Long time!

So I thought I'd do a quick update.

Just finished playing for the month, played looooaaads this month. Won around 53k before rakeback. Did pretty well in Feb too, but had a nasty Jan.

Living in Bangkok still, after a trip to Japan and America with some mates which was fun. I'm living with 2 friends, our apartment won ~155k this month, not so bad.

Hmmm, other things, am doing a diet by Tim Ferriss. Seems pretty good, and can still eat loads of tasty food. Mainly focuses on not eating white foods and is v high in protein. Also learning Japanese, though very slowly as I'm doing it on my own at the moment.

That's a breif summary of the last couple months.

Gl

long time.

Long time no update.

Partly cos I just don't have too much to say. Lost $10kish in Oct. Won $17kish in November.

In Bangkok at the moment. Not in great health. Have a bad eye infection. It's annoying me quite a bit actually.

I have nothing to more to add. I'm sure I will when I do though.

Gl

update for Sept

Realllly busy right now preparing to go round the world tomorrow so just a quick update.

Played like 70k hands won $200 or sth. Prob +3k in rakeback? but lost about that staking a friend in the WSOPE.

So just above even.

GL

This is August.

Just ran mindblowingly bad.

1k hands of 25/50. The rest was 10/20. When I hit the lowest point I just said f it, I'll grind some 5/10 for a while. First time in like a year and a half or sth? At times it was just unreal soft.


For the record last month was +55k or something.. the graph just didn't fit in the space (you can always tell by the writing in the top left of a graph).

Productive July

Well, this month wasn't nearly as fun as last month but it was never really gonna be.

I had a shit load of time to grind, being at home for a month. Aside from that I have had an offer accepted for an apartment about 15 seconds walk away from the pier



All being well, that should go through around the middle of August, then I can start renting it out and go abroad. Currently deciding whether or not to furnish it, and am still pretty unsure.


I also went to see a knee specialist who said I had Patella Tendinitis, but with a couple months physio, should be back and ready to play football again which made me very happy.


As for poker, I put in a lot of volume, in fact, I think I've only ever played more than this once, two years ago. Up until the 20th I couldn't put a single hand in past 8pm because of the state of the internet here, I had a great schedule and was pretty disciplined. I am pretty happy with that, though pretty unhappy with the fact I broke my not looking at results more than once rule. I looked twice this month. Gonna have to keep in the habit of looking once or not at all (ideally).




About 50k hands in I was cursing my luck, I was really running pretty terrible (not in the AIEV way, but standard bad card falls, always top of their range, set over set boat over boat stuff). It obviously picked up towards the end and made my month respectable.

Edit: Okay, I dont know how to resize this graph and i gotta pack cos i go to Greece in an hour. Maybe try when I get back.

busy busy busy

This was the poker side of the month. Actually think it was the busiest month of my life. 3 Reports in for the beginning of June, followed by an exam. The World Cup started on the 11th which took up a lot of my time this month, followed quickly by another exam, then the end of uni - followed by a 3 day long constant party, day and night.

This was closely followed by football tour to Slovenia (while England were playing Slovenia in the WC), which was 4 days constantly on the lash. Which meant roughly 7 days straight. Sooooo tiring. Added to that, our flight got cancelled so we all (34 of us) had to get the overnight train to Munich. Created much chaos for everyone around us. Eventually we got a flight back to Manchester then drove back to Uni in a hire car. Sooo long.

After all that it took me about 3 days to recover. Then today I had to move out of my uni house, which took forever, and was a little bit sad.

So, evidently, I had little time for poker. The little I did play, I was happy with. I'll also add to this month, my World Cup bets, which ended:

Spain to win their group $15k at 1/3 = +$5k
Uruguay to qualify from their group $3k at 11/10 = +$3.3k
Denmark to beat Cameroon $2k at 6/4 = +3k
North Korea to finish 3rd in their group (hedged) = +250 euros

Still in play are my Uruguay top scorer bets of Forlan at 9/4 and Suarez at 4/1. One of which looks pretty decent to come in.


So the month's total is probably around $65,500. Next month plan: Fix knee, buy house, go abroad.

gl

Who woulda thought it... North Korea to do well are the best bet of the world cup.

New bets: (Bwin)

1. Portugal/2. Brasilien/3. Nordkorea/4. Elfenbenskusten $100.00 @ 50.00
1. Elfenbenskusten/2. Brasilien/3. Nordkorea/4. Portugal $33.33 @ 150.00
1. Brasilien/2. Portugal/3. Nordkorea/4. Elfenbenskusten $45.45 @ 110.00
1. Brasilien/2. Elfenbenskusten/3. Nordkorea/4. Portugal $49.50 @ 101.00

Elfenbenskusten = Ivory Coast. The others are pretty obv.


Basically these are all the combinations of North Korea finishing 3rd without including Brazil coming last (vvv unlikely).

The lines are so off that I'll likely just be able to hedge in the last game which is Ivory Coast v North Korea, to be certain of a winning bet. I wish this site didn't impose a maximum winnings amount, because I'd be betting really big on this. It's easily the best bet of the world cup so far.