No Money HU everybody's solid!

Shipped the $215 HU last night for my 1st major win and $15.5k. Pretty pleased naturally and won the last 4games or so comfortably. I beat two HSNL cash regs in the early rounds thanks to 77 vs AK AIPF and 55 vs 32hh on a A 5 8hh board. Offered to do a chop HU because of the huge pay jump yet the fish declined. So glad i didnt chop as he was the worst guy i had played all evening.

Prior to the win i had my worst week in poker i think :(. Firstly my computer got a virus last weekend and i was unable to back-up my HEM database, meaning i lost over 300k of Hand histories with alot of reads and notes on regulars :(. It cost me £220 for the priviledge of getting it fixed as i tilt went to a well known high street retailer. They then told me it could take anything up to 45 days to fix! So i basically bribed them into fixing it next day as in theory that should be the cheaper option.

Im down about $5k online for the week. Started a new HEM db so steadily remembering who is who when im playing. Ive run really bad and played very very tilty which is probably due to a combination of things but whatever. Volume this month has been fairly lame i think along with profits which are probably about $2k+RB. On Wednesday i played £2/5 at the Vic and had my 1st losing live session. Was stuck a total of £2.8k after losing a monster £3.2k with JJ on a 578 Kdd board facing a huge overbet donk on the turn allin for 3x pot. I snapped and river peels a 9d to which the guy turns over JTdd gg me. So it looks like this MTT ship has just covered my losses for the month + change :P

Stars recently changed there table buyins which have had a negative effect for me personally, the 40-100bb tables are pretty tough as fish are attracted to the 20-50bb tbls. At midstakes Euro hours there are no more than 15 40-100 bb tables running, so theres not much choice for table selecting playing 6-8 tables. I don't crush like i used to and wont be a winner on some of the tables i play so grinding a decent volume of hands may be difficult in the forthcoming months.

My Intentions for May are to play quite a few donkaments. Some really good SCOOP event so with a bit of look i can hopefully sat into a few of the biggies and claim a few cashes. Ive also just bought into UKIPT Nottingham online, DTD is just too good of a poker venue to turn down. Should be an immense week.

Will be going home next weekend for the bank holiday, hopefully the weather is great and i can have a few decent nights out in the Toon.

gl at the tables all JP

From Hero to Zero!

Been a swongy week thats for sure. Played some like cash Tuesday night at the Vic, managing to make £2k profit thanks to a cooler 88 vs 86 on a 8 6 5 flop and sucking out in a big pot double barrelling allin with KdTx on a 6 7 9ddd X board vs J2dd. River is a delightful Qd.

The next day i recorded my biggest cash day online making a tad over $6k in 2k hands. Naturally i was pretty pleased although i knew i ran pretty hot with a 64% WSD. I have str8 away downswonged just over $4k which is annoying and wiping out a chunk of this weeks profit. I remain about $5k to the good + my live profit for the month so its not too bad. Think im going to play some more live £2/5 2moro while im running well and enjoying the craziness of live cash.

Think im going to play GUKPT Manchester providing i dont downswing further at the end of the month. Will probably sell anything up to 50% of my action so if anyone is interested let me know.

JP

March Round-up

Well March was the month where i finally put together a solid month. My volume was slightly lame at only 40k hands, but i was in Italy nearly a week, coupled with been bone idle and not playing more than 7-8 tbls max i was unlikely to hit 50k hands. I made around $11.5k from online cash games +$2-$2.5k rakeback, £1k from live cash games and managed to bink donkament (image above) for $5k making it roughly a $20k month.

So on sunday i loaded up a few 6max MTT's, a few satelitte's for live events and the Sunday Million. Failed in most, final tabled UKIPT Nottingham satelitte and got my £££ back but ran terribly losing AQ to A7 for CL then eventually busting call a SB shove with K8 losing to K7. I did manage to chop the above MTT for $4.9k. I thought i played really well in the 33r 6max since towards the end of the tournament i wasn't really getting my own way. From the last 3 tbls onwards i lost a huge pot AQ vs AJ vs AJ allin 3way which would have made me a big CL. I was short-stacked for the last 2 tbls and this continued into the last 4 as the cl squeezed the advantage over the other players who were all equally short. I then won a flip JJ VS KQ and applied pressure 3 handed, knocking out the former CL with ATs which i 3bet pre and c/c an overbet jam on a T 8 7 board and held vs 75s. The guy blew up in the latter stages big time after having 1/2 the chips in play 5handed.

Decided to do a chop as chipstacks were nearly even and it was 5am, my opponent seemed ok although im certain i'll have had a decent edge over wot was a SNG grinder with 70+bb stacks. However, it was 5am and in tune with my laziness i just took the chop which was a fair deal for both parties.

On Wednesday i played sum £2/5 at the Vic for about £900 (Inc returns from a horse playing £1/2) Scooped my biggest ever pot around £2.1k with 89ss in a 3bet pot on a 7 T K A 4 3spade board where i backdoored the flush :P vs a set of Kings. Ez game

Going to try and get more volume in April, breaking the 50k barrier as i dont intend to play any live events this month. Started ok up $2k over my 1st 4k hands so hopefully i can put back to back solid months on the board.

Over and out

JP