clarkatroid is not folding

this is my first database that i havent actually managed to lose through hardware failure.

ive posted it on 2p2, http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/poker-beats-brags-variance/1-year-1-million-hands-519211/   for anyones who might be interested

....To say it started off badly is the understatement of the century

It lasted 28 hands and 14 minutes . I lost 5k , calling 2 shortstackers all in and lost both races, and felt pig sick

There were 2 donks at the table as well which made it even worse, but i didnt have the stomach to reload, and that was never the plan. Back to msnl with my tail between my legs . Luckily i walked straight into a heater at 3/6 and got my 5k back pretty quickly.

So i got my month back at 25k and felt completely unsatisfied with my faggoty shot at high stakes .Bollocks to it, grow some balls *troidy. I had another shot this morning. I was really nervous and made a conscious effort to play well and not spew.

this time i ran good, and played good. barmpfh!!!!

Biggest winning day of the 09.

I promised myself i wouldnt play at these stakes regularly, and that this was a one off  because id run good this month, but now my tiny brain is full of 25/50 thoughts, and im going to play it again tonight

the run good has rocketed junes garph to a stomping 34k, although theres a week to go and it could go either way from here. 

ship ship

Poker has a habit of dramatically twisting your mental state. In december i hit a 30k, 50 buyin downswong, Needless to say i felt like a shocking player. As a result, in january, i banned myself from playing 5/10 and decided to play lower in an effort to steady the ship. In february i broke even at over 100k hands 2/4. Then lift off, with March, April and May all returning +20k months.

So in my mini journey i went from decent to donk and back to decent all in 5 months. Until now its never crossed my mind to have a shot at nosebleeds, ive always been a bit scared of them,  with good reason. The players are shit hot /end of.

Now i should end this post, and abandon this dumb idea after that last sentence. But that aint gonna happen. The time is coming to donate to HSNL

Its niggling at me. Im thinking if i never take the odd shot im never going know. After all i got to 5/10 pretty quickly by taking shots early in my career, and enjoyed a good long run there for almost 10 months until the wheels fell off in december. Also the degenerate in me wants to put 10k on a single hand. I want the buzz of a shot. What if i double up to 20k. What if i win 4 buy ins at 50/100. Thats 40k . Just plain greed i suppose and there no point pretending its about anything else. Greed and Glory. GG NH me

My game might have some leaks but bankroll mgt is my number 1 strength. Im very cautious with my dolla, probably over cautious, as i have now have over 300 buy ins set aside for when it rains (not online of course. fxxk you hack monkeys). I realise this is OTT but i think one of the the biggest problems a player faces is funding. Funding to last out a huge downswing. Ive built up a large roll for insurance purposes. To minimise the chance of living in a town called busto. My worst nightmare is going broke and signing up with bad beat, giving up 50% my winnings and forfeiting any rakeback, having my acount stripped searched every day, and answering to a mentor when i tilt off a stack or 2.

So i carry this excessive bankroll. It helps me play better knowing im well funded

THE STAB-
the shot will be 1 buy in only for 10k. I lose it, game over
stakes will be 50/100 on full tilt
the shot will only happen when i hit 25k profits for the month.

I figure if im in profits for 25k, then i can afford it. At present im on 8k, so it might happen this month depending how stuff pans out

when i do it, ill blog the time im going to do it so anyone can pop over and have a butchers and watch the carnage.

Ill be pretty nervous so no monkeying around on the rail telling me i got AIDS pls

.....is not good for the bankroll. Im not sure why its taken me 7 years to realise this. but heres the news. i dont play pissed anymore. im 2 months poker+alcohol free now. This is one of the ways im finding more consistancy in my poker.

I suppose this is a bit like saying you have to play with your eyes open but maybe im a bit slow to pick these things up. This was confirmed in the small hours of sunday morning following a Leo Sayer with Ed , doublebubbles and Jase "the nut peddler kely". I woke up bollock naked at 10am with the laptop strewn across my knackers, the full tilt poker client open, and the remains of a mexican quarter pounder from burger dome smudged across my hands, the laptop and half my face. Classy

I immediately opened HEM expecting a massacre of epic proprtions but found i played only 2 hands. What a result. I feel cured, my sober serious subconcious reaching out and giving an almighty Bollocking to the dumb pissed up ninja at the helm. " dont be such a wanker and turn this shit off you muppet". Surely this is significant progress

It was the end result of a day that started with a team of us playing the monthly 100 at the G. This is a great tourney and a great excuse for a booze up. Our second time we've played it and none of us have cashed yet. lol.  I suppose it doesnt help having a shot of tequila with every pint starting at 2pm. By 4pm i was rat arsed, had built up my stack to about 30k. blinds are 400/800, and i have 89 clubs in MP, i make it 2400 to go, or at least i thought i did until the dealer announced my raise was 17k!!!!!!!! i stuck 3 black 5k chips in the middle in pure ninja mode. lol .Anyways it was a quality day. I will be definately playing it next month as a prelude to wsop the week after.

Not good signs of form going into the biggest tourney of my life next month in vegas but hey what can you do.

Enough messing about and onto real poker........on tinternet. These days, the line up of my average 6 max table consists of 2 slightly better players than me, 2 slightly worse players than me, and 1 fish who more often than not is playing less than a full stack. This leaves little room for error

Ive mentioned b4 my problems dealing with tilt, and thats something ive been working on hard to minimise. I basically cant afford to do it, the games are too unforgiving these days. Finding consistancy is the key.

Consistantly, robotically making the right decisions. In the end game, its the players that achieve this consistancy that will ultimately take home the bacon. Thats where im aiming to be

For me, my results have improved in the last couple of months for this reason. Im finding more professionalism in my game. I never played pissed anymore. period. thats what kicked off my 30k december downswing. Friday night, 9 pints of stella, lappers, kebab, home at 2am, play 9 tables of 5/10 . wake up the morning with that sick "zomg" feeling knowing ive donked off a wallop online. shorter sessions have also helped tremendously. and a 5 buy in stop loss.  no more than 12 tables either. Ive also decided to spend less time on sections of poker forums that dont aid my progress as a player. That means less NVG BBV AWOP etc and more time viewing msnl/hsnl strategy sections, which i have neglected too much in the last few months

Strategy

Well it seems im now a 23/17 player. Im sticking with my plan to open more cut offs/buttons and tighten up the blinds. Im really pleased with myself on this for spotting the positional leak and actually fixing it ( hats off to 2p2) It has made me more laggy as traditionally i play 20/16 ish but i honestly cant see me reverting back to those figures



figures.................

Yes this is a blatant advertising plug for my chaps at centrebet. but make no mistake, you would be stupid not to get in this freeroll

i won the seat for the last one of these they did last month, which ended up being a

4 man sng freeroll with a 1st

prize  15k package to the wsop

main event

.  Its needs putting in bold because its a ridiculous package i won. and now its happening again!!!

i have no idea how many will be in this event in 4 weeks, but like i said in my last email, this site is offfering huge value at at moment with these competitions as they try to establish themselves as a major player in the ipoker network.

These opportunities dont come along very often. In fact the only time i can ever remember such value was when mansion had a a 50k overlay for their tri-weekly 100k guaranteed freezeout.

If you want in,leave a message here with your email address and ill get you a decent loyalty deal on top. be quick though, the promo has already started 4 days ago

heres a link to the promo -

http://promos.centrebet.com/poker-wsop-2009


ah those where the days

im still playing sunday tourneys, and this wasnt going well either with 0 cashes from 40 starts










Better things continued in april and ive turned in a decent profit at the cash tables after plugging the leaks and generally playing better, with more logic and composure, and less desperation



I won a WSOP  main event seat last week in a freeroll on my site, that had only 4 players in it!!!!
serious, centrebet poker has tons of value at the moment, as they try to grow their client base. if anyones interested, drop me a line and i can hook you up a good deal. i mean 4 players, and a free seat. jesus!
This is my first ever wsop, and obvously very excited about it all

this is how my year cash graph is shaping up

update on my year goals

weight loss - slow progress but progress nonetheless.  Currently im at 13st10 pounds, from 14/2. i want to be 13 by year end

hand target of 1 million. which equates to 83k hands a month. as you can see fromt he graph im at 330k after exactly 4 months which is 82500. so im bang on the money here

omaha - play 1 day a week. im doing this at .5/1 heads up, not 1 day a week but a couple sessin a month and slowly picking things up


All in all things are pretty damn good atm

A great time was had by all skiing in obertauern, Austria. Fantastic place, great sport, good crack. This is my first attempt at video editing. Pretty chuffed with it, something for us all to keep and remember. its just missing a bit of kajagoogoo soundtrack in the background 




Poker.

( figures need sunday mtt results subtracting. 0 cashes, circa 4k down 09 so far)

Things move fast in poker. very fast. It reminds me of my previous existence, running nightclubs and bars, where one minute your king of the world, then when a new club opens and decimates your revenue and profits overnight, your the worst manager in the world, and you got a head office wheasel invertebrate "yes man" on a secret customer visit, reporting back to head office that the reason your business has dropped from 50k a week to 9k is because your ashtrays are cracked. ( Darren lea and Graham peel spring to mind ) Of course it had nothing to do with the 3 million quid oceana nightclub that opened nextdoor.

All in all, a good month, stressfull, but a good month. After a mammoth 120k hands in jan, february was always going to be less volume. The month kicked off with some graph meandering, dipping in negative territory several times, followed by a huge bull run from 0-24k, then crashing down to earth with a 10k downswing. i think im playing well at the moment but for some reason i cant enjoy a steady month, its a horrible rollercoaster every month and im not enjoying the pressure one bit. Pokers certainly the most mentally stressful thing i have ever done. The heaters and coolers are coming at me enforce, all at once. Im not going to moan at posting a good profit though,  but its become a job now, i dont enjoy playing anymore, and ill do anything other than play, the stress is so high. Im winning and losing 4-5k per day and im constantly fearful of dropping another 30k like december. One day i cannot do anything wrong, next day im running jack high flushes into queen high, set over set and so on

Share trades

"If you don't trust gold, do you trust the logic of taking a pine tree, worth $4,000-$5,000, cutting it up, turning it into pulp, putting some ink on it and then calling it one billion dollars?"

I got my money back last week, and liquidated all my positions. Including dealing costs, im 4% down in total and a little wiser. The main reason i cashed in was to invest in the yellow stuff as there is a market correction going on at the moment that ive been waiting for. With goverments hellbent on printing off trillions to bail out financial institutions, ive made a very big decision to switch my portfolio to gold. At the moment its at $940 and taking a breather after hitting $1000 a couple of weeks ago. My entry point is $925 . This is more about repositioning where my money is than making short term trades. most of the deals will be insitu for 3-5 five years i think



A great time was had by all skiing in obertauern, Austria. Fantastic place, great sport, good crack. this is my first attempt at video editing




And finally, centrebet have very kindly donated a return trip to Austria in 4 weeks, sponsoring me to play the euro city poker cup in salzburg, a grand total of a 5k package, starting 5th of April. This will be my first mtt of the year and very looking forward to having another pop at skiing

http://eurocitypokertour.com/

Staking ( + bonus whoring )

The staking project is going along very nicely. The plan is to stake a friend of mine, jase"the nut peddler" kelly 1k. He plays exclusively full ring at .5/1 on a site that gets $600 bonus startup. When the bonus is realised, we cash out and move to another site. We started on full tilt, and so far, 6 tabling, the bonus gets released at a rate of 10 bucks an hour. So if we break even we get £3.50 an hour pay and play wages. So far hes doubled his roll to 2k in 4 weeks. Now we need to make a decision to start cashing out or increasing stakes.And we cant decide which way to go with it yet