Not updated for a while been waiting for a winning session but have had no success over the last month, didn't manage to qualify for any Wcoop events, qualified for a few events in the Winamax series but no decent cashes to report. 

Last weekend represented 5 years since I came second in the Sunday Million on Pokerstars it seems like a lifetime ago can't even qualify for it nowadays. Can only dream of getting a $100k plus score at the moment.

On the bright side my bankroll management has been excellent I'm taking my time and only playing up to $20 games and satelites to bigger tournaments. If it was my own money I'd have probably gambled it off by now but still confident in my ability and that I can slowly grind it back up.

Bankroll is currently $920 on Pokerstars, 840 Euro's on Pokerstars.FR and 700 euro's on Winamax.

For my non poker backers, the UK government plan to start a new tax on the poker sites and Winamax and Stars.FR are pulling out of the UK market so have to withdraw the Euro's from those sites will put it all back on Pokerstars to use between there and Full Tilt and continue to slowly grind for the next few months if everyone's happy with that.

The last month I've been looking for a job again and usually can get a contract within a week or two but the IT market seams very quiet at the moment and have failed to secure anything as of yet, but a lot of my days at the moment are spent scouring job sites and also realized that I've neglected my IT skills during the five years I played poker for a living so have downloaded loads of IT training from pirate bay and have been watching loads of videos and will start taking MCP exams again shortly. 

Don't think my current MCP's in Windows 95 and Windows NT attract the employers anymore, lol.

Hopefully will be settled in a job soon and be able to put some more hours into playing again.

Have been playing a lot more the last two weeks and really enjoying playing again.

Unfortunately not had any success, I've stopped myself buying into $50 games as my bankroll has decreased so $26 \$30 freezouts and $10 rebuys are my staple and then have to satellite into anything bigger.

Reached two final tables this week, I won a sat into the 50 euro turbo on Stars.FR but was 9/9 when the final table started and couldn't get anything going and finished 8th. Any my only other final was a hyper turbo on Pokerstars where I came 7th out of 1195 for $176.

Playing a lot of Knockout tournaments to try and reduce variance a bit so my bankroll doesn't go down too quick as I up the volume. Hopefully will satellite into a few WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) before the end of the series. 

Current bankroll: 

Will update again in a few days. 

My birthday falls on a Sunday for the first time since I started playing poker so hopefully i'll get a bit of birthday luck at the tables this Sunday.

Not been a lot to update with regards to poker in the last few months as have hardly played.. Have had far too much going on at home with building work about to be completed this week after four months, had a health scare in May when I had chest pains over a few days which led to a hospital trip and a number of checks on my heart including a 24hr monitor. It was a good warning and  led to me putting my health first before anything else. My weight had got to nearly eighteen and a half stone which is ridiculous at 5 stone 9. I joined Slimming World and started slowly exercising daily and have so far managed to lose two stones in three months. 

So with all the above I was struggling to get in the right frame of mind to play a session, concentration was very poor and wasn't enjoying it a couple times I played, therefore didn't play for a good period as I won't play If i'm not fully focused or in the right frame of mind. Poker bankroll is about the same as in the last post.

Before playing a few on Sunday : Pokerstars $1677 : Tilt $310. Pokerstars.FR 605 euro's Winamax 1184.

Played six on Sunday and really enjoyed it and felt I was playing well again. Came 10th out of 5000 on Stars.FR in a 10 euro game but butchered the last hand on the final table bubble when in 5th spot, 5 handed I raised J9clubs and got reraised by player who was 2nd in chips and was 3 betting way more than anyone else. I decided to call and flop came down 9hearts 6 clubs 3 clubs. All the money went in and he actually had an overpair this time and held. Gutted as a 5th place or above finish would have got the stake in profit again.

Hopefully I'm in a position to start playing full time again now and with Pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker starting, September is a good month to get back into it. I won't be forcing it and going to focus on 6 tabling at most but all being well will put some serious hours of play in. 

June 1st 2014.

Apologies for lack of updates but May has been a complete write off, hurt my back after coming back from holiday and for a few weeks I was in too much pain to play a big session, started feel a bit better towards the middle of the month only to find my concentration levels were really poor and after a couple of hours I was struggling to stay focused, which has meant I've hardly played in May, it's only been the last week that I've really felt up for playing and put in a big session yesterday played for 15 hours however didn't run well in the big fields and ended up a losing day.

Current bankroll is shown in photo below.

Not great news as stake is down to £2712. Therefore an initial 5% stake that was bought for £250 is currently worth £136.
As said the stake was supposed to be for three months and if anyone wants to cut their loses and take their share back now let me know. Otherwise I'm not now planning to go back to work until September, wife has booked a 10 day holiday in August for us so instead of looking for work after the world cup it's going to be after the holiday now so September time.
Therefore will carry on playing poker until then for those who want to extend and go for another three months. Last three months was disappointing as only managed to play seriously for good volume for about 6 weeks. The next 6 weeks online should be softer as the World Series of Poker is on in Vegas and most of the regs who play for a living will be over there so the games should be softer.

Have purchased Table Ninja 2 Holdem manager 2 and Note Caddy in the last few weeks which really help with the stats side of online poker and should give me an edge. Have to be a bit more careful as bankroll is getting low and will have to pre plan sessions well until the bankroll is going in the right direction again.

Let me know in the next few days if anyone wants to withdraw now and i'll ship the money and get another backer to replace them for the next 3 months.

Will start updated more regular again now I'm back into it.

April 8th

Have had a change of plan Neteller can take 5 working days to reach my bank account so if I did a profit cashout next Monday as I initially planned it might not reach me in time for my holiday. Also had a bad losing day yesterday so thought it would be a good idea to have a profit split now.

Have withdrawn £2400 from Pokerstars to my Neteller account and then cashed out to my bank.

This was $4070 on Pokerstars.

It works out that a 10% share will be getting a first profit payment of £144.

Will be getting in touch early next week when it reaches my bank to get my backers bank details so I can transfer to them.

Sunday 6th April.

Finally got a half decent win on Pokerstars, won the $5 after a 13 hour grind and beating 12492 other entrants. Started heads up play with 10 million chips to 27 million, got to 16 v 21 and opponent snap offered me a 7100 chop and play for the other $332, should have probably carried on and ground him down but was getting tired after 13 hrs so took it.

Current stake profit loss as above, going to have a big grind this week, get into as many of the Scoop, Ftops and Winamax series as I can and then providing still in decent profit, will do a split of the profits next Monday as will be needing some spending money as taking the boys to Lanzorote the Sunday after.

Last nights win came just at the right time as was getting low on the dollar sites. 

Now have $294 on Full Tilt, $9161 on Pokerstars, 1637 euros on Winamax and 1722 euro on Stars.FR.

Will move some dollars from Stars to Party, Full Tilt and 888.com this week. 

Friday 28th March.

I had a few days off last week on the Tuesday and Wednesday, came back to playing on the Thursday but within a couple of hours knew straight away that I was tired and tilty so stopped after the first couple of tournaments I played.

Played Friday 28th and again knew I wasn't in the mood for a big session only played 16 tournaments but got an early 2nd out of 125 in a baby 5 rebuy on Full Tilt for $353 which led to a small winning day.

Saturday 29th March.

Saturday was feeling good and started the day with winning the 5 rebuy I came 2nd in the day before for $471.  Had a few deep runs but went deepest in the 10 euro 15k guaranteed on Pokerstars.FR
Came 3rd out of 1851 for 1400 euro's however came away gutted as had total control of the table and was chipping away nicely against this one loony opponent was playing 3 handed for 45 mins and was comfortable had chipped up from 2million to 9 million in chips with Mr Loony now on 8 million and the other down to about 16 bb's around 2 million in chips. When I raised from sb with 108, flop came down 1072, I bet he called, turn was a 9, I chk and he bets pot 1,7 million into 1,7, he's been betting pot with draws or nothing and normally betting 2/3rds of the pot with his good hands, anyway I decide to jam with top pair and open ended straight but he insta snapped me off with Q10 and held. Was out in 3rd a few hands later.
Nice cash but was disappointed as missed out on a potential extra 1000 euros as with a little more patience felt I should have won that one.

Sunday 30th March.

Managed to get quite a few big stacks early on only for them to lose important flips when deep. Came 66th out of 2447 in the Double Deuce.
Had a nice stack in the $215 FTOPS 1 48k at 500/1000 blind level with 600 odd left 460 paid only for playing two hands very badly and getting knocked out before the money.
Ended up a small losing Sunday after lots of early promise, only 1 saving grace I had managed to get to Day 2 of the 100 euro Scoop 2 High tournament on Pokerstars.FR and finished very strongly the last hour to end the day in the money and 2nd with 343 players left out of the 3600 who entered and a dream of the 48000 euros for the winner.

Monday 31st March.

Wasn't going to play today and planned a day off as kids were off on teacher training, with qualifying for Day 2 of the 100 decided just to play that and fully concentrate on it.
However not to be I'm afraid. Had a horrible table draw with two very lose big stacks behind me and couldn't pick up a pot early on ended up shoving my last 16 blinds with 88 from cutoff into small blinds Aces. Ended up 92nd for 435 euros - sigh....

March finished with a tiny profit thanks to the French sites which I managed to turn around a 1400 loss to 1360 profit over the last 10 days. I definitely ran poorly especially in the first half of the month and got to a lot less finals than I would have expected.
I played the most tournaments I've ever played in one month and feel I've learnt a lot and definitely in the groove so here's looking forward to a successful April. Only playing three weeks this month though as  I have a week in Lanzorote with the kids from 20th April, however need to earn some spending money before then so will be grinding hard for the next two weeks.