Bubblements

Sigh ending the month on a bubble!

I don't usually bother playing tournaments but with London only a few weeks away and me feeling in a chilled out mood after a long weekend I decided to play a satellite qualifier for the $750k Gtd on Full Tilt earlier.

I was talking to a friend and he was going to take a shot as well.So it's $55 to enter(D.B for the M.E is only $215 lol)the satellite.We both decide to make a side bet on who last longest.

668 runners mate busts 568th or something?

Gets pretty close to the bubble and I have to make a decision to either sit and wait or just shove random cards at any good opportunity decide that my stack is in danger of bubbling and go for the shoving option(always more fun when it works ldo)

Bust out hand 64s aipf v 66 ldo :(

Pretty funny how I get it in at the worst possible time in the worst spot imaginable and hit a very good flop and miss.Lets make him sweat it out till the river.Got to love tournaments!

Oh yeah "the last longer bet" is void because at least one of us needed to qualify.(bet nicely amongst friends,was only $50 anyways)


Today's results basically = the monthly results lol


Well I took Friday off and have been pretty tired all weekend from getting drunk and have hardly played.Apart from this I only have myself to blame for poor results this month.I basically played below par apart from maybe 5/6 solid days of good play.I don't think I should be happy but I am.In today's games if you play bad you should lose lots.Specially at $400nl and higher.So I guess it means either I'm lucky to not be stuck a lot for the month or that I am a good cash game player who should make good money when my "A-Game" is executed!

This is something that we all need to do.Working on always playing our A game!

August $400nl :(



Results
$70 live Poker
$620 Internet Poker
$235 Rakeback

$925 Total Profit

fell short of the $1000 Party Poker bonus which would have sorted me out this month.I really need to pull my finger out some time soon.Hopefully the new TV will help me play more tables as my monitor makes me squint,so this should be much more comfortable once I'm hooked up

Oh well pays for just over half the TV I just bought :)



September
My heads a mess right now and my main priorities are to book a hotel for the trip to London on the 15th and purchase a new laptop.

After this I'll probably spend a few days playing 10 seater sngs,probally 80 player MTTs if I can find them as this is the size of the London event field.

Pretty excited about this and I know I'll be gutted if I don't make the final table!

TILT

OMFG..........

....just monkey tilted big time!Never been so insanely tilted.Managed to only spew off 2 BI so that was good.I have just 4bet A8s utg against a NIT and he shoves.............

I SNAP!

This is just the worst thing I have ever done by a long way 100BBs deep at 2/4

I'm so upset right now I can't put it into words.I just wanted to make this post to remind myself what a idiot I can be at times!!!!!

meh!


New TV Pictures
Anyway I got my new TV the day after I posted my last blog.Sometimes blogs are good for putting thought into action,especially when your mind gets as screwed up as mine with all the late nights,not eating too good etc etc.

Not so Ballin

Ballin









OK now I'm going to take the rest of the day off to calm down and maybe I might be able to perform good later.Over the past 3 days I was up over $2200 so today has just slammed me back down to break even again for the month.I hate months like this but I'm not handling myself too well mentally so I can't blame anything else for my poor results.It's just me not performing.

Hovering between my B-Game and my C-Game

This month is sucking quite hard for me,I'm really playing and feeling very under par.I have had no motivation all month and 4 days ago got a bit ill :(

This graph looks like it's just a bit of variance but I assure you it's not really.I'm running ok just playing pretty bad and not game selecting that well either.At best I'm playing my B-Game and a bit of C-Game in there as well.That's another thing that has been bothering me,the games seem to be really crap compared to last months standards.I have played a few thousand hands on Party to clear a bonus but I can't even be arsed to clear this $400...what's wrong with me free money....either I'm lazy or will never be able to play a big volume of hands like other players do.



I had the first 4 days off but so far my daily average of hands has only been 367hands a day.I wanted to play like 15k hands so this means I need to step up to 800hands a day until the end of the month.With me feeling this low and unmotivated I think I'm just going to plod on and play when I want or I might risk tilting chips off.


In my last post I mentioned that I had ordered the Tommy Angelo book E.O.P,pretty sweet looking book with a cool inscription I thought may amuse some.Oh yeah it got delivered in 4days so that was cool.






I also got a new poker deck as one of my buddy's donked his beer all over my Bicycle 808 Rider backs.Beer smear,with the Copag 100% plastic memory reflex deck.These really are one of the best decks money can buy.






Well this blog has turned into a freaking slide show so you might as well have a good LOL at what a made to wear to London for the MPC on 15th September if FT let me that is?The shirt is a bit crappy but I made it whilst at work with the Youth Centre kids on T-shirt making day yeaaaaahhh :)






For the last few days I have been thinking hard about buying a new tv.I have been looking at 32"-37" HD Ready LCD TVs.The one main thing I have to consider is the connection types as I may wish to connect my desktop to it at some point.The desktop only has a VGA output so I will need a VGA/RGB connection on the model I buy.I'm also thinking about buying a new laptop soon as well,as my old laptop of 3yrs is annoyingly slow and laggy these days.I notice most if not all new desktops/laptops have the HDMI connections which all of these HD Ready LCD TVs have.So what I really want is a tv with the VGA/RGB as well so I can move my office into my living room to create some free space in my bedroom.It's not really that practical having an office in the bedroom now,most nights I have been still up playing till 4am/6am and when things are going bad I tend to shout out not very nice words which might keep my neighbours awake. Wouldn't it be pretty balla to have a wireless keyboard/mouse and just play poker all day laying on my leather 3 seater and not having to shift rooms when I want to watch a film or a tv broadcast :)

Hope everyone enjoys August alot more than I have done so far.

Kthnxbai

Time to get motivated

I really need to get started this month.I have only played about 1.2k Hands so far so that's pretty lame indeed.

I took 3 days off at the start of month.The first day me and "DODGYKENS" brother "CanISayWanker" went to a pretty sweet card club "Dusk Till Dawn"
I choose to play a donkament first off and ran bad,re-bought once and ended up shoving with 4.12 BBs on BTTN with Qd-8d to get a dominated call by Qd-Jd and the board came down 7 high meh..."what ya gonna do?"

After that I played a bit of cash and made 80BBs in a game equivalent to $200nl online,about 2.75hrs played I think(live is really slow).I thought I played pretty well for my first time playing live cash but I don't know,the table was one of the weakest tables I ever sat so how can I judge my game based on a bunch of donks?Actually saying that in many ways it's hard to play bad players as they mostly cant fold so we can't bluff and stuff meh.

On the 3rd day I tried to play some $400nl online but kept getting distracted and ended up playing a series of microstakes games which was fun but whilst I'm doing that how much $$$p/h did I lose?

As I'm writing this I'm feeling pretty crap after going to "Dusk Till Dawn" again with "CanISayWanker" last night and getting home around 4am.


Getting back into online stuff,recently I had overlooked an email that my Party Poker VIP host sent me last month offering me $1000 to play on Party(not really played there in 3 months).So I have decided that I'm going to go onto Party Poker until I clear this bonus.I think this is a good choice as so far this month Full Tilt's $400nl game has not been as attractive as last month.Maybe last month we had a surplus of players because of the WSOP?

Lastly I just purchased a cool book(so everyone says).This guy is well spoken of in the HSNL pool and one of the best poker coach's in the world.Maybe one day I may call upon Tommy's powers when I can afford the $3k a day 3-day coaching programme or whatever it may be
"Elements of Poker"Author:Tommy Angelo
(check my links for Tommy's blog and site)

I asked Tommy to put a cool inscription on the book so I will post a pic when the book arrives :)


kthnxbai

Forgot how good Party Party is!

Obvious that the BB is terrible and the SB was quite LOL too ,I nearly checked the turn with it being 3-way but that's not very balla like :)

Party Poker, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - http://www.leggopoker.com/hh">Hand History Converter

Hero (BTN): $527
SB: $433.78
BB: $773.46
UTG: $842.50
MP: $646.10
CO: $385

Pre-Flop: Q 8 dealt to Hero (BTN)
3 folds, Hero raises to $14, SB calls $12, BB calls $10

Flop: ($42) T J K (3 Players)
SB checks, BB bets $20, Hero raises to $72, SB calls $72, BB calls $52

Turn: ($258) 4 (3 Players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $188, SB folds, BB calls $188

River: ($634) 9 (2 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets $253 and is All-In, BB calls $253

Results: $1,140 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed Q 8 (a straight Nine to King) and WON $1,137 (+$610 NET)
BB showed 6 K (a pair of Kings) and LOST (-$527 NET)