit coz obviuosly i have the one buyin like patrik so i can do it:) Only played a couple of hundred hands at this level coz obviously i am scared money. Real stupid idea i know. Might play some more limit though. do enjoy it. Apprently there is more math involved though. So my C at gcse might not cut it!! Ended up but not by much really. Just been playing 3 tables for 45 mins.two of them $10nl and the other $20 nl. Doubled up with one of my last hands of the sesh which was awesome. Looking forward to rake back in couple of weeks time. Might be my record score. So all in all very good month for me sooo far :)

Bankroll: $262

OMAHA HI..

I have come to the conclusion recently that i aint really in the mood to take poker seriously enough to make money. It can be done but need the focus and determination and I seem to be getting bad beat after bad beat. So recently have been pissing about on the 1c/2c plo tables lol. And not really winning,apart from the last couple of days that is. Like i say pissing about really, played a plo sng today and came second. was well chuffed!! wasnt even concentrating. was playing a cash table at same time. before i knew it thyere was two of us left. Guy was much better heads up plo player than me. that was fact. Def am getting better though :)

Bankroll:$220 ish

This and that..

Plodding along atm. Played a little poker now (bout7 hours this week) and have broken about even. maybe a lttile down. Have just got my money back from the sit and go challenge. Last friday night was bored and didnt go out and didnt go out the night before so for a treat to myself I deposited another $50 into my fulltilt account. I fired up about 5 tourneys with it but thinking now i perhaps should of fired up some sit n goes instead. Got one really good value tourny $25000 guarentee for 24$ buyin. actually probably wrong here. it was $5000 for first, anyways it was a good value tourney. Thought i played well in all but didnt cash in any:( all tourneys i played had high volume of players and really just got bummed a few times with silly play. other than that i have been playing just the $4nl cash which i am just pissing about with really. Basically with this level if you raise the standard 3 blinds expect to get called with j3 offsuit. I lost a few buyins practically withpretty bad beats. I guess the thinking at this level is 'fuck it, why not CALL' .
Am gonna play alot more sit and goes next coming weeks so next blog entry should show bit of change in the right direction:)

I reckon on the whole i do quite well with my small bankroll. It is boring to read quite often. but do think something will click soon and i will get a few wins in a row.

Also am shitting myself today. Tonights the night Arsenal play united i first leg semi final. Just feel man u are over there dizzy spell and look alot fresher. AM a big arsenal fan but just feel we will get spanked tonight. Am usually pretty bad with my predictions but will still go for a 3-0 man u score line tonight. I dont want Shearer to succeed niether not much reasoning behind that other than newcastle fans generally live in a dream land. Shearer isnt even a qualified manager! He just copies everything hansen says and just always points out the obvious on match of the day which really annoys me aswell. So yeah my predictions to go down - Middlesborough,Newcastle and Hull. Like i say my predictions are wank usually.


Bankroll $220 ish

Reminder

Play some poker!!!!

up and down....again!

I might as well copy and paste this line because its always the same - Haven't played as much as i would of liked to of done :)
I went out friday night and came home and played for about an hour and lost stupid money like $30 playing 20nl. YES was very drunk lol. I had nothing to do at the weekend. EVERYONE i know was busy so started to play 4nl and actually really enjoyed it. Think it was one of my longest sessions ever. I think i enjoyed it because of the stake. Felt if i played ok and lost the buyin it wasn't gonna piss me off that much. Was playing 3 tables and finished up on all of them. Just enough to get the money back had lost night before.
Previous to the weekend just gone i have been playing for like half hour periods and being a couple of dollars up and feeling like i should logg off coz im might lose this profit i have lol.

Oh yea, big news is i read a story on a poker news site that a guy who is a sit and go expert turned $100 into $10,000 in 14 days playing sit and go's upto the value of only $16. I read first of all he was playing 50 a time. 50 and winning!!! So my mate said he could do something like this but on a smaller scale. Still having a $100 but turning it into $1000 in two weeks. I put up the 100 and said i only want double the money for the stake. kind i know. he started off and was breaking even . Then after a daynhalf of doing this he gets bored and plays plo 25/50c instead. This pissed me off a little coz I gave him it thinking it is a good challenge and one he could do seeing as he dont work for a living. But he has recently banned himself from all sites tha he plays on and was obviously getting itchy feet and wanted to play cash. Couldnt resist!!. So he lost it all and now owes me my $100 back.

Im not even gonna read it back coz i can imagine how shite it reads!

Sharkscope: $150 ROI:15%
Bankroll: $136 + my refund= $236

Poker aint so easy as i wrote in the last post!

I'm down about $10 since last post. but am up on my sharkscope. so kinda pleased but not :)
Gona play in a mo but dunno wat to play yet. think i have been writing this for 5 months now. Am not up as much as i would of liked. However if i can carry on like this then end of 2009 year I should be getting to a nice $1000 land mark.
At this rate ill be able to accept durrrrs challenge sum time in the year 5010 :)

Laters

Bankroll: $210
Sharkscope: $126 %19

Poker post now

made the 3 buyns i wanted too. actually made 4 buyins - won quite a big pot then left after a few orbits. Was really looking forward to a longish sesh playing but once i made it i thought i better stop. lol. Made it pretty easily actually, Got three days left on the week so guess i will try to add to it. thinking dropping down a level helped alot and watched quite a good training vid earlier.
Guess another week of this and i will be moving back up.

My mate called me earlier asking what i was gonna be doing from 6 till 7. I said nothing, he had been playing a tournament and was down to last 20 but he had to go out so i said sure id step in.
Only problem is. it was pot limit omaha tourney and only experience i have of that is play money on fulltilt lol. I understand enough to see him through i thought though. he gave me the low down of what hands to play etc. didn't get to play unfortunatly coz for sum stupid reason he gave me the wrong password and i tried entering it 3/5 times and the site stopped me trying in the end. long story short again he came back and finished 5th for a couple 100 bucks i think. Lucky devil!!!

prolly post again once i make 4 more buyins . like i say i really shudda kept playing. cudda made them tonight.

Sarkscope: $90 ROI: 18%
Bankroll: $220

Gay post

Went to my funeral today. Really nice service. He had been our neighbour since my mum n dad moved her 27 years ago. just wanna say he was a bloody good neighbour! we never had any trouble and He was only 57. his coffin was decorated up with sum really nice pictures of ford capris on the side (favourite car of his). He was a real family guy. always out in the drive helping his sons out with there cars. always rebuilding them.

Now the gay part lol.........
while at the service i heard a nice story about where he met his wife. It was at a dance here in cambridge in the 70's and he used to stand at the bar watching her, then plucked up the courage
one time and she said yeah alright and the rest is history.
made me think of my girlfriend coz its near enough same way i met her. ok maybe we didnt go to dance's but it was in a club in town. used to see her every monday night and sum weekends. just thought wud be cool for rest of story to be same too.

have lost quite alot

Wasnt going good on the tables at all. After last post i thought it would be a good idea to use the money i had wisely been building and blow 2/3rds of it on 50nl - What the hell was i thinking!
I had the brain wave, that i was gonna play my longest session to date and come out golden. Really push on with my bankroll. Well passed on the longest session part (just under 3 hours) but the golden part i really fooked up on!!
Really am such a moron. My bankroll just aint big enough for 50nl. I could of played 10nl and sure i still might of lost but no where near as bad.

Lost a little with the sit and go's too.

Am now going back to basic and am gonna play the faithfull $2 sit and go's and mixed in with 10nl. That will probably be 2/3 6 max tables however i remeber playing bout 5/6 full ring tables quite comfortable so maybe that. Gonna have to do some thinking.
I'm gonna aim to make 3 buyins a week for a bit which isnt much really. Made one already this week with an hours play.

Girlfriend bought me some only fools n horses dvd's for valentines. Gonna use his grinding motto! This time next year... :)

HERE COMES THE PART I'M DREADING WRITING DOWN . Makes me feel sick to think i lost this much..

Sharkscope: +$80 ROI 18%
Bankroll:$180

Keeping track

Am up since last post so wanna keep a record of what i have. Prolly only played 800 hands or so since last post. coz at the mo am helping a mate out with he's bankroll. So he has some in mine so he cant get to it. lol. He's been doing pretty good. Just been playing 4 tables at 25nl - went pretty well.
Should of really waited till after tomorrow coz i get a bit of rakeback but heyho.

Sharkscope: +$99 ROI: 18%
Bankroll: $360

Going ok..

Havent really played that much, had lot of other work to do. Have been mixing up a little when i have had the odd hour to play, either playing 2 tables at $25nl or 6/7 tables at $10nl and also playing a couple of sit and goes (including two heads up games). I lost the odd buyin on the cash tables but made it little on the sit and goes. Not much else to report.

Sharkscope: +$95 ROI: 18%
Bankroll: $275

Yo Yo Yo

Wrote this blog out earlier at work. Was pretty damn long and then decided to not save it and loose whole bloody lot. Dunno why i bother!!!!

What i wrote about was my ups n downs over last 3 weeks playing poker. First two weeks have been pretty good. found myself up around $170, which for me is massive. felt i was learning quickly. It's by far the most hours in a month i have played. Still got over a week left too.
HOWEVER... this last week i have proceded to lose $60-$70 mainly down to playing badly perhaps. Also maybe down to playing too many hands. I did lose a $50 odd dollar pot when my set of 10s lost to his set of kings. dont think they could be helped. Have talked that over with Dan and he feels i played that fine. So could sleep ok over that lol. On my other table were i lost my other buyin is completely diferent story. Dan pointed out my mistake straight away. I had queens and should of 3-bet preflop to try isolate. Long story short about a guy UtG limping a7 then deciding to see flop with a raiser plus another caller. Still not sure if i 3 bet if that wud of got him off the hand. He was seeing alot of flops, Who knows!!!

Can't remember what else i wrote about earlier so will just mention about a few challenges and the sickest story i have heard
Durrrr's challenge is massive. How much self believe must he have. I have heard him say in an interview that they(ivey/antonius) are probably better players than him but over 4 tables he reckons he might have an edge. I'm sure even after a few thousand hands that those guys will be used to playing 4 tables. I'm pretty sure Patrik has played 4 tables a few times :)
Negreanu's got a $10 challenge where he hopes to turn $10 to $100,000 in a period of time. Unless he has sum big bets on this i just cant see him keeping interested in it imo. Have read some threads saying they think he will struggle to make money when he gets to mid stakes not coz he aint good enough, coz we all know he is but online its a different story. there are loads of awesome players.
Now the story i heard about and this is the sickest of the sickest :) Apparently a young swedish guy who may well just be legal to play only a few weeks ago and decided to deposite 2k into an ipoker account and was playing $600nl and ran so well that within 2 -3 weeks was playing 100-200$ I KIDD YOU NOT!!! Mad like 1.5 mil and then within 2 or so weeks proceded to loose the intire roll. AGAIN>>>>I KIDD YOU NOT !!!!!!!

Bankroll: $265
ROI: 18%

New year, New game

Well not a new game. Still gonna be playing Holdem but think i might turn to cash. Went out the bout week a go and Dan was saying I wil be losing long term or something due to rake. I watched a couple of sample videos next day from Cardrunners (cheapskate i know) and just gave what i learnt a try. This last week i havent put a losing session in yet. Mind you. the winning margin from the 2/3 hours ive played isnt good either. Still got floors obviously but am gonna put some hours in and see where it goes. obviously will still play sng's but just not every session.

Dan came round bout 3 in the morning after nigth out and we(he) lost my money in my account. I say we but i past out on my bed lol. He actaully gave me $125 back which was nice of him. Prolly would of still lost it if i hadnt past out so reall nice of him actually.

I had awesome new years eve night with girlfreind and few freinds. am hoping 2009 is gonna be a big year for me on a lot of fronts.

Sharkscope: $74ish ROI:18%

Bankroll:$154

P.S told you my session weren't really winning ones either lol