“I raise”

Been a strange old week.

Bank holiday weekend was a mixed bag, Friday I got extremely drunk very quickly after the dissapointment of the job but thankfully managed to avoid making an arse of myself and ended up back at my place with a mate eating pizzas and kebabs. Mmmm healthy.

Saturday me and a mate went on a massive hike out in the Calderdale Valleys which was just lush, first beutifull day of the summer and a really good 16 mile workout, gotta say I really enjoyed it and it really took my mind off things.

Sunday… I popped blisters… nice.

Monday went out for a drink with lady K, drank too much and we ended up back at mine… naughty naughty.

Pokerwise, this week has been really strange, I’m $900 in profit but have been playing really badly. Played 3 medium sized sessions and finished session 1 -$130, session 2 -$30 session 3 +$1,060. In short I’ve been playing terribly (also partly running bad) in the single table tournaments, but just about making my money back in MTT’s, then last night I managed to take 2nd in a decent size tourney for just over $1k.

I can’t believe I finished 2nd again, so infuriating, 1st was over $2k. My mtt record since Iswitched to the Ipoker network is so weird, I’m cashing with alarming regularity and have made a ton of final tables but I just can’t seem to finish them off and it’s technically cost me loads in missed winnings. On Pokerstars my final table record was immense, infact I’m looking it up now…

Pokerstars MTT Final Table Record

26 Final Tables
8 x 1st Place Finishes
2 x 2nd Place
2 x 3rd Place

My Ipoker record off the top of my head guess-timate is something like

9 Final Tables
0 x 1st
3 x 2nd
2 x 3rd

Hmm I dunno, maybe variance, maybe to do with structures etc, although the recent cash we were heads up with like 25bb v 35bb so I can’t have any excuse for losing that. And before any mathematical smart arse pipes up, yes I understand the concepts of relevant sample size and deviation, still it pays to analyse any data available.

Bizarrely I got an email from Poker770 this morning asking if I would be prepared to answer an interview for them to be used for promotional material. Had a quick look through the questions and they seemed pretty banal,"How long you played poker? What do you do with your winnings? What advice would you give a new player?" blah blah… thing is I’ve found the customer support and general level of service on the site to be pretty below par so I’m not exactly keen, however I just thought I might be able to blag some freebies (100% rakeback yo!) so I’m gonna give it a little thought.