Xmas post - End of year review

Well, its been a very up and down year to say the least, doing well during the summer months....then as soon as winter came i was getting hammered. Most was my fault for playing bad being a dick at the tables. Overall i made $18k mainly since june since i started recording my stats properly. This month ill hopefully have a profitable month but i wont be playing much now till the start of the new year, too busy going out partying drinking etc. Here are some quick aims for 2008:

-Stick to playing mainly NL500
-control my bankroll managment and try not to tilt easily
-Try to play more live tournies and cash games in casinos
-Play Lots and lots of poker lol!
-Make $100k
-Stop making hero calls with marginal hands.
-Not to play above 1/2 omaha

We'll see how it goes so good luck everyone and have a gr8 xmas.

crap just crap

Thats what i am recently, i had $4k in my balance, and then went on to bad beat and poor play it down to $283!!!! I then worked it back up to $2.1k.......cmonn!! Then later on that evening... this evening i went down to 1.1k playing 2/5 NL got fuked up the arse when i flopped AAA he flopped QQQ and turned it into quads...i mean cmonn ffs!!!!!! So sick right now, i got hardly nothing left in my betfair account now. Basically from the last post when i going well, well it went sharpish downhill as all that upswing is now in downswing approx $1.6k down in omaha and $353+ in holdem. BOLLOCKS! I may not play or post till 2008 now, merry bludy christmas!!!!

A Good day Indeed!!

Just a small post really as im delighted with how ive played today, been playing a bit of 1/2, 2/5 NL holdem and omaha. I think i will be back at 2/5 very very soon and i dam well know i can beat it cmonnnnnn!!! Well....2day i made $716.94 playing omaha, $729.38 playing NL holdem for a total of over 1.4k!! Why couldnt everyday be like this? Hmmm...i ask myself this all the blooudy time, a fresh new start for the new year of 2008? i sure as well fckin hope so......leaving my job this time next year!? Off course i will be able to.....i hope.
Oh yeh and another thing, anyone else watch the TV series Heroes out there? This programme is totally sick! sick i tell u! Of course in a good way (sick). I'm currently on season 2 just watched ep10. For anyone who hasnt yet watched it do so, its by far the best thing on tv ive seen for years, totally addictive. Anyway enuff rambling....2mrw to the Empire casino leicester SQ. Cant fukin wait.

A Home game

Last night had a game with some mates from work a big £30 buyin! Normally our games are only £10 on average, but we thought we'd change that for once. A full 10 player game which i came 2nd for £100! Deep-stacked play was good, but the game dragged due to other 'substances' involved if u get what i mean, but yeh me and a mate adam were heads up blinds 2k/4k which i was shortstacked so i went all-in with A4o and he called with A9 he hit a nine and that was that.
Online this month....sorry i should say last month of november i made:

$747.96 NL holdem
$369.86 PL omaha

$695 rakeback

total: $1812.82

This could and should have been a whole lot more, im trying to build up more rakeback playing up to nine tables now. Aims for the current month are to make $5k+ and a shitload of rakeback. Plans for tommorow are to go the casino in leicester SQ with my bird and just around london which should be fun, and go to some place called Tinseltown as it apparantly does some 'sick milkshakes'. Im still hanging over from last nights goings on, but apart from that time to play again.

Tight is right.....

Since the last post i ended up losing all of it, a mixture of bad beats and loose player. I keep thinking i can out play the player with re-raises, but forget its 1/2 and most of the time the fish will call, rather than higher up where they will respect certain moves and re-raises. So i just started playing basic poker really, tight aggressive with a the odd few bluffs on very rare occassions lol! I think this will be the only way to rebuild my huge losses, as at the time of writing this it seems to be working, so now i am $929 up this month, going down from 1.3k down to $-363 and back up to the current $929. I know this is so fuckin measley, but most important im happy with how im playing and off course it helps hitting the sets and getting paid off. Its all about the set, nothing else........the best hand i reckon for getting a lot of money. Also i noticed i used to raise most pair and any pair from any position, i have since calmed down and started limping with certain low pairs and folding at times too! I am going to head over to the 'VIC' casino in london, suprising ive never been as i found out its only like a 25min drive for me, ive heard its easy pickings on a fri and sat night, but then again so is online! Hmmm....nah i will go to play live as the only live cash games ive played were in vegas 2006. I aint gonna touch the tournies as im wasting my money it seems, ok thats enuff waffling, mo fo's gota earn sum dough lol!

On the rise again?..........

First things first regarding the MPP CPC thingy on hills, no i didnt get a seat, went out 259th. I made a bad move i suppose, went all-in with 55 on BTN wen i really didnt need to as id been playing quite well up until that point, and the BB calls with KK. Ok i was unlucky to run into a big hand like that, but i could have waited for a better spot. Was feckin pissed off, esp when i say to myself ill learn and do things differently, but i still dont. And i do need to stop jamming that all-in button so quickly when i dont need to and a smaller raise would do the same job. I'm gona blame it on the fact i wasnt feeling well as ive come down with the flu! fukin bollocks lemsip and paramol beechams or woteva shit it dnt work and it made me drowsy lol!. I did play the betfair 16k and came 18th for $192....wow hahahaha! Also came 3rd in a $5 rebuy PLO tourny on Fulltilt for $110.

hmmmm....cash games im on the up so far this month up $1.3k. Been playing mostly $1/2 NL and trying not to fulfill my urge to play higher stakes. I know if i was playing fulltime im quite confident i could make a consistent income playing 1/2. I have also become more agressive in my play raising more in position than i used to, actually thinking about the betting on different streets and think about how im going to play back on the next street dependent on card and his range. Apologies for the long time since last post, also would like to say good luck to amatay for doing what ive always thought about doing and probly alot of others out there, that being Playing poker fulltime and quiting work. All the best to you and evry1 else and me lol........

MTT's

Been playing quite a few MTT's recently, only success coming in a headhunter tourny where i came 2nd for £126 for a £5 buyin. I think my overall play has improved vastly in tournments, but one thing i keep doing is going out near the bubble alot, after hours of play its quite frustrating. Maybe im not playing agressively enough during the bubble time, and leaking chips on hands such as QJo which i dnt really need to play when ive got an above average chip lead, as a few hundred here and there wasting chips on these type hands leak the chips for when the double hand comes up, and therefore dont have as much as i should. I have also been calling raises from the button raiser, then 3/4 betting pot on a untextured flop, e.g 553.

Cash games ive been very medicore, no major wins and no major losses. I guess i wont be making back my huge losses this month, noway near to be honest lol! My aim however is to do it by the end of 2007. Theres a carribean poker classic final satalite on William Hill ive bought into for 20,000 MPP's. I figured i just had the points sitting there gathering dust and really werent using them for anything, so hey why not! Theres 70 packages in total i believe with 1-20 places getting full package and 21-70 getting the lite package. I guess ill be happy with any package! hahaha........Wish me luck Nov 8th.