Saturday, 16th August 2008

bankroll is back up there, had a big win on pokerstars the other night and doubled my roll, won about $760 or so so im back to 1200 now.

have been grinding the $6.50 and $10-11 sng's on full tilt poker after moving my money from stars to full tilt.

think i prefer ftp over stars, something about stars i dont like, dunno what it is, the mtt's are way better, but i prefer the sng's and cash games on full tilt.

happy hour is awesome and there is rakeback which is always a plus.

i cashed in 2 out of the 3 sng's i did last night, i didnt get a chance to play any longer because i had plans with my fiancee.

cashed 1st in a $6.50 and 1st in an $11 the bubbled out on the other $6.50.

pushed AKs and got called by pocket 8, my AK didnt hold up and out i went.

i was up early this morning though, 4am.

fiancee left early so i decided to stay up and play some sng's, played horrible, most likely because i was tired but i was card dead as well so that added to the pain.

i only played 3-4 before deciding to stop because i wasnt feeling it.

i just finished a $10 sng and came 1st in that, so my losses have been redeemed from the earlier sng's but im still down 2 buyins in the $6.50 sng's.

again AK, didnt hold up on the last one i played vs JJ.

since ive started this blog and started following strict rules for playing poker, ive maintained a consistant profit to date and am not playing whilst on semi tilt or fully tilting.

i used to play just for the hell of it even though i knew i wasnt in the mood or not making the right decisions etc, so now im following some set rules because i know i've spewed lots of money because of carelessness.

thats all changed now.

i just sold 2k in shares and got the payment for that yesterday along with my monthly pay so ive run into a bit of cash which is always good news.

i have 2k remaining to sell which i will be doing tomorrow depending on what the closing price on friday was for computershare's shares otherwise i will be waiting until it increases a little bit before making the sale.

im going to a home game tonight at a mates, hopefully it actually happens. theres been a few times where it hasnt gone ahead so fingers crossed as i wouldnt mind having a bit of a home game.

i can use my new poker cards that my fiancee got from one of the casinos in vegas (or the full tilt or poker stars decks).

anyway, i was gonna put up some graphs but the sample sizes are mini micro so i will wait until i hit an amount worth posting up.

thanks for reading.

dave