June Results / July Goals

JUNE

The win of £420.03 for the month was made up of:

Total Bonuses / Rake: £483.42

Bonuses: £407.63

William Hill: £5 for 1 hours play bonus
InterPoker: £200 sign up bonus
Interpoker: £50 monthly bonus
Littlewoods: £100 monthly bonus
FullTilt: £52.63 sign up bonus ($100)

Rakeback: £75.79

William Hill: £2.84
InterPoker: £28.74
LittleWoods: £30.00 (~to be paid)
FullTilt: £14.21 ($27 ~to be paid)

Poker winnings / (losses): -£63.39 (thank god for bonuses and rakeback!!)

I think I played about 30 hours. My pokertracker is now back up and running so I will also be able to post some hands and review the number of hands played.

For July the goals in order of priority are:

Earn 1500 points on Littlewoods to qualify for Ipod and monthly bonus
Clear as much of my Full Tilt Bonus as possible
Earn 500 points on FullTilt for the Freeroll
Play 5 hours on William Hill for the £25 bonus
Earn 1000 points on William Hill for the Freeroll and monthly bonus
ACTULLY MAKE SOME MONEY PLAYING!!!!

The end of the month sessions

The last few days have caused lots of ups and downs. This included losing £50 Friday but getting a bonus to cover that. Winning £100 Saturday and then losing £75 Sunday. It has been all over the place lately. On Friday I couldn’t win a pot. I was all in twice with the dreaded AA against QQ and the KK losing both. I also lost a couple of other big pots with them to flopped sets.

Then on the 30th I needed to earn about 200 points on Littlewoods to get a £50 bonus. I got home late from work and thought it would take a good 3to 4 hours of play. Luckily they had about 10 games going so I got on 8 of them and that is when the fun started. All month I have been playing in the 100NL games and buying in for $50 so half the max on each table. Now normally I always like to buy in for the max especially in a live cash game so I can take somebody’s whole stack. However with playing 8 tables on the internet and not being able to give each one full concentration I think it the best strategy for me while I am getting used to it. It also helps when I can’t get away from a hand that I ONLY lose a bit. Another reason this helps is that it means I can play more games at once with less money on the website. I know that not the best Bankroll management but I’m willing to take it for a while I am building up on different sites.

Well in about 1 hour I have re-bought for $50 7 times on the various tables!! I couldn’t believe it. One guy playing a few tables as well actually wrote a note saying it was not my night!!! Normally if I feel I am not playing me best and it appears lady luck is not with me I will quit to re-group. However I still need to get some points for the bonus. Although this £50 bonus was nearly costing me £400!! Things then started to turn around a bit. It was funny but the guy who wrote the comment earlier about me luck was the only person I could win against for a while. I beat him out of 3 pots in a row on different tables flopping 2 sets and a straight. Then the other tables started to get better as well. One guy actually then wrote a note saying how lucky I was!!! That was after I stacked someone with QQ against his JJ aipf. He raised to 3 and he only had about 17 left. I thought I might as well re-raise to put him all in. Either he folds or hopefully my hand holds up.

So after all was said and done and I had earn’t the 200 points in 2 hours I started to cash out from the tables not really knowing how I had done. Some tables I now had over $150 on so I was hoping just to get out of there even. Well with the £50 bonus I actually finished up £25. So I only lost £25 ($50). Good times!!!

End of June update to follow.