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+100 on MTTs today.
PPPFFFFFFFTTTTT.
4th in £22 BH
5th in turbo (not the main one)
Dont want to talk about it.
ARGAKLAJNEFLKJAEF.
Its just irritating as I got to the Final Table in the top 2 in both tournaments and the cards just turned on me. I remember one hand which I played bad and lost a chunk in the £22 BH but there was little I could do otherwise.
Couldnt do anything about turbo exit hand. Everyone was sitting with circa 10bb. I found A5 bvb and jammed. Ran into AK. NH GG.
Exit hand in BH was KQ v A7.
So yeah... was annoyed I couldnt get that big cash to kick start my BR again but I suppose I would have taken +£100 at the beginning of the night so theres that I suppose.
Playing the rebuy tomorrow. I haven't played it in yonks. Looking forward to it as it is my favourite main of the week. I just havent played many mains at all recently... but will definitely take advantage of the double guarentee tomorrow.
Giving cash a break. I've grinded 6k points on cash this month. Yes I could continue and hit priority, but i dont see it happening. I'm not going to play much around christmas so theres not much point battling to reach priority when its unlikely I'll get there with fewer playing days this month.
Just going to take it easy with MTTs for the next few weeks and reassess in the new year.
But if you're sticking to MTTs it shuold be all good... short of a BIG downswing. As Tommy has said to me, you should play as many of the £11 BHs as possible, theres 5 every night, think it's like 7:45pm, 8:15pm, 9:30pm, 11pm, 11:30pm.
I think your account has been hacked mate. There's some guy on 2 NL50 tables right now under your username.
He's got 2 pretty decent stacks tho.....
Very.
There goes the bankroll. There goes the thought of going to NZ next year.
On my way to work this morning, I come up to a roundabout on a national speed limit road. 4x4 ahead of me slows down (as you do)... and of course I do too. Car on the roundabout coming the other way looked like they were going straight on (what else are you to think when they don't have their indicator on). 4x4 naturally decides to go... then realises that the other car is infact turning and has to emergency stop. I've also assumed other car is going straight on and i've continued. Turns out a brand new 4x4s brakes are a whole lot better than that of my 10 year old nissan. Thump.
Damage to my car is extreme. 4x4 has its numberplate cracked. Non-indicator car f****d off without a moments hesitation. Wheres the justice in the world.
So there you have it:
Car written off. Insurance up. No claims gone. Need a new car.
Goodbye bankroll. Goodbye NZ. I need the money now.
Just when I thought things were looking up, this comes around the corner and knocks me for six.
I know all about car troubles this year myself - my gearbox packed in at the start of the year in my Passat. Set me back about £1500!! I hate cars!!!
Don't put it past me. I've left £200 in my account. 4 whole buy ins at 50nl!
I can kind of see the appeal of 4x4's now. My car = write off. Their car barely had a scratch. No justice when I was probably the one least at fault out of the 3 cars involved.
I decided to try and sat into the roller last night... and after a few near misses getting a seat I kinda gave up. Decided id just have a chilled one, play the Christmas Cracker tournament and go to bed at a nice reasonable time.
That didnt go to plan. Seeing the all-in sats for the main I decided i'd enter about 10 just to see if I could bink a seat and get in there for a discount. Sat number 9 - Bink. Im in the tournament about 40 mins late - but i was in!
I manage to stay out of trouble for the first hour or so, and after I made a big bluff on Ebberdon (he still doesnt believe that I bluffed him) I was on my way towards the top of the leaderboard.
After a big pot AA v 77 on a AKx7x board I was up as one of the chip leaders with about 40 left. Just as well I had that big pot - I couldnt hit a thing for the hour afterwards and I had slipped down the leaderboard to about 18/26 when the bubble burst.
I still had a decentish stack... nothing to be too worried with. I was playing small ball poker winning small pots here and there to keep myself afloat. Then comes the bubble for the FT. I pick up AK UTG and raise. Wacko reraises sb and I jam for about 25bb total.... snap called by QQ which held... and suddenly I was out. The flip was effectively for the chip lead... was feeling pretty gutted at the time as there was 6k up top for the winner.
Still... I cashed for a 4 figure sum from an investment circa 40 quid - so I cant be all too upset. Just needed that one slice of luck at the crucial time to go on and get the big score i've always wanted!
I'll just have to win it another time... sigh.
Oh... and the Christmas Cracker tournament lasted a whole 1 hand. AK v 88 all in pre. GG.
Well these past 2 days couldnt have been more different.
Yesterday I decided to play some cash. I started off running bad... then running really bad... then playing bad... then playing REEEAAAALLLLYYY bad.
I lost £420 yesterday on the cash tables - still dont quite know how, but i did.
Today on the otherhand was totally different. Again I played the same cash tables as yesterday. It looked ominous when I was -£100 right near the start of the short session i had decided to play. But a change of luck and picking the right spots meant I managed to change that -£100 for the day into +£440.
So +£20 for the two days!
Good way to start Christmas indeed.
Not sure how much i'll be playing in the next week or so as I have numerous family and friend things including a birthday or two. But I do know I will be playing some poker in the next week as im only 400 points off priority! Should definitely be making it for the first time
Suppose theres not much else to say other than...
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
Have a great Christmas, mate.
I've gone broke not once... not twice but three times in 2013 on poker. To say that this is down to poor BR management would be true to some extent, however on each occassion I have had to withdraw a chunk of my BR to pay for things in 'real life' which has resulted in me not being able to ride variance with the proper cushion i need.
I started this diary in May. Since then, to say ive been on a bit of a rollercoaster may be a bit of an understatement. I went through a period of 4 and a half months where I made absolutely no progress on the tables. I was stagnant. However with a satellite seat secured for SPT Nottingham in there and a min cash achieved I had enough in my roll to try and kick on.
Since September things have perked up. MTTs are going better. I feel like im getting to grips with cash poker as well. I final tables a few main events and had a couple of decent scores elsewhere. Things were looking up.
Then I hit a little downswing - mainly on cash. I lost a chunk of my roll and went through one of those periods where you no longer want to get Aces, just because you feel like the big pot will shift to someone else.
I withdrew everything from my roll at the beginning of November. I was playing badly, I was running badly. I took what I deemed a necessary step to trying to limit the losses of my downswing by just using my Sky Poker rewards for November. The idea was to just get back to playing ABC poker. I did not expect to do what I did however and roll that £126 Sky bonus into over 3k in about 3-4 weeks.
Then.... Crash. Not my poker - my car. There goes the roll. Writing off your car isnt the best thing to do at anytime, but as I had the money from Poker it wasn't the worst time either. But the BR evaporated. I left £200 in my account to try and roll up, and since then I have managed to roll it back up to circa £1k, mainly on the cash tables.
I have made priority this month for the first time ever.... I have smashed my £2.5k target I set at the beginning of the diary and things most certainly are going well. There is a big variance in poker that we must all learn to ride. I've experienced both sides of the beautiful game in the past year but have managed to come through a better player.
Here's to more swings and swongs in 2014. Just no more car crashes...