Friday 12 March 2010

Baaaaaacck!

Miss me?

Ok so yeah, I've decided to start blogging again. Basically I moved my blog to DC in an attempt to re-inspire myself, but this didn't work, and I decided to pick up where I left off. I used to beat 25NL for a very decent clip back in October, moved up to 50NL where I ran terribly, then started tilting chronically, I couldn't deal with my downswing and it caused me to pretty much move backwards in my poker career if you like.

I had my first losing month, followed by another, followed by another, and I dropped over $1.5k of my roll. Basically I just fell out of love with poker, with a belief I can still be great at it, but without the motivation or the mindset, so everything was wrong.

In February I withdrew my roll, deposited $1k again and decided that I'd had enough, and the only way I'm gonna move on up is by moving back down. So that's what I did. 40BI at 25NL, and I'd move back up at 40BI for 50NL, simple. But I didn't play much, I just went out a ton, got back my social life and hardly played, however I've found a new balance in my life, which involves me sleeping at 5am and waking at 9am, that way I manage to fit in Poker, Work and a social life! EZ game right!

At the start of March I had a prop with a mate that we have to play 25k hands each, which would smash my monthly record by some distance. I've well on course. I ran terrible at 25NL 6max, and was 6BI under EV in like 7k hands, and just couldn't win an all in, however I tried out Rush and am smashing it at the moment, so I may look to build my roll at this, and eventually move back to 6max before heading to 50NL, but it's soooo nice to be winning again and not tilting.

I'm also working on my game a lot, my redline is improving a lot as I seek thinner spots and keep pushing my edge, and I'm looking forward to getting a hell of a lot better in the next 6 months. I'll also be combing my p90x adventure in here too, if you haven;t heard of it, it's a 90 day intensive training programme, a lot of 2+2r's have raved about it, so me and a friend are checking it out, I'll keep y'all updated.

So yeah, time to grind.

Monday 11 January 2010

New Blog Location

http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/runittwice

Please add it to your bloglists.

Wednesday 6 January 2010

New Year, New Game!

So I kind of fell out of love with the game that I was obsessed about. Maybe falling out of love is the wrong term, because I thought about it every living fk'in second of every day, but volume wise, I didn't really put much in, or at least as much as I'd hoped. At the end of 2009, I figured I needed to sort my life out, and getting a permanent job was the first step to doing it. Regular income, parents off my back about earning money and doing something, and getting a new social life, which is taking off too.

New Years was so sick. Went to the O2, £80 to ged'dit in, kinda sick but meh. Mate really badly wanted to go, didn't really wanna let him down plus I didn't wanna wake up in 2010, regretting my last actions of 2009, so this was good. Fell in love with Deadmau5 while out, was also Justice and Calvin Harris DJ'ing, plus some others, including Eric Prydz who was God awful, musta been out of his head.

But yeah, I dropped nearly 4BI on New Years Day, first hand was set over set, had flush over flush, meh, can't be arsed going into it, but I felt like I needed a change. I already know NLHE, so I don't really wanna get into PLO, so I decided HU was the best route, and my word I've enjoyed it. Probably 'cos I'm crushing, up about 8BI so far, encountered no variance yet cos of my sample size (2k hands), but I'm enjoying myself at Poker for the first time in ages.

Hope everyone is running well this year, have added my goals into the right hand side for this month, and hope I can still by them. I have a 20k hands prop bet with a friend, so I think I'll have ot grind some 6max at some stage, cos I picked up DJ Hero (xmas), Modern Warfare 2 (xmas), Need for Speed: Undercover (£9) and World Championship Snooker '09 (£4) over the last two weeks, and they're all pretty fk'in amazing.

Good luck all!