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Have had an awful week at the tables. Roll isnt look very healthy by anyones standards. Deck has not been kind at all... which resulted in me also tilting a tiny bit and losing more. Can say with confidence that yesterday was the worst day i've had since I made the move (both at work and on poker) . It was just terrible... but lets not dwell.
Decided id hit the casino to try and break the downswing of online. Long story short it didnt work. Some guy decided to have quads at one point which made me cry inside.
Hoping it wont last too long. I was never very good at BRM and it cant handle much longer at the same rate. I do however have £1k locked in my UKPC seat which I could dereg at any point which has crossed my mind. We shall see.
Have some holiday from work end of August. Have 8 days off in a row I think. Might go somewhere nice. Thinking possibly a trip to Sweden or somewhere I havent been. Anyone got any good ideas?
I love and hate the job at the same time... if thats really possible. On the one side im in a very fast, dynamic and challenging job which will boost my experience in the field to no end. I've not even managed to learn 50% of the job in 6/7 weeks which just shows how much there is to it. My previous job was very slow paced and easy, whilst this one challenges me on a daily basis... there is no time to sit and twiddle your thumbs here. Its a constant sprint all day. I embrace the challenge though as I'll develop skills much quicker than in your standard office job and will boost opportunities for me in the future a great deal.
However the downsides are long days and a bit of stress to go along with it. I work different hours each day and different days each week so I cant join a football club or something as I might be able to play one week but not the next 3/4... People finish shifts at all different times meaning that after a long shift you cant just pop down to the pub with everyone you are working with. Socialising does not go hand in hand in this job which is really difficult when you have moved to a new city and know noone. I come home each night to an empty flat and dont quite know what to do myself with my days off. Perhaps im just being a bit melodramatic about it all but its kinda tough to deal with on a day by day/ week by week basis.
Back home i'd have an easy job (in a terrible company), but id have my friends near me and I could go to the pub at the weekend with them and play football too. I miss that. A lot.
Not really a point to this post... i'm just rambling. I keep telling myself I made the right decision and I think I have but I can't help but think that i've sacrificed a hell of a lot for this job. I just hope its worth it.
12/5 that you move back home.
Just looking forward to UKPC in two weeks. Been talking to a few people and think it may be wise to sell a bit of action.... cause after all £1k is a lot of money no?
Not sure how much I want to sell. Maybe 20-25% - maybe more, maybe less depending on interest. If anyone is remotely interested feel free to post on here or PM me. If you don't know me well enough to know if its worth taking a shot at me or not then maybe this will convince you...
1 spt. 1 min cash. Ohhhh yeaaahhhhhhh. Thats 100% people.
Or just sharkscope. Thats probably a bigger sample size to be fair.
If there is no mark up I'll have 2.5% please.
No mark up mate... can I consider that 2.5% sold? If so i'll send accross some bank details. None of this Skrill nonsense Jac is trying to make me use. He must work for them or something.
Plan is to have some fun, meet some people and play my normal game. No need to play this tournament any differently than I would any other as I SAT in so havent had to pay the full wack.
I think patience will be the key in the slow structure. The last tournament I played live which had a similar structure was SPT at Notts, so the place and atmosphere will be familar to me. Just relax and see if I can cash in this, as I did that in that tournament.
Just played a bit tonight and managed to bink the 9pm for a tidy sum. Omens look OK for tomorrows tournament venture then.
Got a few people staking me in UKPC, so cheers to them. I'll do my best.
I guess I'll see you on the other side.
Best of luck.
Possibly gonna put together a small Vegas package for next month, just give us a yell if you're interested.
9 bigs, ante's, 6 handed and folded round to us on the button with 910s? Over the moon to GII and don't even mind a call too much.
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Pat, I'll try not to derail young Gazza too much, will put something up this weekend....but yes, open to anyone foolish enough to want a piece
NOTHING.
that is all.
Then... hypothetically of course, I try to get maximum value from a hand against a v v loose player by playing it over aggro (you'd understand if you saw hypothetical villain play)... and lets also assume, hypothetically of course, say he showed up with almost the nuts for the first time on the table.
Hypothetically that pot was over £1k....
But of course this is all hypothetical yes?
I need a beer
Been up and down as per. Won a couple of MTTs and had some decent scores, but nothing major to report at the moment. Just getting on with it these days.
I'm thinking i might need a challenge or something to keep me motivated... but not sure what.
Anyway... in the meantime... bad beat of the day goes to this unlucky chap.
Top 15 in SS leaderboard.
I'm currently 14th... but know that volume will be extremely low compared to a lot of other people on that list with a rather hectic job that usually makes me come in when all the MTTs are already running.
Hmmmm.... we shall see about that one, but I want that star!
Things have been going quite well so far this year. I've had a few decent scores, but still think I can improve. Im not where i'd like to be, but i've improved enormously since when I started this diary.
Was looking over my diary the other day and it was pretty cringey reading... both in the fact that i bust after the first page (lol) and the swings and swongs i've had and hands I played and pondered over. I'm definitely happier with my poker these days (although I could take it down a level on cash) but im not going busto anytime soon and things are looking up.
So yeah... target is top 15, although i'll be quite happy with top 25. Want I reaaaaallly want is top 5 but that wont happen in a month of Sundays (particularly as I dont get many Sundays off).
Job update:
Its stressing me out. I'm in a middle of a 9 day work week (day 7 atm - sigh), working 10 hour days with little more than 15 mins break to go and get lunch and eat at my desk. Social life is kaput. Poker is on the backburner as i've been working late shifts so cant play many MTTs at all. Just a bit meh.
The job is OK but lots of blame gets handed out when an error is made. I've made one or two but nothing major, although with one click of a button or one thing missed can result in huge problems. For instance...today a Scottish Youth Team game was built with Dundee U20. Correct fixture was Dundee Utd U20 and it was missed amongst full league fixtures and Champions League - that was a ballache. The jobs getting me paranoid about every button I press so i dont balls up!
Biggest downside is the lack of social life. Work weekends and nights = no social life. That coupled with the fact i've moved for the job and im in a new city means I spend my days off by myself as other people I know are working.
People have said it'l get better... but im not sure I see that as the work pattern will never change.
Undecided at the minute but can almost guarentee I wont be here in a year or two.
There are ups and downs in everyones life, but day to day you have to work very hard in order to survive. Whether that is working at your job to pay bills/move up the ladder, or whether that is with friends/family to maintain relationships.
I think I found that out the hard way in these past months. I went on a 3 week holiday in America, visiting places like Vegas, Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Death Valley and San Francisco. It was a fantastic holiday.
But then I had to come home.
I moved to Stoke to start a new job, but was clearly not prepared for what it'd entail. I knew I'd have to work weekends, but didnt realise it'd be every weekend. I knew itd be odd hours but didnt realise i'd finish at 11-midnight most nights, and I knew it'd be unsociable but didnt think itd be this unsociable.
I don't get time to go for a beer with anyone in the office as we all work different times, and I dont get time to meet anyone outside of work cause my days off change each week meaning I cant get that game of football in I crave. I try to get back down south when I can to see friends, but its difficult with the days I work and innevitably end up missing birthdays/nights out etc.
But I know that I moved here for all the right reasons. I needed the experience of this job to get to where I want to go. Its a massive name to put on my CV when I do eventually look to move back down South. Its just mentally and physically tiring at the minute and I find it hard to motivate myself.
Poker helps with the boredom when I do get time off, but poker, just like life, can also be a grind. Just in a bit of a cycle at the minute where I go to work - work 9/10 hours, come home... play poker for 4/5 hours and go to bed. Everyday.
Meh. Lifes a grind at the minute. Just waiting for that high to come along again. Would have loved to go to Punta Cana, but cant get the time off work. And thats why im booking a holiday to Cambodia to visit my sister in Febuary and im thinking of going back to Vegas next summer. I need something to look forward to. Lifes a bit monotonous at the minute and I need something to get out of the phunk.
Maybe it sounds as if i'm not appreciative of what I have and im just being a bit of a noob. I dunno. Just needed to offload.