Time to get serious....

...this month I'm mostly going to try and

A) Not tilt

B) Not play like a twat.

September was okay profit wise but I'm quite annoyed with it to be perfectly honest. The high point was getting to over $1300 up with still well over a week of the month to go. I think that's where the complacency may have set in and I played like a muppet and got a bit tilty and spunked away about $800 over a week.

I managed to rally towards the end of the month by having a break from NLHE and turning my attention to RAZZ. So a $700+ month but I really feel it should have been so much more.

I've withdrawn quite a bit of my roll and I'm going to devote my time to playing RAZZ for October, I've never really given it much attention before - but I guess it can't do any harm...can it? So I don't expect the profits to be too spectacular but it shoud be fun.

Oh also, my mate Tony has asked me to include a link for a deal he's offering

PARADISE POKER - 35% RAKEBACK & 500 Euro Bonus

This is the highest you'll find anywhere

(he's basically giving up some some of his commission)

35% Paradise Poker Rakeback Here

Is It Friday yet?

Some weeks just get on your tits, this has been one of them. I can't wait until Friday 4pm comes around coz I'll be on a 4 o'clcock rocket straight outta the building. The twat on the next desk to me has been annoying the fuck out of me for weeks now, after reading OneAngryKids blog I may exorcise a few of the stories through here, a little bit of blogging therapy n all that.

The main reason this week has got on my tits is because the guy who sits next to me at work makes Napoleon Dynamite look like The Fonz, the guys a freak of nature. His hair's receding faster than a slug from salt, so he's got this fucked up 2 inch thick hair around the sides, which kinda swirls over the top of his bonce coz he thinks it hides 'the patch'.... It doesn't, he looks like a twat. Worst still he's obviously going a bit grey so he's taking to dying his hair.........ginger - lol lol lol - His Tesco bag burst open the other week and his Herbal Essences hair dye popped out, we all pretended not to notice as he hid it under his wafer thin ham. (Summation of Twatty Bollocks- he's 34, ginger (dyed), never been kissed, didn't have a drink until he was 27, once asked if he could get half of a half in a pub, talks to himself outloud in the office & uses a pen to type on the keyboard - which is very fucking noisy)

An example of how thick he is.......A bloke at work came back from America last week and brought back a selection of sweets for the office, they were in a tray with 4 separate sections. Each section had a different type of sweet in them, which were; Section 1:Fudge, Section 2:Mini-maids, Section 3:Dark Chocolate Squares, Section 4:Fruit Polo rip-offs in a clear wrapper

Twatty Bollocks (TB) was making a brew and I went to the kettle area and helped myself to a Section 4 Fruit Polo Rip-off.

• On touching my tongue it was met with a "fuck me that's hanging" as I quickly spat it out.
• TB said, "ooh better not have one of those, which one did you try"
• Halfway back to my desk I said "One of those fruit polo lookalikes"
• TB - "One of these" (pointing to the Fudge)
• ME - "Errrr, no, the ones that look like fruit polos"
• TB - "Oh these" (pointing to the Mini-maids)
• ME - paused seeing if he was really that thick.....yep he is....walked over and pointed to the fruit polo wannabees and said "these ones you daft cunt"
• TB - "Oh right"

I promptly picked up another fruit polo minger and took it to 4 different offices asking 8 people what does it look like, 100% of people answered - fruit polo

There's nothing exceptional planned for the weekend. Friday night usually equals too much beer, but for once I've got to drive after work and do a few jobs, so I won't be able to get a refreshing drinkette until at least 8 or 9pm. Still enough time to do some damage but I may stay in and join a new Poker Site... I might give Devilfish Poker a try coz I could do with a new bonus to clear.

Saturday = got some work to do in the daytime, then I might head out for a walk followed by getting the lads round for a poker night....I could do with some cash - lol

Good luck at the tables

PS - OneAngryKid, hope you don't mind me having my own little moan :-)

Been playing.....

....RAZZ, hence the picture of the RAZZberry, yeah I know it's shite but it's the best that I could come up with.

RAZZ has been my main fix for the past week, with me starting at 0.25/0.50 and working my way up to $30/$60 stakes one night.

Overall I've made around $700 playing RAZZ whilst I've managed to spunk away about $400 playing NLHE. Switching from RAZZ back to NLHE seems to make me play like a complete gimp, but the RAZZ experience has been good and I'm going to continue playing it some more.

There are not many RAZZ books out there and the couple on Amazon & eBay which are RAZZ specific cost a fortune £40+ each and the books are about 15 years old. I've been busy with some other shite, but when I get a chance I'm going to scour the forums and try and learn the nuances of the game. The main tactic that I've been employing is tight is right i.e. really waiting for that premium starting hand and then jamming the bets in like crazy when it arrives, it seems to work okay because RAZZ is primarily a drawing game and people will call down hoping to hit that miracle card. Occassionally they do and it's annoying but they're the beats that come with any form of poker.

Remembering the face cards of people who've folded is also crucial and should form part of reasoning on whether to get involved in a hand, I've found that when I think I'm behind, I usually am, but sometimes I just can't help chasing that miracle card like a twat [see above :-) ]

Anyway, I'm sticking to 1/2, 3/6 & 5/10 RAZZ for a while whilst I can hopefully become a legend at this form of Poker(ha ha I'm so full of shit - more like a Leg End). If anybody knows any good sites for RAZZ then post the links in the comments

Good luck at the tables

Back Down To Earth

Well after my stupendous start to the month on Full Tilt's NL50 tables, I have finally crashed back down to earth. From being $1042 up, I am now $606 up following two disastrous sessions (one last night & one this morning), which saw me lose just over 8 buy-ins at NL50.

Some of it was bad luck, suck-outs etc, but to be perfectly honest the majority of it was down to bad decision making on my part whcih saw me throwing good money after bad in the vain hope of doubling a stack up to recoup some of my earlier losses.

Poker doesn't work that way and it fucked me over good and proper.

Suppose I can't grumble with being $600 up for the 10th of September, but it's really fucking annoying. Back to the drawing board and I'll leave playing until the tilty feelings have subsided

Good luck at the tables

No Million Pounds For Me

Oh well, I had a good go at the Million Pound Challenge but it just wasn't to be - maybe next year. On the plus side, I'm over $1000 up for September after a week of poking around on Full Tilt NL50 and I'm gonna be an iron man baby. Long may it continue, this could well be my best month ever........as long as I don't blow it all in a pissed up moment of madness

The missus has been getting into poker more and more over the past few months and she's managed to turn her $50 starting roll into a healthy $140 on BetOnBet Poker with some guidance from me. She's mainly played 6-max micro stakes but she's recently started playing some micro sit n gos with great success.

Good luck at the tables

Bloody 10s

Bloody 10s, what a nightmare....I'm still trying to qualify for the Full Tilt Poker Million Pound Challenge and following on from my 29th place finish on Saturday and 23rd place finish on Sunday, I was feeling confident going into another freeroll.

The were 480 (ish) runners and I muddled on through the early and middle stages keeping my stack average or above average throughout, before running a little low towards the end-game.

I did however manage a cheeky couple of double-ups to move closer to the average stack size (38000). With 17 players left, the big blind at 1200 and my stack at around 32000, I was staring at 1010 UTG. I popped it up to 3200 and and had 2 large stacks in mid-position call me followed by a 12000 all-in from a short-stack. Given the positions and fact that the large stacks may have been calling light, I decided to make my move and shoved all-in, only for the first large stack to call and the second one insta-folded.

The short-stack had Ax and the large stack had AA and caught another Ace on the flop to deliver the killer blow. So I had to settle for 16th place, once again close but no cigar, at least this time I was never in a good spot with tens versus aces wheras the previous knockouts I had my chips in when ahead only to be outdrawn.

Think I'll have another bash on Wednesday - fingers crossed

Good luck at the tables

PS - thanks to Alpha for the railing

Getting Closer

Had another crack at the Million Pound Challenge Freeroll tonight - finished 23rd out of 394 runners, which is an improvement of 6 places from my efforts last night - I finally busted out when in the BB and short-stacked against 2 guys.

I had Ad9c and flopped 3 diamonds giving me a nut-flush draw and an overcard to the board, this was enough for me to move straight in and unfortunately I didn't catch another diamond or the Ace and I went out to a pair of Queens (excuse the pun).

I've still got some freeroll tickets left so I'll try again tomorrow night