so i duno, yeah

Since the last post I've played like 1k hands. I've had the time to play but the xmas & new years period had me in bits tbh. I've only started to feel better on Jan 3rd but still managed to drop 2 or 3 buyins, can't really remember. I had a look over the last thousand hands but I had some really bad coolers which can't be helped. eg 2nd nut flush v nut flush, set over set, 2nd nut straight v nut straight twice against the same guy. The only thing that annoyed me was the standard 3bet double barrel bluff that follwed. I tend to get way too bluffy when I tilt which I'll work on. Also another thing that really pissed me off was when looking through my PT I was up like 13 buyins, but my br was down 1/2 a buyin from MTTs and satellites for the Irish open. lol donkaments. I don't know why I even bother with tournaments as I don't enjoy them one bit but I feel I've a big score coming. There was a thread on br management regarding mtts, maybe I should re read it.

Anyway I will be playing even less now with exams starting on the 15th which I've done nothing for, although I've just printed out loads of past exam papers which I'll get cracking on once i get to 1k hands for today.

Later

Xmas Update

I had hoped to get 10k hands in before Christmas and put up an update then but I didn't make it and I doubt I'll play again until after Stephen's day or later depending on how wrecked I am. I felt I played ok in the last week but I played a few sessions hungover and/or tired where I played some hands stupidly that affected my winrate which I'm annoyed about.

Anyways, happy christmas, I'm off to get pissed.

I love being a bum

Its great. I finished college for the xmas break so now I can focus on the important things in life, i.e drinking 4 or 5 nights a week and sleeping til 3 in the day which is good. I've only really got until January 2nd to be a waster as Ive finals in around the 15th or something then FYP presentations etc to do when I finish the exams so I'll have to study I suppose.

I went for a weekend with the lads in Amsterdam last weekend which was pretty mental. Won't go into details but I dropped about 800 euro, 16 quid for a double vodka & redbull is killer. One of the lads got a haymaker off a black dealer after he refused to buy powdered sugar and I got lost at 5am in the RLD with no money to get home after losing my laser(nightmare). Don't remember anything else tbh but it was good craic nonetheless. I also had 150 quid on liverpool aswell which sucked.

Pokerwise I've had to move back to 50nl after withdrawals for xmas and the amsterdam trip which is pretty demoralising as I was beating 100nl on stars for 7.4bb/100 for just under 10k hands. I moved back to ipoker and played just under 5k hands this week to be up 5 bis. I feel like a wanker writing this as the only reason I'm updating this blog is because I saw it linked on Valors where he said he made 13k this month. sigh

Update

Well I was looking around for a new home so having checked bonuswhores hollywood poker looked pretty good and fishy. I stuck 500 on there and had withdrawn an hour later. The software was horrible to say the least which I couldn't get used to and my PT would only import half of my hands without errors. So I left there and decided fuck it and put 1500 yoyos on stars. 100nl is generally pretty soft and I always thought the stars software was one of the best on the web.

Got 1k hands in last night and this morning and ran at 16.81 bb/100 which is ok but would have been much more but for a few suckouts for a couple of 2+ bi pots.

Off snowboarding now may play later if I'm not bolloxed.

Proper Update coming soon, hopefully

Don't think I've played any poker in the last two weeks. I've been ill for one of those and generally just been too busy with college and other stuff. I'm thinking of depositing on betfair to see what it's like, it looks like a lovely fishtank from what I've heard. I'll have a look at some rb deals and bonuses etc as I've just over 2k euro sitting in a separate bank a/c I set up just for poker gathering dust, so I'll stick that somewhere this week hopefully.

Until then.

nothing exciting

Havn't got in half as many hands as I expected to since the last entry. Been really busy finishing stuff off before I leave Intel, moving back home etc. I finish work on friday and start college on monday, which is pretty shit. Not looking forward to having to study and do assignments and stuff but it's only a year so fuck it. I said I'd stop playing completely through college, which won't happen obviously, but I won't have time for 3-4 hour sessions anymore. Ordered my laptop this week for "college work", so I can play in college on wireless which suits me as I hate playing at home with people annoying me and whatnot.
Played some 20nl/50nl over the past week and ran pretty good, and cashed out 1600 off ipoker to pay for some stuff before college. When I redeposit I think I'll move site, maybe try party or pacific. I was actually considering absolute poker until the whole doubledrag/mark seif fiasco occured.
Also I played 3 games from the boards hu league. Won a couple of races to beat flushdraw, and then played poorly to lose to bottom feeder and gkenny, all be it I got unlucky in some spots, but still didn't deserve to win. I got lucky as the bottom feeder match didn't count because it was one of the last 3 fixtures.
I probably won't get to play until friday, unless I decide to play live before I move home, which is unlikely. I'll see what happens I suppose.

I think this deserves an award for the shittest blog entry of all time.

Countdown to an eight month break

Moan:

Havn't made a post in ages. Since my last post I've all but givin up with live play bar the odd tourny. Having played so much online I find it too hard to be dealt 1 hand every 4 or 5 minutes and sometimes not be involved in a pot for 2 hours or so. I get frustrated, bored, start playing junk hands, open limp - calling, and basically morph into your average money spewing live dublin cash player.

The 500 to 5000 challenge never quite got there but I'd made good progress moving through the levels to a stage where I was rolled comfortably for 0.50/1.

Enter beer....

It's the usual story I've heard so many times. Come home after a good few jars. "Ah sure some poker sounds good. Whats that? Blackjack? Happy days". I log on the next day and im down just over 500. Move down levels. Decide to play some donkaments online and hit the 50e rebuy 100 k gtd on ipoker. I have never ran so bad. kk v aa, set v gutshot, kk v aq on a kxa flop no good. ugh. I bust out and make an executive decision to take a shot at 3/6. Need I say more? Get stacked with set v fd and I've a decimated br and depressed.

Anyway, I plan to withdraw my online br and take a year long break from poker. I'm starting my 4th and final year in 2 weeks and I want to concentrate solely on getting a 1.1 or at worst a 2.1 in an honors engineering degree which will take some work. I'm still going to play the boards hu league, the IPO and maybe the odd excursion into town for a donkament, but apart from that I'll be under the radar(or is it over the radar? can't remember) for the next 8 or so months. I'll also still keep reading and posting on boards, and trawling through 2+2 aswell. Ever since reading Valors well he said he'd take 2+2 over poker books any day and he was right. The place is the school of poker and my game has improved drastically since I started reading it seriously.

So anyway I wanted to rebuild after my idiotic bankroll destruction and put in some hours yesterday for a good profit of 350 leaving the br at 1300. I'll be happy to get it up to 1500-2k and withdraw allowing me to pay off car insurance/tax and college stuff for the coming year which will take some pressure off as I don't intend to work. I'll also leave a hundred or so for the boards hu league.
So for the next ten days or so I hope to get alot of hands in before the withdrawal. Update to follow.