The quiet before the storm..

8:48am

I'm Planning to chill for the last couple of days of this month in preparation for a big effort in September. It's the 'battle of the turbo's vs the reg speed sngs.' I'll be competing against a $2 180 reg who also plays the 3r 180's. It'll be unlimited games, I'll be playing 4s exclusively and he'll be allowed to play both 2s and 3rs. It's a tall order for me as obviously he'll be able to play a LOT more games, so I'm pretty much relying on a very good ROI ftw. Hopefully he doesn't ship too many of those 3rs or it could be over before it's even started haha. Anyway, it should be fun and a good motivator for some hardcore grinding.

Managed to ship another $4 180 yesterday, I'm glad I did coz it would've been a slight losing session otherwise, I only managed 18 games as I didn't sleep much at all the night before and my eyes were practically closed towards the end of the session. I even kinda gave up the other final table I was playing (something I rarely ever do) because of the tiredness.

Played about 8 tournies tonight, took another sicko beat in the one mtt I was playing, had it allin for a 25k stack at 150/300 and the guy rivers 2 pair on me after getting it allin on the flop...sigh. Writing this now whilst waiting out my last 180 of the session, busted all the rest without a cash and another bubble :(

Away from poker, I really want to lose some weight, I was walking around Tesco the other day and noticed that my T-shirt was hanging over the top of my pants, there was a very definite gap where it hung. It's not like I didn't know I was a fat bastard these days, but it's things like that, that makes it really hit home. It's embarassing really. And sad. I never remember myself like that, I was always a really active skinny kid.

Had been thinking about getting a treadmill, but I'm not certain I'll use it, without it just becoming another object to dump my clothes on lol. Anyway, if I do decide to go for it, I've narrowed it down (after much research) to this one.

Quite expensive, but apparently everything under £1000 will be a lemon.

Anyway, it'll be nice to take the rest of the day off, and tomorrow aswell. I'll try hard to hit a nice sleep schedule so I'm primed to kill these 4s. Can't say I'm looking forward to a month of serial soul crushaments but oh well...gotta do what I gotta do. I'm running really low on funds at the mo, hopefully I can hit $2k+ at the very least in September.

Edit: Managed 3rd in that last 180, helped somewhat by this fishtard...


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 4.4 Tournament, 500/1000 Blinds 100 Ante (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Hand Converter from HandHistoryConverter.com



Hero (MP) (t24289)

Button (t16110)

SB (t59680)

BB (t104634)

UTG (t65287)



Hero's M: 12.14



Preflop: Hero is MP with 7, 9

3 folds, SB calls t500, BB bets t104534 (All-In), SB calls t58580 (All-In)



Flop: (t119660) Q, 10, J (2 players, 2 all-in)



Turn: (t119660) 8 (2 players, 2 all-in)



River: (t119660) 10 (2 players, 2 all-in)



Total pot: t119660



Results:

SB had 5, A (one pair, tens).

BB had K, A (straight, Ace high).

Outcome: BB won t119660


I'm not sure I've ever seen a worse call than that, 60bbs comfortably 2nd in chips, 5handed with two stacks below 25bbs...total rapeage of ICM!

Until next time...