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Bricks,coins,dollars,pounds,quids...

So poker has been proving pretty swingy this month.I have been swinging from Even/$1k>>>$4k for about 2 weeks now.Pretty disgusting considering the start of the month looked so promising.I'm not playing to great under the stress of the variance that I'm getting so I'm going to try to take a few days off and relax for a bit.

I really am pretty happy at the moment,all I have to do to get a boner these days is look at XE.com or check out the go currency graph or even my windows sidebar gadgets on my desktop to see how much the £GBP is falling against the $USD.I don't know if it's USD strength or GBP weakness thats causing the massive swing in currency conversion but I sure am gratefull.Compared to around 5 months ago $1000 was worth £510.Today the GBP against the USD is an all time 5 year low and were getting $1000>>>£620.90p.


That's right folks for every $1000 USD you hold in your poker bankroll it's now worth £110.9 GBP more bricks,coins,dollarz,pounds,quids, what ever you want to call them!

Car park old lady

I just pulled up today in our local towns main car park.Only 15 seconds out of the car I notice this old women driver(OK lets stereotype)you know the ones,they have the seat all the way up to the steering wheel and can barley see over the dashboard.I notice that she is struggling to get her car in/out of a car parking space(I couldn't work out if she was parking up/pulling out the manoeuvre was that bad).I really am trying not to smile as I felt like I was going to burst out laughing my ass off.I mean this women could probably fuck up a cup of coffee.She had ended up practically wedged between a pick up truck and a ford focus behind her,both parked in different rows.Nuts!!!I proceed to walk around the back of the car(possible -EV play more chance of getting hit I know)and her friend pulls me over.
Friend:Excuse me can you help us get out of this car parking space
Me:Yeah sure
Driver:Mumbling loads of old woman panicking stuff
Me:Hop out then,there is a big Que forming behind you.

She gets out and I hop in to the drivers seat.I drive forward to within a few inches of the vehicle in front then reverse to withing a few inches of the vehicle behind me3/4 lock 1st gear and we are out of there.lol wtf!!!It really was not that hard.

Her:Oh thank you ever so much
Me:No problem that's my good dead done for the day.


Funny thing is she was driving a Hyundai i10 D Lite:
Overall Length (mm)
3565 mm
Overall Width (mm)
1595 mm
Overall Height (mm)
1550 mm
Wheel Base (mm)
2380 mm


I really wish I could have taken some photos but felt like that would have been kind of rude,so I decided to add a funny video instead.Pretty good find actually.Enjoy and look on in amazement :)

Random clean up operation

Last night I played pretty bad but got away with booking a 1.5 BI win.I decided to go and see a few friends(somethings that I should do allot more).Was pretty cool catching up with old friends who I don't see as often I used too before I got into the poker lifestyle.

For poker today I have hardly played but got nearly 1 BI up and then miss clicked a river.Basically I min raised a bet on the river where I meant to check-call.I didn't fund this very funny even though it was only a $35 mistake(I raised to $75).I could feel myself tilting up before I managed to clam down.Few orbits later the fish leaves and I'm sat with 4 regulars.....time to end the session me thinks!

Today has been pretty funny,totally random but I'm a really tidy and organised person in allot of ways,some bad some good.Example I tend to save every box from nearly everything electrical that I buy so I have ended up with a shit load of boxes in various different places.Today I had a mass clear out/cleanup operation and have created much more needed space.

Recently I have been thinking allot about moving into a new place for a few reasons:
1:Larger Office space for poker
2:Different location(City)better nightlife 24 hour culture for us who sleep at irregular times
3:Bigger kitchen space
4:Space for more gym equipment

One thing that I would be up for is moving into a short term lease(3months-6month)in some balla apartment with a few other poker players.Actually thinking about it,wouldn't it be cool to live in Venice for a 1/4 of the year then go to Monaco to complete the first 1/2 of the year then end up in Milan for 3/4 of the year then come back home for the last 3 months of that year to complete a cycle.
My recent trip to London opened my eyes what major city's have to offer in comparison to life in the middle of our humble island.

Perfecting screen displays

I messed around with my primary and made it my TV.This way I don't have a dirty taskbar at the bottom.Also I changed the resolution to the maximum of 1920 x 1080p

The playability of more tables is so better now,at first I kind of didn't know what I was doing with the dual screens(all new to me),think I sorted that out take a look at the new resolutions,so much better.

4 Tables

6 Tables

9 tables

12 Tables


All with no overlap very sick indeed.Honestly if I had the office space I'd go for 2 x Toshiba 40 " and have the on dual view 6 tables on each and one great big dirty desk and one of those $1,000 chairs that everyone posts about.That's my goal to be a profitable 12 tabler.I'm sure there are people playing 12 tables with hourly rates well over $150 on an average.Makes me warm inside thinking about this stuff :)

Sorry about the pics I uploaded,just click on the picture to display the full image hosted on my photobucket accout.(was a rush job)

New Set Up Pics

Main Screen
Really Comfy Bean Bag

Toshiba 40" HD LCD TV

Logitech MX Revolution Wireless Mouse

9-Tabling,laptop used as a 2nd screen to lobby datamined tables for quick game selection

Laptop used as 2nd screen to hold datamined tables,browse net etc etc

Game Selection Time :)

Logitech Wireless Numberpad

4-Tabling

Pics as promised.I'm pleased and very comfortable with the set up.I'm sure this will make me much more productive.

Oh yeah sucked out all in preflop with Ks vs a droolers As last night 200BB deep.So I'm can't be running that bad right?

Good luck all lets get our heads down and have a great month :)

Dun-Dun-Derrrrrrrrrrrr

Yep that's the sound of the bad beat drum roll friends lol.

Seems like my "Doom Switch" has started!After my post the other day I have been handed a load of bad beats.2outtared about 5 times losing 7/1 and losing about 3 or 4 5/1 all in spots.This is not fun at all,being handed a plethora of bad beats is making me feel quite shit as it wasn't so long ago I had my worst downswing ever.So far this is about a 9 BI downswing so far.I thought it was bad play creeping in as Saturday I played horrible for 80% of the session and then got bad beated at the end.Sunday I just ran bad then played bad as a result of this and dropped about 1 BI on just shocking play.
Today I just fired up a session on my new set up which I'm very happy with.I ended the session stuck just under 1.5 BI 6tabling playing a fairly aggressive 25/20/5 style.I think today I played pretty well but could have made a fold in a very tough spot.
That's why tilt can make your game so bad.When we are playing out A+ game we can make world class reads/folds/value bets and when we are feeling the pressure we don't do so well.

I will try another session in a bit,but since I have started to get some variance I'm going to drop down from 4/6 tabling to 2 tables just whilst I get a bit of confidence back.
If I continue to run bad I will definatley drop down from 2/4 >>>>1/2 until I'm running OK again.
This is a very important lesson I learned from my last downswing that could have crippled me If I didn't have such a large poker bankroll

I'm about break even for the month now after being up about 9.3 BIs so I will just have to think of today as the start of a new month or it's just going to drive me insane.
I recently read a friends blog and I agree with his idea and thoughts about results from month to month but also I think a big part in why I myself do it this way is to protect myself mentally as I find it a good way to shield myself away from the variance of the game.

Stop that monkey tilt

Things have been going very well this month,or so I thought until I decided to play Friday/Saturday after going out and getting smashed around my local town on Thursday night £0.60p a drink.I tell you I can be a proper drink hero at times.Basically I get drunk fairly easy but I just carry on and can drink quite allot.Pretty silly I know.Guess that's what they mean when they talk about "Binge Drinking".

I dropped a fair few BI's on just terrible play and have had a bit of variance too.This is what starts tilt off.When we play bad,then get something unlucky happens we sometimes think of all the stuff that we had just done wrong and our mindset just gets cloudy.Or at least mine does.I don't tilt much at all these days but when the circumstances are optimal(I mean bang it all in and the chances of the tilt factor increase hugely) to produce tilt I usually do.

This was pretty funny hand,I can honestly say this should have tilted the shit out of me but it didn't.I think stuff like this is hilarious(as long as it doesn't happen on a regular basis).

Full Tilt Poker, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter


CO: $561.80

BTN: $479.90

SB: $219.50

Hero (BB): $426.90

UTG: $600.55

Pre-Flop: K K dealt to Hero (BB)

UTG folds, CO raises to $14, BTN folds, SB calls $12, Hero raises to $54, CO calls $40, SB folds

Flop: ($122) 4 4 4 (2 Players)
Hero bets $72, CO raises to $507.80 and is All-In, Hero calls $300.90 and is All-In

Turn: ($867.80) 4 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


River: ($867.80) A (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


Results: $867.80 Pot ($3 Rake)
CO showed 8 8 (four of a kind, Fours) and WON $432.40 (+$5.50 NET)
Hero showed K K (four of a kind, Fours) and WON $432.40 (+$5.50 NET)



I'm actually kind of busy for a good day or so setting up and transferring all my PT stuff to a new machine I just brought.I can't wait until I have it all sorted as I'll have a sweet ass set up playing in my front room on my 40" LCD TV though a new laptop I just brought.I have got a wireless number pad,wireless mouse and a huge bean bag so I will be so comfy playing(lets hope that's a good thing)Promise to post pics of new set up in a few days over and out :)

Oh yeah if anyone has me/had me on MSN I had to delete the program,been having computer issue's I will be reinstalling that program at some point I just don't know when.

Ship imo

With how the markets have been going the last few weeks etc etc and how the FTSE100 closed today a all time low since 1987("Black Monday") it seems a pretty solid time to cash out a big clip imo

Is it pretty sad to always be looking at the markets and get excited when your money increases significantly due to the swings of the global economy.

lol variance