Jesus H Christ Chief...

So another month of misses on Vc and Bwin mtt wise, none stop beats and I wont bore with those but pretty soul destroying when close to a nice wedge...speaking of close got near life changing money in the Stars $40 $1mil gtd, came 73rd out of 41,000 people, started at 7.30pm I went out at 5am...work at 7.30am lol!

As you can see I had a nice stack, although the blinds were catching up...made a few laydowns where maybe I should have shoved late on, guess I was a bit blinkerd by the 1st prize of $125,000, I got $983 for my troubles in the end...

Also got a 2nd on Party for $956 in a $33 freezeout, but now its time to really give the cash a shot this month, not playing anything too big, going to 10 table $0.25/50 and the £ and euro equivalent's, obv not going to win loads but its the rakeback I want to take a look at, see what I can actually hit in a month of just cash and go from there...

Film wise watched Universal Soldier - Regeneration, oh dear...proof for Van Damme and Lundgren that its time to retire from action movies, non stop action with no depth, story or anything...District 9 haters will probs love it!

Sad to see 24 still stuck in a rut this season, please ban nuclear rods, muzza badguys, and all the other recycled storylines oh and shit characters like Dana asap...ty! its going to end up like Prison Break at this rate...OMG!

One Site Mission

Carried on playing a lot on Vc in Jan, and managed to rake just over $1900...so probs just over £600 rake to come next week, not bad considering I work part time three days a week aswell, shows what rakeback can be achieved sticking to one site....tho...

...I have once again been tempted by the devils poker game - the mtt! running shizz on Pokerstars and Bwin, as soon as I get a decent score its welcome to delete town for them, already got rid of Full Tilt having won $6k+ on there last Aug/Sept, its just not viable imo spreading loads of money round different sites unless your of the standard of players like Moorman and Pab.

Mtts are great when you reach a final, but there are a mass of stressful non cashing hours to go with that...it can become a very addictive life consuming mission, like I say its fine if you are wongatastic like MoorPab, but if your crap like me its a wasteful venture in the long run...

So hopefully I will take an Mtt down on Stars and Bwin soon and can concentrate in Ipoker(Vc), as I have said previously got a good rakeback deal and soft cash games are plentiful, and looking at getting into Omaha aswell again, of course I will play Mtts on Vc as its going to be my only site...

Film wise watched Zombieland, was enjoying it until the Bill Murray bit...7/10.

Saw a good film documetary called King Of Kong which tells the story of real life arcade game players who are still battling for high scores to this day on classic games such as Donkey Kong and Pac Man...I spent many an hour playing these back in the day, really enjoyed this...9/10 but I guess you have to have been an 80s kid...

24 has not really hit its stride yet, but of course its still the best thing on Tv...also really enjoyed the 7th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, some classic episodes in there, especially the golf one, when Larry kills the swan...ok hopefully I got some deleting to do!

Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year...

Seems like yonks ago I was in the Spanish sun, snow and -5 here at the mo in Selby...sets the Christmas scene nicely tho, and makes a mockery of the whole global warming thing (this is the coldest December here for 20 years+), most of it is a big tax con, letting Labour free to put "green" taxes everywhere...and give billions to the poor countrys we dont have, then they get richer, drive more cars...more carbon etc etc????

On the poker front got a 1st in a $10r for $1555, and a 2nd in a $5 for $1400 both on Victor Chandler (Ipoker), been playing a lot of 25/50p nl cash and the euro equivalent, very loose and much better than the $ tables, often 8 table these and the rakeback is building up nicely (50% rakeback), although have seen unreal stuff on forums re Ipoker, Vc have been banning winning cash players from their site!!! and withholding rakeback...crazy and disgraceful, hopefully they change their minds very fast...

I dont use Hold Em Manager or Pokertracker, I have my own notes, and honestley dont feel a need to buy that software as you see many regular players who always play the same...spoke to a player at these levels, he 13 tables 5 hours a day and raked back $9,000 last month...sweet!

Seen a few movies recentley...thought Paranormal Activity was very overrated, Inglorious Basterds was a good un, tho not up there with Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. Looking forward to the return of 24 in Jan, the king of tv imo! tho really one more season and a movie should just about do it...he can only save the day so many times...

Hopefully 2010 I can crack on with the cash and maybe even get banned from Vc (obv winning a lot then!)

Spain - Costa Del Sol

Last day near Marbella on the Costa Del Sol, been here for three weeks and played a fair bit of live poker...the weather has been amazing for November, 23 deg+ and sun everyday, October was the hottest for 70 years here, global warming cooooool!

My best result was in a 100 + 50 add on (10k + 10k) with nearly 90 runners, 1st was 4500 euros and I came 5th for 700, abs gutted tho as when I left the table the last four did a deal for 2300 euros each, aghhhhhhhhhh! thats mtt poker I guess, never happy unless you win! got my luck with 14 left when short stacked shoved all in with a10 and my mate was also all in (blinded out after horrific beat, aa <<< kq for certain top 5 stack) got another caller one of the big stacks who flips kk, Ronan shows an ace and im "foooooook!" but amazing scenes! ace on the flop, turn ace, river 10...after that its a battle not to bubble the final, I double again with kk v 33 all in pre, and then steal some more pots, then for a massive chip lead im all in pre with ak v aq...flop..kj10, asfdaerafazvz! would have had at least 700,000 chips but noooo one of the shortys, but manage the 5th, the extra 1600 would have been very nice tho!

Had a few other results in smaller mtts, came 3rd in one then they did a deal 2 handed...wtf! bubbled another payout when top 4 paid, 5th lol, etc etc!

If anyone reads this still, and you visit the La Cala/Fuengirola/Marbella area here are a couple of links to two of the Poker clubs...

http://www.kingspokerclub.es/
http://www.calahondasportingclub.com/

Dave and Donna who are great hosts are moving from Caesars to CalaHonda so good look to them...

Online is still a disaster, and not much to say there, although I will grind on...

Played a bit of golf, but pretty unreal I have actually got worse! great courses out here tho...k back to Winter I guess...

Down Swongament Attack!

Swell..the Ipoker downswing continues, AA might aswell be 24 off pre flop at the mo, as the hero callers keep taking me down, might just stick my arse in Woolies window but even that fkkas shut down here in sunny Selby!

Same old story of been pretty deep then vital flip when im ahead and then getting rear shafted by Sainsburys kiddo who then says "wp gg" in the chatbox..."ty get fucked shitbag" was my polite reply on one occasion, but in general I take it well...;)



So there it is <<<< in all its glory, a nice -$2k downswingament, pretty confident I will turn this around soon so watch this space (obv if this continues there may be no post for 4-5 months in keeping with 99% of blogs on the internet).

Have been playing and deleting a few other sites, Dtd was the 1st victim when I came 4th in a 10r for 800+ euros, damn sick when I was massive chip leader, 1st paying nearly 3k of those euro things, but 2 all ins when I ahead blew my balls...sigh.

Joined Bwin who have a good active schedule, but within 2 days on there they decided to block my account even when registered for 3 mtts, 3 days later still no answer on what is happening, and no news on refund where I will have been blinded out, wtf!!! bwin is not ftw at the mo!!!!

Random Thoughts From A Selby Poker Player...

Shit, nearly 2 months since the update...ha oh well I blame work...:) Ipoker has been a bit of a biatch, 100+ mtts and on a bit of a down slope, played the $1mil gtd last weekend (satted in) came 225th/1900+ paid at 200th, and $220,000 for 1st, sigh...and a bit shite on the cash tables on there but the rake is gooooot!

Full Tilt has been ok tho, got a 1st, 3rd and a 2nd for $2830, $2336, $1724 which was nice, also Pkr have started some nice deep stacked mtts everynight and got a 6th for $800, tho a10 beaten by a3 pre sucked with $4k up top.

Blonde Bash in Leeds last weekend, not as good as Cardiff as loads of people did'nt turn up, and the Shrewdies left at like 5.45pm which was fun, doubled up on the cash and won a £20 stt, didnt do out in the main comp tho, but drank lots of Peroni which is a fine lager imo.

Been listening to some old Muse and Arctic Monkeys stuff which is great, tho both there new albums are a big dip in form, and I loved the first Reverend And The Makers album, the new one is absolute pants!

Looking at booking for Spain in late October, not enjoying this change in temp..coooooolllld! right gonna get some results on Ipoker the mo fos!!!

Time....

Ha! where did the time go...Spain was great, did'nt play much poker out there...just chilled a lot of the time, came 2nd down at Caesars with about 21 runners, no biggie.
Time has flown as i've been working a bit for my friend as he is moving his plant hire business over the summer, dont mind it too much...bit of a change, and also reminds you the freedom poker can give! covering holidays for them really, esp in August as main fellas are off.

Also saw Blur live in Newcastle in a smallish venue (o2 academy), they were abs brilliant with Damon Albarn stage diving into the crowd 3 times! so full of energy and totally rocked, just need some new material at some point hopefully!

On the online poker front, my Bet N Go rakeback deal died, so got yet another Ipoker deal, this time on Victor Chandler which is a good un! Started on July 10th...and the graph is looking ok...



Sticking to one site really seems to be a good idea overall, you beat the variance more aswell as getting to know the regs (plenty of notes), plus im French on there which always helps with people calling.

Also playing a load of cash at 100nl on there to build up the rakeback, been going ok aswell. So will stick to the same stuff and see how August goes...