Do You Still Enjoy Playing Poker?

Just came across this thread on 2+2 and it kinda sums it up for me, there is a lot of good points. Like many of the posters I don't enjoy poker like i once used to either however as many of the fish point out it does give me a lot of freedom and fuck getting up at 7am everyday. I still have no regrets about quitting my job 16 months ago and have done ok upto now, although its highly unlike that poker will continue to be my only source of income in the long term future. Who knows what the future holds for me?? One thing i have to do is play at least 20 hrs a wk minimum, i am a fkin joke!

I played four mickey mouse mtt's yesterday night with my best result being a 13th in the smallest of the four. I decided to fuck the mtt's off today because they get on my fooking tits sometimes. Cunts blasting all over the shop and getting there every fkin time lol. The variance is sooo redic in MTT's aswell and if i am gonna go travelling it will be tough to make money playing mtt's with my volume level. Also i will have to be prepared to play for maybe 7-8+ hrs at any one time and i don't fancy that. So i fired up five tarbs of $1/2 today and eventually had eight tarbs up and running. I felt comfortable and played ok/decent most of the time i think. I peaked at $800 profit but dropped to $600+ after Scotch came home from work and put me off so i logged off. However, i just donked off four buyins pissing about playing two tarbs of PLO $50 whilst railing a few fishays which was abit shit as i was doing ok. Can't blame Scotch this time because the little mincer was in bed. Gonna continue to play more cash games in the near future i think because i actually semi enjoyed it today. Pleeeeease let me run gooooot, laters.

Travel

Played poker about three times i think this month lol. No desire and no motivation to play whatsoever. I will be back but i just don't care for poker much atm. I am always pretty honest when i write this blog and i admit that i have not made a living from poker income so far this year. I am however still confident that i can earn a living but like i said a distinct lack of volume means that i am basically living off the poker profits from when i used to play a bit.

Got some quite big news in the pipeline that will probably happen at the end of August although i am still a little undecided. Basically me and Scotch went out into Piccadilly a couple of weeks ago to speak to some travel expert from Trail Finders about fucking off to Australia and New Zealand for 6 months total. The plan is to fly to Melbourne on the 31st Aug and schummie up the East Coast to places like Sydney and Cairns etc before flying to central Oz to have a mince about in places like Ayers Rock. We then fly to NZ for the last month of our journey starting around Auckland and working our way down to the South before coming back to good old Watford. The trip costs about £1.1k for flights. After having discussed all this i got some bird to come round my gaff from Your Move to look at the possibility of renting my place out for the whole 6 months. She said i can expect to get about £750pm although i will not see a penny of the first months rent because of all the fee's and shizz i will have to pay the bastards for setting it up. Anyways, i was bang up for it and it was all systems gogogo until recently when i became a weee bit undecided. The indecision mainly stems from Kels and getting quite close to her of late. However, i'd say there is still a 90% chance of me fucking off. Its gotta be done ain't it? I'll just chill out playing some small stakes poker to keep me ticking over, visiting different countries, meeting new people and basically just have a wicked experience and a good laugh, happy days.

I also almost booked a trip to Las Vegas the other night for the start of the WSOP after chatting with Animal. I know a few fish who are gonna be out there but i'd rather go out there with a poker playing mate. I've already asked a couple of fish but they have blown me out. Adam? JJay?? Rigormortay??? Lets gogogo to Vegooose, it's redic cheap this time of year fish, come on! Right, time for some Sunday afternoon/night beers, laters.

Easter Weekend

Not really felt like blogging at all recently which is unlike me but everything is alright i guess. Can't remember exactly what i have been upto both on and off the tarbs since my last post so i'll just write about some stuff that's happened over the long easter weekend.

On the good Friday i went down to the Empire Casino with my mate Ads to meet up with a couple of online fish i sometimes chat shit to on msn, Ant and Greekstein. I felt like i had to go out tbh because my housemate Scotch had some Polish bird he met a few weeks ago coming round our gaff for probable rumps. He makes me laugh that fish, he's got a bag full of tricks the little mincer. He set up a picnic for this bird on his bed where he had overdosed on loads of little snacks and nibbles costing almost 50 nugs. I've never seen his grimey little bedroom looking sooo clean tbh, he must have given the sheets a proper good scrape. Fair play to him though because he got his rumps lol.

I played in the £20r at the Empire and after two horrendous suckouts by yours trulay in the FO period with 68 vrs two opponents and then 6d4d vrs KK my own pocket kings were no good in a pot to treble up vrs A5 to bust in 6th, sigh. I win that and i prob win the tourn but obviuosly no complaints, sjjhjfvrtyguhsdy. Also played abit of £1/2 cash winning about £80 despite getting completely pwned by some really smug bastard in one hand. Bascially, this fish had heard from a mate that i play (or try to play) this stupid game for a living and i'd also heard that he was no mug. Given this brief history a hand played out where i got pwned so hard. Few limpers and i limp on the button with 44 and this smug wanker makes it $11 out of the bb. Everyone folds but with me being a massive fishay and having position peel off a flop. Its comes a very dry A27 rainbow flop and smug fish bets about 30 ish i and make it 70 odd and he flats, ut oh. I decided to give up and the turn went check check and he fired a 70 quid river bet which i instantly mooked and he tabled KQ!!! The muthalicker had flatted me oop with K high because he knew i was on the bullshizz. I was like fair play and we then preceded to discuss the hand. He said if i bet the turn and river he was gonna call so i was like why bet 70 on the river then? In my opinion he has to bet the river regardless of what cards come because he has no showdown value with K high unless specific cards fall like pairing the board etc. Alot of the hands that i turned into a bluff could have him beat there so imo he HAS to bet the river. Fair play to the smug bastard anyway. I kept thinking about that hand on the way home and when you think about it really deeply there is no point him betting unless he had air because he would be check calling with strong ace kickers and even AAA given that it looked like i was bluffing so what does he hope to get called by once i shut down on the turn. I dunno if i have explained myself well but fuck it, i know what i'm on about.

I've had a few very small results in online MTT's getting a 3/306 in a $7r on ipoker and winning a $5r PLO on ftp but i just can't seem to get a decent score in either the decent 30 doll biggish fields the 50 buck games or the occasional 100 doll tourns i play. I also had a quick stab on the $1/2 cash tarbs on Saturday and won a few quid so i played some more on Monday and made another $400 so i might continue with the cash games and see what happens. I actually played with a pretty minging hangover after getting lashed up on Easter Sunday with a few chums and Kels and a load of her mates which was a good crack. That will do for now as i can't be bovved to write anymore. I'll leave you fish with a couple of good/funny links. The first one comes courtesy of that dirrtay donk Ant who told me about this site which is now one of my faves ;-) The second link has been doing the rounds for a while now but it stills cracks me up probably because we all feel like this sometimes. Time for some shut eye, laters.

Betfair Promo!

No poker reports in this bloggatay post fishays as there isn't exactly too much worth mentioning except for numerous fkin bust outs and the usual sickness, so don't bother reading it if you can't be bovved. Daser from RTR has asked me to pimp the latest promotion on Betfair so how could I turn him down when he offered me some freeeee mooola babay!

So this is just to plug the Ipod Touch promotion Betfair are running whereby if you rake 10,000 Betfair points in a 60 day period you get a free Ipod Touch with 8GB whatever the fuck that is?
If you don't make you're 10,000 points then you go into a freeroll with the top 50 geting an Ipod.
Word has it not many fish have taken up the offer (it runs out April 12) so even if you rake just 1000 Betfair points you get into the freeroll which might not be too hard to win.

I ain't played on Betfair for time because i forgot my fooking user name and password but I've heard their shittay software has got loads better and people tell me there are more fish on there than most places as its full of people who play on the sports exchange. Also that low limit donk Yorky Pud plays cash there sometimes so it should be ezay money imo.

Anyway, that's all the pimping finished for now, shiiiip me the monies plz Daser :-) Arrrgh, I feel abit dirtay tbh selling out like this, although its not the first time i have received some free dosh for this 'great' blog, times are hard you know fish! Make sure you go and check out their micro site for more details. https://pro.betfair.com/2009/ipod-promotion/index.php If this gets enough interest then hopefully i can get more $$$ from Daser for future adverts to boost my bankroll. Support the Amatay foundation and get signed up, laters.

Moving On...

Firstly a quick note in regards to the previous post. A couple of fish said to me that maybe i should not have replied to my anon friend(s) and tbh i almost didn't bother for the reasons they stated like coming across as some whiney tool. I partly agree but whatever it's done now. I have always allowed crazy anon comments previous to this so its not exactly accurate to accuse me of not taking a joke but some of the cunts recent posts did admittedly get to me a bit. The fucking weirdo is still sending me comments now lol. I'm up for banter and all that shit like i've said countless times its all fun n games etc. You might think differently if this was you. You should see some of the stuff this geezer has just sent me, really bizarre. I got a fkin stalker ffs, its just all too weird. Much of it is funny although some of it is also kinda disturbing aswell. I actually considered taking this blog of the internet the other day mainly because i have grown quite bored with this blog tbh. If you look at the posting history in the archives down the right hand side you will see that i have gradually posted less and less due to my lack of interest. The last 20 or so posts have been proper shit anyways imo, although some fish might say my last 600 posts have been shit.

I definitely got out of bed the wrong side this morn, i've had the hump for much of the day. Started playing poker at 8.am and quit by about 9.30 after busting out of five mtt's in redic fashion. I knew it was gonna be one of those days and i weren't really in the mood so i had the sense de reg from about another 10 tourns and get some more shuteye. I had a few near misses yesterday busting 9th in a $44, 19th in a $26 and fooking 16th in a $25r, sigh.

On a different note i saw some funny shit online yesterday, well i thought it was funny anyways but i guess i also found it interesting and sort of shocking at the same time. Its called http://gushansentv.com/ and involves watching high stakes fish Gus Hansen commenting on his hands during his HU play with Durrrr and Urindanger. I think you have to sign up to watch it and quickly download something but its all free and lasts about one hours total, deffo worth a look, its fkin hilarious! I am thinking of introducing www.amataytv.com soon! Laters fish.