August
Overall a pretty disgusting month!
I traveled out to Barcelona to take a holiday with my now ex-girlfriend.
We had visited last year and I wanted to go again around the time of the EPT. The plan was to bink a satellite for the main. Well I burnt a lot of £££ trying, so I gave up. I remember a £320 hyper sat I played, which was filled with online sickos and such as Tom Middleton, Toby Lewis and basically 17 other players who were beasts….then there was me :( I ended up getting it in with 67s v 2s BB v BTTN for 14BB or something.
After I got back me and my ex both agreed it was time to part ways. I really respect her and I think that she really respects me. We have some nice memories and I’m sure it’s going to be really hard to meet a woman of her substance. I’ve dated some really good looking girls (don’t ask me how?), but this girl has been a cut above the rest. So why did we decide to end it? Maybe it was down to me not wanting to turn my hand face up(commit, go all in). I’m 34 now so I suppose marriage and children will soon be calling for me. I always thought I would be married off by 35 and be happy. I think I could have been happy with this one but there was something just not quite right for me. Also I think she felt the same, I’m just not quite right for her. We remain in touch and there are no bitter feelings, so I know we will both still be friends.
I ended the month on a positive note, I got unstuck and actually made a small profit.
September/October
I've had some huge days, which have turned into huge months since August has past. I have been running well and playing well. I remember a £1/£2 session last month where I joined against 5 Chinese. I got As 5 times in the space of 2.5 hours. It was the hottest session I've ever had. I got As back to back. Then another 3 times during this period of time. I got paid the full amount of my stack each time I had it apart from the 1st time where I got a guy to bluff the river on A8768r board and he was pissed after I bet half pot flop then he cib the turn and I c/r river.
Also I had allot of success in the PokerStars HU 25c/50c Zoom pool. I was crushing the pool, up over $2k until I ran like dirt at tilted a shit ton of money back into the pool. When you 1 table zoom your getting around 220 hands per hour, times this by 4(max tables allowed) and when your running bad and the results can be disastrous, utterly mind blowing! It's like a new kind of tilt you have never experienced before, 'Zoom Tilt'. I ended around £300 up and cashed out. This game was destroying my life, I was become addicted to action again. It was really tilting I've not played Zoom now for 3 weeks, I've had thoughts about it but I'm far too tired to compete in this pool. My mind is not in the right place for HU regulars and the negative impacts of the HU Zoom players life. I will post some hands in a later blog post. This blog is already turning into a monster today.
Pretty fun few months for sure :)
November
My run good has turned into a run bad. I’m maintaining my A game whilst getting unlucky, with a few blips here and there.
Had to buy a new TV as my old one died. I had been trying not to play throughout the week and was watching a show on Wednesday when it died.
Luckily I know of a spot where there would be a some decent action. I played at 2 places and won almost £500. I spent £350 the next day and a brand new TV.
WPT Nottingham.
First time ever the WPT has been held at Dusk Till Dawn.
Might look at binking a satellite into the £3k ME if I get some motivation from somewhere. Been pretty tired recently.
I'm not that big on big upping all the big names and glad handing and what not, but I ran into Dave Ulliott AKA the Devilfish on Saturday. Turns out one of my fellow live grinders used to live in Hull. Him and Dave used to play a ton at £1/£2 NLHE together whilst Dave was waiting for big Omaha games to start up. We were checking out an after party and bumped into him. He was smashed as usual, but seemed an decent guy. Some really good women around which was nice off the table but really distracting on the table. One thing i love/hate about DTD! They even have some nice pool tables and a chill out area for players to come and vent on breaks or after busting. Pretty nice.
What next?
I really want to use the next 6 months to travel. My ideas so far have been vast. Just to give you a taste;
Mexico, Columbia, Bolivia, Peru, Venice, Budapest and Macau are on my 'I'd like to travel here list'
I have been learning Spanish in preparation for any South American adventure i may undertake.
I'm still working on a zero hours contract, some months I had worked 30-40 hours a week but others hardly any hours per month. Really sucks because I really enjoy my job and would much prefer a normal life. I guess I am stuck in this poker life for some time to come. I can't complain, pretty good skills to fall back onto I guess.
I have been known as PartyScout for over 8 years now. The name came from a screen-name change under my PartyPoker account, previous to 25/10/06. I know this because I joined 2+2. Wish I'd trademarked my name, seems now even Microsoft want a piece of me for free. Last i heard they had developed a piece of software late November last year that places Xbox players into similar ability player pools. I'm going to look into this blog and any rights I have under my alias. Too many parties try to freeroll content off the internet, the same way they would try to use my posts and blog contents to drive traffic to their sites if they could!
I've met many people whilst playing poker and met a really nice freelance dealer in August last year. We have kept in touch as friends since. I bump into her maybe 3-4 times a year (would be more if I could be bothered to embrace tournament variance). We ended up having a few drinks last night at her hotel. Later we were drinking with all her fellow colleagues too. It was as a nice change of pace for me, considering it was the weekend when I'm always playing poker. I need to make more time for social life and people who I care about. Pretty funny evening. Veronkikka's not just a beautiful lady. Her speaking English with a Lithuanian accent and playfully joking around was really funny. Some of her stories and friends stories were pretty funny anyway, but with the accent i was in stitches :)
It's late here so I better end this blog, pretty tired after a crazy weekend too.
Take care
Mat
AKA/PartyScout
