Thailand villa and update

Poker has gone much much better this month, in fact I have made more this month so far in just 9 days than I done in the whole of last month - a much welcome up swing.

I have not drank now for 3 weeks, when I went to the doctors the first time he asked me, "when was the last time you went 3 days without a drink?". I really couldn't answer him. It is amazing how much I have based my life around it. Go out for a meal - have a drink, go out for a drink - obviously have a drink, get bored at home - have a drink, go bowling - have a drink everything is just based around drink.

I feel so much better for it and now next week I will start jogging again to get back in shape as poker has took its toll on me over the past few years. My cholesterol came back as 7 which is high, I have to go back in a month to get another check.

As for Thailand, booked for 4 months so far, every day that goes by the more I think about booking longer. I will definitely buy a place out there if I really enjoy it. Here are a few pics of the 2 villas I have booked so far.














This will mean that I am in Thailand for Xmas and New Year which will be much better. Sitting outside in the sun or on the beach on Xmas day with no stress over the usual shit... can't wait!!!

End of month review

Well what a terrible month, probably my worst so far, well not my worst but one of them. 2 weeks I went just going up and down up and down not sure if it was down to tilt or not playing proper or concentrating.

Ended the month $4800 up thanks to my last 3 days though where I have got back on track and have started to get some nice profitable days.

Betting started off the month great, ended up shit taking a break from it and focusing on poker only.

Thailand is booked, 2 months so far maybe another 2 months if poker is better next month. I go in September and can't wait the villa I am staying in looks amazing.

Ill post something else when I am more happy and motivated.

Waste of a week

Well not a waste sort of, £842 up in the last week +£124 rakeback a lot of people would be happy with this for a weeks wage but I cant help but feel pissed off over that tilt session.

Amazingly even after that tilt session I still managed to end up with a shark icon over the 216 games I played in the week. Takes my profit for the month to $3370 so far + $600 iron man so really $4k up for this month excluding gambling.

Ill be happy to double that with the remainder of the month as long as I don't tilt :)

Tilt over

Just before I started again Animal had come onto my msn and was saying how he dropped down in stakes as he had a little losing streak and it had seemed to work. Never really took this into account but I decided to close off the $220 games and add the $33 games so I was playing $33-$110 sngs. It seemed to work! From $2200 starting balance that day I ended up on $250 then changed my lobby hoping that I wouldn't need to deposit for the first time in 4 months. I am now up to $1850 and cleared my $600 end of year Iron Man bonus in the process and also withdrew my rakeback that went in on Friday. So although this weekend was about getting my account back up to $2k I still managed to withdraw a fair amount.

This months stats are going to be pretty poor to be honest compared to most others. I know its down to a few reasons such as me losing patience and tilting a bit but I think the main reason was because I was going in between 2 different sites, playing 2 different structures and it was effecting my game, too tight in some and too rash in others.

January has always been disappointing, people think oh its a new year, fresh start I will make these targets etc etc then in the first few weeks they realise their targets wont get met and they give up, its pretty demoralising. I however still feel that I will reach my $100k+ target for the year especially now that the Iron man bonuses will come faster and faster. This time next year I hope to be getting an iron man $600 bonus every 2 months which will be a nice $3600 a year bonus for nothing! Add to this rakeback and next year my bonuses and rakeback should actually be a basic wage in itself let alone winning money.

I almost booked Egypt yesterday to fly out today until I found out my friend has probation on Tuesday :( so that's gone out the window. It's good really as I really do need to save money but I am struggling.

I have managed to nearly pay off a credit card thats been sat there taking the minimum payment off it for about 4/5 years now once that is out the way then the true savings start. However I am tempted to dabble in the stock market as I have had a tip for something that I may put 4/5k into and hope it triples my money in a short space of time.

Anyway time to hit the tables GL

Tilty Tilty Tilty

Ok thats twice in a week now I have dropped over $1k in a session and it's down to a few factors.

1. Not having the patience and playing the wrong players who I dont have a huge edge over.

2. Running quite badly, losing KK, QQ, AK, AQ to ace rags and everyone hitting their draws.

3. Playing quite bad, got into the mind state "surely there is no way he has hit his flush draw again" and calling off my chips.

Back to the grind tonight $1600 down today £400 up on betting at the moment which I have just stuck on Udinese so hopefully I will build that up into a nice chunk.

Will be happy to end the day $600 down and buy a percentage in one of the best heads up players on line for the $5k event in Oz.

On a total non gambling related note, a week Tuesday I have blood tests for diabetes, liver function and cholesterol as well as getting my asthma checked up on and also going to see about my nose as I can't breathe through it again. I had it straightened the other year to help me breathe but its still always blocked.

So in a few weeks it could be a very worrying time being told I can't drink no more and will have to go on a healthy food diet to cut down my cholesterol :(

Can't be arsed with stars

The software is tilting me to fuck, I just feel on tilt playing a game and that it's taking forever to finish. On fulltilt when I have a monster I always feel I will get paid with it because the pots are always big, on stars I feel I will get fuck all.

Had loads of outdraws etc but still didnt lose anything on the site. May give multi tabling 20 tables at a time a go later on in the year with a new 30" monitor with better res but for now the heads up is over for me on there.

Fulltilts software is light years ahead of anyone else since they brought out the new lobby.

Onwards and upwards anyway, nearly on my way to cash in my $600 iron man bonus and another one on the way next month. I will miss out on my $150 reload bonus if I dont play on stars any more but fuck it $150 is nothing anyway.

Little update

Whilst being house bound because of the snow for most of this week I started giving stars more of a go when I had reached daily targets on fulltilt. I am still getting used to the blind structures but I am slightly in profit on there now after around 50 games.

The fulltilt software is a million times better for what I do. Some of the stuff stars doesn't have yet is criminal considering they are the biggest site on-line and should be leading the way.

Anyway I have suffered some pretty horrendous badbeats on there over them 50 games but managed to come out with a small profit. My plan is to build up the rest of my money in there to about $2k then have both fulltilt and stars open at the same time and just play both sites and try and maximise my profit for the time I play.

I will definitely get more games on stars than fulltilt but the standard on fulltilt seems to be a lot worse and the games seem a lot quicker too.

Anyway here is a photo of the car, the snow doesnt do it justice really waiting for it to clear up before I take another one.

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