Quitting for the month and the year.

It's 2pm, NYE. There are hardly any games running, so I decided I would call it a month.

~31k hands. $57.7k and around $2.5k in rakeback coming to me, so we will call that a $60k month which is a little over £40k at the moment.

Really good results for me, but still not too happy that I only put in 30k hands when I have had a lot of time off uni. ~15k hands were at uni and ~15k hands at home. All in all this month I have played ~50 hours of poker.


At the start of the year I was solely playing 2/4, playing >50-60k hands a month for $20k. I'm glad with how much I have improved, and hope it will be the same way next year.


I can only think of 3 goals I wanna set for next year (though I am sure there are more and may add to them). In order of importance:

1) Have a better year than this year ($/work ethic/improvement to my game).
2) Buy property.
3) Play the World Series of Poker in the summer.


Gl for 09 everyone. Lets hope the poker economy stays strong.

Xmas round up.

Since the last update I have played two sessions. 27th and today. There has been too much going on to get any more done.

On the 27th I ended up +$6k, and today I ended up +$3k. Leaves the month at +$56k. I dunno how many hands I have played but it is probably around 25k.

I probably have 1 or 2 more playing days left of the year.

Rob

Back home - big screens, big swings.

I'm back home for xmas break.

Had a great day on Friday - lots of parties, followed by a big party at night, followed by a football match on Saturday which saw a lottttttt of hangovers. We won 6-0 which was suprising.

Came back on Saturday night. My extra monitor arrived so I have been playing on two 30" screens. It's prob a little too much, but it's pretty cool:







Played a lot of hands on Sunday. Finished -9k. It sucked. I lost a lot HU to a guy that really isn't very good. But sometimes that just happens I guess.

On Monday I played 300 odd hands, finished +7k, which was really nice - to bounce straight back from a losing session.

Today I played just over 1k hands and finished +10k. Won the biggest pot of my life during the session. Here it is:



$10/$20 No Limit Holdem
4 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

CO		($6889.53)
BTN		($768.00)
SB		($2236.00)
Hero (BB)		($4951.00)

Pre-flop: ($30, 4 players) Hero is BB

CO raises to $60, 2 folds, Hero calls $40

Flop: ($130, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $80, Hero calls $80

Turn: ($290, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $220, Hero calls $220

River: ($730, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $700, Hero raises to $4,591, CO calls $3,891

Final Pot: $9,912
Hero shows:
CO shows:

Hero wins $9,908 ( won +$4,957 )
CO lost -$4,951




Against a better player I don't like my shove on the river, but against him (from what I have played with him) it's fine.

I don't think I will get to play for a few days. Xmas eve is normally a big night out, and i'm fairly sure I wont have the desire to play on xmas day!!! Perhaps a couple of hands on Boxing Day. +$47k for the month.

Round up of my week.

Or what I can remember of it.

Monday - had a session with the coach. Breakeven - boring session. Went out in the evening for a friends leaving party into the town centre.

Tuesday - lost 10k, went to the supermarket to collect alcohol totalled ~£100, got really drunk with friends, bought another 30" monitor for like £550.

Wednesday - Won 4.8k, went out to bar then club with friends.

Thursday (which is actually today) - Went to town, won 4.5k.



So all-in-all I have played under 3k hands and almost broke even on the week. I'm not sure how many more hands I will play. Tomorrow is a big xmas party at the uni, then Saturday is football then going out with friends from home. Then Sunday is football then going out with football friends... gah, maybe I will play a bit after that?

+$39k on the month so far. Round 15k hands probably.

What do I dooooo?

I went to sleep last night at around 8pm (8PM!!!). It must be like the only Friday night of the semester I havent gone out, partly cos of no one being around, partly cos of football this afternoon and partly cos I feel a bit ill.

So I get 12 hours of sleep and decide I will play poker before football. Half way through my session I get a text saying the game is off.. great. So now Its nearing 1 o'clock and playing my session definitely made me feel more ill.... I will prob still go out tonight though, but I have nothing to do for a good 6 hours or whatever. No poker - no football - no school work - watched all the available eps of LOST/Prison Break/Heroes - no one is around till tonight... what do I doooooo?


Oh, and the session went well (lost a few flips early on, but I realllllly don't think I can complain):

2 exams over 1 to go.

Since last update I have played two days. Both of them were +3kish, so I am $27k for the month. With around 8-9k hands played.. which isn't a lot, but I just gotta remember I have had school stuff going on.

Looking forward to breaking up/ last exam on Friday, but I think it will be the hardest one!

Oh, also I have a lesson on Friday afternoon which I can't wait for as well.

Not looking forward to this week.

The two days prior to today were roughly breakeven.

Today I played 800 hands and finished +$3600. Month total stands at $21k having played around 7-8k hands. This week will be busy. I have 3 exams for my Business Management course, and two 2 hour lessons with my coach. I'm not sure how many hands I will be able to play aside from the lessons, but after this week I break up for Christmas - so I imagine I will be able to get plenty of hands in for the rest of December.

Gl

Rob

Back at home.

I had a good day 2 to December, then on the 3rd I didn't get to play cos I had to go to Portsmouth to play for uni, also I was v tired so had to go to bed really early.

Got up today and played a bit.. I can't get the graph to work but I played 1401 hands for a score of $6569.

Takes my total for the month to $17k ish. Good start.

Off out now into Lewes to watch some football/ have some beers.

Gl.

December... Day 1!

Today I had a session with my coach. The first $1300 was made waiting for him to get ready for the lesson, then the rest was the lesson. We ran well for the first 1/2 to 3/4 of the lesson then dropped 6k in the final 20mins or so, which was disappointing, but hey I def woulda taken 6.5k start to December, so I'm still happy. Crazy lesson though.

Next lesson is on Friday, which again, I am looking forward to.

Rob

Novemgrrrr?

November has ended. After a good start, the last third of the month was pretty bad. One of the downswings is not shown as it was on the computer at home. However I was up around $5500 on the home computer this month, so it makes for a total of around $38k, plus the rakeback I will receive on the 5th of December, for this month, should total it at around $40k, which is around £26k.

I'm not really too happy with this month, as I thought it had potential to be a really decent month. I am happy with the amount of hands I put in, in the end - though that may as a result of the swings I was having toward the end of the month. I am also happy about playing a decent amount of 10/20 this month (by decent, I actually mean about 3k hands - but I am getting used to it).

I have a 2 hour session with my coach tomorrow, which hopefully should be the perfect start to December, and am looking forward to it.

Goals for December:
- More 10/20
- As many hands as possible - this should be a decent amount as I break up from uni mid-December.
-Not have 11BI downswings (please?). Or if I do, recover well.
-Research property more?


Gl

Rob