Started a new job today as a trainee actuary. Turns out I won't be playing as much as I had planned cos I'm gonna have a hell of a lot of work to do! Just trying to grind out a few hands atm. Still playing well and starting to make inroads into that downswong.... More details to follow. Probably!

Lovely Stuff

So fucking steamed at the moment. Running pretty gay again.

Played pretty well midweek, making another circa $950. Blew $750 of that over the weekend through absolute sickness.

I'll start with the tourneys. Played 4, buyins totalling $90. QQ< KJ, KK< AQ, A8< KJ and KK< AQ again. All at the business end for stacks in the top 5% of the field, with one of them for the chip lead. Sigh. Cash none of them, close enough to the bubble in all of them, 10 off the bubble in one. Sigh.

Cash, coolers everywhere and beats. I don't feel like posting them in the slightest. Got 2 outered twice. FD's hit everywhere, one gutshot, then the random assortment of coolers. Funny thing is I actually feel like I'm playing very well. That's the really sick thing. Sigh though. Major sigh. So sick that I make my money when the tables are tough, and then lose it when its seriously fishy. So fucking annoying.

My teeth are acting up again too. Still on the painkillers from when my wisdom teeth were removed 9 days ago. Its starting to really piss me off. Even worse is that I'm starting a job tomorrow so I wont be able to take painkillers cos they make me really dozy. So i'll just have to put up with the pain. Lovely. Pulled out some of my stitches last night by accident too. And its a shitty minwage job too. Sigh.

So all in all its been a great weekend!

First half of June

So its been a pretty eventful two days! I've only had 6 days since I came back from holidays, but I've managed to stick in 14k hands which I'm pretty happy with. I did manage to run like constipation for most of it though, but for like the last 600 hands I ran like god. I'm still like 6 buy ins below EV for the 14k hands so I'm delighted to be coming out up a grand or so. I've been playing pretty weak is my only problem. I really have to not let myself get pushed around as much... let that be goal number 1!

Ended up getting into a massive hole monday morning through a few horrific ones. This one in particular stung a little. Don't think I played it hugely well but it still hurts! Really dunno why I just didn't shove it preflop but meh.

0.50/1

Button ($343.25)
SB ($216.00)
BB ($94.90)
Villain ($100.00)
TommyGunne ($141.60)
CO ($100.00)

Dealt to TommyGunne: Ah Ad

Preflop: Villain raises to 4.00, TommyGunne raises to 13.00, 4 folds, Villain raises to 34.00, TommyGunne calls 21.00.

Flop (73.50) 3s 4c 8d
Villain checks, TommyGunne checks.

Turn (73.50) 9h
Villain moves all-in for 66.00, TommyGunne calls 66.00.

River (205.50) Qc

UTG shows QsQh and wins 205.50 with Three of a kind, Queens


There were plenty more along with that one. You can see the dip in the graph, and it was pretty much all below EV. Another interesting one where I semibluffed the turn 140BB deep I posted on boards here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=56283564#post56283564

In general played well though, and am disappointed to be only up 1k. Have another circa $500 unmentionable as well so its not too bad. If I continue to play this good without running so bad the second half of this month will be sweet! Looking forward to it!

Exams

Just got my exam results there. I had 8 exams including two repeats and I passed them all so I'm ridiculously happy! I've worked so hard for this for the last few months, barely drinking, not playing poker, barely socialising etc etc and being locked away for a few months. I'm so happy its payed off. I deserved the hell I put myself through though cos I did sfa for the first semster, hence the two repeats. I even managed to get 4 A's, and I'm sure the two repeats would have also been A's if they released the grade. The other two were a C and a D- in Actuarial Maths and Statistical Inference. Quite happy with the C, its a pretty good grade for the module, and again I'm happy with the D- cos I hate that course. Girlfriend passed all hers too so everything seems great at the moment!

In poker news I made 10bi between yesterday and the day before. Playing pretty sick considering I'm below EV again. Made a further 3bi in RB. Its a function of not really being able to leave my room due to being on a massive amount of painkillers post-wisdom teeth operation

If this post doesn't make much sense there is a good explanation....

First of all, I'm just back from an insane holiday. Germany is the coolest place I have ever been to. 9 of us headed over to Eindhoven, but 4 of them including the girlfriend weren't able to hack it, so had to head back after a few days! 5 of us headed on down through Dusseldorf, Koblenz, Rock Am Ring and Franfurt. Craziest sessions I've had in a looooong time! Its gonna take a long time to recover imo! Rock Am Ring was absolutely amazing. Its so incredibly better than any festival run in Ireland. So much more organised, better weather, better acts, nicer people, and just in general a much much superior set up than here. The main reason I went is Rage Against The Machine though. I'm a monstrous fan, and here was the first gig that they announced in Europe, so my mates and I just hit that right away! Well worth it too. They were fcuking awesome. Prodigy, Serj Tankian, Incubus, Offspring, QOTSA, Metallica, Justice, Hot Chip, and a few other rando bands were awesome too. Best festival I've ever been at. Night time was pretty insane too. German's are absolutely mentallers! Fitted right in lol! The only downside is my body is absolutely wrecked up now after like 11 days of going mad so I gotta take it easy....

The other reason for possible lack of sense in this is that I am heavily drugged up at the moment lol! Just after getting my wisdom teeth out and I'm still pretty numb. There's actually blood dripping down my cheek atm. Lovely. I feel like a vegetable with no drool control. Except instead of drool I've blood and drool. Mmmmmmm. Thats really cute right? I've got a massive stock of painkillers now for the next few weeks so I'm gonna be a bit woozy. Only allowed eat ice cream for the next day or two so its not all bad!

Anaesthetics are really weird. Went all giggly for ages and I'm just so chilled now. Better not play poker for a while! Anyways over and out.... Gotta clean my face, its getting a bit messy....