End of the year review

Kind of sad for this year to end to be honest, each month my win ratio was getting better and better. Hardly played in December which I thought would happen anyway but still recorded a nice profit of $9200 + must have made about $4000 from gambling.

The new year starts in 20 minutes and my only resolution is to spend less! I have my car, now its time to save up for more important stuff and sort my life out.

I hope to make $100k+ next year and try and spend as little of it as possible! If I can just sort myself out on poker stars I could easily increase that figure by 50% but it will take about 3 months to get sorted on there for the way I play my games.

Just 1 holiday planned for this year and that's to Thailand. I am going to see how the internet is out there for online poker. If it's good I may buy a place out there.

A big congratulations must go out to Azimut who on the final day of the year reached Supernova Elite on PokerStars. A huge achievement which took a lot of grinding for which he now sees the big rewards for.

So the targets are, win $100k and spend less! So each months target is $8333 I will post each month my results on the side.

Happy new year

Amsterdam for Christmas

Ended up arguing with the family a few days before Christmas so I thought fuck this and booked a flight to Amsterdam. Stayed there for 3 nights and I am just in the airport on the way back now. Done ok on the poker, played 2 nights and won £1600 which just about covers my expenses. Won a bit betting just before I left and lost it back in Amsterdam after I tilted when my phone took forever trying to get a bet on West Brom who eventually won so I tilted and put it on shitty bets :(

Amsterdam was good, everywhere open on Christmas day, just got drunk, my mate got high and I couldnt find any Mushrooms so that pissed me off but we just sat in the hotel bar drinking cocktails and then got some work done on Football Manager. I also tried frogs legs for the first time, they were better than I expected really, just taste like prawns. Wont have them again though there just wasnt enough there and it was pretty expensive :(

Got my car just the other day too, truly amazing! So much better than the previous cars I have had and the speed out of it is great. Cant wait to rag it about in the summer.

Thinking about going to Egypt for new year, all depends how well I do on the poker over the next few days. If I can win about £2k in the next 3 days I will think about booking it and going on new years eve.

Anyways time to get on my plane, gl and happy Christmas.

Challenge concentration

Done something I said I wouldnt do since last year..............

I bought Football Manager 2010!

Really bad move, it's so addictive it is taking over from poker already after 2 days. I must have spent about 15 hours straight on it last night and then more today. I tried to play poker in between but lost $1000 almost instantly just not focusing. Told my mate I would play till about 7pm today then I was going to bed so I could wake up and play poker without being distracted and done just that. Ended up getting the $1000 back plus $700 more so not a bad day.

Gambling has 100% taken over this month, I won thousands early this month and lost a lot of it back and meanwhile poker has taken a back seat. I have managed to change this a bit lately. I am $7000 up on poker so far this month and played so few games.

In America I was playing 1300+ games a month, this month I have played 370 so far and earned nearly the same amount so I must be playing better but I am wondering if its quality of quantity or I could actually be making a lot more if I played more.

I do really need to go to somewhere on the other side of the world so that the time zone suits poker. I prefer playing Americans, the Europeans are so boring and nitty it tilts me so I need to be somewhere when either I am on the same clock as them or places like Asia where 9am is night time in USA.

Anyways my car comes on Tuesday and I have a new internet connection being installed on Monday (no more thieving my blinds when I am dc bitches) and then I need to sort out the Christmas food etc. BAH HUMBUG

Challenge Poker Stars

I really cant get into Poker Stars at the moment, I dont like the lobby or anything about it really. To try and motivate myself to get involved on there I am going to set myself a challenge.

Whilst waiting for games on Fulltilt I am going to have the poker stars lobby open and try and build up from $10 games to $200 games. Hopefully this will help me get used to the lobby, blind structures, game speeds and software.

My challenge is as follows:

Start with 20 buyin's for $10 heads up games, play $10 games until I have 20 buyin's for $20 games, then enough for 20 $30 games and so on. So basically I need the balances to go like this:

$200 - $10 games
$400 - $20 games
$600 - $30 games
$800 - $40 games
$1000 - $50 games
$1600 - $80 games
$2000 - $100 games
$4000 - $200 games

I am not sure how long this will take me as obviously I will be concentrating more on Fulltilt as that's where the good money is for me. I am just hoping it will pass time, build up a good bank and get me interested in Poker Stars.

I have reset my name on sharkscope so that I can follow my progress better - Pirus82

So - Day 1 Pirus82 [Reset on ‘26-Oct-09 23:47 (GMT)’] 0 £N/A £N/A N/A% £N/A N/A N/A PokerStars SNG Only



Update - going to give it a few days first, played a few games and the slow structures and lobby annoyed the hell out of me. Glad they were only $10 games. I think I played 6 won 2 lost 4 or something like that. Struggling to even get a game to be honest, as soon as a player sits someone insta sits you cant even scope them :o

Mayweather vs Pacquiao March 13th HOPEFULLY!

It seems that this fight will be going ahead, I am so over the moon it's unreal! Waiting for the venue to be confirmed, hopefully Vegas but I would quite fancy New York also but as soon as it's confirmed I am booking.

Not sure who I want to win really, Pacman is the better human but I think Mayweather is the better fighter and deserves it. Either way they are both making $40m each from the fight so who really cares?

End of November

Shame its over really one of my best months so far! Had a good few days betting also towards the end, I think on the 30th I won £2000, everything I bet on won it was unreal.

Have not played as much as I would have liked since I have been back, in fact all I have been doing is sleeping really! Waking up, playing for 3 or 4 hours then going back to sleep, slowly starting to come out of that now and I think its down to the flu I had but I needed to catch up on sleep really anyway.

I came back to the UK with the plan I was going to save money and not spend I have done the total opposite..... eating out most nights buying things I don't need and I have just gone and bought a new home cinema system (tv, surround sound system, stand etc) and to top it off I have just gone and bought one of these.............



I got the sport edition, not sure if the one in the picture is the same, its due to arrive in 1-2 weeks I can't wait!

This month I just want to reach iron man and take in an average amount of winnings due to it being the festive season. Obviously I wont have as much time to play poker with shopping needed to be done, meals with families, drinks out etc but I am looking forward to staying sober new years eve and killing all the drunks at the tables.

I really can't get into stars at the moment the poker lobby is awful compared to fulltilt. I was really hoping it would be better so that I could reach some form of super nova on there. I am definitely not raking enough to hit any form of super nova elite but I wouldn't have minded hitting super nova and getting some bonuses.

Oh well back to the grind, GL!