July Shiped

Well July has been very good for me after the last two months losing online.I have made some pretty good changes to my game and also cut back from 4-6 tabling to 2 tabling to rebuild confidence.One big thing which also helped me out this month was to be strict with what games I played.Basically all month I game selected excellently and ran good as well which always helps.


$10,326 2/4 Cash game winnings
$505 Rakeback
$545 Tournament winnings
$29 HU Sng's and some micro stakes

$11,405 Total winnings







Proof that I need to play more hours each month :)


So overall this has been my most successful month online.I'm very happy with the winnings and my seat won for the "Million Pound Challenge" to take place in September and more importantly how I regrouped after having the worst of it for nearly 12weeks.


Goals for August

1. More hands
2. Book a London apartment for September 2-day tournament event
3. Look to take a shot at 3/6 if I get the chance
4. Take a few days off

GG July

FTP Confirms Million Pound Challenge Seat

From: events@fulltiltpoker.com
14/07/2008 23:42
To:
Cc:
Sent: [14/07/2008 23:42 ] 14/07/2008 23:42
Subject: Re: Million Pound Challenge



Hello,

Congratulations on winning your seat to the Million Pound Challenge. $500 has already been deposited into your Full Tilt Poker account; the remaining $500 will be deposited into your account once you've checked in at the live event.

In order to claim your seat at the Million Pound Challenge, you must bring a photo ID and check in at the event no later than 11:30 GMT on Monday,September 15th. The event will take place at the Hellenic Centre, 16-18Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS. Go tohttp://tinyurl.com/5kyx5j to view a map of the area.

All 80 online qualifiers will play down to the final table of six players on Monday, September 15th. Food and drink will be provided during the day.Spectator space is limited, so please don't bring your entire family.

If you are one of the six players to make the final table, you'll be required to return to the Hellenic Centre on Tuesday, September 16th for a13:00 GMT start time. All six of the final table players will be treated to a champagne breakfast with the pros that morning.

If you have any further questions, please contact events@fulltiltpoker.com.

Good luck in London,

Full Tilt Poker


Champagne breakfast?LOL Americans.

THIS IS ENGLAND FULL BREAKFAST BACON & EGGS PLS. TY GG FTP

Ivey making the tea,Hanson frying it all up(Danish bacon is tasty),and Antonius washing the pots imo

Been a while!

Well this blog is long overdue! I guess it's been a bit more than a while, but things have been going pretty bad for me over the last 3 months with the exception of this month.


May To carry on where my last blog left off I ended up -$2,020 stuck(record loss for me). I ran really bad but I think I played pretty bad as well, so I guess I could have broke even or perhaps had a small win -the bad play?


June The theme of running bad continued. I don't know how but I played a lot better than I did in May despite feeling really down and after feeling really low in confidence. Pretty happy with how I holded it together(only just).I finished the month a new record stuck -$3,400

Towards the end of the month I did something that made me feel really sick and ill.Yep I downloaded Poker EV and that made me feel like quiting.At least it confirmed that I was running WAAAAYYY below expectation.I would post the graphs but I deleted that evil program from my computer(until next time).


July So Far Things are going great, it appears that my luck has changed and I have started to run normal(touch wood)which is nice.After the 5th I was up $3,200 at 2/4 online.I'm up a bit more than that now but not much more. Had a few bonus's and had $545's worth of tournament winning to add to this month's tally.

Million Pound ChallengeOn the 12th I had a success with a tournament called the Million Pound Challenge.I played very well all tournament and didn't make a single mistake which was great.Also I made about 4/5 key reads/call-downs which where spot on.I'm thinking about loading all the hands onto one of those "Poker X Factor" re-players and letting you see just how diffrent I play tornaments compared to my cash game style.I was impressed with my play anyway :)

Basically their kind of freerolls for UK & Irish grinders. Full tilt will be holding 80 of these tournament's on their site and the 80 winners will be paid to play poker at a venue in London September 16th & 17th.

The players will play down to the last 6 then the final six will be filmed and aired on sky tv in January next year.I don't know to much about it yet as the company thats organising it have yet to contact me.I was the first to win one of these so I assume they will wait till all 80 have been played then email all the winners at the same time.

This is pretty big for me because I know I would be great at tournaments but I'm always too busy playing cash games.I have had close finishes before on final tables, I think the last one was I got 7th and needed 4th for the Party Poker's Oktoberfest Televised tournament.So hopefully this is a good omen.

I'm planning on practising live tournaments and cash game play before I head down to London in September.I want to be as fully prepared as I can be.This could be a good chance at winning a good clip of money and progress me further up the online poker cash game ladder.Wish me luck.

Good luck to everyone

Mat