April 2013

26k hands. 132 hours. 196 hands/hr.

Decent month. Could have been better if I had managed to get back into my groove quicker after my trip to Amsterdam. Can't complain though as it's my best month in a while and it feels good to have a £10k+ month after a while without one.

I feel like I have been playing much better than I was at the start of the year. For the most part I think I'm just not allowing myself to get frustrated. Be that from getting hit n ran, downtime between games or something I have been noticing a lot recently - hunger tilt. I've been trying to eat a lot more during the day when I'm playing and I've been taking a proper lunch break (usually going outside to eat by the river, which I love). I've been avoiding too much coffee also.

SKY I was up £1.8k added to the graph above brings it too £8.4k. Meaning rakeback/bonus was £1.7k.


JANUARY = +£1,930
FEBRUARY = +£2,300
MARCH = +£5,680
APRIL = +£10,080



TOTAL = £19,990

I've got £16.07k worth of withdrawals coming. Leaving a total of £52.24k online but I'm going to put some money in Pokerheaven because Interpoker has moved to ongame.

March 2013

My computer is now working better than ever and it's one less thing to sorry about. I'm going to start calculating profit/loss from what is actually in my accounts at the end of each month, as I have not been including rakeback in my results for the last year on this blog. It won't increase my winning too much, but an extra couple of hundred quid a month will hopefully make the numbers look better and at the end of the day is more accurate.

So this month my total profits were £5,680. 20.6k tracked hands, 96 hours, 214 hands/hr. This includes ~7k hands of breakeven Zoom, which I don't think I will be playing much again. Also I lost £500 on SKY which is included in that overall figure.

I have been recording opening/closing balances on paper but I might look into making a spreadsheet, which will be easier in the long run.

Anyway, I feel I'm slowly getting back into a rhythm and winning mentality after 3 or 4 months of struggling. It's getting warmer and lighter at nights which improves my mood and my outlook, which I think often affects my poker results.

The new BSP album came out this month, which is amazing.

Anyway,

JANUARY = +£1,930
FEBRUARY = +£2,300
MARCH = +£5,680

TOTAL = £9,910

February 2013

Annoyingly I had to wipe my computer at the end of this month, I created a backup/restore file in HM but any time I try to restore there is an error.

It's not a huge deal but I was a little disappointed at losing that record of the past ~3 years of my play. But I think that happens to most players and tbh I'm just glad that I have this blog for my records.

It was interesting to be able to look over really old hands and run filters and check results over such a long time period and amount of hands. Oh well not much I can do about it now. It's an excuse to start using HEM2 I guess.

I'd been getting freezes and blue screens far too often, so I had to do something.

No graph for this month which is the first time in 3 years.

Tracked sites (from memory) = +£700
SKY = +£1600

Rakeback will be added when I can get the Titan client to work - as I think that what might have been giving me problems and it just crashed my computer when writing this.

JANUARY = +£1,930
FEBRUARY = +£2,300

TOTAL = £4,230

January 2013

Tracker says: 36.0k hands, 136 hours, 264 hands/hr.

+£5,400 on tracked site
-£4,230 on SKY (end balance 5,770)
+ £730rakeback

JANUARY = +£1,930

December 2012

Tracker says: 26.8k hands, 100 hours, 268 hands/hr.

-£3,400 on tracked sites
+£2,000 on SKY-£1,400 total

Not including rakeback.

Disappointing month. I fucked about playing regs on MG too much which is obv high variance. I also lost a few buy ins at €1k which didn't help (played ok there though).

So I ended up just under £100k, it's slightly annoying but that is just a number and I did exceed my £70k goal so I feel good about the year overall.

Another song I did:


Anyway, for the start of 2013 I will game select better and try to keep 100% focus at all times.

JANUARY = +£12,005

FEBRUARY = -£9,300

MARCH = +£7,540

APRIL = +£12,570

MAY = +£10,845

JUNE = +£2,815

JULY = +£11,620

AUGUST = +£7,920

SEPTEMBER = +£16,430

OCTOBER = £11,350

NOVEMBER = £16,850

DECEMBER = -£1,400

TOTAL = +£99,245

November 2012

Tracker says: 26.8k hands, 87.5 hours, 306 hands/hr.


£14,290 on tracked sites (ipoker bug still there but not won much on there this month)
+£2,560 on SKY

£16,850 total

Not including rakeback.



Finally we have moved into out flat. It's great and I couldn't be happier with it, there are still a few things left to do to make it into a proper home, and when that is all done it will be even better. The views from the living room window are awesome and really relaxing. It's just a great place to live and I think I always want to live beside the sea/river.

Despite having less time to play due to moving in I have still managed to have my best month of poker ever. I have ran all in terms of EV and a lot of situations have gone my way. But I've also been taking on regs a lot more when there is no other action. Vs most regs I feel I am at least breakeven and I find a lot will quit me early in the match. I have drastically improved my non-showdowns winnings (which I think is a result of playing tougher players) and I aim to keep it that way.

I must not get complacent next month. As I have learned many times in poker; pride comes before a fall. Poker has a habit of putting you right back in your place if you get over confident at all.
Saying that I have just had my best month ever and I have reached a goal that I have always wanted to reach, £100k profit in a year.

Looking back on this blog to March this year, I was only sitting with £10.2k profit after 3 months of pretty solid grinding of 6m. I'm so thankful that I decided to switch of HU, as it has given me a chance to make much more than I would have been able to at similar stakes of 6m. I just feel much more comfortable with my game now and tbh I do think that it would translate back to 6m if ever I felt the need to switch back. This is not very likely at the moment whilst the heads up games are good, but is worth having there if times get tougher at HU.

I'm just so pleased with how everything has been going and I hope it can continue for another year at least.

As every good winning month goes by, my savings are increasing. I'm defiantly looking to get into something that is another income stream for me, but it is difficult when I am earning so much from poker at the moment.

I've been messing about with garageband on my ipad and composed a few songs, hopefully I can get better at that over the next few months and make stuff that I really want to listen to.

JANUARY = +£12,005

FEBRUARY = -£9,300

MARCH = +£7,540

APRIL = +£12,570

MAY = +£10,845

JUNE = +£2,815

JULY = +£11,620

AUGUST = +£7,920

SEPTEMBER = +£16,430

OCTOBER = £11,350

NOVEMBER = £16,850

TOTAL = +£100,645

October 2012

Tracker says: 13.1k hands, 73 hours, 179 hands/hr.

£9180 on tracked sites (bug saying € table son ipoker are £, so it might be a bit less. so annoying, it could be  500-1k less?)
+£1,890 on SKY
+£280 on Bodog (now closed to UK customers!)

£11,350 total

Not including rakeback.

I've been busy this month watching Scotland lose twice at football when I was away on a trip to Cardiff/London/Brussels. Also been stripping wallpaper and painting in the flat.

So less volume but I guess I ran good and profit was good so can't complain at all.

JANUARY = +£12,005

FEBRUARY = -£9,300

MARCH = +£7,540

APRIL = +£12,570

MAY = +£10,845

JUNE = +£2,815

JULY = +£11,620

AUGUST = +£7,920

SEPTEMBER = +£16,430

OCTOBER = £11,350

TOTAL = +£83,795