Thoughts Turn to Home

3 Weeks to push. Looking so much to getting back and spending some time with the family (and, ahem, playing some poker).

I have luckily got about three weeks off work when I get back so can combine the two no problems, but I am certainly looking to distil the time playing poker and use the old adage "quality not quantity". Before I came out here and when I was back for a week I definately lost focus and just played for the sake of it because I knew I was going to be without for a while, I still managed a few cashes but also wasted some buys ins when I was not mentally right to play. Once back and settled I am definately going to come up with some sort of plan of action for my play. Cash games do not interest me in the slightest, and I still a mix of STTs and MTTs, so will base it around that. I also need to distil the sites I play on and consoldiate the bankroll. I currently have about 23 accounts up and running (and funded) and need to look to get them down to about 4 or 5 I guess. Betfair, Sun, Pokerstars, Mansion and Full Tilt I think. The first two are the ones I get rakeback on and I enjoy the games on all five. I guess I also need to step up the buy in levels I play at. With a couple of thousand bucks in the accounts I guess playing 10 buck STTs and 2 and 5 buck MTTs is a little below what I should be playing at.

All comments welcome on the above, and any ideas are also welcome.

Beginners Luck

Playing with the lads we have taught to play out here and got it pretty spot on till this happened. 3 players left out of 6. Marginal chip leader, dealt KK on the button, so I raised to 750 (blinds 100/200. SB fold but BB reraises to 1500. He had been playng any ace all night so reraised all in (I him covered by about 800 chips), he insta calls for the game and flips over QsJc. "What the fuck?" "I thought you were bluffing". I did try to explain that in the very small chance that I was bluffing, he still wasn't going to be a massive favourite to win, but he couldnt quite grasp it. Needless to say he flopped the staright draw which hit on the river. I went out shortly after when flopping a straight flush draw, all the chips were in but missed. Ahh well.

One Off Footy Bets

Some of the more regular readers will have seen I got some decent footy tips in last season. I Dont get to gamble (due to internet restrictions) while I am in Iraq so I have been looking forward to sticking a couple of quid on the following:

Man U @ 1.23
Ipswich @ 2.1
Carlisle @ 2.14
Northampton @ 2.16
Rotherham @ 1.86
Rochdale @ 1.97

Good value prices as always (event he Man U one I reckon). Get on if you have time!

A Week at Home

Back for a weeks R&R. Its good to be back in the UK apart from the cold! A bright morning this morning reminds me why I love England, I could almost walk around in shirt sleeves. Once this weeks over I have to go back for about 5 weeks so it wont be too long, thankfully.

I brought my digi camera back and dowloaded a few pics, there are a few more on the PC at work which I will being back, but I like this one, which shows me and Mitch playing extreme poker outside our accomodation late one night. Mitch had to play with a head torch, and me with a little pocket one. Note the quiet player in the third seat at the back.



The sandwich won by the way, after a long heads up battle.