End of May! End of Guildford for now.

Friday was the last day of uni for me, which ended 2 weeks of going out and doing whatever the hell we all wanted. Was v fun. Apart from one very obvious shit day (hint it wasn't the -20k day).

Sucks to leave Gtown, but, me and 4 friends will be moving into a new house around end of July ready for the 2nd year.

As for poker:






I think this is the 2nd least I have ever played in a month (and the least was when I went to Thailand for ~1month last year). Also I'd estimate at 80% of the hands having been played when I was hungover - which can't be that great of an idea, but hey, if I hadn't I'd never have played at all. Added to that I had final exams for 1st year to revise for/ take.

Considering this, I have to say I am pleased with earning ~$50k this month.

Ah well, back to the life of a poker pro for 4 months!

Lose lose lose!

That's the month so far! Not even too bad really, just annoying as I was up a tonne more. Over a $30k downswing at the moment... which hurts a little.

Positives:

• Played 25/50... for a bit.. lost $700 but I played well.
• In the process of organising Vegas!
• Put money onto a 4th site, so I can play more games.
• To put the downswing into perspective... here are the hands on my laptop since coming to uni:

Finished with uni for the year!

Had 3 exams this week and completed them. I've got about 2 weeks left at uni before the holidays, just to do whatever we feel like doing, really.. so it should be fun. Technically I do have lots of time to play.. realistically I doubt i'll play too much.

Put in a session today. Went well, actually. Was pretty fun too, despite having a hangover from post exam partying.

I've played just over 6k hands this month, and am up $41k, which is pretty outrageous. Most of it is from heads-up play. Hope it continues when I start to play a bit more.

Also halfway through the month, and haven't reached the goal I set myself yet... oops!

Quick out the blocks.

Hardly played at all though.

Exam time now, so I'll probably be playing little to no poker over the next 7 days. Ughhhh!

Mayyyyyyyyyyyy

Month started off in a verrrrrry annoying fashion. Dropped 12k, to a very bad player. Like really bad. Just as I was starting to claw it back, the uni internet decided to block ipoker, spotify and ftp.

When I was able to reconnect he had gone and no games were running anymore.

Sample:

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


Stacks:

Hero (BTN)		($2333.00)
SB		($4081.00)
BB		($7319.00)

Pre-flop: ($30, 3 players) Hero is BTN

Hero raises to $50, SB folds, BB calls $30

Flop: ($110, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $80, BB raises to $175, Hero raises to $550, BB raises to $7,269, Hero calls $1,733

Turn: ($9,662, 2 players)

River: ($9,662, 2 players)

Final Pot: $9,662
BB shows:

BB wins $9,660 ( won +$2,341 )
Hero lost -$2,333




Bah, I was only a 90% favourite after working it out. Thought it was more. Still pretty awful way to lose a hand. I only ended -3k on the day which was a big result.


Yesterday I played this hand:


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


Stacks:

UTG		($2090.50)
UTG+1		($2686.00)
CO		($4443.40)
BTN		($1877.00)
Hero (SB)		($6752.00)
BB		($2000.00)

Pre-flop: ($30, 6 players) Hero is SB

UTG calls $20, 1 fold, CO raises to $80, BTN calls $80, Hero calls $70, BB calls $60, UTG calls $60

Flop: ($400, 5 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG checks, CO bets $280, 1 fold, Hero calls $280, BB folds, UTG calls $280

Turn: ($1,240, 3 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, CO bets $920, Hero raises to $6,392, UTG folds, CO calls $3,163.40

River: ($11,715.40, 2 players)

Final Pot: $11,715.40
CO shows:

Hero wins $11,712.40 ( won +$4,960.40 )
CO lost -$4,443.40
BTN lost -$80
BB lost -$80
UTG lost -$360



Which was fun. More of these please, May!