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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #390 on: December 14, 2008, 19:52:21 PM »
I swear someone at Pokerstars reads my blog and everytime I say I"m doing well on their site, they ensure I hit nothing for several games after. Since my earlier post I"ve lost four successive buy ins. Bizarrely, in three out of the four games, I shoved with a pair, got called by an opponent with two overcards who proceded to flop a straight. On the other occasion, I shoved with Ace/King, got called by Ace/Ten and guess what? Yep that"s right, the flop came King/Queen/Jack to give him a straight but not me. F*** Pokerstars. Grrrrrrrrrr.
 Time for one of my regular changes of direction. Its back to the MTTs.        
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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #391 on: December 16, 2008, 21:27:33 PM »
The end of the world is nigh! There are disturbing things afoot on my main source of poker income, low buy in six-handed  SNGs on Betfair. Twice within the last two days, I"ve bust when an opponent has four-bet me preflop, hit the flop hard and I"ve shoved not believing they"ve hit anything. In both cases they were playing from the button; tonight"s villain was thieving with six/seven suited, sunday"s battered me with queen/jack offsuit. It seems as though these previously fish-heavy games are being infiltrated with players who actually do have a clue what they are doing. Oh dear.  
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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #392 on: December 19, 2008, 14:49:50 PM »
Not much news to report on the poker front at the moment. I"m taking a rare 24 hours off today as I"m having a night on the beer with my workmates. Several other groups of acquaintances will be somewhere around the city centre and I don"t expect to be home much before 2.00am. Hopefully, when I do, I"ll resist the temptation to switch on the computer for a brief session of 7card stud play.  
  The only significant thing I"ve done this week is to enrol on a creative writing evening class. This runs for 10 weeks and will be for 2 hours each tuesday night. The course is aimed at complete beginners so I"m hoping that by the end I may possibly be able to write a coherent sentence.
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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #393 on: December 19, 2008, 18:25:18 PM »
read Hunter S Thompson or Chuck Palaniuk
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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #394 on: December 20, 2008, 03:02:10 AM »

read Hunter S Thompson or Chuck Palaniuk
save on course fees


Good advice but this is costing me nothing at all. Its merely a perk of the job. Having said that, they still owe me as I was denied an opportunity of taking part in the 2006 WSOP main event as I wasn"t allowed the time off work. Maybe when I"m as rich as JK Rowling my employer will have paid their dues..........
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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #395 on: December 20, 2008, 17:18:56 PM »

Good advice but this is costing me nothing at all. Its merely a perk of the job. Having said that, they still owe me as I was denied an opportunity of taking part in the 2006 WSOP main event as I wasn"t allowed the time off work. Maybe when I"m as rich as JK Rowling my employer will have paid their dues..........



Just to let you know I"ve been keeping count and this is the 653 time you have mentioned you know what.

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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #396 on: December 20, 2008, 18:10:20 PM »


Good advice but this is costing me nothing at all. Its merely a perk of the job. Having said that, they still owe me as I was denied an opportunity of taking part in the 2006 WSOP main event as I wasn"t allowed the time off work. Maybe when I"m as rich as JK Rowling my employer will have paid their dues..........



Just to let you know I"ve been keeping count and this is the 653 time you have mentioned you know what.


and I don"t suppose it will be the last
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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #397 on: December 21, 2008, 21:59:33 PM »
 I"ve already sussed the changes I"m going to make to my poker for the next 12 months, so rather than leave it until the last day of the year, I"d thought I"d place this on record whilst its fresh in my mind. The improvements I have in mind chiefly centre around improving my poker playing discipline so here goes:

1) At the moment, I currently keep a running profit/loss each week, then when I finish each saturday night,add the weekly total to a total for the year to date. I set myself the target of trying to be in profit for each seven day period. This seems to have been successful in getting me to concetrate on areas when I can make a steady profit. However, in practise this means I"ve almost cut out playing tournaments and I don"t think this helps maximise my potential upside. Therefore, in 2009 I will set myself the target of being in profit each month rather than each week. I think this will allow me a greater degree of flexibility to play MTTs and have more shots at a single big payday, but retain the discipline I"ve introduced in recent months.
2) I have noticed that playing whilst fatigued has a huge influence on my bottom line. Therefore, I will not play whilst off work sick or start any SNG or cash table after 11pm. I"m sure this will put me at least a couple of hundred dollars a year further into profit.
3) When playing I will not check my emails or send messages to friends on Facebook.
4) I will probably play less hours but try to have greater focus when I am on the tables.
5) Completely unconnected with my profit or loss, but at the moment I"m not sure how long I"ll keep writing this blog for. I"m already writing another one on the website of a local newspaper and as mentioned in a couple of recent entries, am starting a short writing course in a few weeks. For at least the duration of the course, I will have a crack at trying to do some proper writing, so I"m not sure how much time I"ll have for playing poker. Something will have to give and at the moment I"m not sure what.      
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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #398 on: December 27, 2008, 11:09:16 AM »
I"ve left my flat for the one and only time today (went to Ladbrokes) and I"m settled in for a day of non stop poker and horseracing. My poker has been going appallingly over the last week or so, but fool that I am, I will keep plugging away in the hope that I may win another coinflip sometime before new year. I"ve registered in one of Pokerstars 10000 player SNGs but this seems to be taking an inordinate amount of time to fill, so I"ve also registered for one of my regular 6 player SNGs on Berfair. Nobody else seems to be enrolling in that either, so perhaps seeing my name at the top of the list of entries has sent everyone off to the sales. Hmmm, not sure about that.
  On top of that there is a superb day"s jump racing on both Channel 4 and BBC. Although its not on terrestial TV, my ante post tip for the Triumph Hurdle, Starluck, runs in the 1.05 at Kempton. I"m expecting him to win comfortably but I"ll be keeping a very close eye on the 2.40 at Chepstow with is a substantially more competitive event. I don"t think the form of this season"s Irish juvenile hurdlers amounts to anything and all the main lines of form for the three year olds on this side of the Irish Sea come together at Chepstow. Having backed Starluck at somewhere in excess of 20-1 for the Triumph hurdle after his victory at Fakenham, I"ve had a few quid more on today at 14-1. Hopefully, that will mean my week at Cheltenham will be paid for.            
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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #399 on: December 27, 2008, 11:24:23 AM »

5) Completely unconnected with my profit or loss, but at the moment I"m not sure how long I"ll keep writing this blog for.


Well you have two choices

1) Keep this blog going

2)

It is sooooooo good I would hate to kill you .........................

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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #400 on: December 27, 2008, 11:47:14 AM »


5) Completely unconnected with my profit or loss, but at the moment I"m not sure how long I"ll keep writing this blog for.


Well you have two choices

1) Keep this blog going

2)

It is sooooooo good I would hate to kill you .........................


My suggestion is that option 1 seems to be a good idea.  Just some friendly advice.   ;D

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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #401 on: December 27, 2008, 14:02:46 PM »
Talk about non event. After waiting 3.5 hours between registration and the tournament starting, I went out of the 10000 player SNG on Pokerstars on the first hand. Bah humbug.
  Nevermind, as predicted, Starluck easily won at Kempton this afternoon and has been shortened for mext March"s Triumph Hurdle.  
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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #402 on: December 28, 2008, 09:29:55 AM »



5) Completely unconnected with my profit or loss, but at the moment I"m not sure how long I"ll keep writing this blog for.


Well you have two choices

1) Keep this blog going

2)

It is sooooooo good I would hate to kill you .........................


My suggestion is that option 1 seems to be a good idea.  Just some friendly advice.   ;D


Thanks for the support guys but all good things come to an end and I think this blog has run its course. I"ll put a more detailed breakdown of my reasons on here in a couple of days, but broadly speaking me spending time on other things and the content of season three figure heavily in the factors that have led me to this conclusion.  :(  
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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #403 on: December 28, 2008, 12:25:23 PM »
your blog will be sorely missed. there will only be one blogger from norfolk and to be honest to the author of that one, his blog is not as good as yours(quite frankly, his is crap lol).

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Re: Am I a fish or what?
« Reply #404 on: December 28, 2008, 12:38:25 PM »
For what it"s worth Simon I"m playing the Betfair lower level cash tables and tbh can be quite profitable if you have a bit of patience. The 25c/50c Xenon tables are enjoyable and can be quite lucrative for the bankroll (depending obviously on your normal output)
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