o.m.f.g. how boring.

I’ve just read this blog from back to front. To save you the trouble, I’ll sum it up in one sentence. That’s right, 4 years in one sentence.

I won some money at cash tables but gave it all back playing mtt’s and now I’m going to whine about it online.

Sad to say it’s a pretty repetitive read.

To try to alleviate this, I’ve started to introduce some small lifestyle changes. Easily summed up as – less booze and take poker slightly more seriously than a 10-year-old. I started all this last Friday, for no other reason than that was the first of the month. Well, for no other reason than it seriously needs doing.

and whose idea was this ?

 So off I went on Friday night. It was kind of weird, playing on a weekend night with no beer. The session did not go spectacularly well. The best way I can describe it is like getting in your car, on the starting grid, and not being able to start the engine.

Still not sure this was a good idea.

 

 

 

Saturday night was a little better. I did manage to get off the grid, so to speak, but picking up a puncture every few orbits was less than ideal.

6 cylinders firing .. but this is a v12 ….

 

 

Sunday night proved to be a whole lot better and I was pretty happy to be cruising along mid pack.Then again, at +21 bb/100 .. perhaps I was firing on more cylinders than I imagined ….

 

 

 

Monday night and Tuesday night both went well, racking up 1300 and 1200 hands-played sessions. Firing on all cylinders ? at +12 bb/100 and +17 bb/100 respectively. Although I managed some sort of reasonable volume through Mon & Tues, it really should be more. For whatever reason, at about 10.30 ish on both nights, my brain/body decided I was very tired. Within ten minutes of the tiredness descending .. I was tucked up in bed (probably) literally snoring like a pig.

stop whining, that’s a good start

All in all, not a bad start to the new month for this recreational fish. Just have to try to keep the momentum going and most importantly, stick to my small lifestyle changes.

once a fish ..

According to Sharkscope, I’m -£500 in mtt land. Thats staggering, as in, holy fuck, staggering. Now, since I have not used a penny of my own money to pay that loss .. I must have won it playing cash games. I really should take my head out my ass and just grind the fuck out of cash during March to see how much I can make or should that be “not lose”.

Roll on March.

idle hands

I’ve loaded a few homemade graphs from last nights session. I wonder if the PT graph will look much like these, though I suspect not. The homegrown ones don’t take into account any topping up that goes on.

This last one is from the short while I played $1/$2 …. (clear violation of bankroll management rules)

I’ll fire up PT and load the “real” ones later.

working Friday nights

Anyone who knows me will realise I have developed a really, really bad habit. Quite simply, every time I play poker, I have a beer to hand. Tonight being Friday night you’d expect that to be no different. Except tonight I have no beer (sic) and thought I’d put a little “work” in at the tables. The shift consisted of six games of the 990-man hyper-turbos. I’m such a hard worker, lol. It was short because I’m way too tired, burning the candle at both ends thru the week takes it of me these days, sigh.

I min cashed one (16th) meaning I’m one buy-in down for my efforts. A bit of a failure, huh ? Not in the slightest, actually. I save way way more than that by not buying beer and an extra pack of cigarettes !! Result ! and no fucking hangover tomorrow -)

Exit hands

KJ on a 3K2 flop .. all-in on the flop, ran into a turned flush -(

couldn’t get AQ thru J7 .. all-in pre, ran into another fucking flush -(

QK fell to 44 .. all-in pre, villain rivers quads ! fuck -(

couldn’t get AJ to beat TJ .. all-in pre, gross -(

9T v 42 .. no really, all-in-pre, fucking flushed again, thats pretty sic -(

and finally, the one I cashed, money goes in pre-flop, playing for a top two stack .. you’ll never guess ..

AK v A7 whee  .. oh look, you rivered a flush sir, well played sir, nice hand sir -(

I’m laughing now as it is pretty funny (sic). Killed by four flushes and quads, lol. I was quite pleased that I just shrugged after each one and shut the table down, without typing a single comment. So I think I’ll type it here …. nh, gg & fu.

Its not, perhaps, particularly obvious but I quite enjoyed working tonight and was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t miss my beer !!

Octonumbers

Thought I’d post up some numbers for the first half of October. The numbers are entirely accurate for cash games but do not take into account several small field mtt’s I’ve had a go at. Nor do they take into account my disaster attempt at playing the fifty50′s. Think I dropped about $20 there right at the start of the month. The cash game stats look like this -

2c ($5 or 250bb buy-in)

10c ($10 or 100bb buy-in)

10c zOOm ($10 or 100bb buy-in)

25c ($25 or 100bb buy-in)

all levels

A good first half but as we know from the previous post, the remaining half of the month is going to be, err, more challenging !

A promise kept is ….

As much as it “hurts” here is the week three picture. A complete and utter disaster mostly of my own making. When the fish in me comes to the surface, I just cant help jumping straight out the barrel.

It’s not pretty at all. The worst is, of course, from about hand 2900 .. wtf ? I mean, seriously, wtf ?

don’t say ….

The bet I have on with another blogger is quite simple. If I end the month in profit, I win. If I don’t, I lose.

I’ll post the previous weeks results tomorrow, for now, this is how it went last night. Compared to week 3 this is an awesome start to the final week, lol.

I am currently up a few dollars this month and I could do with a few more sessions likes to seal the deal.