Hello again. It's been about ten months since my last blog so sorry for the big delay to those who used to take the time to read it. This does seem to tend to happen to a lot of people's poker blogs. I guess at a point you just run out of what you perceive to be interesting things to say. Anyway, I'm writing one now and hopefully I'll carry on with more.
So here's an update of how poker has gone since last time:
- Won some money
- Lost some money.
I had a nice $25k score in winning the Masters shortly after my last blog entry but went on a bad run at cash soon after that and unfortunately had no further tourney scores for the rest of the year. The way tournaments work of course is if you are playing them frequently and getting no big cashes, then you are losing money.
This year is going well so far though. I've had a few solid winning months at cash games which has far exceeded my losses so far in tournaments this year. I've had absolutely no success at online tournaments outside PKR and nothing is going in live tournaments either. For some reason I'm really motivated to get a big live score and have been playing a decent amount of tournaments (for me anyway, not by some other people's standards).
I moved to London at the end of last year which has made playing live donks a lot a easier as there seems to be a decent one every week. The big problem I have with them though is that they usually require you to keep your entire weekend free. It's very unlikely you will be playing all weekend of course because you won't go deep in most of them. It's difficult when you get invited to something and have to say "I'll probably be able to come, but can't commit 100% to it because I might be in a poker tournament". People in the real world don't understand things like this and will probably be offended if it's their birthday or something. So more often than not I find myself swerving tournaments for this reason. And this is me, who doesn't even have a particularly hectic social life. Anyway when it's convenient and I'm in the mood I'm liking a live tournament at the moment. But can I win one soon please!
A big poker career event that happened recently was me becoming a PKR pro! I had been doing some commentary and writing work with them since I'd moved to London and have been playing on the site for years now so I hope I have earned the opportunity. It certainly gives me added motivation to drag my ass to the casino and show people outside of PKR that I'm not a complete donk. Luckily unlike some people that represent certain poker sites I don't have to pretend I like the site and think it's great *cough lock poker cough*. PKR is the longest I have ever played consistently on any particular site and I've met some cool people through it. All in all I'm very happy to represent PKR.
I'll try to write more blogs if anything potentially interesting pops into my head. I'll be doing some strategy stuff which will go on the PKR.com website and I also frequently contribute strategy articles to Poker Player Magazine so check that out if you feel so inclined. I've also got a few interesting poker things coming up. Planning a trip with the infamous BrotherMuzone soon to play some live poker somewhere in Europe (that's as far as the planning has gone) and going to play the ISPT. PKR also filmed a live cash game which I played in so hopefully that will air soon. As well as that I'm 90% going to go to Vegas for a quick trip during the WSOP.
Until next time...
