withdrawal, new car and no motivation!

Well for a few months Ive been itching to get a new car, Was driving around in a 59 reg 1.2 clio which I had from new. I was just so bored of it. Set my heart on a clio rs 200 so went to a Renault dealer one evening just to get my car valued for part exchange and came away with a new clio rs200 costing about £18k LOL. Basically was abit of an impulse buy and the monthly payments were well in my budget. To be honest I really didnt get the best deal. Never mind I received the car on the 2nd of march. I had to withdraw £1.2k of my poker roll for the deposit on the car so that leaves me with about £500 left and back down to the 2/180s for me.





This is where Ive lost my motivation to grind. Before the withdrawal I was putting in proper volume and seeing great results, playing at least 30 games a day. Now I cant be bothered. I did have my first decent session last night where I played 22 games,

19 - 2/180s net return = $9.68 thanks to a 3rd in last game (should of been 1st but lost a flip with AJ v 99 for massive cl. two min cashes also.

2 - 12/180s net return = $0. Didnt do anything wrong was deep in one and and basically was my 88 v AKs and villans fd got there on the turn.

1 - 7/180 net return = $93.10. finished 4th, Probably the most disappointing result of the night, Had a decent chip lead and was pretty confidant finishing 1st. Called a villains shove with AJ but lost v his 1010. that was half my stack gone and was pretty much downhill from there. Had around 6bb left a few hands later and was in BB blinds where 2500/5000. btn min raised I had 89s so shoved he flipped over KTo and I lost the race.

going to just try and put in more volume to rebuild the roll, Ive still got 3x $22 mtts to play which Ace from http://www.raisetheriver.com staked me in has a thank you for staking him before his big score a few weeks ago.

anyway bankroll now $760

progress

Sorry for the lack of updates, But I only blog when I'm winning...jokes. Had a few problems with volume over the last few weeks. Because I work continental shifts 4on 4off which rotates through the week. I find that when I'm off work when it lands on the weekend Its harder to play poker because the Mrs if off too and sitting on the pc for the whole weekend playing poker doesn't appeal to her as it does to me.

onto the poker front its been a steady month break even for most part due to playing quite a few scheduled mtts and not cashing that much. Still decent progress in the 180s. The 12/180s don't seem as daunting to play and I'm glad that there is progression there and I can start to really make money.

It reminds around the start of my 'poker career' when I used to play 10nl cash and over 50k hands I was a 10BB/100 + winner but I could never take a serious shot at 25nl and play over 10k hands. I was far to tilty taking the beats to heart not the right frame of mind to be in. The 180s are different yeah beats are still hard to take but it happens and I know I'm a long term winner in them.

Over the last few days think Ive put in the most volume I'm the 180s than I ever have. Been 12 tabling and just reloading when I bust in one, Getting pretty comfortable 12 tabling too. Just binked a 12/180 to top it off :)

Ive been looking at my stats for all the 180 mans I play by each year since I started in may 09. Glad im going in the right direction hopefully make $4k plus this year!



Bankroll atm: $2900

12/180 bink and less whine probs

bit of a gay last blog post. After feeling rotten for the past day or so, couldnt sleep last night, was waking up every 30mins, shuffling and waking the mrs up so decided to get up at 4am for a sesh. Had a good 4 hour grind through the variance that is totally standard within the 180 turbos (note to last whine post). well I binked a 12/180 this morning. First of many I hope.



So im just going to keep the volume up, I might even make silver star this month at ps. Think ive come a long way from when I used to 2 table the 2/180s just need to make sure I keep improving. set up will be 6x 2/180s and 4x 12/180 and just keep reloading when I bust. Bankroll atm is $2k so will just play the 12s until I drop below $1k which I cant see happening.

Will still have the odd mtt grind session, was doing pretty well yesterday in the $5r rebuy 15k gtd $3k on top! despite the redic beats I found myself 80/96 with ATs utg+1 with 10bb, Obv I snap shove get one donkey(massive stack) call with A7o. He flops Oesd and obv gets there on the river.

Hope everyone has a good xmas n new yr, plenty of food n drink looking rate forward to it. feel abit better now so hopefully thats the man flu gone!

byee

fuck u pokerstars

ran bad for 3 days now can I win a race please. bye

volume volume volume!

Over the past few days ive been 8-10 tabling for a few hours each day. Feel totally comfortable doing so its just keeping the urge to continually reload after I bust. Ive also been mixing the games, Doing at the moment 6 x 2/180's 2x 12/180s 2x 3r/180.

Ive been tiling the games across my two 22" monitors just wondering if I should keep the games with the same buyin together? or just mix them all up especially the 2s and 12 180s?

Still doing the odd mtt grind session too, deep in the $11 $10k gtd and $3 $5k gtd today. So close and yet again getting it favorite in both to probally make the final table and it just doesnt happen! I will score that 4 digit bink soon!

Had a stake going in the 2/180s which didnt go that well was hoping to make it long term but theres quite abit of makeup so its kinda panned out. Happens I guess, I dont blame my horse just the varience in these are pretty shocking.

anyways just an update of my 2/180 progress. The upwards swing towards the end is obviously when I started to put more volume in! just need to keep it up.



12/180s- not too worried about this, from what Ive seen so far the 12s n 2s dont play that much different...

Japs eye

Been a while since I posted just thought I would update peeps of my progress....none!
My volume has been pretty dire just lost all interest to play, alatley i would rather fire up the ps3 than load up some tables.
Hopefully I will get the disire to grind back. Doesnt help that Ive got 16 days straight which I'm in th middle of now to work, bring on the 14th! Can't wait 22 days off work :)

Going to reg at pokerstars.fr sometime shortly because I've herd there are a few fishy frogs there! Anyway got to go because this writing this entry on my iPhone is doing my japs eye in! Bye.

married man!

well thats pretty much me fucked for life haha. only joking rach (if you secretly read my blog):P dont really think I should write much about it, because it would go on for ages and I dont think anyone is interested about what happened in great detail anyway!

Basically it all went without a hitch, She looked amazing and the next day we fooked off to marmaris, turkey for 2 weeks which was great id recommend it to anyone!

On the poker front its still going pretty well, Ive been working on my volume since I got back. I just need to use my day's off from work better. Too bad the 180 men on stars are slow at 8am to midday to fill. Makes me less motivated when I bust to reload because of the wait time!

Binked my 1st 3r/180 yesterday for $570, highest Ive seen the prizepool in them too which made it even more sweeter. Actually had a great day yesterday got deep in the $3 $3k gtd on stars came 11th/1500+ for a measly $43. Wish they would payout to a lesser field in these donkaments. who the fuck wants to play for 5 hours and min cash for $5.

I'll post a sharkscope graph for the 2,12s and 3r/180s together. Im losing at the 12's atm but its only over a very small sample. one decent cash should sort that out.



bankroll: $2500

bye 4 now