FWIW...

October



It was a pretty pointless month pokerwise. Too much crap going on at work. Holiday. General "other stuff".

I have already got some exciting stuff in the pipeline though! Rapid income acceleration coming up!!!

Good luck in November amigos!

14,000 hands is still OK, and breaking even is better than losing!

Sounds interesting what you've got coming up! Can't wait to see!

​Holy guacamole!

Can't get a hand at the tables at all!

Well.... I could have maybe played at the weekend but was not in that frame of mind...

On Friday the owner of the company I work for finally admitted that things are not good with the finances. Seems he had to plough some of his own money in just to pay the wages. Not good.

BUT... Could be the best thing to happen to me tbh. I am a little bit "too comfortable" there if you get me!?

Some unfulfilled potential methinks!

Tonight I am taking a lesson to hopefully accelerate my education so if I do suddenly become unemployed I can make some good money!

Wing Chun class first though...

Maybe some hands later but it's kinda doubtful. God I miss you poker!!!

I didn't play for 5 days!

Well... I spent a lot of time talking to a really good player who plays 200z and 500z and he gave me some great advice on some of my leaks and especially my preflop game.

Hopefully he won't mind talking to me a bit more because I learned more in a 2 hour chat with this dude than in God knows how many years of playing/getting coached!

Anyway, jumped onto the tables tonight and played 1 table of Zoom to look at my preflop game...



Maybe I should come back when I have got a decent sample huh!!!!!!!!?????

P.S. I still have a job today. Have to see about tomorrow!!!!!!!

Er yeah, another short session... Basically calming down after another crazy day both at work and at home!



In before #lolsamplesize, #gtfo, #fishonaheater

Staying really positive IRL at the moment. I always believe that nature has its ways and as one door looks like it is about to shut and smash your teeth in another door opens and gently guides you into a place of ABUNDANCE!

130 hands ffs!!!!!!!!! LMAO!

Work is a bit busier these last few days so maybe we will last a bit longer! The underlying problem is still there but the owner cannot see it in front of his face.

Funny thing is that his family are coming out with gems like "we use too much toilet rolls"!!!!!!!

Erm... Yeah, thanks for the input, very useful... Perhaps the fact that you are being paid £20 an hour to talk to your friends on the phone all day might be a bigger issue?????????

After I calmed down last night I played for an hour...



I had a little spell in the middle there where all my 3b and 4b bluffs got called or re-raised and I whiffed etc but other than that it felt pretty damned good!

I read a short article about procrastination yesterday. It was really tip-toeing around the truth (makes people feel good about themselves see)...

In my real world if you procrastinate it is one of these things...

Either...

1. You are a lazy ****!!!!!!!!!!!

or

2. You just don't WANT it enough (and in which case why the hell are you doing it!?)

P.S. Not saying I don't do/be either of those things BUT I don't give it some long word and pussy-foot around the TRUTH!

Have a great weekend amigos. Let me know if you know of any jobs going with decent pay and where toilet roll usage is not an issue!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got another "self help" email today about TIME MANAGEMENT. What the hell is that all about? Oh, stop me before I say it again!!!!!!!

It means you are a lazy **** or you don't want it enough!

Trouble is people spend half their lives reading/watching this shit because it makes them feel like they are doing something!

Get off your ass and GO AND TAKE ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, I calm down now.......



Got an hour in late last night but was not in the best frame of mind after another 9 hour shift in the loonie bin!!!!!!!!

I think they are trying to get me to smash their faces in so they don't have to pay redundancy or something!?

It's working!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend amigos!

Believe it or not I am currently at work! On a Saturday morning!? Haven't seen a customer in 4 hours!!!!!!!!

Is the money worth it? Maybe enjoying life with little less money and doing something you love would give you better quality of life?

I could not agree more! I will take my redundancy and run!

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I managed to play a few hands over the weekend...



Graph is a bit off though as it missed a whole 100bb pot off!!!

One that I lost!!!!

I am having a bit of trouble folding lately and am spewing a little with some bluffs. Still that is way more fun than folding all of the time eh!!!???

Not been sleeping too well last few nights. I think it is because my brain is overactive with all the crap going on IRL. I am pretty confident everything is going to turn out just fine so hopefully I will get over that.

Meditation is helping as always but as soon as I start talking about stuff I can feel the anger building up!

I might spend an hour on my kick bag tonight. Draw some faces on it first too!!!

Had a great weekend with my family though. Nothing can affect that!

I ended up missing Wing Chun class last night which is something I HATE doing!

Firstly I wasn't sure whether to go... Work was pretty ridiculous again and I was just not in the mood and wanted to go home and talk to my wife and spend time with the kids.

Secondly on my drive after work I was still unsure. To make the decision easy my wife got stranded a few miles from home in the car with a migraine! This meant she could not see properly to drive so with 2 kids on board she was stuck!!!

It takes me an hour to drive home after work but luckily she felt better after 30 minutes and drove back herself. Otherwise I would have had to dump my car at home and run 15 minutes to get to her to bring them home in her car!

Massive relief! Did not feel like doing that!!!!

So without going to training I put the kids to bed and then did some personal stuff to prepare myself for possible unemployment. I need a bit of cash to invest into myself for this, a bit more than I have stashed around so need to ask a few friends for small favours. I'm good for it!

I played a couple of hours last night. Fired up a few Zoom tables for a bit of fun and a chill...



Running so hot lately!!!

It's a good job as the rest of the day is pretty frustrating lately!!!!!

Got parents evening for my kids tonight at school. Should be fun!!!

Question...

Does anybody else get this every ten minutes..?



I have been getting it a lot lately and have timed out a couple of times restarting the programme.

Being an OAP I am not sure what to do!

Gratitude

I would like to take this opportunity to show my gratitude to the Gods for allowing me to run good so much lately!

I am playing for fun and to relax and seem to be crushing this month!

It is a very small sample as I am not really putting much effort in to it but the buy-ins have been rolling in!!!

I can't imagine how I would feel if I was running bad at the tables just now. I am holding myself back at work all day so that I don't give somebody a pasting so if I got tilted at the tables on top of that I might explode!!!

Last night's small sample...



Long may it continue!!!

Money

I asked about ten people to help me out with some $$$ to buy some software/courses etc for my future exploits and have so far amassed $00.00

It's a funny old world we live in!

Have a good day amigos! I am just nipping out to buy myself a straight jacket...

Posts are always interesting!

What is wing chun btw?

Also, what line of work is it you're in? I'm sure you could find somewhere else where the owners don't seem as crazy!

Pokerwise, a few nice graphs there!

Hi Ash!
Wing Chun is a form of Kung Fu. Popularised by Bruce Lee.
I buy all sorts of weird and wonderful things for the building maintenance industry. Also accounts etc.
Graphs have been nice, thanks man.

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I did not play on Wednesday night. My head was too frazzled even for a chill out session!

Yesterday I was home a bit earlier than usual as I was at the dentists in the afternoon so I played a few hands...



I notice my sessions are not starting so well these days but I am not 100% focused imo so I think that is why.

I also made a couple of call downs which were probably a bit too GTO but at these games I could exploit overfold river. Don't really mind about that too much if my reasoning is good and I learn something.

So session started badly and then everything ran pretty smoothly again thereafter. In general things go up up up!!!

Have a good weekend amigos!

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!



FML...



Fun session waiting for kids to get back from activities!

Don't look at redline please...



Might play tonight which would be my first Saturday evening session for a couple of years... Any fishes out there for me!!!!!?????

I decided to stop folding...



Resulted in swingy blue line and steady (winning) redline!

Way more fun than folding all the time - you get to see what they had.

Generally the nuts of course! (Talking about how they play NOT how I run btw)

Oh I also bluffed into the nuts a couple of times when I thought they were capped!

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Yet again it has come to my attention how bad I am at taking in information. I was taught quite a few new things at Wing Chun last night and within seconds I had retained somewhere around 1% of the information. Maybe less!!!

So (in all things) I am trying to find ways to learn that are better tailored to my erm, erm, erm... Inadequacies!!!

Still got no cash. Gonna use poker roll next (yes, before "investing in real estate" roll). Anybody care to stake me???

Don't want to be accused of NOT posting losing graphs!!!



Whiff, whiff, whiff. Honest!

P.S. Got a little bit of cash!!!

Another fun session!

Probably spewed one off trying to make a fish fold, other than that my station calls turned out pretty well last night!!!!!



Wish I could play a bit more lately, seem to be running well.

Maybe I am getting a bit better at last!!!!!??????? Oh come on... Just a tiny bit!?

Really fun session last night!

Felt like I played really well, best ever in fact!

I did do a few bluffs which are probably spew but this is not a bad thing for me as I used to think bluffing was illegal!!!!!!

All my 4b bluffs whiffed and got raised or called which hurts in a small sample so overall I am really happy with my play...




Looking forward to this weekend...

Tomorrow afternoon I am going out for a few beers with mates and watching some footie.

On Sunday we (family) are driving up to see my brother, have a meal with our mum for her birthday AND watch the Christmas lights get switched on in his town. Kids will LOVE that and I think I will too!!!

Shame it will be spoiled by having to work Saturday morning but once the clock strikes 12.00 it will be fun fun fun!!!

Have a great weekend amigos!

Still running good!!!



I am not getting many hands in lately (as I have got so much going on) but practically every time I play I feel that I get better!

The recent results are really good but of course it is so hard to take anything from results over small samples.

However, the fact that I am feeling really comfortable at the tables is a good indicator of at least some progress imo.

217 minutes til pub time...

Couple of positive posts good to read! Whereabouts are you from btw? Nice few graphs as well