Pudding 3, Life Variance 0!

Hello there boys and girls and anything else in between, thought it was time for a quick update since it's been a while. There's no real reason for the lack of updates except I've not really played any poker and I've been behaving myself in "real" life too and to be honest I just haven't really had the inclination to log on and start writing everyday for some reason but I'm here now! Why the title? Well for once, and I don't want to jinx it, things are going well for me and heading in the right direction for a change.

He shoots, he scores! Well I'm back at work after walking out after my disciplinary meeting which resulted in me receiving a written warning. The whole thing was a farce from start to finish and despite me answering all their questions with legitimate answers, backed up by our own system policies that they were charging me with abusing, they still decided not to listen and discipline me. I walked out, went home and signed myself off for the rest of the week, then went to the doctors who signed me off for two weeks with anxiety, issued me with Prozac and I chilled at home. I was dreading coming back because they were within their rights to basically sack me as I was AWOL really as the only contact I had with them was through emails! However, I had a meeting with Occupational Health and then my manager and despite having to now sit next to my boss and there being a strange atmosphere I look to have been able to paper over the cracks for the time being. Time to get my head down and crack on with things!

It's in the back of the net! I've finally managed to find a flat and I should, all being well, be moving in on Saturday! For the money it's a great little place and the landlord seems a stand up, decent guy to boot which is reassuring. As I type they are finishing off the decorating off having just fitted new hard-wood flooring and a new shower and it's looking pretty good. I saw one that they had already finished and it looked really nice but they ended up letting that one to someone recommended to them but luckily they were just finishing this one off and gave me first refusal which I obviously took. Paying the bond and rent for the month has really skinted me and I've had to borrow a couple of hundred off Pudding Mum and Dad and I'm also going to be a little tight on space initially until I sort what things I'm keeping and what will be off on it's merry little way but overall I'm looking forward to having my own place again even if it does mean living on my own initially. Still a few things to sort like all the bills and get my internet on there and stuff but I won't be able to fund any poker for a while so might not bother getting the net back on.

It's there! Pud gets his hattrick! Last and certainly not least comes number three. Pud finally gets his girl! It's been a long long process but things are really happening now and I'm as pleased as a puff with two arseholes! I spent most of my time away from work with Mrs P the other week and I'm really looking forward to our time together once all the shit blows over because it should be great. Everything about it feels right and without getting all gay and stuff I am buzzing my little titties off! It looks like she'll be crashing at mine for a couple of weeks until she manages to sort her own place out which will be great if a little different having a baby knocking around the place. All in all though I'm really looking forward to where all this is going and I'm sure I'll keep you posted over the coming weeks I'm sure.

Apart from busting my remaining roll on Full Tilt playing $0.25/$0.50 Stud Hi with rolled up 3's vs rolled up 9's there is nothing else to say. I have $20.51 on Stars and I'm due around $30 from Full Tilt from my rakeback payment but I doubt I'll be playing with any menaing until the New Year. Keep your fingers crossed that this is the turning point for me and of course Mrs P!

Thanks for reading and best of luck with whatever you're doing. I'll try catch up with other blogs in the next few days!

Is It Time For A Break?

I'm starting to think that I need a break from the game, a proper break, or at least a change of pace or game I play. Since I've been on the sick I've donked about playing limit hold'em, no limit hold'em full ring and short handed, 7 card stud, SnG's, MTT's and a bit of Omaha and HORSE. I've lost my focus, determination and also my timing is way off. I'm playing like a twat!

I withdrew $300 after my 2nd place finish on Mansion and treated myself a bit by having a long overdue night out and also some bits and bobs I needed. This left me with about $150 or so which I have slowly whittled away like a dickhead. Yes I am almost busto! My balance now is $27.20 on Full Tilt and $2.80 on Ultimate Bet. Balla! I've been a tool on Full Tilt and I spunked a $22 SnG by bluffing all the way to the river with 7s2s when it was obvious villain was never going away and I also blew a whole buy-in at NL50 6 max by 3-betting all-in with 44 of all hands against a tight player who held KK. I mean WTF was I doing playing NL50 anyway?

I love poker but something is wrong at the minute. The current external pressures don't help at all but they aren't the only thing. My game selection is poor and for some reason I can't helpbut bluff too much and you know when you're in a hand and you just know the villain has you outkicked or has an overpair but you still call even though you know 100% you're beat? Well I'm doing that with alarming regularity and basically I am a donkey! So with this in mind I'm thinking of taking a break for a while, how long I do not know. I'm not going to be able to redeposit anytime soon I shouldn't imagine and I will probably be without the net soon for a month or so anyway so now seems as good a time as any to regroup and sort things out and get into the right mindset for the micro stakes that I have to play. The break might just be a few days or it might be a month or so, maybe until the new year but whenever it is I'm going to make sure I want to play and not just playing for the sake of it.

I'm back at work Monday which should be a barrel of laughs, really not looking forward to it, especially as I think they're going to fuck my wage about with me being on the sick. I've a meeting first thing with Occupational Health which is a total waste of time to be honest but I've got to go to show willing. Fucking plastic shrinks make me LOL! Whilst I've been off I've spent a lot of time with Mrs P which has been absolutely great and is going to make going back to work even harder than it would normally be after 2.5 weeks off but I have to go back because I need the cash! However, I know my cards are marked so I will be looking elsewhere for workover the coming weeks I should imagine.

Nothing much else to say really. I went to look at a room the other day where Mrs P used to live and I'm in two minds. It's £80 a week which includes all bills apart from internet and landline but it is literally a room with a shower nothing else, no cooking facilites or anything. There are kitchens on each floor and laundry facilities too but they are communal. One thing going for it as well is there is no bond involved, just a £100 one off fee which helps, but I'd have to lose some of my stuff because it just wouldn't fit and I mean two leather sofas and chairs and shit like that. Like I said I'll have to think about it a bit cos time is rapidly running out!

That's it for now, off for a shit then heading into town to look at a few things then despite my break I might play a little bit of stud on Full Tilt for a bit because they play like shit on there and it'll pass a couple of hours!

Thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!

I'm Still Alive!

Hey readers, if you still visit here! I'm alive and well but I've had no motivation to do anything really because the meds the doctor prescribed me knocked the shit out of me! I ended up paranoid and worst of all they totally took away my appetite and I love my food! From Tuesday morning until last night all I had to eat was half a tin of soup, half a chicken kebab and a cornish pasty from Greggs! Was hungry all day yesterday and ended up getting a curry which after not eating for half a week wasn't the best idea I've ever had! Let's just say it was explosive!

I've played the odd SnG and a bit of fixed limit and also a little stud too but nothing to shout about. I'm off work again this week so I should be hitting the tables a bit more although my roll is only around $120 so I might have to 6-table the $2.25 SnG's or something or I might even bite the bullet and 4-6 tbale the horrific NL10 tables!

Stay tuned because I feel my old self returning and hopefully I'll have someposts in the next few days to keep you entertained!

1st Session Sponsored By KY Jelly!

I think the phrase I've used the most so far is "Fuck Me!" I got shafted good and proper and the cunts didn't even kiss me! I flopped 5 sets in 221 hands, 4 went to showdown and I won one of them for a total loss of 3BB. The shite these fuckers will hang around with is not normal! If I don't go mental this should be very profitable. Look at some of these hands!

KK crushed by the mighty 63s

Set of 7's destroyed by flopped straight

The mighty 63o strikes again!

How does this cunt call to the river?

I did actually win some hands too! These are the biggest winners for the mini session:

Set of 3's against KK

I liked how I played this!

Anyway, that's enough hands. Off for a smoke then will probably attempt to play again. I really need to eat something though because I'm not eating at all lately and I've lost a bit of weight which although I could do with it it's not coming off for the right reasons!

Thanks for reading and good luck against the fish!

Has Pudding Finally Gone Mad?

What's this, two updates in two days?! Thought I'd fire off a blog entry before I head to the hospital for my blood sample taking. I'm not scared of needles but I'm not looking forward to it because it's a pain in the arse taking blood from my arms because I have some pretty nifty scars and for some reasons my veins love to hide too, the cunts!

I mentioned yesterday that I have had no motivation to play poker at all and that has continued and I don't know why. I've pretty stressed out at the minute with the work issues, house issues and some other shite too so maybe that's the problem. I did play in a $2.25 180 man SnG on Full Tilt yesterday and managed a fantastic 120th! LOL! My final hand I call amin raise on the button with 9h8h and end up getting it all-in on a 6h7hJc board and miss every fucking out twice and the min-raising cunt's J7o holds! I mean WTF!

So why the title of this blog? Well I'm going to force myself to play some poker today and tomorrow and it's going to be fixed limit hold'em! I'm literally going back to basics and back to my roots to see if I can get the real itch to play again. I made most of my poker profits through fixed limit so I reckon I can do it again. I've set aside $125 which is 250BB for the $0.25/$0.50 tables on Full Tilt, the lowest they offer and I plan to 4 table these games for a few hours today to see if I can get back into things. I have a feeling that after half hour I'll be reaching for the Prozac and razor blades but nothing ventured nothing gained I guess.

I'll try update later but right now I'm off for a coffee in town with (potential?) Mrs P then off to the hospital for a gallon of the red stuff taking out! I'll get back to my normal postings soon, I just have to be very careful these days with the stalker-aments going on!

Thanks for reading and best of luck at those crazy tables!

Overdue Update!

Since my "win" in Mansion I've hardly played any poker whatsoever and have even closed my Mansion account. I tried to play a few $11 SnG's on there during peak Euro time and every hand I timed out so I emailed support telling them how shit their software is and why on Earth didn't they move to iPoker as planned. Two hours later I received and email telling me that my account was now closed and my money transfered to Neteller! LOL!

I have been signed off sick from work for one week due to anxiety and have been prescribed what is essentially Prozac and asked to go for a full blood test which I am going to do today or tomorrow. I've got another appointment on Friday as my blood pressure was quite high for a 26 year old and my resting pulse was 108! Heart attack on toast or what, I must have been a bit shittier that I'd given myself credit for! If things are still the same I should be off next week too.

There have been massive developments on the potential Mrs P front too which basically paves the way for her to be Mrs Pudding! It's a very private matter so it won't be discussed here as of yet and there are still some pretty big hurdles to overcome and move out of the way but things are looking great on that front. Long way to go but things look priomising. Just hope nothing happens to fuck things up like is usually the case when things go good for me!

Still not sorted a house yet although I need to get a wriggle on because the landlord has handed in his notice. I've a couple of numbers to ring and will be getting onto those after this blog update I should imagine seeing as I have fuck all else planned! It's all pretty stressful and it could be a pain because one of the places I am asking about is fully furnished and I have most of my stuff here and nowhere to put it plus I'm going to be short changed at work and this month is going to be expensive as fuck plus there's not long until Christmas either. FFS!

I think that's about it. I have withdrawn a large chunk of my roll as I am peppermint and have a few things I need to buy and vans to rent so I have $150 on Full Tilt which I am going to use for the rest of the month. Well I actually have $146.70 as I entered a deep stacked Omaha MTT last night for some fucking reason. No I wasn't pissed before you ask!

Sorry if this isn't the usual Pud-style update but I'm doing this on a whim and haven't had any motivation to play or write anything poker related for a week now with other things going on in my life right now. I promise though I will be hitting the tables at some point today and tomorrow!

Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables!

Bankroll Doubled!

First of all sorry for the distinct lack of updates of this blog lately, I know I am one of the more prolific bloggers in our network but with all the goings on at work I've either not had time to update or not had the inclination for a few reasons but I thought after today's exploits the Pudster was allowed a brag post! But first things first.

Work is still a mess. I missed two calls and two emails from my boss yesterday asking that I attend a meeting at 0900 today to discuss my unauthorised absence! WTF? I asked when the meeting had finished if I could leave and the answer was a loud and clear "Yes" so I left! I felt sick and unable to work when I arrived back at my desk so,with my boss not being there, I left a message with a collegue and then emailed my boss later that day to explain things. Nothing unauthorised there in my book, but whatever.

Actually played some live poker with Spunksock and our mate Jermaine. It was a £10+£3 double shootout and it didn't go to plan. I started off well hitting a flush with Qd7d and being paid off but Imade an awful call, based on slight pot odds, image and the fact I could rebuy with 55 and was against AK and TT and didn't suck out. Suckout I did later on with Qh6h to crack TT and Jermaine's AA with running Queens after a squeeze went wrong and those chips carried me forward towards the final table. I bubbled the final table though when I limped 1st in, in the SB, with 8h4h and was min-raised by a tool of a player. Flop comes AhQh6c and I check. Tool bets small and I'm not buying it to make it 5k to go with 400/800 blinds. He puts me all-in and I'm priced in on the flush and call. He turns over AA and I miss and go home in 10th. Whatever. Was good to get back on the live scene again and it was a good laugh all round.

Now my brag! I took 2nd in a $5.50 MTT with 315 runners for $236 and change, my biggest score yet! I deposited on Mansion because they've moved to the OnGame network and I get 36% rakeback so thought it's a win win situation but alas, my rakeback is no more. Anyway, i entered this tournament and told Spunksock I was LAGging it up for a change and things were going pretty well for me after the break. Top 40 were paid and once the bubble burst I started to make plays. I couldn't help but get my money in ahead for a change and finally hit the table sat 5 from 10 villains.

With 42k in chips and blinds 1.5k/3k there wasn't much room for error. I call a UTG min-raise with 33 and three of us see a flop. Flop is awesome and is 3AT, once check, a pot sized bet and I pushand am called by initial min-raiser who has AJ and is drawing very thin. Boom! 83k and 2/9 and I could taste a decent score. BurnleyMik was railing via MSN at this point and keeping me on the straight and narrow with SpunkSock! Lost 18k with blinds 3k/6k and 83k in chips. I raise 3xBB with Ah9h and a villain jams. I tank and fold. I'm happy with this especially as there were a couple of shorter stacks and I knew villain could be making a play but i didn't want to be a 65/35 favourite at this stage. Won a monster 173k pot with ATo all in against 2 villains, quickly followed by another 107k pot soon after for a clear chip lead!

Got heads up after I jammed over a push to isolate. I had AdKd and him Ac5c and flop comes AKx for a huge 270k pot and 2/1chip lead. HU villain was very aggro and I couldn't find the hands to play back at him and when I did he either jammed over me or folded when I had the good. One hand he raised his usual amount on the button and i jam with A5o. He calls with 77 and it holds. Couple of hands later I open push with Ts9s and he calls with K8o and flops and 8 and nothing for me but a nice $236 and change! Ship it! Only got my money in behind 3 times and those were two of the times! Winner got almost $400 which would have been great but I'm chuffed with that result as it take the roll to around $485 or so which is much needed I can tell you.

I think not using PAHUD and Poker Tracker helped me as I was forced to play situations rather than numbers which can be unreliable over a small sample so it's something I'll continue to do. Hopefully this is the start of a new beginning for me and poker!

Thanks for reading, I'll try not to leave it as long next time!

Take care guys!

The Slump Continues!

Well at 1400 today I will be facing my boss and a Human Resources woman charged with the excessive use of Facebook during working hours! For those who can't be bothered to read older posts what's basically happened is for some reason my boss took it upon herself to search for my Facebook profile during her own time at home and because any action you take is time stamped I have been shown to be using Facebook during working hours. Rather than confront me and bollock me about it she's confronted me and ran to HR as if to try gain some Brownie points for herself. She's even compiled a Word document with every action I've taken on my account since I opened it! It's all bullshit.

Their case, for want of a better word, is full of holes and they seem to have avoided the first question on my lips which is why the fuck is my boss searching for me during her own time? Also, are they aware that to discipline me with excessive use of the Facebook website they have to monitor the usage of anyone who has access to that site? If Facebook is so poor for business why haven't the IT department blocked the site? If the IT department monitor internet usage as it states in our policy then why hasn't my usage been flagged? It's obviously not that excessive in comparison to other's usage then. It's almost like a witch hunt in this place once somebody rubs a manager up the wrong way and they do everything to make them uncomfortable and basically force them out. I've got a decent defence and if I'm not convinced that this isn't victimisation I will take legal advice. I shouldn't have used Facebook during work but I've always completed my work and the actually amount of time spent on it is minimal because if you've seen any of the stuff on there you'll know these silly quizzes and stuff take seconds. So finger crossed it'll all go ok, don't think it helps my argument that I was 15 minutes late this morning, of all fucking mornings!

I have checked my Doomswitch and it is set to Maximum Overdrive, which incidentally cheesy dance act 2 Unlimited made in the 90's! I played five of the $4.40 180 man games last night and came nowhere near cashing in any of them, in fact the best I came was around 50th which is wank. I posted in the Online Railing forum on Raise The River and if you go there and have a look at some of the hands that beat me when I was ahead you will LOL! Even Burnley Mik said my Doomswitch was well and truly flicked on! I honestly don't know what to do. Some people so take a break but most articles I've read say you can do nothing but plough straight through it and eventually variance kicks back in in your favour. I have lost a lot of confidence these past few days and have also lost all my profit for the month so I am back to exactly, all but a few cents, where I started on October 1st with around $250! I'm nicely over-rolled for the $3.40 turbo's which I could 6 table but the last time I played these I was also on a downswing and didn't cash in my first ten but that was also when I was trying to play turbo's like normal SnG's and was a fish! I'm also considering trying another game for a short while just for a change in pace, maybe 7 card stud because I've watched some of the games on Stars and they are so loose they have to be seen to be believed and must be profitable just by playing tightly. You see, I've lost my focus again and I'm splashing around games which is a recipe for disaster.

On a more positive note I am awaiting an email or text message from an old supervisor that could lead into a new career opportunity so fingers crossed with that one. I've also been passed a number of a landlord, from potential Mrs P, who has some furnished flats to rent for around £300 a month which isn't bad so I might have to give him a call and see what is included as I have some of my own stuff that I'd rather use if possible.

I'm sure that by the end of the week I'll be telling you how much I love poker and how I own etc because this slump can't last forever! I mean it's been 2.5k hands, 12 SnG's and 5 MTT's so I am due some fucking luck please! Maybe I should start playing half pissed again as that seemed to work! Haha!

Thanks for reading guys and best of luck at those damned tables!

Worst Night's Sleep Ever!

I'm so fucking tired today it is unbelievable after I had my worst night's sleep ever. No boys and girls and Spunky Socks, Pudding isn't tired due to too much beer, cider or alcohol or any pharmaceuticals, he's tired due the evil entity that is Chinese food! Yes dear readers I hardly slept a wink thanks to my local Chinese takeaway! I worked my usual 1500-2300 shift behind the bar yesterday and when we closed up the landlord and I ordered some food as we were staving our rocks off. We devoured our spare ribs in OK sauce, chicken and sweetcorn soup and some aromatic crispy lamb with pancakes and hit the hay. I then proceeded to drink around 1.5L of water during the night, waking up every hour with stupid dreams and needing more water and then waking up needing a piss due to the water I'd drunk! Fucking chinkies and their love of MSG, cunts! But it tastes so nice!

Poker is still going shite and I'm running like a landmine victim right now and I'm trying to not let it piss me off but it's difficult when you get it all in against a fish with AK vs KT on a King high board and the cunt rivers a ten on you. Whatever can go wrong is going wrong and it's testing my nerve. For a change of pace I tried some turbo sit and goes, the $2.25 games, and 10 tabled them! LOL! I did great, winning three, coming second in another and coming third twice for a nice 76% ROI. This little run soon ended though and I've only cashed once in my next 12 games although I did win that one. When will this end? Please say soon or I might go mental, well more mental!

I spoke to Spunk Sock yesterday and told him I can't play NL10 and won't play it. My problem is I have read the forums, books and discussed hands on many levels with decent players and I just can't forget all this when I play the micro stakes and play ABC poker. It's not me. The only reason I play the micro-stakes is because I don't have the bankroll for anything higher, the reason most of the micro players play these stakes is because they are fucking shit at poker! Now I'm not a great player, far from it, but I am much better player than half of these retards but I try to play NL50-100 at the NL10 tables and it doesn't work. So I need to find a way to build my bankroll so that I can play at the higher levels and I'm going to do that through small stakes SnG's and MTT's.

Before I went to sleep last night I withdrew some of my funds from Full Tilt back to Neteller. My thinking behind this is to hit the 180 man $4.40's on PokerStars as I've had reasonable success at these and I know that if I play enough of them I can beat them consistently. Also, if I get lucky and take one or two down my bankroll will blossom overnight and I can get on with earning some decent cash from this bastard of a game! I withdrew enough to cover 40 buy-ins for the $4.40's leaving me with around $100 on Full Tilt which I will use for the $2.25 SnG's and the odd MTT $5.50 and under. I'm due about $10 from my rakeback company for last month and have so far earned $20-30 this month which will be paid next month. I was going to play the 180 man games on Full Tilt but they seem to fill up slower than an old man's bollocks despite the prize to buy-in ratio being excellent. Shame really because I prefer Full Tilt's structure over Stars' especially as the progression of the blinds is a lot smoother but you can't beat Stars for the availability of games and for how quickly they fill up.

Tomorrow is D-Day at work as I have my disciplinary at 1400. According to the letter I received I am "required to attend an interview" to discuss my manager's "concerns regarding my internet usage at work". Apparently I will have the chance to "state my case" so I have requested that I am sent all the evidence they have against me because how can I state my case when I don't know exactly what I am being charged with? If I don't receive this today I will not be attending as it won't be a fair hearing. It feels like a witch hunt to be honest after my recent disciplinary problems and I think they're going to try and tie my 3 month warning to this offence and try to force me out but it's a separate issue totally and I'll make sure it's logged as such. I'm really not bothered about the outcome of this meeting but I could really do with not getting sacked as it'll make getting a half decent job much more difficult but I do actually have the potential to be shown the door! Regardless of the outcome it's going to make working here pointless as I'll never be able to switch departments or progress upwards (not that I have any intention of doing so) and it'll also unbearable because I feel betrayed by my boss and the way the company operates. I'll never be able to be legitimately sick or late and every little thing that I do wrong will be scrutinised! The ironic thing is I was told that my boss' husband was told off a few weeks ago for being on Sky Sports, amongst others, website during the day! I guess in around 30 hours time I will be certain of my fate!

Right, my lunch half hour is almost up so I better sign it off here. I'm hoping to hit a few games tonight and if, sorry WHEN, I end up going deep I'll post something in the Railage Forum on Raise The River!

As always, thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!

Is This Some Sort Of Sick Joke?

Well the change to full ring seems to have done fuck all and variance has decided to follow me to these plains and continue to fuck me without kissing me! I swear, after someofthe hands I saw tonight I fully expected Jeremy Beadle to walk into my room and say I was on TV for a prank played by the guys at Raise The River!

Not only have I had to deal with the hands I told you about in yesterday's post, I have now just had to deal with the following:

KK vs AA AIPF = Suck my cock

AA vs 65s = Lick my balls. I actually see why he stayed in but still fuck off

TT vs AK = WTF does he think he beats here the retard? Thanks for throwing the King up on the river just to really fuck me off!

Boat over Boat = Meh, whatever

AQ vs JTo = Again, blow me Poker Gods (amen)

So 541 hands and a loss of $17 and change. Only positive thing to come out of this session was I could 8 table very easily and tried to open more but Full Tilt won't let me so I'll be 8 tabling later today which means around 500 hands per hour. Surely my luck has to change soon.

Watch out, Beadle's about!

Pretty Graphs And A New Direction

Ah, things always look better after a night's sleep and I'm back to being positive again! My bad run last night really got to me because I felt I was playing solid but variance was kicking me square in the balls again! I am pleased though how I made the decision to call it a night and not play again until today because in the past I have carried on playing when I'm not focussed and that leads to bigger losses and chasing money.

Pud Jr is currently trying to make the biggest mess he possibly can with all his toys, Cbeebies is on the box and I've been flicking through my database to see how much of a donk I actually am! According to Poker EV I am "owed" around $30 so I wasn't as in front as I thought but this doesn't take into account coolers like my KK vs AA or my J9s vs Q9s on a Q9J board against a weak LAG but it does show I've been sucked out on to the tune of over a buy-in at NL25. Now I know this isn't a great amount but it still pisses me off as I like my Poker Tracker to have all green figures!

I love 6-max for the action involved and the fact that the weak players are horrific but the variance is massive in these games especially when, like last night, I sat at a table and it turned out every single villain was using PAHUD and was a 2+2 member! Talk about wank table selection! So after a brief chat with Spunk Sock I am going to go back to NL10 and play Full Ring, probably 6 tables, and play my usual TAG game which should be very profitable against these donks. My bankroll is currently $301.54 so I amnicely rolled for NL10 and I will take a shot, but probably drop 2 tables, when I hit $350, dropping back down to NL10 if I drop back to the $300 mark. It's time to play my A-game consistantly again and not worry about beats as they happen and bad beats happen more to a good player as we get our money in good more often!

Anyway, here's my stats for 6-max and some pretty graphs!

I'm not going to get to play until about midnight tonight with me having Pud Jr today and then I'm working from 1900-2300 but I still plan on hitting 500-750 hands before I go to sleep and then I'll be getting up at a reasonable time tomorrow and hitting 2k hands before I start work at 1500. This should then keep me on course for 20-30k hands for the month.

Thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables.

I Fucking Hate This Game Sometimes!

Only a short post today because I'm really fucked off. Since my last update I've played just over 1k hands of NL10 and wonabout $55 which is owning! Because of that I had 12 buy ins for NL25 so took a shot and initially dropped 1 buy in but managed toclaw it back to $60 in profit but the last 1k hands at NL25 have been horrific.

I'm not even going to bother posting the hands but I've had AA lose to 96s, KK to QQ, KK to AA, AQ to AA on an AQx board, ATs vs A4o on an A5T board to a runner-runner straight, it's fucking awful. For my 2,425 hands of NL25 I have a loss of $7.20. It's amazing what these fucking dickheads call with too but losing $125 to coolers and suckouts certainly hurts I can tell you. I downloaded the Poker EV software and it confirms I'm running like a cunt and I should be well in front but I'm not. Yeah it's variance but it's shit!

To add insult to injury I'm in the shit at work for my internet usage. For some reason my boss searched for me on Facebook when she was at home and it shows I was on Facebook during working hours, so she printed off the profile page and gave it to Human Resources and I now have a disciplinary meeting on Tuesday at 1400. Looking at the company rules etc I could actually be for the high jump because I'm already on a 3 month probation period after my recent spat with HR. I really don't need this shit and if I'm honest losing my job would be shit because of lack of funds but at the same time I really don't give a fuck anymore. Everything they do has a blame culture and it's always as if someone is trying to get one over on someone else, all sneaky. At the end of the day there are plenty of jobs paying £15k a year and it's not like I'm specialised in a field.

So job situation is wank, poker is going fucking shit, I am 100% homeless in November and I'm still cunting single. But at least I have my health as they say! Honestly if I didn'tlaugh I'd fucking cry!

Hope you all have a great weekend though, I'm calling it a night on the poker front, time for some cider!

I Finally Run Like God!

I didn't play even half of the hands I expected to play last night because I was totally knackered by the time I arrived home. I hardly slept Friday or Saturday and had minimal sleep Monday and it finally caught up with me and I could feel my concentration levels dropping rapidly so decided to call it a day after a mere 488 hands, although I did manage to turn in a nice profit of $33.60! Ship It!

When I got back to the pub I ordered a nice cold pint, of Pepsi that is! Yes Pud drinking soft drinks, make a note of it! In an attempt to wake myself up I jumped in the shower and took with me the greatest shower gel on the planet, Original Source Mint and Tea Tree. It's fucking awesome! The mint really wakes you up and I tell you what lads, wash your bollocks and bell end with it for a different experience, it's weird but nice. Bit like if you fill a condom full of water, freeze it, use it as a dildo on your missus then fuck right afterwards, that kind of weird! Now there's something you married lot should convince the missus to try. Yorkshire Pudding, sexual therapist, at your Cervix! Back on track Pud you twat! Right, I opted for 6 max because basically full ring bores me to tears! Yeah it can be very profitable but it's more about letting the game come to you and waiting for big hands where I like to be the aggressor and I often come unstuck at full ring by being too aggressive and loose. I fired up 4 tables of NL10 and got to work.

From the off I felt in control but was getting frustrated that the majority of my raises weren't being called and I was taking down loads of $0.25 pots but when some other fish raised they were getting callers and being paid off but I kept in control of my emotions and plodded along as normal. Then I started with a rush of cards and although I wasn't being paid off handsomely with them I did manage to take down some half decent pots with c-bets and delayed c-bets. Then the poker Gods (amen) gave me three hands in quick succession which resulted in the villains being stacked. It obviously helps when you flop a straight here and here and then turn a set when a loose villain holds Aces but it's their own fault for over valuing their hand! About fucking time I hit some big hands me thinks! Comments on the hands? Like I said earlier I felt so tired instead of carrying on I decided to call it a night which is a change for me as usually I'd carry on playing and donate my chips to some random fish! I should get about 1.25 hours in tonight before I have to work the bar and depending on my alertness I may do another hour when I have finished although I have promised potential Mrs P that I'd download her some tunes so I might do that tonight which will free up Thursday and Friday for a couple of big sessions, so I can get back on track as I'm about 1k hands behind schedule at present but this is easy enough caught up.

I'm also getting seriously addicted to Facebook! I've managed to add over 30 friends recently and it's good to see what people are up to and stuff like that, especially as some of them I went to Primary school with and I've not seen them for about 15 years! Some of the stuff on there is a bit cheesy and sad but it's on the whole a good laugh and a bit of silliness is always good in my book. I'd recommend anyone getting a free account and tracking down some old mates, you might even get to see some pictures of fellow bloggers, including yours truly!

Life's good at the minute and I'm felling great about myself. I'm getting my friends and family back in my life and poker is going good too. I still have a few things to iron out but I should be back on totally top form in a month or so, so keep checking in to see what's happening in Pud's world! I've also added a few new blogs to my blogroll down the right so make sure you pop over and say hi. Amatay and Spunksock will have already been there though the internet stalking fish!

Thanks for reading and best of luck at those fish infested tables!

Friends Reunited

Here is a great recipe for you to try if you want to feel like shit! Take 8 cans of Kronenberg 1664, add a couple of joints, mix with far too many Lambert and Desperate fags, mix in little in the way of food and stew for three hours sleep, wake when done and walk to the bus stop with a bag that weighs as much as Rick Waller in the freezing cold! Tired does not come close to how I feel right now, even the sausage sarnie, large coffee and three cans of Red Bull have failed to blow away the cobwebs so far. I'm so glad this is becoming less and less like the norm and more of a one off occasion!

After work last night I went to my mate Brian's house for a few beers and a catch up. We're the best of mates despite not seeing each other for over a year and we decided it was about time we met up again. He met me in Leeds city centre and we fell right back into the groove instantly. We were going to go for a blast on his new Suzuki GSXR-750 but by the time we'd picked up beers for later and he'd sorted some of his business stuff out it was freezing and pitch black so we gave it a miss and decided to consume our beers instead. The beers flowed and we took the piss and talked about old times, old friends and about the issues I'd been having over the past few months and as usual I was given some decent advice and what not. It made me laugh how it took me 45 minutes to try and explain pot odds and expectation to Bri as we kept going off on a tangent due to THC consumption! Former Mrs P text asking about this and that and when I said I was round at Brian's she text back asking if "is he the one with the massive cock or the squeaky leather pants?" LMAO, don't ask! I also think I was a bit of a knob with potential Mrs P, nothing nasty but judging by my outbox on my phone I just kept going on and on about bollocks like I do after beer and smoking! Sorry darling! She asked if I was pissed because my spelling was shit but I'd only had two or three cans then but by the time I collapsed I'd supped my way through 8 of the bitches! Not good. I think we ordered a curry but passed out on the sofa so didn't hear the cunts turn up so Bri may now be barred from his favourite takeaway! I somehow managed to get myself up at 0630 and also find the right bus stop despite still being a little pissed still!

It was great to see Bri again and we definitely won't leave it as long next time, in fact he's coming over on Sunday morning to take me out for a spin on his new machine, weather permitting. I've got some great mates who I've neglected but who would still be there for me at a drop of a hat if I needed them and them me. I suppose that's the sign of true mates. I'd not neglected them on purpose, but it doesn't help when I live about £30 taxi ride from where they live, have to work weekends, can't get wrecked on Friday's due to me having Pud Jr etc and also money has been really tight for a while now and a lot of them have long term girlfriends, wives and kids. Since getting over my mental problems (well almost) and joining the rather gay but addictive Facebook, I've had the urge to get back in with my mates and family members again and get back to some sort of normal life. It's not costly either as I only spent £10 yesterday and we had a right laugh from start to finish, great value!

So I didn't get to play any poker so I will need to make up for that tonight. I've started to come round now so I should be fine by the time I get home around 1800. I'm planning to have a shit, shave and shower because I look like a Big Issue seller, feel grotty and have a mouth that is like a Turkish wrestler's jockstrap! I've still not decided whether or not I'm going to play full ring or 6 max either so I need to have a think during today. I eventually got through to the company that Poker Heaven uses for their cashier and it turns out they initially lied to me about it being Neteller's problem why my withdrawal was declined and that they had some "technical problems" the day they sent my money off so I have to try and make the withdrawal again tonight so I should have my roll back on Full Tilt in the next couple of days with a bit of luck. Depending on how tired I feel I aim to play between 1k and 2k hands tonight to catch up on yesterday's down time which means that I should be able to take a shot at NL25 tomorrow. I'm going to start to take a shot at the next highest stakes when I have 10 buy-ins for it and drop back if I lose 2 buy-ins as this will leave me with 20 for the stakes below. Hopefully I'll run like Spunk Sock and Amatay and tear the tables up!

Right time for my 4th Red Bull I think. Sorry about the slight fragmented post but that's all my head can manage today! Should have some poker content tomorrow with a few hands I've had trouble with during my session!

Take it easy guys and thanks for reading!

That's My Boy!

I forgot about this picture until I was going through my phone on my dinner! I had Pudding Jr over on Friday and we went downstairs, into the bar, for him a glass of milk. A few customers were playing poker and one had gone for a piss so off he wondered, sat at the table with his milk and stacked his chips! It must be in the blood!

Mini-pud domination!

We Shall Rename This Month Pudtober!

Pinch, punch, first of the month, no return. Remember saying that as a kid? Well September has been and gone and we are now into the tenth month of the year, how fucking quick has this year gone? This month is going to be perfect to start rebuilding things because not only is it a start of a new month it's also the first day of the week and with my slightly obsessive nature the first of the month starting on a Monday is fantastic. Don't ask! I have a really good feeling about this month for some reason and I'm hoping to make it my most successful month yet in poker.

As expected I didn't play much since my last post, I know I said I was going to play a bunch of SnG's but I couldn't motivate myself for them. I take my hat off to these SnG grinders who 12 table for 8 hours a day because I just couldn't do it. I did manage a whole five of the bitches though and ran like God by winning three and coming 2nd in the other two! I would have won the other two but I ran 99 into AA and J7 into Q7 on a 77xxx board. Still a 236% ROI and a nice little $27 profit for 40 minutes work isn't to be sniffed at. I also entered the Daily Double MTT's on Full Tilt in the early hours on Sunday morning. The buy in was $10+$2 and there was a bonus for cashing in both, highest aggregate finish, making two final tables and winning both. Both games kick off at the same time, which was about 0200, with the A tourney having 1,485 runners and the B 1,331 meaning the top 216 were paid with prizes ranging from around $15 to a very nice $2.8k!

Things were going very average from the off, the play was pretty loose and my plan was to see a few flops early and hit a monster but I couldn't even do that as I was dealt total turd for cards so I sat tight and hoped to get paid off with some premium hands. My heart wasn't in it by the first break and I kept nodding off and I eventually busted in the B game in about 700th and I don't remember how. As I knew I wouldn't be getting a double cash bonus I decided to open my game up a bit in the A game and it worked a treat. I was raising at least twice an orbit and when I was eventually played back at I seemed to have the goods. I won a huge pot about 2.5 hours in when I rivered a King after making a squeeze play with AK and was against 99 and AQ. the board came out 47QJK and I was chip leader with around 350 left, with a great image, being hit in the face with the deck and a table full of average stacks. I could smell a final table appearance! Towards the third break I was really flagging so actually sat out for the last ten minutes and took a 15 minute power nap (including the break). However, the Poker Gods (amen) do not take this action lightly and decided to fuck me over well and truely. Very first hand after the break I get TT in the BB. 2nd in chips villain, who I re-stolen from a number of times, makes it 4xBB from MP1. All fold and I 3-bet him once again, this time he flat calls. Flop come T5J and to keep up with my image I bet out 2/3's pot and villain makes it 3x my bet. Now I'm hoping here he has QQ-AA and is going to give me a monster stack or he's playing back at me with AJ-AK. I push and he snap calls and tables fucking fish hooks the cunt! No case ten for me and I bust about 270, about 50 from the money. Sick! I win that hand and I have twice the chips as anyone else and I really had a chance for a big big score. Set over set, meh. Wanker of a game!

I played 4 tables of NL10 6 max last night after my barshift and managed to reap a nice profit of $19 from about an hours play. The standard of play is awful in these and I might have to re-think playing full ring if this is what the play is like. I feel "in the zone" recently and I'm very confident and happy about my game and I'm looking forward to hitting 20-30k hands this month. If I can manage that i will delighted especially as I bet I've only played 30-50k hands all year so far! I know I have the game now to make some decent money from poker, not millions far from it, but I know I could make what I earn now in my day job if I had the right bankroll and now that my attitude towards everything has changed. I really think I can have a $500 month and a further $2-300 in rakeback which would be fucking brilliant! I'm going to use a 20 buy in rule but start to take shots when I have 12 buy ins for the next step up, dropping back down if I drop 2 buy ins. By doing this I should be able to progress more quickly with less risk of going crazy and losing a chunk of my roll. I have around $125 in my Full Tilt account and once Poker Heaven stop fucking about and give me my withdrawal of $155 I should only be about $20 short from taking a shot at NL25. I borrowed £50 ($95) from my bank account which I could do with putting back but I might just cut my spending on stuff during the next couple of weeks so I can keep it as part of my roll.

I'm not going to get to play tonight as I am meeting one of my best mates, Brian, after work. I met Brian when I was 18 and was put on despatching at O2 when I came back from the sick after breaking my arm for the first time. We hit it off right away and we've been like brothers ever since! I've not seen him for nearly a year now but we just slot right back into the groove straight away like we'd seen each other everyday, he really is a great guy. With everyone I know I seem to go from just talking to them to being mates that can say anything to each other, call each other cunts etc with no in between bit, it's weird. Anyway, he's the proud owner of a Suzuki GSXR-600 so I have dug my protective gear out and if the weather holds up he's going to take me for a spin on it. I must admit I got some funny looks this morning with my huge bag, armoured jacket and carrying a fluorescent Simpons helmet onto a packed train! LOL! When we've been for a ride we're just going to get a few tinnies, a takeaway and talk bollocks etc. Really looking forward to it, I'm a simple creature!

I've also taken the first step towards getting myself back on track career wise. I know I won't be a poker pro any time soon, probably not ever, so I need to maximise my earning potential and to do that I need to gain more qualifications. So I have registered to study with the Open University again, this time opting to gain a degree in Information and Communication Technology, hopefully going through and completing a masters along the way. It's going to be a long road but should be rewarding at the end of it. I start in February 2008 and the Open University are going to pay for the course, give me a £250 grant and pay my broadband connection too! The joys of being poor. Once the initial stages are over with I plan to drop my hours here to part-time, devote more time to studying my degree and by this stage I should be able to make £500-600 a month through pokes to supplement my lack of hours during the day. If I can do this I will be delighted I can tell you. Fingers crossed!

So, no challange as such for this month, just a totally fresh start and earn as much as I can! If it's as good a month as I hope it is I'm going to rename this month Pudtober!

Thanks for reading and best of luck at the real and virtual felt!