Anything But Poker ?

Following on from the last post ive still hardly played this week. I reckon maybe about 5 hours in total in the last 5 days. I did play a 55$ and 109$ tournament last night but got nowhere in the loose (as hell) $50 game and lost a fairly big pot AK vs QQ in the $100 one. I will be playing more next week as i have some value games targeted. Only 2 weeks from St Kitts so its more important i play a few more multis i guess, and i will do this as long as im in a patient mood.

So what have i been doing of late. Golf, snooker, badminton, pool, running and looks like im building up to a piss up later tonight :) , maybe the last one before St Kitts but im not sure about that yet !

Lazy & Lack Of Motivation To Play Times

I suppose i should have expected it, after a decent win so early in the month ive gone into one of my "i cant be assed to play" moods. It will be interesting to see how long it lasts but at the moment i just have little desire so my play will be limited to any value games that i do actually fancy. Ive spent well over an hour tonight looking at new sites for other decent offline packages that could be worth targeting to increase my interest. There are 1 or 2 but nothing really that exciting to target loads of subs to really. Most of them only have finals when im away in St Kitts anyway so there isnt that many to choose from.

More Detail And Latest Milestone

Appears that was my 4th biggest cash win last night and it also has taken my cash profit from poker to over £100,000 in exactly 2 years since i started keeping details of earnings. With a CPC package and some cash (£800) from the sale of the horse still to come also.

I didnt play particularly well last night, it was a very tight game and whilst i did up gears at the right time i had to survive a few hands to make it to the winning post.

1) 9 left blinds 50,100 i flat call with AA and check raise all in on a king high board, KJ calls and i hold up.

2) 4 left blinds 100,200 55 vs AJ preflop when i was out if i lost but i became chipleader when i hit.

3) 3 left blinds 150,300 K4std vs 33 preflop when i was out if i lost but again i was marginally chipleader when i hit

I did lose AJ vs KK preflop when i was chipleader of 4 players but i had pot odds when i got reraised and more so because i still had an average stack when i lost and it was a win only game. If i hit i was on a monster stack 3 handed with 60% chips in play.

In the end i guess i picked my spots well and i probably played better than i thought but the variance of luck had to be in someones favour and it was mine in that tourney even if it wasnt massive bits of luck.

So many good games listed for tonight but im playing pool and thats probably a good thing as i dont really feel up to playing much today anyway.

The Strangest Way To Win Part Of A CPC Package

This is crazy and i dunno what my emotions are at the moment. I played a $154 CPC shootout with excellent value with only 22 runners in it. Survived a few coinflips to eventually go heads up 7k vs 13k against. I got back to level chips when the guy became disconnected. Now this causes a massive moral argument as to whether to let the guy back in but i know most others would just take the chips as ive been disconnected before as have most players at crucial times, its the downside of online poker. Recently crypto updated their software so that there is 15 seconds or so in between every hand to give the other person a chance to get back in. The trouble with that is this uses up the blinds level so it would have been a crapshoot at 300,600 had he come back in as normal. Anyway as i knew i was at a disadvantage if i wait since the low blind level was always gonna help me, i decided to just take the chips in play as they come. Eventually the guy came back in but the blinds had rose and the stacks were approximately 14k vs 6k. I immediately offered a deal where i give them $3500 to guarantee a good cash win (as it was now a crapshoot) and also to cover a bit of the guilt i was feeling , hopefully they will be ok with that. So for my troubles ive got $11300 less $3500 = $7800 so im happy and im also amazed that its been credit to my account immediately, i didnt expect that :))).

Earlier in the evening i had switched off despite some good value tournaments cos my hangover was just doing my head in, im glad i came back on anyway.

Connection Problems / October Review

Didnt play at all Monday then when i sat down to play Tuesday evening i realised my internet connection is playing up and this could take a few days to sort. Because of this im unsure of my exact monthly profit at this time but i know its in the region of £3,300 (£3,357 actually) which is satisfactory. My cash from the sale of laddies poker horse is not included and i should receive this in November and will include it in that months profit instead. I continue to look forward to St Kitts , even more so now its cold and dark all the time outside. After a rough couple of weeks (where i only lost £500 on what was was worst run since March) at the start of October it came good as i knew it would. Bad runs always end when you know your ability is good enough to run through them. Once through them they just improve you as a player with the experience gained.

Targets for November = relax, get bit fitter, get pissed fair bit, enjoy the st kitts experience at the end, and hopefully make some cash for the month. (Note if any cash is made in St Kitts it will go into December profit anyway)