Merry Christmas

Well, nearly.

I haven't blogged for quite a while, not since getting back from APPT Seoul and LAPT San Jose. I busted early from both those tournaments sadly, with no particularly memorable hands. Seoul i played fairly nitty and lost every hand i did play. San Jose i decided to play a lot of hands early, won nearly every small pot i played and lost every medium one. My stack went from 10k to 3k and then i grinded from 3k to 6k then got knocked down 3 or 4 times.

The hand before my bustout went like this: at 75/150 i have about 3.4k and open raise the CO to 400 with TT, both blinds call. Flop K62 two clubs, BB donks for 600, i call, SB folds. Turn Ac, BB checks, i consider bluff shoving and check behind. River is a blank, he checks again, i consider betting incase he has a king he wants to fold, but check. He shows A6 for turned two pair. SIGH. There were at least half a dozen hands that went down in a similar fashion.

Both trips were awesome though, especially Seoul where i got to spend a lot of time with one of my best friends.

Since being home, i have not been able to grind nearly as much as i would've liked. This is due to some personal health issues that i've had to deal with. I've still managed to make about $1.5k, but meh.

From now until the new year, i'm going to aim for at least 2k hands a day, along with a blog update to force myself to analyse my own play, as this is something i have been lax on recently. I currently have $2.4k on stars, so from tomorrow i will be hitting $100nl hard. Watch out IanBarns/other regs.

I will drop down to $50nl if my bankroll drops to $1.5k, which hopefully won't happen! gl me.