£5k stake - 10 days in.


Have held off making a post as the stake started off poorly the first week, out of my first 8 sessions played I had 6 losing days and 2 break even. Felt I was playing well just ran poorly, had numerous bad beats and couldn't win a big race when just a couple of tables out. However as Tom Middleton said don't get telling people about the bad beats just get on and fire up another tournament.

Have therefore increased my volume and play more tournaments per day than I've ever played before.
I now play up to 60 tournaments a day over a 12 to 14 hour session.

I was 12 tabling over my two 30" monitors but have this week come to the decision I can follow the action more having the 12 tables on one monitor. Have also gone from having three different table ninja's for the different poker sites to trialing table ninja 2 which is a great piece of software saves you loads of vital seconds.

The increase has paid off have reached a couple of nice final tables on Pokerstars this week and had first decent winning day on Tuesday when I was deep in a number of tournies on Pokerstars including the Big 22 but ended up 20th in that but at the same time managed to reach the final table in the 18.00 $22 and ended up 2nd out of 904 for $2319.66. Disappointed I didn't get my first win but felt I played really well and my heads up opponent was a decent reg.

This was then followed by reaching the final table of the big 55 last night but ended up bowing out first, was the short stack in 9/9 and was down to 10 big blinds didn't really want the blinds to go through me again and ended up shoving 9 7 hearts from mid position a loose player made a questionable call in my eyes for a third of his stack with three bigger stacks still to act behind him with Q10 spades. Alas no luck and bowed out in 9th of 2355 for $1059. Gutting as 1st was $18k and each jump was at least 1k, however wanted to give myself a chance and not blind away hoping for a spot.

Confident it will be the start of many played really well yesterday throughout a 16 hour shift and standard of play didn't drop at all, managed to get stacks in lots of tournaments. Won't be long before I make a few final tables in one day and the stake will be in profit.

Current profit loss can be seen below, losing a bit on the French sites just getting bad beats from the mad gambling Frenchies once I'm inside the money.

Nice to have some green winning days on there.
Planning a 16 hour session tomorrow not playing Saturday due to Villa game kicking off at 17.15 and then a big session Sunday afternoon. Hopefully will be reporting of a win soon.