ughhhhhhhhhhh!

Last few days have been up and down up and down and downnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

The graph for the month looks like a rollercoaster blueprint, it's ridiculous. Today I played a tonne, and ended up losing loads to a guy at heads up. He is really really bad though, its just one of those things that happens.

I lost 8k today, but was 8k under allin expected value.


Oh also there was one day in this blurred up mess of poker that EVERYONE had sets v me, like everyone, it was ridiculous.. easily the worst it has ever been.

So my month stands at 13k when I have played a tonne, but I guess it's not a disaster.


Rob

Last couple of days.

Yesterday I dropped $11k in 1500ish hands. Lost flips, KK v AA, AKh v JJ on a AJxhh board straigh v fullhouse etc etc, and lost a loadsssss to shortstackers - mostly at 10/20.

Coped with it quite well, That is only 5.5 buyins for 10/20, and my worst days ever I have lost ~11BI so I guess I will def have worse as a 10/20 regular.


Today I recovered somewhat, and finished +$8.5k in around 3000 hands. I don't think I played too well today though. Made a few bad calls.


Month so far:

I can't think of a witty title.. sooo, January 4th.

I didn't play yesterday, I went up to Guildford to play football in the freezing cold.. why? Then we didn't go out after cos not many people were staying round, which kinda sucked. 

When I got home I was tired and my mind wasn't really good to go for playing poker. I def think that is an important factor when playing, though, I underestimate it cos my mind is normally ready. MTV generation - no highs, no lows. Robot brain. It's not often I don't feel like I can play poker for any reason, maybe a couple of days a month. I'm glad I didn't though, cos I could see what might happen - lose a little, get angry then end up not feeling too happy with myself.

Sooooo, I woke up today, feeling a little more ready to get into the right mindset. I played 1400 hands today and ended +$7500 ish. Happy with how it went today.

Obviously this month has started well. I'm not looking forward to the impending downswing. I may just cry!

Gl, Rob.

Two thousand and nine

Played 3 sessions already! Wow.

Partly because there is not much going on after the xmas period but a lot to do with wanting to get a good start to the month.

Looks like I did. 2300 hands (okay so not 3 very long sessions) +$12,800.

Quitting for the month and the year.

It's 2pm, NYE. There are hardly any games running, so I decided I would call it a month.

~31k hands. $57.7k and around $2.5k in rakeback coming to me, so we will call that a $60k month which is a little over £40k at the moment.

Really good results for me, but still not too happy that I only put in 30k hands when I have had a lot of time off uni. ~15k hands were at uni and ~15k hands at home. All in all this month I have played ~50 hours of poker.


At the start of the year I was solely playing 2/4, playing >50-60k hands a month for $20k. I'm glad with how much I have improved, and hope it will be the same way next year.


I can only think of 3 goals I wanna set for next year (though I am sure there are more and may add to them). In order of importance:

1) Have a better year than this year ($/work ethic/improvement to my game).
2) Buy property.
3) Play the World Series of Poker in the summer.


Gl for 09 everyone. Lets hope the poker economy stays strong.

Xmas round up.

Since the last update I have played two sessions. 27th and today. There has been too much going on to get any more done.

On the 27th I ended up +$6k, and today I ended up +$3k. Leaves the month at +$56k. I dunno how many hands I have played but it is probably around 25k.

I probably have 1 or 2 more playing days left of the year.

Rob

Back home - big screens, big swings.

I'm back home for xmas break.

Had a great day on Friday - lots of parties, followed by a big party at night, followed by a football match on Saturday which saw a lottttttt of hangovers. We won 6-0 which was suprising.

Came back on Saturday night. My extra monitor arrived so I have been playing on two 30" screens. It's prob a little too much, but it's pretty cool:







Played a lot of hands on Sunday. Finished -9k. It sucked. I lost a lot HU to a guy that really isn't very good. But sometimes that just happens I guess.

On Monday I played 300 odd hands, finished +7k, which was really nice - to bounce straight back from a losing session.

Today I played just over 1k hands and finished +10k. Won the biggest pot of my life during the session. Here it is:



$10/$20 No Limit Holdem
4 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

CO		($6889.53)
BTN		($768.00)
SB		($2236.00)
Hero (BB)		($4951.00)

Pre-flop: ($30, 4 players) Hero is BB

CO raises to $60, 2 folds, Hero calls $40

Flop: ($130, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $80, Hero calls $80

Turn: ($290, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $220, Hero calls $220

River: ($730, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $700, Hero raises to $4,591, CO calls $3,891

Final Pot: $9,912
Hero shows:
CO shows:

Hero wins $9,908 ( won +$4,957 )
CO lost -$4,951




Against a better player I don't like my shove on the river, but against him (from what I have played with him) it's fine.

I don't think I will get to play for a few days. Xmas eve is normally a big night out, and i'm fairly sure I wont have the desire to play on xmas day!!! Perhaps a couple of hands on Boxing Day. +$47k for the month.

Round up of my week.

Or what I can remember of it.

Monday - had a session with the coach. Breakeven - boring session. Went out in the evening for a friends leaving party into the town centre.

Tuesday - lost 10k, went to the supermarket to collect alcohol totalled ~£100, got really drunk with friends, bought another 30" monitor for like £550.

Wednesday - Won 4.8k, went out to bar then club with friends.

Thursday (which is actually today) - Went to town, won 4.5k.



So all-in-all I have played under 3k hands and almost broke even on the week. I'm not sure how many more hands I will play. Tomorrow is a big xmas party at the uni, then Saturday is football then going out with friends from home. Then Sunday is football then going out with football friends... gah, maybe I will play a bit after that?

+$39k on the month so far. Round 15k hands probably.

What do I dooooo?

I went to sleep last night at around 8pm (8PM!!!). It must be like the only Friday night of the semester I havent gone out, partly cos of no one being around, partly cos of football this afternoon and partly cos I feel a bit ill.

So I get 12 hours of sleep and decide I will play poker before football. Half way through my session I get a text saying the game is off.. great. So now Its nearing 1 o'clock and playing my session definitely made me feel more ill.... I will prob still go out tonight though, but I have nothing to do for a good 6 hours or whatever. No poker - no football - no school work - watched all the available eps of LOST/Prison Break/Heroes - no one is around till tonight... what do I doooooo?


Oh, and the session went well (lost a few flips early on, but I realllllly don't think I can complain):

2 exams over 1 to go.

Since last update I have played two days. Both of them were +3kish, so I am $27k for the month. With around 8-9k hands played.. which isn't a lot, but I just gotta remember I have had school stuff going on.

Looking forward to breaking up/ last exam on Friday, but I think it will be the hardest one!

Oh, also I have a lesson on Friday afternoon which I can't wait for as well.