I'm back

I've decided to give this blog lark another go, mainly because my poker game has improved and my record taking has not and I feel like sharing things.

Simply profit wise last six months the tools I use to monitor success are www.officialpokerrankings.com for MTTs, including 180s where by I'm up $2,000, www.sharkscope.com for SNGs and 180s where I'm up $1,150 over 1500 games and www.pokertracker.com for all cash games where by I'm now break even overall, slightly up LHE, OHPL and down at NLH. Yeah a small brag but hell if I'm not winning I'm not going to brag about it, plus I'm a donkey so just winning the odd dollar here or there is nice not that much of it gets to remain in my bankroll which gets eaten up by kids, holidays, oil heating bills you know the drill perhaps 2009 will be the year I win enough to be richer enough to leave 5k in Stars!!

Going forward I'll try and get some things down weekly or even fortnightly because I feel just writing down experiences, hands what not will make me improve and you never know may well help someone else in the same donkey boat, I'm already keen to help a guy I know improve his online game because simply he's good enough but lacks any sort of decent results, confidence online, i.e. he's a fish (props to him however for taking down a 180 the other night).

So what's been happening the last six months, well aside from playing pretty much the week I'm off work and working the week I am, I've cracked my biggest score back in May for $1,297 coming 2nd of 2297 in a $5.50 freezeout, I'll post the complete hand history when I'm back home next week. The tourney really was the first time at the final table I felt ultra confident and if it wasn't for my QQ losing to the other big stacks JJ - 4 handed - I felt I'd have won it easily as it goes 2nd was a pretty good comeback, however I'll bleat on more about it when I've posted the HH. In addition to that I've had another close run in the $3 rebuy coming 18th and in the process having the chip lead from about 200 to go to 50 remaining which was great fun but alas went card dead whilst the blinds turned the event into a crapshoot, message to stars sort the structure of these events out, the $146 I won from that run felt like the worst money I've made which I guess is a good sign. I've had several decent final tables in 180s and the main thing with these is that I feel far more confident, only the other day I finished 3rd and felt severly depressed about it, a year ago that sort of result would have made me jump for joy. The other main thing worth talking about side was my first foray into the Pot Limit Omaha tournament world, played an MTT on Friday an $11 freeze-out with 288 players and somehow managed to come 2nd for $424.80, this event was a real blast and although early doors I felt in somewhat sticky waters due to my propensity to fold, once we got through the bubble things really opened up and I actually played pretty well without having much of a clue, I'll post the HH of this aswell.

So that's about it, I'm not going to post any more goals like making $1k (which I obviously managed) or anything in general but I'll just post when I feel like saying something and keep everyone informed.