Its been a very long time!

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End of year results 2009

Well a bit of an up and down year. Not much played in total I would say especially online which is something I need to sort out this year. Most of the money came early in the year with my 3rd place finish at one of the Venetian Deepstack tournaments. Its quite clear I need to sort out my Online play. Right now I don't really enjoy playing and much prefer live action which I don't get to do enough.

2009 has been somewhat of a strange one. It started with me living with my girlfriend and all seemed ok. That all went tits up in Feb after my best Vegas trip and I moved out. Since then we have been on and off a lot. The year ends with us deciding it probably best to keep it off. Although we still have feeling for each other there are issues we just cant get over. She doesn't like my want to go on holiday to Vegas every year or the poker I play. I wouldn't even say this year I have played a lot. Although I have been to Vegas 3 times which might be seen as a bit excessive. I say that as I am planning my first trip out there this year for a week in either Feb or Mar :). What can I say I do love it there and having really good friends there pulls me even more.

Work has been quite shitty. No promotion this year which I found out today which could spell the end of my work there. It gotten better over the last few months but its not great. The people I work with are just ok so no real crack at work like it used to be. Lets just hope my bonus is good in Feb. I have some big decisions coming up after that. I bumped into my old boss the other day and she told me to ping her and she will try to move me into her area which would be a new challenge and probably a better working life. If that doesn't pan off I may quit, pack my bags and go to Vegas for 3 months to play some poker.

Anyway that's all for now. Here are the figures:

Exchange Rate used 1.6

Online
$ Sites A/c $766.94 = £479.34
£ A/c £-164.18
ONLINE TOTAL + £315.16

Live -
$ Vegas
Cash Games $198
Tournaments $9279
=$9477 = £5,923.13

£
Cash Games £898
Tournaments £-161
=£737
LIVE TOTAL + £6,660.13

2009 TOTAL + £ 6,975.29

A little poker!

Ok so I am still being really bad at updating this.

At the moment I have no internet at home. We are currently changing our account over but I am hoping all will back up and running tomorrow. I haven’t really played any online poker over the last week. Just one session and that was only to see if Hold’em manager was working after I downloaded it to get the 15 day trail. So much for using that with no internet! Even then the HUD wasn’t working. I guess I should read more about it and then get it sorted properly.

I did play live last week at the Royal Surrey in Morden. A 30 F/o which only managed a couple of tables. No joy there. I slowed played trip aces on the flop bet the turn and paid of a small reraise on the river after a guy made a wheel. He called with a gut shot and flush draw. That put me in shoving range when we hit the final 10 which I duly did after a limper with Ace 7 o/s. I got called by one donkey in the BB who was just awful and also the limper. BB also had A7 and the limper called of half his stack with 89 o/s and hit an 8 on the river for the pot!!

Then I played 1/2 pot limit short handed for a bit and managed to lose £100. Maybe it was bad kama after I won a pot when a guy folded the best hand on the river after I had shown. The board end up paired with 3 diamonds. We were playing shorted handed and all the money went in on the turn when the 3rd diamond hit but also paired the board. I had a flush and showed on the river and he mucked a full house. He only said this after he realised after another hand or two. So there was no way to verify and no way to get the cash back from me!! Oh well.

No poker this weekend as I am off up to my sisters to see my new baby niece J

Laters

No woman... no poker..........

It’s funny really because since I have been single (the last 2 months) I have hardly played any poker online. I just don’t seem to have the motivation. I can now play whenever and wherever I want and I haven’t taken advantage of that at all yet. Now I do prefer playing live a lot more than online but apart from Vegas for a week I haven’t really considered that much either.

I think when I was content with everything in my life and with my GF then I wanted to play a lot. My routine was more set and my life ahead more clear. That has kinda all gone now and a cloud of uncertainty is around and I have been quite content with just heading home from work and dossing around. Either watching tv, films, talking to my housemate or playing on the xbox. I guess it easy to be lazy!!

I need to get myself motivated and play more. I am going to drag my ass out of the house tonight and go play. There is a snooker club not too far away which has poker as well. I don’t think they have too many runners but I will give it a try anyway. It’s a £25 f/o so good luck to me.

Hello darkness my old friend……….

Ok so it been forever since I last posted. In that time I haven’t really played that much poker online or live. I have managed to fit 2 trips to Vegas. The first one was for 2 weeks but I spent more time playing golf than poker. I did go with my then girlfriend so only played about 5 times.
When we got back me and my girlfriend broke up. It was kinda funny really because we were trying to work things out after we broke up and I moved out in Feb. That also was following a trip to Vegas. A common theme! She said she didn’t really feel the same and she couldn’t really handle the whole poker thing. It obviously hit home more when we were away and I wanted to go play. I did try and not play too much and just at times where it wouldn’t be to bad for her but it didn’t go down to well. In hindsight we probably should have set some guidelines to when I should have played and that way it may not have been as bad. That was about 2 months ago and we did continue to see each a couple of time a week. However I did go back to Vegas 2 weeks ago and that seems to have probably killed things off.

Vegas 2 weeks ago was good. I played lots of poker and was doing good and was up about $800. But I wanted to play a tournament which ended up costing me about $450 to get in. In that I waded through half the field and then ran 10s into queens. Overall I finished up about $200 which meant I came home with $20 less than I went with. Not too bad. I did feel like I played good for the most part. One crappy session at Mandalay Bay with my buddy Nic who was in town at the same time at that was mostly due to be over tired.

This weekend as been more or less a write off. Last night we had a Halloween party at our house and then went out to a pub after. I was completely hammered and have been hung over all week. I have managed not to be sick, but I have had a dodgy stomach for most of the day. I have just lazed around on the settee sleeping and watching TV. I have not been that drunk for a long time and I don’t even remember the end of the night or coming home. It was fancy dress and I had my face painted. I must have had a shower when I got in but I still had loads of paint all over me which was very hard to get off!!

Well that all for now just a quick update. I should write more but my laptop battery is about to die! I will post again soon with a new project I want to put in action for the next 5 months.

Been a while!

Not too much poker this month. Looking back I have only played 6 days. For some reason Full Tilt decided to update itself and I couldn't log on. I mailed them and it took forever for them to get back to me. In the meantime I new update came out that seemed to sort the problem out so I could play a bit. So far it not been a good month $-350 ish.

I forgot about poker and work for the last week and had a nice week off in Spain at my apartment. Me and the Mrs had a nice week in La Manga with her family. The weather was great and we had a really good time. Now back to work for 4 days and then on Wednesday its off to Vegas for 2 weeks. I cant wait.

Full Tilt seems to not want me to play anymore again so I am now writing this and watching Heroes season 3 which I am loving at the moment. I am half way through it and it been really good. I have had them all saved up for a while now and just ploughing through them. Entourage season 6 has started again now as well which is always fun and entertaining.

Hopefully I will get to play a bit of poker in Vegas. I will not be flying solo and will be with the Mrs so I will have to fit a few hours in when I can between playing a bit of golf, drinking and having fun. The first 2 nights we have staying at the Flamingo in one of the Go Rooms. After that we are off to my friends house for 6 nights followed by 3 at the Excalibur and the last 2 at the Luxor. I am looking forward to seeing my friends and having lots of good times

Will try to post as and when I can :)

The beats keep coming

Just playing a quick session and had 5 comps on the go.
1) KK - aipf for stacks against QQ. Flop Q ->Out
2) Call raise to 200 and so does BB. I have AQ. Flop A,Q,7. BB goes all in for 7k(!!) other guy calls for 2k and I call. BB has Q7, other guy Q,10. River 7. FFS
3) Blinds 150/300. I am BB. Big stack min raise one caller I call with 22. Flop is 245 with 2 diamonds. I bet 2000 and get raised to 4 by bs. I go all in for 21k he calls with AA and turn is an ace!!!
4) Finally a cash. Fin 4th. Reriase all in preflop A,10. Called by 66. Flop 10,6,Q. Turn Q river blank.
5) Still playing - 3 handed.

scratch that 2 handed.