Prose from a Poshboy

[cambridgealex]

losing like £1k-£2k going into today's session...got 2 sweats atm

[BorntoBubble]

They will depend extremely heavily on the next two hours!

good luck! any major sweats on?

[cambridgealex]

sweat over. came 3rd in 100freezeout, and 13th in 100turbo, both with 10k euros up top.

Won £2k for the day so very happy, nice to have a win and good sunday etc and probs just about out of it for the month!, which is the main thing as aaron would've had a field day with two losing months in a row

[cambridgealex]

December results

Live Tournaments

Profit £3800
Hours 42

Live Cash

Profit -£2278
Hours 26

Online MTTs

Profit -£1000
Hours 50

Total Profit £522.00
Hours 118

Fairly light on the hours front, due Krakow and Christmas, cashes in EPT and WPT helped absorb a second bad month really, but really nice to get out of it right at the end today

[Marky147]

Nice one, can't be bad to get out at the death and finish with only one month in the red!!

See Mitch mentioned Amsterdam, head over there for some Amsterdamage to start 2013, get that threesome cracked out in early doors  and then you can oncentrate on that W/EPT

[smashedagain]

In before Aaron asks for Decembers results.

Happy new year Alex. Where are team Eureka off out to celebrate?

[jgcblack]

No devil's threesomes obv, (well not no, just that wouldn't count towards the resolution ) and no Dave, it doesn't count if one or more of the girls are  there on a "professional" basis lol

Jb and alex in threesome prop bet yooooooo

Would be unfair on John I think.

you'd need odds mate..

serious.

[smashedagain]

No devil's threesomes obv, (well not no, just that wouldn't count towards the resolution ) and no Dave, it doesn't count if one or more of the girls are  there on a "professional" basis lol

Jb and alex in threesome prop bet yooooooo

Would be unfair on John I think.

you'd need odds mate..

serious.

both poor performers IMO. Single guys obv suck at sex

[cambridgealex]

2012 Results

This will be the last time I post my results on this diary. From next year I'm going to keep it all private. I should've stopped this a while ago to be honest,  but just for the sake of completeness I will finish the year off and do a brief analysis of how I've done and compare it to 2011 also which'll quite useful.

OK so, the main thing is we've survived!

Let's kick off with the most important thing...

A sexy graph of the year as a whole...



Table breaking it up into the 3 different forms I've played and comparing it to last year

Click to see full-size image.

Amazingly similar results to 2011! More or less the same volume, exactly the same hourly! And only £3k less profit. Pretty staggering considering variance and all that...

Put in less than half as many live cash hours, but with 6x the hourly. Mainly due to game selecting better but mainly running super good over the year compared to last year when I ran pretty bad. Replaced those hours with MTT volume - ran really bad over the year, happy with things there though, just ridic variance in those huge fields. At least we're not in the red! Live MTT hours more or less the same and no major bink so obv less profit but still really happy with my work there.

What do these results mean?

Like last year, I don't think they mean a whole lot! I've ran well above EV live and well below EV online, but overall ran over EV I'm sure. I don't think I "should" be winning £55k a year playing what I play. I've always aimed for 40 and will be aiming for that again.

It is amazing that my hourly for 2011 was £36.87 and for this year its £36.15! I really don't think this means much though, just a incredible coincidence.

These results don't "prove" anything either. OK they make it pretty likely that I'm a winning poker player. They make it pretty likely I'm a winning live cash player also. Can't conclude anything about my online profitability or my live tournament profitability (both heavily distorted in different directions). You just have to KNOW where you are profitable imo.

Call it delusion, but I have the strength of mind to keep playing online MTTs even though my results over almost a year of playing them suggest it's a waste of my time. And it works the other way too, I not going to start piling all my time and money into live cash and live MTTs, thinking I have a £63 hourly.

I'm way more interested in using my judgement about how profitable I think a certain game / tournament is going to be, rather than using my results to make that decision.

Anyway, the graph is pretty and I'm very happy with how the years gone as a whole which is the main thing. Next year I wanna crush online and have some deece 5fig scores, get a 6figure score live and keep crushing the cash games. Should be eaaaaasyy

[jgcblack]

Congratulations... well done mate.

[cambridgealex]

Other areas of investment:

Taking pieces in people: Have made 54 investments over the year, averaging £267 per stake, and a total LOSS of £3,710, ROI of about 74%

Stocks - up 10% on the year

Staking stable: don't keep accurate enough records to be honest. Winning 4 figures for the year, probably between 3 and 7k.

[atdc21]

Well done Alex, cracking year profit wise.
Good luck for the new year.

[cambridgealex]

The song I was going to cover was Gold Dust by D J Fresh, but since that might take a while to perfect I thought I'd start out with something simple so did this this afternoon. It's a really simple song - Angels by the xx, but I've schmoozed it up a bit and added a quirky ending which I think is really cool. It's not great, but it's an OK start. Any comments welcome. Think I should choose a better camera angle next time lol but it was the only one possible without setting up a stand of sorts!

[Tal]

Superb, that. It's in the style of the montage that follows England's inevitable exit from a football tournament. I like the original, too.

Reckon you could piano up some rock/metal classics in that style reasonably easily. Iron Maiden's The Wicker Man prob a good starter for ten:

[cambridgealex]

Sorry Tal, not my scene