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It’s a new month so it’s time for new goals, I haven’t been great at meeting my goals this year so I’m going to aim high for June and if I get close I’ll be happy.  Right now I’m playing a mixture of $50NL and $100NL full ring at both the 40-100BB and 20-50BB tables.

June Goals….

* Play 150-200k hands.

I’m going to try and play 150-200k hands this month and put in some proper hours, It’s going to be tough because of the football world cut but I’m going to do my best to play at least hit 150k hands.

* Win the twoplustwo propbet

Every month the guys on twoplustwo have a $100 propbet to play a minimum of 100k hands for the month with a positive win rate, I’ve taken part in a couple this year and haven’t managed to hit the 100k hands due to taking a lot of time out to work on my game and running badly, hopefully this month I’ll win one.

* Improve my game

This is something I’m always working on, my goal every month is to try and improve certain area’s of my game, this month I’m going to try a few things and see how it works out.

Good luck this month guys and best wishes to team you support in the world cup (unless their playing England (:  )

Edit to include my cash in the Turbo Takedown, I usually run really badly in this so was a nice change of pace (:

Well the scoops finally over and I can finally concentrate on cash games again. Since pokerstars made changes to the games (20-50bb and 40-100bb) I’ve been trying to figure out which game is right for me at present.  It hasn’t been an easy decision because I’ve been running pretty horrible lately but I’ve decided to stick with the $100NL and play the 20-50bb tables for a while, I don’t really mind playing against short stacks and the vpp rate isn’t that much different from the normal tables.

As far as how pokers going,  since I’ve switched back to $100NL I’m on a $600 upswing over my last 7k hands, running at just over $70ph.  I am running a little hot but after the really bad run I’ve had lately I no longer feel bad about running above ev.

There are 10 more days of May left and I’m going to aim to get in another 50k hands at $100nl, my sleeps been abit messy lately and with running badly I haven’t been putting in many hours lately, I expect this to change soon though, next month should be a good month.

As for my personal life I’d planned on taking my nieces to the zoo but unfortunately my 3 year old niece has been really poorly this week and Sunday is my other nieces christening so I’ll have to put it on hold for a while, it’s a shame because it’s been good weather here recently, so much so that I had to go out and buy a fan for my bedroom today.

Two monitors heating my room + hot weather = Tough to grind poker ):

Today’s the final day of the spring championship of online poker, well the last day any event starts anyway, a couple are two day events.  It’s  my last chance to luckbox my way to a 6 figure day. I did pretty well in the $200 and $20 NLHE events, lasting over 4 hours in each, cashing in the $20 but unfortunately just missing out on the cash in the $200 (cashed the wrong one /:   ).  Today I’m in the $200 NlHE and $100 NLHE main event, hopefully I do well and make a decent run.

I’d like to make a shout out to my friend Jon (LUFCbas) spinks who managed to beat nearly 3k players in the scoop 25 $20 stud hi/low event for just over $9700. He also earns a pokerstars scoop watch for taking it down, soon to be found on eBay I’m sure.

You can find out how the action went down here….

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/scoop/2010/scoop-lufcbas-beats-the-stars-to-win-eve-069744.html

Just a quick update to let you guys know which scoop events I’m likely to be playing.

Being a NLHE player my main play is going to be in those games, i did play the $109 plo turbo event last night but didn’t really have any luck with the cards.

I’ll be playing another 4 events, all NlHE fullring (What I’m best at (: )

Those are…..

Scoop event 20 $22 buyin $500k gtd on the 9th of May

Scoop event 20 $215 buyin $2m gtd on the 9th of May

Scoop event 37 $215 buyin $750 gtd on the 16th of May

Scoop event 38: $109 buyin $1m gtd Main Event on the 16th of May

edit: playing scoop 38  instead of scoop 8 or 26

Hopefully I can luckbox one of those and score a 6fig day (:

Also like to make a shout out to my friend Jono (GAWA9) who finished 55th from 9632 in the $215 event 2 NLHE, he cashed for $2900 but will be pretty disapointed when first place was $280,000 lol.

All I can say is….

Best of luck to you guys in the scoop events, maybe we’ll bump into each other on the final table (:

Well April didn’t go as played, I ran so badly at the $100NL tables I’ve been forced to move back down to $50NL 6max for a while until I rebuild. I’m mainly a fullring player so I’m going to buyin for 50bb’s at the 20-50bb tables for now until I gain a little more experience. Due to how I ran in April missed out on my goals in April but I’m more determined than ever to exceed them in May.

The scoop starts on the 2nd of May and pokerstars have offered  a 20% reload bonus upto $100 which should bring more players to the tables  so I have those to look forward to too. I think I’m just going to play two $215s, two $109s and one of the smaller events, probably a $20 tournament. I’ll mainly look to play the fullring NLHE events but I quite fancy a go in one of the PLO tournaments for variety.

My goals for May are…

* 120-150k hands at $50NL 6max

* Maintain  a positive winrate

* Spend at least an hour a day to work on my game

* Cash in at least one of the scoop events (:

* Take my 3yo niece to the zoo

Good luck with your goals.

Take Care.