Prose from a Poshboy

[outragous76]

hey Alex - nice to meet you yesterday!

I have to say that if the 1/2 game i sat in last night was anything like typical, then id def play .5/1 until you have at least a 4k roll. This obv has nothing to do with skill level, but it wouldnt take many freak pots against "cant fold/wont folds" to destroy your roll. Obviously there is up swing potential too but i think off ur curent roll id stay at 50/1 and just take money off everyone there. I have never seen a 1/2 sit sooo deep.

As for my game, well I probs could have left with £1k, but there was a 2 hour period in the middle where I wasnt being smiled upon! I also had a pot where i managed to stack the short stacker who i had previously doubled through twice (but he only had 100 left), but it probably cost me more against Julian who was still to act and sat with AA on a JJ6 and he obv found a fold to my flat call of the kids jam.

Still I left up and very happy that I am controlling my tilt much better nowadays at the cash tables. There is many a game past where i would have just snap tilted the lot off when running so bad for an hour or so.

The highlight (or lowlight) of my day was getting Alan Stern to fold his only flop of the day by clicking back his flop bet (sure hadnt flopped top set - FML)

Keep up the diary - really enjoying it - and wishing you your mighty upswong in April!

[JK]

How do you always get there?

[cambridgealex]

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[titaniumbean]

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[paulhouk03]

Alex if u need to knish it up to boost ur bankroll
There's so many crappy 50p 1£ games in the uk its unreal

[cambridgealex]

Alex if u need to knish it up to boost ur bankroll
There's so many crappy 50p 1£ games in the uk its unreal

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I lolled

[titaniumbean]

Glad someone did!

[JK]

Glad someone did!

Needed some love IMO

[cambridgealex]

Glad someone did!

Needed some love IMO

i chuckled too Beanie. JPEG-based comedy is right up there imo.

[cambridgealex]

Had an alright few days on the tables since Saturday. 3 winning sessions - although not great in magnitude, tonights especially: +£19! Am currently down 850 for the month and unless something miraculous happens, it's going to be my first losing month as a full-timer. Although it's not nice, I'm at peace with it. I'm happy with how I've been playing and can put it mostly down to running bad in one way or another, although I'm making mistakes here and there, but I'm learning from each one and always beat myself up over mistakes. I think that's the biggest cause of tilt for me - making mistakes. I'm enjoying improving though.

Having said that, this month I don't think I've tilted at all, which is a good sign. I've been frustrated a lot and not really enjoying my sessions, but I've definitely handled myself well and been graceful, which is one of the key things I aimed for last month. I've been pretty slack on the hours front, but I've had Prague and Germany and my Mum's birthday which have all meant unavoidable time off. I'm also pleased I was disciplined enough to move down to 50/1 when I felt I had to. A long term staking deal for tournaments is in the pipeline, more on that once it's finalised - exciting stuff.

Anyway, a bit premature with the end of month summary, but felt I hadn't written much on here for a while.

[stato_1]

Had an alright few days on the tables since Saturday. 3 winning sessions - although not great in magnitude, tonights especially: +£19! Am currently down 850 for the month and unless something miraculous happens, it's going to be my first losing month as a full-timer. Although it's not nice, I'm at peace with it. I'm happy with how I've been playing and can put it mostly down to running bad in one way or another, although I'm making mistakes here and there, but I'm learning from each one and always beat myself up over mistakes. I think that's the biggest cause of tilt for me - making mistakes. I'm enjoying improving though.

Having said that, this month I don't think I've tilted at all, which is a good sign. I've been frustrated a lot and not really enjoying my sessions, but I've definitely handled myself well and been graceful, which is one of the key things I aimed for last month. I've been pretty slack on the hours front, but I've had Prague and Germany and my Mum's birthday which have all meant unavoidable time off. I'm also pleased I was disciplined enough to move down to 50/1 when I felt I had to. A long term staking deal for tournaments is in the pipeline, more on that once it's finalised - exciting stuff.

Anyway, a bit premature with the end of month summary, but felt I hadn't written much on here for a while.

+1 to all of this mate. Can't remember when it was but sometime this month we were playing together and you lost a pretty big pot to someguy in a pretty nasty way where hed played his hand terribly. Could tell u were pretty annoyed but you just smiled, said nice hand and carried on. Massive respect for saying that was something you wanted to improve and then really making an effort to do it. Also on the dropping down thing, easy to say ur gonna do it but actually dropping down and grinding hard at a lower stake again is a different thing altogether and it seems like u've pretty much crushed it since u did drop down so nuff respect for that as well.

Shit that this is ur first losing month (play more than 20 hands/month ftw), but its probably the one that has convinced me that you can definitely make a living doing this. (Not meaning to sound patronising, just highlighting how impressed i've been with the way you've handled a pretty shit run).

So yeh, felt ive been a bit nice in this post. In the interest of balance: Play better in April, ***** x

[kinboshi]

LOL - good recovery at the end there.

[titaniumbean]

Had an alright few days on the tables since Saturday. 3 winning sessions - although not great in magnitude, tonights especially: +£19! Am currently down 850 for the month and unless something miraculous happens, it's going to be my first losing month as a full-timer. Although it's not nice, I'm at peace with it. I'm happy with how I've been playing and can put it mostly down to running bad in one way or another, although I'm making mistakes here and there, but I'm learning from each one and always beat myself up over mistakes. I think that's the biggest cause of tilt for me - making mistakes. I'm enjoying improving though.

Having said that, this month I don't think I've tilted at all, which is a good sign. I've been frustrated a lot and not really enjoying my sessions, but I've definitely handled myself well and been graceful, which is one of the key things I aimed for last month. I've been pretty slack on the hours front, but I've had Prague and Germany and my Mum's birthday which have all meant unavoidable time off. I'm also pleased I was disciplined enough to move down to 50/1 when I felt I had to. A long term staking deal for tournaments is in the pipeline, more on that once it's finalised - exciting stuff.

Anyway, a bit premature with the end of month summary, but felt I hadn't written much on here for a while.

 In the interest of balance: Play better in April, ***** x

fyp

[cambridgealex]

thank you andrew. most kind words.

one from the top please.