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