So life post Vegas continues, without much changing. I grind 10 hours a day of live cash Monday-Saturday with usually one or two days off, and play online on Sundays.
At the start of this diary it was hand history after hand history, I was super excited about letting the world know how I 3bet AK and got three streets on a K high board. And then the next day how I 4bet AA but Mitch flopped a straight with 98s.
Now none of it seems newsworthy. The 1/2 era at DTD seems to have come to and end. There's a small game on a friday and saturday usually, but not like it used to be, and midweek is hopeless. My volume is all at 50/1 at Gala these days where the games are great. Well they are decent, they aren't really 50/1. As I've written about before, £1000 swings daily, 4fig pots common, they get big. The player pool is mixed - when Stato, Mitch and PJ piss on my parade it feels more like a home game and although loads of fun, not the most profitable game by any means.
However most days they aren't there and although there are some other decent regs there, I find the games decent value and a lot of fun. They run late, until 9am some days, and the rake is very good.
People have asked me a lot about winrates/hourlys in these low stakes live cash games. At just the 50/1 level, I'm on a massive heater over the past 12 months. I've only played 250 hours in that time, but am winning at £30/hour which I'm certain is NOT sustainable. My lifetime hourly is £15 over 1100 hours. I would bet against anyone in the country being able to sustain over £20/hour over 1000 hours in any casino based 50/1 game in the UK. Even £15 I might bet against.
So that's that topic covered. I have a lot to get off my chest today actually.
On the one hand I'm happy to be where I am. I would happily repeat the past 3 years and live like I have for the next 3. They've been the sickest years of my life, not even close and I know how lucky I am.
On the other hand, do I want to be playing 50/1 cash for a living when I'm 30? Not really. I feel my life lacks any direction or progress. I feel that unless a big score happens, I might still be grinding the same games in 5 years time.
I am fortunate in that I have options. I can uproot, move away, do anything really. I have no ties really. I do though. Everytime I go away I look forward to coming back. I do love life here. I'd miss my friends too much. I'd miss the live games too much. I'd miss DTD and playing there every week.
I don't think I want to move anywhere else in the UK now. I don't want to go to London and I don't have any reason to believe that life in another city would be better. I mean the games are probably better in Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds etc. But not much better. And sometimes the games at DTD are just incredible and better than anywhere else in the country. And I know all the players here. I definitely don't want to move elsewhere in the UK.
Abroad? Possibly. I've always wanted to live abroad. There's so many cities I've been in and thought: I could live here one day.
Barcelona, Tallinn, Prague, Vegas, Monte Carlo probably top 5.
I think if I stay here I need the regular poker trips abroad, and I need the monthly visits to see Victoria of course. We'll see how it goes. My mood is so interchangeable at the moment. I lost a bit on thursday and was down in the dumps thinking about the future etc. Then a big night on friday night and was back loving it again.
Feels like I should win a huge tournament soon. That would help things
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