Up she goes!

So March so far has been kind to me and pretty similar to how Febuary went. Up just under $6k with 1/2 the month left so the plan is to basically put in another 20k hands (15k-$1/2 5k $2/4) before starting April only playing 2/4. Feel like im playin well but is probably due to running good and feeling confident.Im also well over 1/2 clearing the $4k stars bonus so should hopefully get there by the end of the month, which is a great incentive to put in the hands.

Here are a few hands ive played this month:

http://weaktight.com/893815. This was my biggest pot of the month. Didnt like the turn card so i bet a fishy 1/2 pot as i wasn't sure what to do, although in hindsight i think checking behind can be ok too, when considering getting value out of his range which is unlikely to be happy with the turn card. Gin on the river tho!

http://weaktight.com/893825 Soul read!

http://weaktight.com/893834 FPS turning my hand into a bluff

Dont really have any interesting losing hands. Mostly just coolers or getting setmined by tagfish in 3bet pots. Happy days!

JP

Grind on the mind!

So while im clearing my $4k bonus ive been sacrificing souls to the doomswitch demon hoping he doesn't doomswitch me, although its probably inevitable whilst clearing a stars bonus.haha!

February was kind to me, where i ended up about $9k from cash games + $1k RB on 40k hands. I ran well which is nice and its nice to feel confident when playing and getting out of the mindset of booking wins by grinding a set amount of hands in a session. Donkaments were pretty brutal as per usual and i probably B/E at best despite a $2k cash and a couple of SM cashes.Ive decided its probably best to avoid online MTT's full stop apart from SCOOP/FTOPS which will be an occasional treat. I just feel the MTT'S on stars/FTP have fields that are simply to big to justify playing, whilst the payout structures are too top heavy so finishing in the final 2 tables can leave u on life tilt with maybe 2.5-3x ure original investment which is a joke. If i ever feel the urge im more likely to play the majors on the softer/smaller networks which don't exceed 500 runners whilst the standard is without question worse.

In the real world it seems the stock market has just about crashed, i currently have nearly 4 figs in a banking companies shares reccommended by my brother (A financial adviser!). Needless to say they are worth about 1/2 of wot i bought them at which was already at an all time low point for them. Hopefully at some point the market recovers and many moons down the line i can churn a profit out of them. Hopefully when/If the market becomes morestable i might look to research stock dealing more and make a few bob buying in at good entry/exit points but at the moment its perhaps to early to say.

So March has begun and im around -$1.4k down in 2.5k hands. Ive ran bad but im not moaning its pretty much fair game given how i ran last month but im happy with how im playing. My intentions for the month are to grind out 45k hands. Recently ive decided to more actively stake MTT's players so i still get my "fix" in a peculiar sort of way. I have one player from the EMS forum whom i will be staking regularly as he seems successful from his short time playing and hopefully i can help him improve whilst we both make a little $$$ but we will see.

Away from poker, this weekend i'll be watching Durham City have an epic (potentially) title decider v Halifax Town on saturday in the Unibond 1st division before heading up to Newcastle to reunite with my uni flatmates for boozy fun, which should be good times.

Gl at the tbls all

JP