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New addition to the family (:

26 Mar

On Monday my sister gave birth to an 8lb 9oz baby girl, Isabel love. I’m pretty excited to be a new uncle and godparent for the first time, although I haven’t seen much of her since she’s been home as I’ve been a little under the weather and didn’t want to pass anything onto her.

It’s my brother’s birthday at the end of the month an we’re having a party tonight for him, I think it was meant to be a surprise but he ended up finding out somehow, I guess it’s difficult to keep that a secret for more than a day or two. My dad and sister are coming up from Telford for the party which is pretty cool because I don’t get to see them too often, especially my sister, she suffers from cystic fibrosis so it’ll be good to see her.

In general pokers going pretty well, I’m beating $100NL full ring for 6bb/100 over around 20k hands and I’m now confident I can beat it for my initial goal of 1bb/100. I haven’t been putting in a tonne of volume this month because I’ve been working on my game some more and haven’t been feeling too well recently but I’m feeling a lot better now and raring to go. I’m going to look to play another 30k hands this month at $100NL full ring and then aim for a 200k hand month in April. I’ve heard there may be some changes to the games in April so I’m looking forward to seeing what they are, hopefully they don’t mess up my routine too much whilst I adjust to them.

Some of you guys have been asking me why I still don’t have my photo showing as my pokerstars avatar and bio, the reason was because my photos weren’t good enough, I was saving the photo’s through msn paint which made the picture quality worse (noob mistake), then there were a few issues with the background and shadows, luckily I think I’ve got it right now, I haven’t been told it’s been rejected yet so hopefully that means they’ve accepted it, if so I should have my photo up within a week or so. Be warned though, it’s not that much prettier than the smeagol picture I have as my avatar now.

Here’s a picture of Isabel (:

 
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The Grind Starts Now!

16 Mar

Over the past couple of months I’ve been working on my game in the hope of moving up and beating higher limits, as a result I haven’t put in  a lot of volume as of yet, but now I’m confident enough that I can at least break even at $100NL and I’ve began to play longer sessions. There Are 16 days left this month and I’m going to attempt to play 100k hands between $50NL 6max and $100NL full ring by the end of the month, that’s an average of 6250 hands per day. Hopefully I’ll be used to grinding again by the end of the month and might try for 200k hands in April.

I’ve had  a bit of a problem with my body clock over the past week and have been getting up and going to bed 8 hours later than usual, this made it difficult to get in many hands because I was sleeping when the games were at there best. During the weekend I decided I was going to stay up all day so 24 tabled a little $2NL full ring to help pass the time, I made around $48 in 4-5 hours play which wasn’t too bad considering I was probably answering more “why are you playing this low” questions per hour than hands, I don’t mind tho, I enjoy playing playing at the micros and always will.

In other news my sister is due to give birth this week so I’m going to become an uncle for the forth time and a godparent for the first, I can’t wait (:

 
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March Goals

06 Mar

Hey guys,

Last month I played a bit of $100NL fullring but I’ve decided that I want to get into 6max more so this month I’m going to drop down to $50nl 6max and try and improve my game, my friend palmer2k6 is going to help coach me so hopefully I can be profitable whilst getting in a lot of volume.

My goals this month are …..

  • 100-150k hands at $50nl 6max
  • Maintain a positive winrate of 2-3bb/100

Good luck with your monthly goals everyone.