Well lately these past few weeks i have basically neglected playing any poker, ive just been doing my own thing and relaxing, going out or whatever, playing football manager too much :(
Dont think I should start again til the 1st feb, as i have a busy busy week
So ive kind of fell into old habits, not much motivation to play but i was heatering so much and £20k first month is not a bad start, AMIRITE
Also this saturday im off to cheltenham races as a Betfair vip which is awesome, free champagne, free meals, exclusive box etc! wowser, first taste of vip ive had really from any site! although expekt were good to me in the past paying me into a gukpt
anyway looks like its a rap for january
as per its GRIND MONTH february, super sick grinding :)
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Update +33 796 (£20 749)
PROFIT: $24 482
bb/100: 9.73
BONUS : $6 032
RACE : $1100
HANDS : 62 926
HOURS : 74
+ SITE: $2 182
$/HR : $456
TOTAL : +$33 796 (£20 749)
The +site figure is a second site i played on for about 100 hands and won a very quick $2k, i played there cos a mad mad fish was spotted
Ive been v lazy since my last update, taking it easy a bit, went out a few times and ive bceome addicted to football manager :( could be the end of my poker career that game!
Voting nearly over, im very suprised lenny henry didnt get more, isidur clearly winning which means there are more poker grinders that read this blog than i thought, 8 more to be precise!!
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
January Update +$28 024 (£17 568)
PROFIT: $22 604
bb/100: 10.85
BONUS : $5 120
RACE : $300
HANDS : 52 081
HOURS : 60
$/HR : $467
TOTAL : +$28 024 (£17 568)
Played a lot and doing very well so far, hit a bit of a sticky spell last few k hands but gonna have a few of them this month, its inevitable, all together very pleased, i doubt i can keep that win rate up.
Gonna take it easy next few days, especially this weekend
Sunday, 3 January 2010
NEW YEAR NEW TARGETS
1. 1.5 MILLION HANDS
2. NO BLACKJACK
3. START A FOOTBALL BETTING BANKROLL
4. MAKE £200 000+
5. SPEND LESS THAN £50 000
6. UPDATE BLOG EVERY WEEK AT LEAST
Changed the layout of the website a little bit
Really looking forward to 2010
2. NO BLACKJACK
3. START A FOOTBALL BETTING BANKROLL
4. MAKE £200 000+
5. SPEND LESS THAN £50 000
6. UPDATE BLOG EVERY WEEK AT LEAST
Changed the layout of the website a little bit
Really looking forward to 2010
Friday, 1 January 2010
End Of The Year Review + New Year Targets
2009: +$138 142 (+£85 442)
Well all in all just not good enough at all
I had high high targets and let myself down massively, i took 3 individual whole months off, some months i played i played about 50-70 hrs work.
You could call it lazy but its not that, its a mental thing, if youre not in the right mental state you cant play, well you shouldnt play and i know when im not in the right mental state which unfortunately was too often this year, although there were glimmers of good times
I can work extremely hard and grind extremely hard when im focused so i should have made sure i was focused often enough
2009 has been a year when i have got to know a lot of my faults a lot more
I started 2009 with a lot of enthusiasm on a good run having made a few mistakes the previous two years, a few blips of gambling, bad mental states and over spending, but on the whole 2008 and 2007 i did what i had to do and i was where i wanted to be.
The problem was i was just not as mature as i thought i was or that i needed to be, to be young and to be making this sort of money does distort things but the fact is i was just immature in so many ways in 2009
Every year older i get every year i look back and think god i was young and stupid then, im thinking when will that stop! Experience is so vital in so many aspects of life.
I hope im mature enough right now to take myself to the next level, it took a sick amount of hard work driven by ambition to get from £1k to £10k, then to get from £10k to £50k took another year of hard work with the same ambition (with mistakes still leaking) 2009 i wanted to go even further but wow how i messed that up
£85 000 i made, down from the previous year despite the fact im twice maybe three probably ten times a better player
I put in probably 75% less hours though and was in a bad mental state 75% more of the time
I lost a whole lot of money gambling on blackjack too which ill always regret and curse for probably the rest of my life, such a stupid thing to do and its given me massive setbacks mentally and money wise
I have a lot of money saved but i could have had so so so much more if i had just been level headed, not gambled
Although i was a gambler when i got into poker, thats why i got into it, ive always been a gambler
I think of myself (being modest) as a really clever person, i suppose most people think that about themselves and it shocks me that i could do something so ridiculous as to lose chunks of money on blackjack.
I honestly think im over that, for one ive never admitted it on this site, the hurt ive experienced from it is too much.
Well anyway this new year is brilliant for me, a complete fresh start
I started again from December 21st, that was my new year, i totalled everything up from before the 21st December and that was my 2009
2010 started for me on the same Dcemeber 21st
A new important fresh mental approach, i had my set plans and targets, play as much as possible, keep to a routine in life
I was going to wait until January 1st but i didnt want to waste any time and hopefully the games would be good over the christmas period
That day was chose btw because the week leading up to it was my last gambling/blackjack blow up when i literally burn money i worked relatively hard for
I was hurting and instead of spiralling into a jamsym type world I needed to get re focused, and reach all my dreams and targets for my life as soon as possible, no more set backs
This might not be around forever and im getting older, 22 now so this is so the best time to have a lot of money, not that 22 is old just saying
Anyway i digress a lot
Its been 10 days since i started myself a fresh and im doing well
Im clearing my to do list on time, im sticking to my eating plan, i still have my football 3 times a week, ive budgeted my sepnding and of course ive cut out all blackjack
In my best days in 2008 and 2007 i lived by a strict routine, its so important
Ive learnt from my mistakes
Im not saying i hope or hopefully this time, i have and now 2010 is going to be a year when i work really hard and keep focused, lets see where that takes me in terms of money earned
First Target is 230 000 hands by February 1st, im only on 26 000 atm but thats obviously because of the festive period slowing down games and my own commitments!
Ill update this once a week with my thoughts and graphs
Well all in all just not good enough at all
I had high high targets and let myself down massively, i took 3 individual whole months off, some months i played i played about 50-70 hrs work.
You could call it lazy but its not that, its a mental thing, if youre not in the right mental state you cant play, well you shouldnt play and i know when im not in the right mental state which unfortunately was too often this year, although there were glimmers of good times
I can work extremely hard and grind extremely hard when im focused so i should have made sure i was focused often enough
2009 has been a year when i have got to know a lot of my faults a lot more
I started 2009 with a lot of enthusiasm on a good run having made a few mistakes the previous two years, a few blips of gambling, bad mental states and over spending, but on the whole 2008 and 2007 i did what i had to do and i was where i wanted to be.
The problem was i was just not as mature as i thought i was or that i needed to be, to be young and to be making this sort of money does distort things but the fact is i was just immature in so many ways in 2009
Every year older i get every year i look back and think god i was young and stupid then, im thinking when will that stop! Experience is so vital in so many aspects of life.
I hope im mature enough right now to take myself to the next level, it took a sick amount of hard work driven by ambition to get from £1k to £10k, then to get from £10k to £50k took another year of hard work with the same ambition (with mistakes still leaking) 2009 i wanted to go even further but wow how i messed that up
£85 000 i made, down from the previous year despite the fact im twice maybe three probably ten times a better player
I put in probably 75% less hours though and was in a bad mental state 75% more of the time
I lost a whole lot of money gambling on blackjack too which ill always regret and curse for probably the rest of my life, such a stupid thing to do and its given me massive setbacks mentally and money wise
I have a lot of money saved but i could have had so so so much more if i had just been level headed, not gambled
Although i was a gambler when i got into poker, thats why i got into it, ive always been a gambler
I think of myself (being modest) as a really clever person, i suppose most people think that about themselves and it shocks me that i could do something so ridiculous as to lose chunks of money on blackjack.
I honestly think im over that, for one ive never admitted it on this site, the hurt ive experienced from it is too much.
Well anyway this new year is brilliant for me, a complete fresh start
I started again from December 21st, that was my new year, i totalled everything up from before the 21st December and that was my 2009
2010 started for me on the same Dcemeber 21st
A new important fresh mental approach, i had my set plans and targets, play as much as possible, keep to a routine in life
I was going to wait until January 1st but i didnt want to waste any time and hopefully the games would be good over the christmas period
That day was chose btw because the week leading up to it was my last gambling/blackjack blow up when i literally burn money i worked relatively hard for
I was hurting and instead of spiralling into a jamsym type world I needed to get re focused, and reach all my dreams and targets for my life as soon as possible, no more set backs
This might not be around forever and im getting older, 22 now so this is so the best time to have a lot of money, not that 22 is old just saying
Anyway i digress a lot
Its been 10 days since i started myself a fresh and im doing well
Im clearing my to do list on time, im sticking to my eating plan, i still have my football 3 times a week, ive budgeted my sepnding and of course ive cut out all blackjack
In my best days in 2008 and 2007 i lived by a strict routine, its so important
Ive learnt from my mistakes
Im not saying i hope or hopefully this time, i have and now 2010 is going to be a year when i work really hard and keep focused, lets see where that takes me in terms of money earned
First Target is 230 000 hands by February 1st, im only on 26 000 atm but thats obviously because of the festive period slowing down games and my own commitments!
Ill update this once a week with my thoughts and graphs
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