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