February ticking over

Have barely played so far in February, just managing to get 6.5k hands in. Thirteen of those hands were at NL400 where I saw a huge donk sat, from whom I managed to take $600 off. That's a big reason as to why I'm £900 up at the moment, as my volume has been crap. I plan to log as many hands as possible today and tomorrow before I choo choo down to Manchester for the UKIPT £550 Main Event.

Have sold some shares in my tournament already, but may increase the % I'm willing to ship out. Leave a comment or email me if you know me and want to buy a stake. Same terms as in the link above.

Will give a proper statto update once I get >10k hands in. Good luck all :-)

January P&L

Unfortunately this isn't as detailed as I'd have liked due to my database corrupting yesterday, but thanks to my Excel spreadsheet my P&L figures are - for once - very precise:

Poker winnings: £1,682
Rakeback: £1,080
RTR Bonus: £1,000 est

Total: £3,762

I was all set for a proper breakdown of HU, 6max, PLO, SnGs, and MTTs play, but alas I can't. I can remember roughly though that poker profit was made up of approx:

6max NL50: £50
HU NL50: £100
6max NL100: £950
HU NL100: £400
6max NL200: £250
6max PLO50: -£68

I didn't play any SnGs, and I think one MTT freeroll where I didn't cash. Also the RTR bonus is estimated as they are always a few days late with their figures, but should be reasonably accurate.

Also FYI, approx 55% rakeback this month. Big drawback of me losing my DB is that I can't work out my hourly, or know quite simply how many hours I played this month. It was above average that's for sure but counted big time with more effective kickback from RTR. The 55% figure is correct though. Absolutely awesome value from them, click the link top right if you're silly enough not to have an account with RakeTheRake yet.

So without doubt the most consistently focused I've been, playing sensible and dedicated hours, with a positive and controlled mindset, sees my best ever monetary results. Spot the trend?

I shall be referring to this post in future should I ever to rekindle levels of concentration and general outlook. Here's to more of the same in February! Good luck all :-)

If only....

Upgraded to Windows 7 today, great piece of kit. Backed up and transferred everything across no bother. Also noticed there is a hefty update to v1.10 of HEM which has a big currency and EV fix. Great I thought! Well no :-/



As you can see from the SS above, my database is completely mashed. I have not played 500k hands this month, nor have I made $22k. Good job I've been keeping a mega detailed Excel spreadsheet in 2010.

Will play tomorrow and see if it's importing OK and I won't bother touching it, otherwise it's a full wipe and new DB time :-(

Rushhhhh

As a side to my usual games I've been playing a bit of Rush Poker over on Full Tilt. I hope you know what it is by now, cos I'm not explaining. Anyway it's absolutely tons of fun to play. My biggest downfall at the tables is image, and this almost totally eradicates it from all but the sharpest of note takers. The HEM HUD can't keep up with the action!

Anyway played a little more tonight, ran up a few buyins and decided to check my stats for the month on Full Tilt. I was pleasantly surprised!



Some days I've totally nitted it up, some days I've gone crazy and bet/3bet every flop. Really is tons of fun and hopefully I can keep plugging and build a reasonable secondary BR. I'm at $625 from $150 so a great start!

Have confirmed today that I'm going down to the Pokerstars UKIPT Manchester with Soap on the second weekend in February. Looking forward to this as the buyins are pretty much spot on for me. Big enough to warrant my A game, whilst not too big to be playing wary. I won't be playing the Main Event, but probably every side event. Might try and drum up some staking for the £300 game, am undecided how much I want to put in play. We'll see anyway.

Running good whilst running bad

CHAMONE!!

So yeah I totally crushed today running waaay above expectation. Guess I'm not allowed to whinge about -EV if I don't accurately balance my blog posting range ;-)

The running bad bit is unfortunately pretty bad though. I was sat on 6 of 8 Bad Beat Jackpot tables, and yes you already know what's coming. It was dropped on one of the other two tables. Pretty gutting to see the BBJ counter drop from $240k to $40k in the space of a few seconds, and know that you would have been $6k better off had you even been dealt into the hand :-(((((

But...after a squiffy week of downswing, lesser focus and tons of socialising (which kind of run into each other) I've got my month back on track to being a monster, with a nice $500 day yesterday too.

Outside of poker I had my first gym session of 2010 yesterday. Ouch I'm feeling it today. Also not told you about my knee for a while, it feels good after a long break. Will be hitting the bike again soon and testing it out in the gym, as I want to get fitttttt again by summer. Extra Ts for emphasis! I ordered that HDC HD2 phone too, which looks pretty awesome. It's a bit of a monster but runs Windows so I can sync my whole Outlook as well as some important Office documents, so I should be super organised. This will replaced my ageing iPhone, so unfortunately I won't know where I am anymore, but will know what the weather's like outside ;-)

Good luck all in your last push for January :-)

Bleurgh

Pretty yacky downswing at the moment. Am -£1.3k since last post. I really feel like I shouldn't be either. I seem to have gone approx 10k hands not ever making a top pair type hand after raising preflop. Especially in 3b pots. I am bleeding in those something chronic the last 10k hands.

Today I am -£700 and EV says -£170. Nice slap in the face! I'm now well down on EV this month even after my amazing results in week 1. I've also played 50k hands already so the sample counts for something!

Anyway I'm changing the pace up a bit. Might grind the micros at Full Tilt for a bit, trying out that new "Rush Poker". I played it for 15 mins a few days ago; and I have to say, the concept is first class and quite surprisingly the execution is too! :-)

I've also been playing increasingly longer sessions, which is probably adding a bit of wear and tear to my psyche. I also went to bed at 8am last night (morning). Not good. Might try a bit of HU action, who knows. But definitely changing up the approach next couple of days. Glgl :-)

As is

Monetary wise pretty much the same as last time I posted. Had a seven BI downswing the session after I posted the pretty amazing graph last entry. Then kind of yo-yo'ed back and forth a bit, eventually making it all back today.

One thing I have noticed is that my effective rakeback this month is nothing short of AWESOME. Hopefully I will cling on to 4th in the RTR rake race, but a MSNL reg has put in a double shift this week to try and topple me. If I do, as it stands I will have earned 70% rakeback! RakeTheRake are pretty damn amazing value. Link on the top right of the blog if you've not already got an account.

Anyway, full day off for me tomorrow. At a mates son's Christening, then drinks all day. Looking forward to first full day off in ages! :-) Have a good weekend all :-)