Blog from Deauville!

Urgh well Deauville hasn't gone well. Busted the ME at the end of level 3 running a triple barrel bluff in a 3bet pot with AK vs JJ on a 954 J7 board. I don't think its too bad considering he was a scandi and likely had more suited connector type hands which picked up pair+draws on the turn which would struggle to call the river. I think he folds 88/TT OTR aswell.

The HU i busted the 1st match, i won the 1st match flopping a str8 flush with 9Tcc on a JcQcKc vs two pair, before losing 33 vs 2To AIPF in the second match and finally losing AT vs QQ AIPF with high blinds.

The 1st of the €1K's side i played i managed to bust 1st level, KK vs QQ in a 4bet pot where i couldn't get away from a Q high board. Then today i busted the final €1k side in 13th with 8 paid :(.

Last night my Spinks and Ben put in an MTT session for lol's. I went deep in the 100r on stars, $75 super stack on tilt/20r on tilt before finally hitting a final table in the $30r. Managed to luckbox my way to 4th for a $4k+ score. My Mtt game seems reasonable at the moment, definitely more disciplined/patient than in the past.

That said im probably going to fade the £500 UKIPT Nottingham. Not so keen to play a £500 mtt when i'll probably do another £500 in expenses, beers and stuff.

January results:

Online hands: 20,004
Online cash game profit: $10,119
Rakeback: $500

Live Cash hours: 18 hours
Live cash Profit/staking; £2350 ($3720)

Online MTT sessions: 3
Online MTT profit: Approx $2k

Live MTT's: Deauville ME, €3HU, 2x €1k sides
Live MTT Profit: -€2.5k after selling action (-$3397)

Januray total Profit: $12,942

Overall January has been ok, looking foreward to february i don't intend to play any live Mtt's (outside chance of going to EPT Copenhagen) so i'll be looking to play 20k online hands a few mtt sessions and hopefully log more hours playing live cash but we'll see.

Leave Deauville for London on Tuesday think we're going out for beers tomorrow with a few of the english dealers i know who are a good laugh, plan to get messy although this place is ridiculously expensive maybe i can continue to run like god at credit card roulette.

JP

Pre- Deauville blog.

So this week has been fairly reasonable, played a bunch of MTT's on sunday didn't really get anyway apart from f't bubbling a 6 max MTT and not getting close to cashing in anything else.
Monday i went to the Vic with Ben (cash horse) played sum £2/5 while he played some £1/2 and made around £950 total profit (well done benjamin!) so can't complain.

Since then ive grinded pretty well, ive played 16.3k hands for the month including a nice couple of $2/4-3/6 6max sessions for a little change from HU. Im up around $11.5k online, last couple of days have been meh but things progressing nicely so i won't put too much pressure on myself to log hands in Deauville.

Travelling monday and playing 1b (Wednesday). I'll be updating my twitter with chip counts at breaks (www.twitter.com/whollyflush) or anything that i find somewhat amusing. Since ive learnt that live cash games in France are taxed heavily by the government (too ignorant and lazy to know the exact amounts) ive been persuaded to play the side events. So i'll also be playin a 1x €1500 €3k HU and 2x €1k providing i don't make any day two's (Usually not much of a problem, tricky part is getting past the first couple of levels on a day two :P). Ive managed to sell 50% of my action of these to friends and a serial investor on 2p2.

Travelling by car with Ben and Jon Spinks, and theres plenty of UK players going so should be fun even if/when i bust early doors. Will try and put a blog post in post deauville with a trip report.

Gl all

JP

Quick Update!

Things have gone pretty well since my last update. Im up around $10k online in just over 10k hands although im running absurdly hot right now.

Also on Tuesday i played my first live session of the year, played reasonably put in 11 hours and managed to bag a £1400 winning session. Audley Harrison was playing on the same table briefly which was pretty funny, seemed a nice guy but dropped £2k sharpish before exiting to go to some West end club.

I'll be setting off for Deauville on the 24th and will be there for 8 nights. I'll be playing the ept main for sure but am unsure about playing any side events, when i reckon there'll be some great cash games running. If things go well i'll probably play the €3k HU and sell action, but 2 can be a long time n the poker world.

gl all

jp

Goals for 2011

So ive decided on my poker goals for the year and decided to outline them in this blog.

1) 200k online hands. In 08/09 i got well over 500k hands but now i switched to HU midway through '10 playing that many 2/3 tabling isn't as easy. I think 20k hands per month is a good number to aim for bearing in mind i intend to play a fair amount of live events.

2) 100k cash profit online. Does what it says on the tin, playing from 1/2- 5/10 i think this is achieveable as long as legislation issues don't affect the state of the games.

3) 10 hours live cash per week. Haven't played live cash yet this year since ive just moved back to London. I'll likely be playing a mix of £2/5/5-10 depending how things are going. I should probably check out the Palm Beach instead of just playing at the Vic to see what the games are like there. I'd hope to make in the region of $30k profit if i put in 520 hours.

4) 20 online Sunday MTT sessions. I intend to play a few majors and satelittes from now on sundays as they are decent value give you the chance to bink reasonably big.

5) play 3 EPT's, 4/5 WSOP events- for the love of god cash in something! Given how much money MTT's and expenses cost me last year i suppose ive got to be reasonably happy my roll is in decent shape and i made near 6fig profit last year. Hopefully a couple of cashes this year will help me have a more profitable year.

6) $200k net profit.

Hopefully by the end of the year i'll be in a position to buy my 1st house and still have a reasonable poker roll to play the games i do. If so i'll be extremely content with my lot.

2011 started pretty disasterously actually. I spent NYE in the toon at a house party with a few poker players and managed to lose my Iphone 4 which i just bought about 3 weeks ago WITHOUT insurance. Ive just bought a replacement costing me £550!

To follow that on NYD i dropped 3 bags playing 3/6 where i got owned pretty badly. Im now just about back to b/e for the year but im ahead of pace to play 20k hands this month.

I'll try and blog before EPT Deauville but we'll see.

gl all

JP