Picking Up

Not been the greatest start to my poker financial year - calculated from 1st April. April was very up and down, with up only just coming out on top !

May however has been a big improvement, mainly due to a couple of MTT wins in promotions on PuntersLounge. The first also earned me a seat in a 20 player MTT on Virgin to win a seat at the Scottish Poker Championship in Edinburgh at the end of June. The other also took me to the top of the monthly league sponsored by Sporting Odds and is the main reason for the profit this month.

Also this month I played in a live game with other PL members and for the first time in a live game made the final table - finishing 5th, with money down to 3rd. Really enjoyed it apart from going out when pushing with an unnecessary bluff (was fairly comfortable in 3rd and could have waited to make the money first) and the wife finishing 4th !

Next stop for live poker is London on the 9th of June to try and win a seat at the World Series of Poker .....

Not to be repeated

I made what will have to be my worst ever fold in a STT this evening.

Only a 5 seat $3 game and was dealt 55 and the flop came 655. I am just pondering how long to wait before calling a bet of 4x the bb when I hit the fold button like a complete moron.

Hopefully I will get over it someday soon ...........

Time to get going again

Managed to scrape a profit of only just over a tenner in April but May has started well with a top ten finish in the V-points freeroll on Sunday for £70.

I fell out with Virgin in April because their software refused to seat me in several tournaments in a row. Not their problem apparently so I withdrew what money I had in there and I will only now play freerolls on Virgin so that I play for their money not with mine.

So the £70 is all the sweeter !

There's a first time for everything !

I only play Freezeout No Limit Hold'em.

Rebuys reward bad play, Omaha is ridiculous and the way the guy with the worst card showing has to open the betting in 7 card stud is just annoying, as is the fact that it is basically a limit game.

So tonight a miracle happened in that I enjoyed a game of 7 card stud, finishing 3rd in the end in a field of 183 having led for a good while before and during the final table. It was a freeroll on Full Tilt sponsored by InsidePoker magazine, with the winner getting a $4500 package to Vegas for a WSOP tournament (won by VoiceofJoe of PuntersLounge).

The final table of eight all won entry to a live game in London in early June, and the winner of that wins a $12,000 package to the WSOP main event. There are 5 such qualifiers (this was the 4th) based on the H.O.R.S.E. games so the live final should only have a mximum of 45 players as some are 9 seat FT's.

And the game to be played in London ? Just as well I only play Freezeout No Limit Hold'em .....