Bad times!

End of the month. Put in quite a bit of work, though it's hard when the month goes like it did. It was my worst month ever poker wise. I found out I have torn my cruciate ligament in my knee and today I had an exam which was rock hard. Apart from that my month was fun.. went on lots of trips with friends and stuff like that and the weather has been really good (trying to look on the bright side).







So it was pretty much that $70k downer I had in a couple of days that killed me this month. It wasn't so much that I lost flips or anything allin variance related. More the fact that the wrong cards kept popping up improving my opponents hands over and over again, making my hand 2nd best. I think I've played pretty well, it's been a bit of a blur. I'm gonna be doing a lot of analysing of the hands I played early into May just to make sure I'm not slipping.

I won't be too downhearted. I know of players on my level who are having worse times than this recently.. The variance in this game is ridiculous.

Will take a couple of days off to see friends and family.

Lets gooooooooo May!

Back to uni

So I go back to uni today after a month off. I have played a decent amount of poker.. though, still, probably not as much as I'd like. I've had a great time in the holidays though. Had more BBQs than I can count with friends.

From gut feeling poker isn't going too well this month really, though it just feels like standard stuff. Not sure too much more will be played as I've got an exam at the end of the week, then off to visit family up north.

As everyone likely knows the world cup is ~50 days away. I'm gonna get sooo few hands in during the world cup that I'm going to try and push my edge at football betting (I think I have one). I realise the variance in this is huuuuge, bigger than poker. So really, it's not totally for profitability, I think it'll be fun too.

I've put $15k on Spain to win their group at 1/3 because I thought it was greaaaat value, even if a certain statistical website disagreed. I have ~$11k on Ladbrokes which I haven't used for like 2 years cos their games have always been awful really. So I'll use that as a mini bankroll for the world cup. I'm not sure how much I'll actually be doing, because I'll be very picky about only betting when I spot value. Despite playing poker for a living I'm not actually a big gambler, I like knowing I have an edge and that it's not just a 50/50 flip or whatever. Sooo if I go through that Ladbrokes account I certainly wont be using any more, I'd feel like too much of a degenerate.

Gl for the rest of the month!

Big swing!

I was 27k up for the month. In the last 1.5 - 2 days I've lost $50k.

Not. Fun.

Gonna take a day-ish off, go out in Brighton with some friends, then hit the grind again refreshed.

Gl.

Funny story.

So It seemed the 888 network didn't convert any hands for me in the final half of the month, cos of a software error.

So apparently, that 5k did get recorded. Just was lost somewhere. Along with it was a further 9k.

So last month finished +18k before rakeback. Prob +20-21k after.






Okay, so it's not that funny, but I'm happy. Also Newcastle to get promoted today? Please?



Edit: This means by my estimations (estimations, because two databases have been lost) that I have surpassed $1,000,000 in career earnings (before rakeback).

Gl

Downswinginggggg!

The last 5 days all I have done is lose. Ended +8k (5k unrecorded). Decent amount of hands. I think I'll better that in April. Also 40k above EV was a shock when I looked! Sure didn't feel like it. But then obv, EV is not the only form of variance in poker.

Currently on a 50k ish downswing, hopefully I come out of that soonish. Losing is hard when your sole purpose is playing. It's fine normally at uni, as I have to do other stuff, and can go out lots. It's Easter break now though and I've allocated lots of time to solely play poker, when losing it's tough, you don't really want to play more, then obv don't have too much else to do.

I'm gonna add some annoying points seeing as they're fresh in my mind from the last few days.

• Getting slowrolled in a 300bb pot with Khigh flush, against an Ahigh flush (no paired board)
• Losing with an over-fullhouse to a straightflush, which caught two nice cards on the turn and river.
• Guy being on tilt open shoving $2k with AA, when I'm in the BB with KK.

Enough moaning. Should be a good month of poker. Also going to Joel Robuchon, some football games and a few nights out with friends in random places.

Good luck!