Viva Espana!

Last week i managed to ship a $3k package to play the Fult tilt poker Espana tour in Malaga.Played pretty well around the bubble so happy to finally secure a seat and a nice little holiday for the middle of August.

Cash games have gone ok this month. I was up $10k in my 1st 8k hands this month, but have b/e for the rest of the month. Sessions have followed a similar pattern, of getting stuck around $2k (2/4) and robustoing back to near b/e. Im playin pretty well in general but have begun to spew sum so need to pull the reins in. So far ive put in around 31k hands which is decent so i think 45k hands is possible, although ive got friends from home coming down for a week 2moro so probs wont put many hands in this week.

I'll try and post sum hands for my next blog to highlight my recent spewing exploits.

JP

Time fly's by when your running good!

With just over half the year gone i supposed its a good time to recap on the 1st 6months of the yr. In an earlier blog i outlined the following goals for 2009:


1) play 40-50k hands per month. For the 1st 6months this yr my monthly avg is 39.5k hands per month. However in January i only played 30 and every other month i have played in excess of 40, with June been my biggest hand count month just short of 50k hands. Ive definately improved my volume now playin 1500 hand sessions as opposed to 600-800 i was playin at the start of the year.

2) Make $100k cash game profit+ RB. So far im slightly behind pace with this although im already up $5k this month and mainly playing 2/4 so its definately attainable. So at the midway point im at around $43k+RB (between $8-10k so far this yr)

3)Play more live donkaments. So far ive only really played the £1k WSOP 5day event structure which i did enjoy as a break from the online grind. I also intend to play the FTP espana series in Malaga in August and will try and play 1 or 2 GUKPT's b4 the yr is out. I'll maybe try and sat in online to EPT comps.

4) Play more HU and less 6max. This has kinda been an epic fail. My hu game isnt great at the moment and i had a losing month last month (HU only) so ive played less as my confidence is fairly low. Ive gone from a 11bb/100 winner over a 75k hand sample to probably a b/e player in my last 20k hands (ridic small samples i know but its all i can compare to) However my 6 max has gotten alot stronger and i feel im in the top 5-10% of players at the levels i play on stars.

5)Score a big 4 or 5figure donkament cash. This yr ive played very few donkaments (certainly <<100). I did manage the huge luckbox in the turbo so im happy with that score and doubt i'll eclipse that as i have no intention to really grind them out apart from the odd sunday. I will play Wcoop events so maybe i can luckbox a decent score in September time.

July has started well. in just under 11k hands im up $5k, would be nice to hit another 5 fig month but i'll just concentrate on getting the volume in and playing to a consistently high level.

Life in general is going well and it looks likely that i'll be staying in London to xmas time and maybe longer.....who knows

JP