clarkatroid is not folding

unless something miraculous happens in the next 24 hours.

im about 5k downish, but cant be arsed playing after our trip to vegas. Same old story, you go on your jollys somewhere nice,come home, cant be bothered with work. We've all been there.  Ive done jack shit for 4 weeks apart from buy a new motor, which is the dogs tallywhackers, and practice my golf swing at the driving range

Gearing up for a huge second half of the year though, starting next month where im planning to challenge myself to play 200k hands, mainly because i just spunked most of this years winnings on an audi RS4 last friday and im going to do everything possible to see if the poker community will contribute to the purchase. im also drifting behind my target of 1 million hands for 09.

August i'll be grinding like a bastard basically. Time to piss in a bottle like leatherass.

this is an interview i did last week with ukpokernews.................

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/poker-player-interviews/2009/07/adam-clarkatroid-clark-1285.htm

The only people i can think of who wouldnt like vegas are those wierd ones on holiday showdown who take their families on a survival trips in wales, or maybe want to go sight seeing in afganistan. For the rest of us its simply the dogs innit.  Whatever your tipple, vegas has it nailed down. Hotels the size of small countries, the best shows, the sun, shopping, golf, amazing bars and clubs. Its tacky granted, but its tacky with billions thrown at it. Its also gamblers dream come true, which was the primary reason for this trip. The wsop main event.

I hate live tourney poker, i just cant get a result in it, which pisses me right off as the players are downright terrible taken as a whole, although there are obviously exceptions. And its not even close. online cash players are the grade A players, online mtt pros know their shit, but when you switch to live, the droolers come out enmasse, like extras from dawn of the dead. but i cant beat them. i cant even get chips off em

The wsop main event followed an identical pattern to the last 2 years of live tourneys.  No cards, ducking and diving pulling off the odd bluff here and there to maintain my stack, and going out on the last hour of day one with a premium holding, This time it was aces in a 3 bet pot getting cracked by 89cc 70 bbs deep.

It didnt spoil the holiday though as we where in vegas this time, not the G  casino in walsall.

It irks me that i grind away good living online, and donate some of it back to the live poker plonkers who wouldnt know a 3 bet was if it slapped em in the face.At the same time, i realise they are a chance to score a life changing sum, which is probably why im getting so miffed with them.

I had a love affair with online mtts, as these got me into poker from the very beginning, but in the last couple years, as i got more and more into cash poker, my passion dwindled for these too. 6 months ago i was playing 2k of sunday majors every week. Last month  i only played a fraction of that. I would imagine that i may quit them altogether soon