So it has begun! (Again!)

Been back playing on the Full Tilt tables again the last 2-3 weeks and had fairly steady results. Only managed to muster a $500 deposit, so have had to drop down the limits quite drastically too $0.10/$0.25NL. Lol, its quite a long way away from the 1/2 and sometimes 2/5NL but its the only way I can build a bankroll without too much risk of going broke. Initially I found it very boring and tedious playing for such micro amounts but I have concentrated hard not to let this affect my game and play too loose and passive. Ive only played around 3.5k hands (as I've been away in the Lake District for close to a week) but have made close to 6 buy-ins. This may not seem an awful lot but I am hoping to multi-table a lot more, I'm currently upto 5 or 6. :-) I am also thinking of playing full ring games as opposed to the 6 handed games I'm playing. This will allow me to play more tables and have slightly easier descions with marginal hands out of position...i.e. FOLD PRE-FLOP!!

Below is a quick look at the the progress I've made through 3543 hands...












Profit - $140
Total Hands - 3543

Hoping to add another $300 in September! Will keep ya updated! :-)

Back in the game...soon!

I've decided to take my last shot again next week sometime. Ive re -deposited online two, £300 deposits only to lose them both times. Awful run of cards and no BRM at all has seen to that! Luckily however, I've played pretty well live and clawed some of that back! Phew!

Anyways, I've now got new rules and I'm saving to deposit $1000 and play with strict BRM. Life is good at the minute with a new girlfriend (well 3 months) and Im recovering from my basketball injuries fairly well.

Will begin the blog soon outlying my roll, rules and results. Not sure if anyone really reads this but I'm going to use it as a tool of venting frustartion and not going on tilt. Patience is my key and soaking up 2-3weeks of bad cards is all part of poker...I've just learnt this.

See you all soon!!

- Rich

Oh dear...

:-(

I've gone broke, after 2 weeks of really frustrating times on and off the poker tables I finally mananged to bust my roll in about 25 minutes of madness.

I played like a complete tool, only for 25 minutes, but that was enough to see 6 weeks hard online graft vanish into nothing. I'm not going to make excuses on this, I completely lost patience. I've learnt in online poker I am a ticking timebomb. My roll has been hovering between £350- £550 for the last 2 weeks and tonight I decided to go up in blinds and take a shot at boosting my roll.

It started well, I was up around £150, but, after an hour of bad beats and a couple of badly times re raises I went nuts...but certainly not with the nuts!!

I decided to go heads up with £300 at £2-5, blew that in 5 minutes when some guy kept calling me down to make a king high flush on the river, I then lost all patience and decided to try and get lucky by raising every hand etc etc...lost it all.

If you read my first post, I did this a year ago and I don't know where this leaves me in poker. I really wanted to make this work so bad, but like a lot of things it was not meant to be. :-(

Injuries to my shoulders and knee's are not improving and I have no idea what to do about it. I am very bored of working behind a bar and my lack of poker profit, over the last 10 days has left me severley frustrated. These are no excuses to do what I have done. It was unnecessary... just lost my patience completely.

I will never be in the position of having nothing, though, it feels like I have lost everything. My heart is set on basketball and achieving to play at the highest level in this country. I will never give up on that dream, ever. I see the physio again in 2 days and will continue to search for answers.

On the other hand, I feel poker has become too frustarting...the semi-micro limits I play at do not satisfy my needs...thus leading to frustartion, boredom and eventually going broke. If I am ever to be the best I can be, blinds of $1-2 and hopefully $2-5 will need to be played with a $10 000 BR behind me. I will need to set profit targets, cash out more regularly, take 1 week breaks after cashing out too. The last 10 days I have become totally engrossed in making money online and this is not always viable. A break may have enabled me to keep a fresh perspective on the value of money I had. (After all I wasn't losing!)

Anyway, whats done is done...again!! ARGH!! Overall, I only lost £100 of my own money...i can live with that.

I probs won't post again until I turn things around...maybe a couple of months or so. Till then I am going to concentrate on moving my life forward and dig my way out of this hole.
In 2 months I hope to be training to play basketball again, injury free! The poker I will look at again sometime and will put this as another learning curve. I have ambitions in life (steady income, house, family etc) and I don't think relying on poker to feed them is very "wise!"

Anyways, time to sort my life out now!!

Peace out 4 now!

- RICH

First Post!!

This blog has just.......................begun!

Hold tight, cuz like most things I do I guess I'm gonna regret doing this one day! But do I care...well, yea, but I'm gonna do it...probably wont last long anyway, I lose interest in things kinda quick, i wish i didn't but I do...and when I don't, something goes wrong anyway! (Violin please!)

This blog is mostly going to be about poker and my somewhat desperate attempt to get back to full fitness to play basketball at a decent level! ( more on that next post!)

Anyway, I am currently in the process of trying to build an online poker bankroll...which started at a measly £100...again.

I say again cuz about 18 months ago I did this before, £50 over 6 weeks of solid, good poker play online turned into £1200 - a lot of cash for me, and I didnt get lucky (well not much!) for it.

I had rules, you know, never risk more than 10% of my BR (bankroll!!), choose tables where the other guys aren't that good! lol blah blah you know the rules and it worked...but then, I got impatient...bad beats hit me for 5 or 6 days solid and it dropped to £800 which isnt that bad but i lost patience. I thought I should ALWAYS be winning...

£5/£10 blinds then, £800 to the table, ie, 6 weeks of online graft! You know what happened and i was pissed off!! (If you dont, I got dealt kings 2nd hand, and it went all in preflop with a guy holding AQ and ace came on turn...night night, adios... twat!)

Anyway, I'm back playing for a BR (Bankroll...last time now!), a permanent one at that! One that is going to pay me a nice side pot in my life...one day!

I have plenty of time to do it, (I do work though, around 35-45 hrs a week behind a bar for £5.80 an hour...and i do pay my N.I. and Tax thanks!).
Anyway... I am playing by my rules and now accepting losing sessions, I'm single, not out of choice but its defo for the best... for now! (wonder why!?!?! lol). I'm a pretty good player, I know all the odds and read people good, its not hard at the levels I'm at now though, £0.25/£0.50 and a little £0.50/£1.00 NL and PL Omaha. This is where I have tried over the last 3 weeks to grind some cash, I'm at £483.27 at the moment, not bad, was up to £650 but recently ran very bad, no problems cuz my rules have prevented me going broke...PROGRESSION!

You maybe wondering why this is so imporant to me, well my maximum earning potential is about 12-14 k a year (like many)... but this isn't affording the "stuff" I want or at least will want. So I am looking at this as a possible investment to one day help me afford "the better life".

90% of people laugh at me for this and I look at this as maybe, just maybe the start of the way to laugh back, in a nice way :-) ...like i say i will be 100% honest and if i play bad, lose everything I will say, my pride lies in trying...succeeding would be nice though!

Anyway, thats the intro, most posts won't be so long and boring - will make 'em more to the point! I'm off to physio (more on that soon!) and will play some more poka!

PEACE! Rich