19/61, $2249.20

Still no Omaha to report, just been playing the odd holdem tournament.

I seem to be going deep in a lot of my tourns at the moment, so I shouldn't be too grumpy, but... I keep making big mistakes late on. And, with the top heavy payouts, it can't be done.

Keysie was nice about one I made deep in a $5r last night but it was a fucking embarrassing stacking tbh. I needlessly came 11th/2500 for $260 ($5.4k ftw). Pisssssed off about that one.

Tonight, with 10 left in an $11 freeze, I made this call:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4604746

...ffs.

I was raising a lot and running into very little resistance so I'm not sure how light he's shoving here... Maybe the call is okay and I caught the top of his range, who the fuck knows?

I happened to get lucky to finish 7th/1700 for $501 after that with $2.8k ftw. Sigh.

It's now looking a lot like I'll be playing Holdem WCOOOOOPs with my tickets in September.

15/61, $1569.33

Played zero hands of O8 again. Sorry to let you down Hannes, in courage I am lacking at the moment.

Played some holdem tournaments though. I’ve had three devastating top 100 finishes in 3000+ player multis in the last two days, the latest of which was a 22nd out of three and a half million players in one of the freerolls today for a profit of about three and a half millionth of a cent.

25th in an $8.80 freezeout, 85th in a $5 rebuy and 22nd in the 100FPP freeroll, where it was $3.4k, $7.5k and $3.2k ftw in each. I completely fucked up the $5r but lost big races in both of the others.... Boooooooooooooooooring, I know, sorry, but what else am I going to write about?

My profit since the last update comes mainly from the $109 WCOOP seat I sh1pped today in another AMAZZZZING $7.50 sat.

So that’s a second WCOOOOOP event to dread in September.

Boooooooooooooooooring blogging from me atm, soz bout dat.

pgggggg

13/61, $1436.72

Hannes, thanks for the kind and gently put words of support man. I love it!

Cash is still not going well (I'm not even sure if I'm playing profitably at the moment), but I ran good enough today to sh1p a $320 WCOOP ticket in one of the incredible satellites that Stars are running at the moment.

It's a non-transferable ticket, which means I'll have to play one of the WCOOP events in September. I've got ages to decide which event to play and I'll probably just go with whichever variation of this horrendous fucking game that I'm hating least come September.

And, the way things are going, the best day to be on the look out for me is probably:

8-Sep,
Event 15 - $320



FL Badugi

12/61, $1086.90

Hello pgchips, We have transferred USD 100.00 from your account to 'skolsuper' as per your request.

Well, that's the gym bet done and dusted. ggggwpwp. I've cancelled my gym membership too. Fuck exercise.

This week is looking like a write off. I've played, at most, 0.0000000147% as much as I did in the first week. Sometimes I can't seem to sit at a table for longer than a few minutes before getting annoyed by something and then tilting because of it. It's always completely standard things I get annoyed by too. High cards on the flop when I've raised a low hand, and vice versa, is often all it takes to piss me off and get me wall-punching. This, obviously, happens a normal amount of the time every day if I play enough, but some days it bothers me more than others. And on those days I either start to play shit or pack in a session early.

Yesterday, I quit a session one hand in. I was sat waiting for the big blind to reach me on 12 tables when I got dealt A2ccxx in the bb on my first table. Flop came down K84cc and the pot got big, turn brought an ace and I check folded to a shove. I sat out and closed Pokerstars, absolutely fuming because of one ugly turn card.

I watched The Incredibles and Night at the Museum instead of playing, good stuff.

When I feel like this, I don't normally play at all, but with the pressure of the $10k to make, I thought I could push through. Clearly I can't, so from now on, if I'm not in the mood to play, I just won't bother. I don't know when I'll be happy playing again but when I do, I'll be hitting it very hard in an attempt to make up for my childishness. And I'll play loads until I burn out and go all depressed again.

I'll let you know when I'm back playing. So, until freeroll day...

8/61, $1070.27

Hello pgchips, We have transferred USD 200.00 to your account as requested by 'skolsuper'.

Keysie, the lazy fucker, didn't even last a week! That's the gym bet. I agreed that if I don't continue with my thrice weekly gym visits that I'll ship him $100 back. And the $100 booze bet is still live, obviously.

I've added it to my profit for the month purely to make my stats look a little better. I'm absolutely certain that I'll be shipping it all back too him before August is over, so hopefully he won't mind me considering his money 'profit' for the time being!

If it wasn't for the VIP freerolls it would have been a whole day off for me today. A fun day playing snooker and chilling round my 'Penthouse Friend' Ben's apartment was rudely interrupted by two HOLDEM freerolls, which I had to play. Small cashed them both for about $100 total before getting back to the pizza eating and in front of TV sitting.

So, my day off has turned into the most profitable day of the challenge so far.

Easy life.

7/61, $772.62

Seriously fucking bad day. A wall got punched.

6/61, $752.38

Jason just will not stop saying 'Hi pgchips' to me now, he absolutely loves it. It's getting a bit annoying to be honest, and I'm a little worried that people think there's something going on between us. I'll have to ship him a few dollars in the morning and ask him to stop.

Hardly played at all today, I'm showing an horrendous lack of commitment to this so far. Need a good day tomorrow to pull this week out of the bag.

5/61, $615.33

Nothing interesting to report today really... Jason said 'hi' to me again, which was nice. Completely free of charge too. Sh1p it!

Took my second trip to the gym earlier and it was only marginally less painful than the first. I may actually, very, very slowly, be getting fit here. Though it'll only last until October I suppose, when I'll probably never go to the gym again. Something to look forward to.

Still behind Penthouse pace but I've pulled it back slightly. Want to reach $1k before the end of the week ideally.

Haven't punched a wall since Monday.

Goodnight.

4/61, $360.37

Not putting in anywhere near as many hours as I need to be at the moment and, despite an okay day today, I'm still way behind penthouse pace:

(10000/61) x 4 = $655.74

The best part about today was hearing one of the regs talk for the first time. I've played thousands of hands with a guy called Jason_Lebt and he's never said a word to anyone. But, today, he spoke...

'hi pgchips'

My heart stopped. I couldn't stop the tears of happiness welling up. Such a touching moment...

... And a fucking expensive one too, as I sent the $3 that I promised to ship him if he said it. You're nothing more than a prostitue, Jason, and now the world knows it.

Absolute bargain, mind you, give him a try!

3/61, $167.69

I dragged myself out of bed to get down Edgbaston for the last day of the third ashes test today/yesterday (Monday) and I was rewarded with eight hours of Australian stump-blocking! They did it well to be fair to them, I enjoyed it.

Got tanned to fuck in the two hours of sunsine we had too. Imagine the tan I’d have if the sun had come out at all when I had a spare week in Evesham ffs.

In other news, I’ve picked an embarrassing time to run cold poker-wise… this challenge is looking like a joke. These fun hands from Sunday and Monday means I’ve only shown the smallest of profits since Saturday:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4544456
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4544419
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4544442
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4544438
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4544436
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4544434
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4544430
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4544427

Bit out of order, Stars.

It's nice to get the action though because, if I didn't, I'd be forced to play aces properly. And that is far too much hassle. I don’t give a fuck who I annoy by posting those hands, by the way, I feel better.

I’ve punched various walls in my house repeatedly over the last couple of days, and if this run continues, with me getting stronger going to the gym three times a week, I’m seriously worried about the future of my knuckles. And walls.

Well, let’s just hope it turns around.

2/61, $137.75

One of the worst days of poker of my life. Certainly of this week anyway.

Day: 1/61. Profit: $161.91

Ran horrendously slow today... but that's enough about my exploits on the treadmill!

I didn't cash in either of the freerolls for the third week in a row. That's fucked up. Ran a bit slow at cash too, but played a lot of hands, which is a good sign.

I just went for a run on the treadmill today and I did not enjoy it one bit. I'll try and keep it going but I'm thinking about shipping Keys $100 earlier rather than later - 3 days a week could kill me.

Sleep and back on it tomorrow.