almost done

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so week 4 done, only a few days to go. This has been a long month.

Well, only two sessions to go. Lets hope I can hold it together !

Starting with $310, a big fat zero vpp's and a very, very heavy bronze star.

Currently $380, a not big fat 370 vpp's and a very, very heavy bronze star.

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they said .... (2)

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"if you have your health, you have everything"

"Everybody will eventually run worse than they thought was possible. The difference between a winner and a loser is that the latter thinks they do not deserve it." .... (From 2+2 "Irieguy")

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they said .... (1)

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"if you have your health, you have everything"

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final furlong, leading by a length

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EDIT post title should perhaps be
"stop taking shots (multiple table shots) at levels you are not rolled for, you fucking twat, especially when you have a bet on" ....
sigh, whats a degen to do.

All I can say is good riddance week three. Running my top full house into quads was a real "oh fuck" moment and then running nut low and a straight into a nut low and a higher straight was an "oh ffs" moment. Wouldn't it be nice if someone invented a piece of software which popped up the simple message "unable to hit a cow on the arse with a cricket bat, quit NOW" , sigh.
I got out the hole by hitting nut low and two pair v crappy low and the obligatory aces and then I was nearly, oh so nearly in the major black when, in a 5-handed showdown I had the nut flush and second nut low (nut low got counterfeited, natch), whee .. err not quite, one villain had the nut low, doh ! It was an $80 pot, doh !
Quite an interesting hand actually. Nut flush v second nut flush v nut straight v second nut straight v two pair (?) and nut low v second nut low .... try figuring all that out on the river when you're the small blind !

sigh, here is the pretty picture

Started with $310, a big fat zero vpp's and a very, very heavy bronze star.

Currently $363, a not big fat 290 vpp's and a very, very heavy bronze star.

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(you can be fucking sure I'm not.(

some would say "pesky pictures"

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Reckon there will be one or two peeps not overly impressed with this picture :) It has to be said tho, that I'm posting this midway thru week 3 .. spoiler : its so not pretty this week, meh. As someone else said, it's the long game that counts. Which is obvioulsy true but still, its uber frustrating in the short term, bah humbug.

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week in pictures

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First week in the books. Overall I'm quite happy with the way I've been playing. As you can see, the 'roll is heading in, generally, the right direction.
Not too impressed by my wee foray into fifty50 land but hey ho. Also not overly impressed with my volume. It could be so much better. Something to ponder over the coming weekend since that's the times when my volume is shockingly bad.

I've also noticed that the accrual of VPP's at microstakes is virtually non-existant. At my current rate I'd need to play ten times the amount of hands played to get to the next level. Chances of that happening ? Thought not.

Starting with $310, a big fat zero vpp's and a very, very heavy bronze star.

Currently $303, a not big fat 83 vpp's and a very, very heavy bronze star.

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cough cough , splutter

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day 3 trip report. as you can see day 1 and 2 were ugh. finally started to play some sort of reasonable poker today. volume is still pretty pathetic, so still work to be done.

(don't worry bitch , I'm still in mu after a stoopid foray into the fifty50's, meh)

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game on, I guess

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First of the month so, I guess, game on.

Not entirely convinced I'm going down the correct road. I hope thats just due to the change. Will be degening about in micro cash, see how things go. Dont want to blow up on day 1 lol.

I wonder if "bob" can do this ....

Starting with $310, a big fat zero vpp's and a very, very heavy bronze star.

Anything exciting happens and I'll be sure to let you know, lol. btw you should read the previous posts' comments, second one's a classic.

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eek !

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so I've shoved 'em all-in and so far I have one caller. Action on you ....

I'm actually quite glad, tbh, as it gives me something to aim at, some much needed motivation of which I've sorely been lacking this year. (just this year ??!! - Ed) So far, it's thanks to this degen, from this degen right here. This really is uber ironic, you don't know the half of it, lol.

It's quite simple. I'll play the whole month of October in an unusually sober state. If my bankroll goes up, I win.
If it goes down, you win.

I'll put up £50.  (hee haw in the grand scheme but I do not have fifty notes .. to burn, so to speak)

All my play will be on 'stars as its the only place I have more than twenty bucks, lol. I will post here and on the the forum when I'll be playing. Search feature is usually on anyway. Any tournies I play, you'll have to track via sharkscope. I would expect that I'll mostly play cash and will post results from pokerTracker once or twice a week. I say "expect" because thats what I usually degen around in but who knows ? Challenges often throw up the unexpected.

and how will you know that I am not "cheating" and necking ale ? That's the easy part .. if you look me up, late of an evening and I'm giving it away, playing too many hands with crap cards and going to showdown, you'll know I'm "cheating" and the money will be yours, that's right, I would forfeit the challenge and the caller or callers, win the bet.

Does that cover it bro ? Any suggestions or rules you feel should be in play, drop 'em in the comments, email or pm on the forum.

Roll on Monday, until then, action is still on you ....

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the bet

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I was on internet radio tonight.

I asked if anyone would like to call me out. Would anyone like to "bet" I could make a profit from playing online poker. (the exact deal is - do not drink alcohol whilst playing)

No immediate takers. Would you like a go ?

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the moral victory (almost)

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I had a plan last night. I pretty much stuck to it. Pretty awesome considering I have the type of personality that can be easily distracted, lol.
The beers were in, which I drank at a moderate pace, fml. Play only one variant and one type of game. Get some kip at a decent hour, like most normal human beings do, fml.
The beer was consumed at a steady pace, I only played one single cash variant and I was in the hay not long after midnight, result. Sadly the results on the virtual felt were not quite as consistent, bugger.
Part of the plan was to see if I could "grind" out a decent amount of hands. I did. Monster sesh for this part time fish amounted to 2200 hands, fml. Some parts were a bit weird. The only way I can describe it is that although I was playing it felt like I was actually railing someone (even though I could see their hole cards). Weird.

Just having a trawl thru "final hands" from PT .... eek !

Poker Tracker is awesomely enlightening and depressing in equal measures, lol and meh.

My one straight flush and two sets of quads .. all folded pre, lol.
Of a possible 98 full houses I saw the flop 19 times and I lost twenty bucks ? wtf ??
(if I'd won a key hand, I'd have made two bucks on the boat front .... my AA24 v A24J ...  yup, three jacks on the board and its goodbye twent two bucks, cunt)
I made twenty five on flushes, straights and sets .. but lost twenty five on two pairs and pairs .. thats a double wtf ??
(food for thought .. I won a 120bb pot with two pairs but lost a 30bb pot with two pairs)(the 30bb pot was lol all-in pre flipaments .. my AAJ2 gubbed by 2248 who hits the flush with his 2 and 4 of clubs, ah well, gamblers will gambol)
(the worst of the pairs was a 24bb pot that I had to let go on the turn at which point I was in for 13bb .. obv made sense to me at the time, fml)

The plan will be back in action tonight, with less beers available :)

The moral victory will be complete when there are noBeers available, lol.

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you called with ? .... really ??

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exit hands always fascinate me. I'm sure most players would claim their exit hand was a bad beat of some description. Ask the guy who eliminated you the same question and I'm sure you'd get a very different take on the play, lol.
Here are mines from last nights mtts.

triple stud, stud round - went for it with [3s 4c 2s 5h] on fourth, bricked, oppo housed me by seventh

pl08b - [8h Jd 8c 7h] - hit the set on the flop, filled up on river, oppo had a bigger house, ouch

8-game, 08b round - [Jd Ts 5d Ah] - hit my flush, oppo shouts "house" , meh

5-card draw - pre-draw [Ah Ts Jc 8d As] - no improvement and oppo has a set

2-card bingo - ran 88 into AT, crippled me, ugh, very next hand 88 into JQ

more 2-card bingo - jammed AQ, big stack called with KQ, oh please :(

The only hand which really annoyed was the pl08b hand but thats now history. No doubt there will be some more tonight.

btw, there was noBeer involved in last nights shennanigans, lol

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ramblings of a .. , meandering drivel, epic fails, the beats keep coming, 'roll busting mtt shennanigans

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EDIT just read over this post and Ant's comment, directed at Cowell, springs to mind .... "what a load of tosh" (you've been warned, lol)

btw, before you read this, all the pertinent information is contained in the title. So if you don't have much time, suffer from ADS, think that blog posts should be 140 characters or less, think that posts with more than one paragraph are tl;dr , feel free to go elsewhere to spend your most precious commodity on something worthwhile.

whenever I check in here, it always amuses me how long ago the last post was made. Time flies when your having fun, lol. I don't post particularly often because there is not really that much happening, "auld age disnae come alone, son" is an adage that springs to mind, thanks Mum.

I will say one thing. No matter how "big" I think my problems are, there are others (I refer to bloggers) who seem to have real troubles in their pipeline, ugh.

I had a moment of drunken clarity at the weekend. Pretty sure I've had fucking loads of these but thats the trouble innit ? being pissed, you tend to forget .... So Monday night arrives, working away as usual, head for the supermarket after work and leave with only groceries. No beer, wowser.

I fired up the laptop but didn't actually feel like playing. Thought that might be the case but I certainly wasn't going to force the issue. If that's the deal, so be it. Instead, I cruised a few forums and blogs, then I set about downloading all the poker clients I used to play on. I never bothered doing this after my hard disk crash of last year. I know, I'm fucking retarded, sometimes.

I know I should have done this previously. The precedent had been set when I actually paid attention to an email that an online book had sent, warning of fund confiscation due to account inactivity.
I discovered my Party account is empty, cunts. I discovered that Purple Lounge has gone into liquidation, along with my funds, cunts. I discovered that Bodog will not let me withdraw until I jump through their ID hoops, cunts. I discovered that Virgin have frozen my account due to account inactivity but a phone call to support should resolve this, thanks Richard.
I discovered that my Betfair account is dead and buried but they did process my withdrawal and the account is empty, result. I discovered that the few iPoker skins I use, allowed me to login with no restrictions, even although there must be significant account inactivity, hmmmm.

While I was logged into the last skin, out of left field came the urge to play, wtf ??

and play I did, one small stake 50-50 stt, lmfao. Played well and cashed fwiw and lol.

I was reading over some very old posts, not mine I hasten to add. I tried that once and it made my eyes bleed ! The poster was basically asking the question about poker goals and the levels you aspire to play .... eureka !

and that's my problem. I don't really have any. I honestly don't fucking care, as long as I don't go busto and continue to make small change at the cash to feed my current mtt "habit".

Which is very very sad :(

Reckon I am a 6/10 player, maybe even 7/10 at an extreme push, lol. Which is why I keep trying to knock drinking and playing on the head. Fuck me its a hard habit to break.

The end is near (well thank fuck for that, I hear you shout) .. I continue to (slowly, oh so slowly) decimate my 'stars 'roll, by insisting on playing mtt's ! That's another very bad habit I need to knock on the fucking head.

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the end of an era ....

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I actually thought I'd be posting this last week but no, thanks to Daly, I found an outlet which was doing final day cheap beer .. since Euro 2012 was on, obv. And don't give me that shit about folding pre, just not happening, lol.
So that was last week. Obv I'm getting old :( as I had enough of the stuff left over from last week to do me this week. Hey, technically, I did not buy beer this week, lol.
So the beer is all done, boo. The next time you run into me at the felt (hopefully that'll read "get run over by") I'll be playing without a beer in hand. No idea if I'll even have the motivation to play, tbh, I'll just have to wait and see.

So, whatever your choice, gl.

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The Men Who Sold The Jersey's

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still kicking about, lol. and still playing, lol.

Unfortunately I have to report that i am skint ! (note no poker terminology in that statement). Sadly I've let myself get overdrawn slightly more each month .. after month .. after month, meh.
The solution is of course to tighten the old belt. The biggest belt tightener for me is to stop buying beer :(

Sadly, there might be two downsides to this simple solution.

Working away from home and staying in small rooms, its all to easy to have a few beers and get on the intertubes to keep boredom at bay and try and retain what sanity I have left, lol. I could, of course, venture out into the real world at night, then again maybe not, that would cost way way more than a six-pack, ugh.
The second downside relates to online poker. Will I retain the urge to play ? without a beer in hand ?

Who knows, only time will tell.

On the poker front I've had a lot of fun (and beer) over the past 6 months. Somewhere along the line I started playing mtt's. All good fun but ultimately putting a rather large dent in the online roll. That's why I drifted back to cash .. mostly. Still indulging in the odd mtt or two and still playing too many forum games to make the cash games count.

Basically, I've arrived at one of life's little crossroads.

Left turn - play "proper" poker, keep the current day job
Right turn - quit my job, work closer to home, try playing poker
Straight ahead - quit poker and quit working away
U-turn - keep playing, beer in hand, keep the day job

I'm not ready for a couple of those options and one of them is so grossly selfish that its not even fucking funny.

Well, the bank is burst, there is no beer in the fridge .. Left Turn Ahead.

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day 3 .. not lol at all

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sticking to my new rigorous strategy, last nite it was the turn of the 5-card draw brigade to quake in their fishy bowls take my monies, lol .. but, hey, at least i stuck with the strategy.
Lessons .. decide how much to sit down with before you sit down ! being limit, one misclick and you'll be sat there wi your entire roll, oops.
so I dropped about $8.50 or two buy-ins, all in the name of education. Table Ninja would not play at all, fml, so it was a lot of frantic mouse action .. being 6-handed and not a lot of people paying the blinds and going to the draw makes it a fast game .. it was a bit z00mish .. most players folding to a raise .. next hand please !
Being new, I found it difficult to even beat the blinds never mind the fucking fish ! The other thing I found difficult whist multitabling was clicking the bet/call button and then having to click on the cards I wanted to discard .. it was a bit frantic but I hope to get used to it the more I play .. or give it up as a bad joke, time will tell.
First session in the bag and a whole lot ?? of experience too. I'll be back in a week or so you 5-card-fish    <*)))))-{

A few days off and I'll be back on strategy :) different game of course, but I'll let you know.

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