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.

Downswingggggggggggg

Well after having a nice run of final tables in the 45man and 90man variance kicked in.

Date 03-Jul-09
Games Played 13
Av Profit -$15.86
Av Stake $16.73
Av ROI -95%
Profit -$206.18

Its really funny how when you lose you really question your abilities and normally for whether I actually like poker!! The exact opposite is true when I am winning. How fragile the line in between mood set!!

I had the weekend off as I normally will because that is when I like to get some quality time with the misses. Saturday was just a nice relaxing day. Sunday I was up at 6 to play golf in Beckenham. I have only been playing a few just over 18 months and not very regular at that. My aim this year is trying to get my handicap down to 18. A big ask me thinks but you have to have goals. I shot a 97 which was +28. Not too bad for my second time playing 18 holes in 12 years. I had 5 pars which I was pleased at and a few more chances at them but I didn't put well. Overall it was good though. Only one ball lost which may be a record!!! lol

After the golf a quick pint lasted for 5 hours while the Wimbledon final was on. I really wanted Roddick to win but it was not meant to be.

No poker Monday which was the first day I could have played and chose not to for a while.

Tuesday wasn't too great either:

Date 07-Jul-09
Games Played 9
Av Profit -$9.60
Av Stake $15.22
Av ROI -63%
Profit -$86.40

Overall my ROI since I started is still 22% which is still ok but my profit has been halved in the last week.

Time to watch the end of the Battlestar Galactica episode I am watching while writing this and then bed

Movies and the first session

Wednesday night I usually try to finish work at 4. Once a week you can either go in late at 10 or finish early at 4. I have now been moved to a new team and I always still try to get out of there if I am allowed. I think my new managers don’t seem to like people doing it but I always look forward to getting out of there early. It breaks the week up and is like a mid-week treat.

My gf also finishers early that day so we try and do something together. Last night we went to see Public Enemies. After reading some not great reviews I still wanted to check it out. The film was ok, not great but watchable. Whilst in the queue we saw that when the film finished The Hangover was starting so we got tickets for that as well. We both saw it a few weeks ago and thought is was hilarious. The Hangover was actually busier then public enemies even though it has been out for a few weeks. Well let me tell you, it was just as good the second time around. Everyone in the place was rolling around in laughter all the way through.

Got the first play of the month in:
Date 02-Jul-09
Games Played 11
Av Profit -$2.09
Av Stake $16.36
Av ROI -13%
Profit -$23.00

All was going bad until I was only left in 1 $6.5 90man comp. I was mid stacked going into the final table and then started to get aggro. I started to move in and steal the blinds and antes as they increased. Anyway I ended up getting head up down 2-1. The other guy was very passive, folding a lot and not using his chip advantage. I end up in the lead by chipping away until we both got it all in. He won the hand and that left me with 20K to his 260K with blinds at 2/4k. I then started to move in every hand and he kept folding. This keeps going on until I shoved with J7 and took a stand with J9. Anyway I ended up luckin out and hitting a str8 and then it was plain sailing from there -> ship 1st.

That meant I only finished -$23 for the night which felt like a win.

My hols are coming up. Spain for a week then back to work for one then off to Vegas for 2. Yippeeeeee

Got a few things to plan for the trip but hopefully I will be able to play live as much as possible. Also need to pick up 3k owed to me from my last win from Feb. Hopefully I will have no probs of the taxman and will get it without any probs. Will help pad the bankroll and give me some nice spending money