I'm Back
Ok so I’ve been completely useless at this bluff stuff, I managed to make 8 posts and then zero for 11 months. My mate Ben has just started a blog and was encouraging me to start mine back up and I enjoy reading his Brennans and Soaps blogs so here goes, …
2008 as a whole was positive on the poker front. I ended £4000 up, building on the £3000 profit made in 2006. Since 2005 I’ve made between 20-30% more as a whole each year. However 2008 should have been a lot better, I made a flying start to the first 6 months and was up around £6000 at one point. Id got up to playing $2 $5 quite comfortably but to be honest wasn’t playing with enough of a roll behind me. I was also playing the occasional $5 $10, biggest pot I won was $2200 and biggest lost was $3000 (AA all in pre flop). To be honest the year was very swingy (i.e. winning and loosing £2k per month) versus previous years of consistently small profit. I sorted myself out by November and dropped back down to $1 $2 and started grinding like I should.
With the £ dropping in value I’ve also started playing more NL100, reason being that I took quite a bit of profit out of my roll and have left myself a set roll with the promise of no silly higher stakes session this year (see how long will last). Tilt remains my biggest issue, can’t believe I still haven’t cracked it. Still been playing Betfair but am changing to Bigslick this month to try and have a fresh start.
So far Jan has been ok and am about $580 up mainly from NL100, however not had time to play as many hands as id like. Ive still had massive temptation to play higher i.e. NL500 but so far resisted this to date in 2009. I’m going to try and keep the blog up to date as to help my control and hopefully keep me focussed. Work has been pretty busy last 6 months but hopefully will still find time to play equivalent hands to last year.
Some top line aims
- Make at least £5k from poker
- Dedicated some time to MTT and try to end the year in some profit
- Play more PLO (NL50)
- Minimise Tilt, ensure I write honestly on blog if I do tilt
- Try and qualify for a live MTT via a online sat
2008 as a whole was positive on the poker front. I ended £4000 up, building on the £3000 profit made in 2006. Since 2005 I’ve made between 20-30% more as a whole each year. However 2008 should have been a lot better, I made a flying start to the first 6 months and was up around £6000 at one point. Id got up to playing $2 $5 quite comfortably but to be honest wasn’t playing with enough of a roll behind me. I was also playing the occasional $5 $10, biggest pot I won was $2200 and biggest lost was $3000 (AA all in pre flop). To be honest the year was very swingy (i.e. winning and loosing £2k per month) versus previous years of consistently small profit. I sorted myself out by November and dropped back down to $1 $2 and started grinding like I should.
With the £ dropping in value I’ve also started playing more NL100, reason being that I took quite a bit of profit out of my roll and have left myself a set roll with the promise of no silly higher stakes session this year (see how long will last). Tilt remains my biggest issue, can’t believe I still haven’t cracked it. Still been playing Betfair but am changing to Bigslick this month to try and have a fresh start.
So far Jan has been ok and am about $580 up mainly from NL100, however not had time to play as many hands as id like. Ive still had massive temptation to play higher i.e. NL500 but so far resisted this to date in 2009. I’m going to try and keep the blog up to date as to help my control and hopefully keep me focussed. Work has been pretty busy last 6 months but hopefully will still find time to play equivalent hands to last year.
Some top line aims
- Make at least £5k from poker
- Dedicated some time to MTT and try to end the year in some profit
- Play more PLO (NL50)
- Minimise Tilt, ensure I write honestly on blog if I do tilt
- Try and qualify for a live MTT via a online sat
posted by Jackal23 at 5:06 pm
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Try some aims of saving a shot in 2009!!
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