Oh dear oh dear

I should have taken Phil's advice. Tried the PokerRocket Challenge and failed miserabley. Started with $50 at .25/.50 blinds and I lost it in less than an hour. I played really really badly. I then also lost $20 playing $5 SnG's so my roll is down to $200. I'll be sticking to my usual .10/.25 from now on. The aim is the get this up to $600 before the end of March so it pays for the months rent that I'm not working.

Speaking of which leaving day is tomorrow, yay! I will be a little upset, after all I have spent the last 6 years working here and I will miss some of the people, especially my team. But I'm going to be visiting some really cool places and cant wait to see some of the world. First stop Japan on the 28th March! Vegas is obviously going to be a big highlight for me, and playing in the WSOP is going to be a dream come true. I'll have to beat about 3,500 people to scoop the first prize of around $900,000, so i'll settle for getting through day 1 which will be a task in itself. I'll also be hitting the cash tables depending on how much cash I have left!!

Pocket J's bite my ass

Yesterday twice I built my stack up to double the $25 buy-in, and twice I lost the double up, with pocket J's on flops with no overcards. Dont get me wrong, I love the fish, but they sometimes get lucky and it really pissed me off last night. The worst one was (6 handed):

I raise to $1 UTG, wank biscuit calls me on the button, all other fold

Flop: 2d,2c,3s i bet $1.75 WB calls

Turn: 6h i bet $4.....WB calls (at this point i think he prob either has A3, or maybe 8's or something)

River: Ks i bet $9....(I still think i'm good here)

WB flat calls and flips K10off. Wp. GG. Muppet

So after an hour im $0.84 up. Great

Current roll on PP $270ish

Boo!! I hate losing days

Today is one of them, what a shocker. Yesterday went really well and I was up to $310, but down about $40 today to $270. It feels a little disheartening but I didn't really do too much wrong so am still feeling confident about building this bankroll up to the $500 mark.

meh

PokerRocket Challenge

Firstly, I've managed to spin that free $10 into $230 and I still cant believe how loose the play is on the site (Party Poker). Just have to play ABC poker and the fish always bite. Got Monday off so am gonna play all day to see if I can get towards $500.

Was reading another Poker players blog, and came across something called the PokerRocket Challenge. Basically you start with $100 at a $.50/1 ring game (the max buy-in usually), and play until you have enough for the max buy-in at the next level ($1/£$2). As soon as you have enough you move up levels, and you keep going until you either hit the sky or bust. Now I know this doesn't fall into line with bankroll management but it could be a laugh, so maybe i'll have a go. Maybe i'll start with $50 at a $.25/.50.

Naturally Phil tried to discourage me from this, but I like to gamble so......

Speaking of which I found that I still had £10 in my Betfair account, so decided to put £3 on a Red card being shown on the Liverpool game and Marco Matterazi didn't let me down, Yey! Only got £17.50 back but still happy with that. I then tried to put the money on those mongs Man Utd to beat Lyon, but the website kept crashing so i gave up. They ended up drawing; it's like the gambling gods are looking after me at the moment!

oh, and I got me payslip today and the cash goes in tomorrow, yeah baby Vegas here I come!

Rivered, Rivered and Rivered

MF RIVER! I hate it, what a shitbag! Logged on to Party Poker the other day and had a Free $10 waiting for me to 'welcome me back', as I haven't played on there for ages. I've spun that up to $125 but it could have been more had I not been outdrawn in three big pots last night. 2/3 of them were donks calling without anywhere near the odds and the third was just unlucky but I cant blame the fish. Anyway I finished even but should have been $40-50 up. Nevermind. Will be sticking to PP for a while, as the standard of play on there is seriously shocking and I can see myself making some decent cash over the next few weeks providing I dont blow up!

10 working days to go...

In ten working days time I'll no longer be a Cengage/Thomson employee, and it's starting to feel really real now. If I stick with my current plans then I've got a month until I leave to do 3 months traveling. Plan is Japan, Oz, Nz then the US. Part of me still doesn't want to go and I'm kind of afraid of what I might come back to. Things can change a lot in 3 months. But I can't see me getting another opportunity like this to do it.

Anyway, not played hardly any Poker recently, but will try to get some in before this blog turns into a travel blog!!