March Round up

Slightly odd month and defintely flew by. Starting off grinding online, final tabled a GUKPT side and came 11th in the main. After that i took an involuntary 10 days offf or so because my laptop broke (so tilted from losing my HEM db). The last couple of days ive been playing some six max cash which has gone well.

I've just put together a MTT schedule for Vegas. Im going to be playing 10 over the 7 weeks, 3x WSOP 6max events and the rest Venetian deepstacks. Hopefully been a 6max/HU cash grinder should help me in these SH/Deepstack comps, My gukpt cashes have given me a little injection of confidence which is timely with Vegas around the corner.

Looking to the horizon, i think im going to bail on playing the IPO. I hear its a good value comp, but Dublin is darn expense and i'd like to get back into grinding cash online so with regards to April i'll probably only play the DTD monte carlo event and possibly the IPO satelitte there running there depending how im feeling. I may also play GUKPT Walsall right at the end of the month.

Online should be good fun leading up to Vegas, another FTOPs and SCOOP before i fly the atlantic so a timely bink would be rather fun :P

March results.

Online Hands: Around 18k Online cash game Profit: $7.5k approx
Rakeback:$400

Live cash Hours: alot 40+ easily Live cash profit: -£2.3K ($3685)
Online MTT sessions:2 Online MTT profit: -$2k approx

Live MTTs: Luton Deepstack (£550) GUKPT £200 re-entry, GUKPT £200 6max, GUKPT main £1590
Live mtt profit (after backing):+ £2450 ($3926)

March Profit: $6,141 Pretty disappointing month in the main, although i played really really badly live which ive been kicking myself about. I have however decided April will be my month. I have zero prior engagements so will be grinding hard to put in hopefully a $20k+ month.

F***k me!

Pretty tilted at the minute. Last week my computer broke and today i heard its going to cost around £400 to fix. My m8 Ben can potentially fix it for alot cheaper but he would have to order a hard-drive which could potentially take a week (not cool for a grinder who hasn't played in 10 days). So it looks like i'm going to have to buy a laptop and do all the boring shit of installing a bunch of stuff.

Im most tilted about losing my HEM database. The database isn't particularly old (August 10') but i nearly reached $100k cash game profits on it and had a bunch of hands on regs which i'm going to lose. Luckily ive logged my results in this blog to give me a rough idea how im doing.

Couple of days ago i finished 11th in the GUKPT Main. i was CL going into the last 2 tables, but lost a couple of pots notably with AJ vsK4o AIPF and then i made a play cold betting allin with AJhh for 40bigs, vs co open and btn 3bet who had exactly the same stack size as me. It was a great spot, he just happened to have aces this time :P. I played well so i'm happy with that but with £101k up top, i'd have hoped to get a top 3 or 4 finish once reaching the final 2 tables. i ended up cashing for £4590.

March online wise is turning out to be a write off due to a lack of a working computer. I think i was up around $3k net after cash profits and online MTT losses. Ive made abit through Live MTT's this week, but im struggling to concentrate playing live cash, finding it extremely boring (probably because ive been in the Vic 5/7 days) Hopefully i'll buy a decent laptop 2moro and be back up and grinding online towards the latter end of this week and pretend that March never actually happened.

JP

GUKPT in town this week

So i haven't played much online this week. Went home friday, my brother had a surprise 30th bday party back home in Durham which was excellent fun all round, can't remember last time i had a decent night out in Durham (granted had less than 10 in past 5 years). On Sunday i went to Newcastle to grind Sundays with Ben Jenkins, Jono Beck and Jack Ellwood. We all bricked pretty hard and so yesterday morning me and Ben got the train to London for GUKPT and the sides.

We both played the £200 re-entry MTT. Only got 80 or so runners but we both final tabled. Ben finished 6th i finished 4th, after going into FT as chipleader so a little dissappointing for £1400 or so. Was £5k up top so only a baby comp. Played the 200 6max tonight, busted after 3 levels nothing interesting of note. Planning to play 1a of the Main on Thursday, need a long sleep 2nite to recoup as ive barely slept since friday. Probably go to cinemas or out for a meal+ beers 2moro to unwind some. Live poker is pretty draining deffo couldn't grind it out for a living.

JP

Sup March

March has been a little frustrating. Blogging now after a long 13 hr live £2/5 session where i ended down £450. Pretty pleased considering i lost a £5.5k pot with 77 vs supfoolio (hs online cash reg) T8o in a 3bet pot on a 976 board.

Yesterday i grinded 15mtt's or so. Went deepish in a few on tilt but nothing to serious managing 3 cashes leaving me down around $1.5k for that session.

Cash games online have been swongy, was up $6k at one point but now in only 2k ahead. Running not so well about $5k below EV but i shouldn't complain.

On thursday i played the Luton £550 deepstack. i busted within 6 levels (lol) losing big pots with boat under boat. then bluff raising a river (definitely against the wrong guy) on a J4567 board, getting called by a naked 63. Next week i'll be playing GUKPT and the £250 side which should be fun. In between, im guna grind it out till the weekend online before i go back home for the weekend as its my bro's surprise 30th bday party (pretty confident he doesn't read this) which should be fun. The dress theme is black,white and silver so if any1 has any good clothing combo's fire away!

JP