Take A Break, Take A Kit Kat!

Well I did take a break on Sunday and it was most refreshing. I think I had a nice break from the tables on sunday even though it wasnt a full break. I still donked about on some HU SNG's which was pretty fun but nothing serious.

I really do think now looking back at my break and the things I thought about whilst not at the tables, those that were poker related anyway, will really help me in the future.
I am still not out of this downswing, I thought I was after a +7BI day on Monday, however I proceeded to be shitted on yesterday and today so far so it still isnt over.

I had time to reflect on poker things and basically clear my mind and just install confidence back in myself that I am a good enough player to beat 25 and 50nl easily. I am just waiting for the BR to build back up now in order to be able to take advantage of this. Also I added up how much I have made from rakeback and bonuses this month and so far I have earnt $260 from the two payments I have had, $175 from my rakerace and $100 from full tilt so I mean hey $535 worth of bonuses and rakeback really do ease the pain. Also still have the rakeback from lockdown which is about $100 which will be included in the rakeback payments to come so Im going to try and turn this month into a winning one!

Some things I have learnt during this downswing is that a break of however long feels right is by FAR the best possible thing to do for your game and for you mentally!

Downswongaments! + Lockdown!

Hey guys sorry to be writing this and it sucks to write it but since the start of November I have been on a losing streak/Dswong. I have run like ass for the last week which sucks and I feel as though I am still playing well but am getting tilted/spewy in some session where I literally get fucked over all the time. So I will be taking a break which I have had and will post my thoughts about it after this post.

I did try a lockdown from Friday afternoon to Saturday. I had to play for 24 hours poker in 36 hours of time. I gave up after 13k hands as I couldnt take the running bad anymore, think i was down about $180 and should have been up $80 so that pissed me so much. So I moaned abit to mates on AIM/MSN etc and then decided to take Sunday off.

Isildur1 Vs Durrrr

Im not sure how many readers are currently aware of the insane high stakes heads up matches that have been going on for the past few days but I am sure you will within the next few days or if you are reading here.

Everybody knows who Durrrr is, Tom Dwan arguably THE best cash game player in the world at this moment in time and he is currently in a heads up war versus Isildur1. Who? Yeah thats exactly what I said to myself when I saw this screename. However I now know as it has been released that it is Blom90 who used to play on Ipoker and made an epic run in the high stakes games over there. His name is Viktor Blom and he is a 21 year old swedish player. He deposited $2k and managed to spin it up to $1.4million within 3 weeks and now has pooled his money to take a shot at the high stakes games on Full Tilt. You can read more about his previous story here, but for the past few days he has been playing Durrrr, Patick Antonius, Cole Smith and a few other well known high stakes regs. More to the point he has actually been crushing the limits and has won a little over $3 million from Durrrr alone, but Durrrr keeps on playing him and doesn't look like backing down anytime soon.

They are currently playing now and Durrrr is having yet another session but they are again going for a 10 hour session and not allowed to quit unless down at least 500k or min of 5 hours has been played.

Should be very interesting to see how this epic match unfolds in days to come!

So How's November Started?

November has started very poorly indeed!

It has been stressing me out this month indeed! However I know why it has been stressing me out, the reason is I am actually playing the best I have ever played I think. I have been working hard at my game, studying, getting sweats and improving only to see bad results and this is what has been stressing me out.

Oh well I will just keep up the grind and hopefully things will turn around for me, there isnt anything else I can do tbh!

I had an exam today for Uni which went really well so now I can press onto the poker for the rest of the week and really put in some hands. I hope to maybe attempt some kind of lockdown next weekend either mixing 25nl and 50nl or just 25nl if I continue to run bad at 50nl. I havent made anything up yet but im thinking maybe like 24 hours playing out of 36 hours or something funky!

I will keep you updated

Jake

Halloween End To October!

Well since my last update October has been kinda a nasty end, not in monetary terms but swings. Jesus the swings have been horrible, the last 3 days I have been down 4BIs @ 50 at the bottom point and manage to be +80,+20 and -190 so I think I have handled them well.

I think my mental game is very good and has improved s

ignificantly since starting the game. I can handle losing sessions fine and just dont care when I win only if it's like 4BI's+ lol. I think it reflects my personality really as Im pretty chilled anyway. Im pretty impressed with myself during sessions that I have been 4BIs down and just keep focused and playing my best poker which is probably is why I have come out in the green in so many horribly swingy sessions. Before playing 6max this was one of the main reasons why I didnt want to make the switch from FR but I have been pleased with the way I can handle swings. I suppose you just have to keep focused, confidence and stick to BRM. Sorry to blow my own trumpet lol!

Anyway Im done in terms of poker for October and it ended up ok. I spent the month at 50 and had 1 failed 100nl shot during the middle which crippled my profits and the last week of breakeven poker crippled my winrate at 50.

I ended up +$344 in terms of winnings, beat 50 @ 3.07 over 41k hands and lost $255 at 100nl as I had a session yest and shipped a BI lol.

Here is how the old graphical evidence looks, tbh it feels kinda shit to only have won $340 odd but I beat 50 pretty well I think over a nice sample aswell if it wasnt for that failed 100 shot it would have been ok. First month for rakeback aswell which scooped me $410 and $260 in rakeback.

October Figures

Winnings - $344

Rakeback - $410

Bonus - $260

Total - $1014

Second consecutive 4 figure month which is good tbh!

Plans For November

Shit this is getting to be a pretty long blog entry lol! Basically November is going to be a massive grindddddddddddddd! Christmas next month, Holiday spending $$$ and living expenses to earn. Basically just going to play alot still 6 tabling 50nl 6max but will take shots at 100 when I am rolled and just hope to run good basically and put in alot more hours at the tables.

Peace out dudes!

Wolves vs Villa

Some of you readers may know I am a villa fan so this Saturday I headed down to Molineux for the local derby for the Wolves game.
My housemate is a Wolves fan on the other hand and we stayed at his crib over the weekend etc Unfortunately the villa tickets had sold out fucking uber quick which sucked ass! So I had to sit with the fucking wolves fans in the cheap uncovered seats and yeah you guessed it. It fucking pissed it down most of the first half and soaked me. They did give us some shitty mac's which we wore to keep us dry but was all part of the fun.

Anyway to the match, I personally kicked it off with a balti pie and it was very good! However villa didnt turn up until half time which was annoying. They were atrocius, couldnt string a pass together or keep hold of the ball. They were like my side I play for on a Sunday morning, although the conditions were terrible. Wolves were unlucky not to be infront by half time but they were trying to walk the ball into the net instead of having a dig from the edge of the area.

Eventually villa woke up and started playing some football during the start of the second half and we managad to poke one in just gone 75 mins which was a well deserved goal by then because we had been all over them since the whistle. However then wolves went straight up the other end and Sidwell the ginger ninja decides to dive in and bring down Doyle for a PK. Ebanks blake smashes it home and its 1-1. Sidwell played absolutley horrific I really dont rate him one bit!

It stayed 1 a piece although wolves did have a few more chances at the end, all in all I think it was fair result tbh all be it a terrible result for Villa on paper but when you dont turn up for half the game what can you expect!

Skiing Holiday Booked 11th - 18th December

Says it in the title of this post and man am I looking forward to it this year!!

We are going with the University actually and its going to be absolutely sick! My house mate and I have booked ourselves up. House mate actually is a qualified instuctor who spent two ski seasons out in the three valley ski area which are Maribel, Val Thoren and courchevel in France. Our Uni is going to Val Thoren but you can get an upgrade pass to go to any one of these areas so thats what we did! Skiing is way better in Courche compared to the rest.


We head out on a bus journey from Bristol on 11th December which should be cool heading out a few weeks before christmas. I usually go in February but haven gone the last few years because none of my friends from home like skiing but should be cool going with my housemate and uni as I can imagine it to be a wicked social event aswell as some sick skiing! Unfortunately my girlfriend doesn't want to go as she is shocking at ice skating so she doesnt want to pay for it to find she spends the week on her arse attempting to ski!

Just an update on that and im buzzin' for the trip!

Also wooo!! double figure followers! Thanks to those dudes for reading my blog. Its always cool to actually realise people follow even if I get hardly any comments. So if your a secret follower a comment or hit the followers button would be sick!