Robert12345's Poker Blog

So I've been sick lazy and im sorry

2012-01-28T21:23:00.001-08:00

I've been super lazy with posting and I apologize to all my millions of readers.

4 main things to update you with

1. Poker
2. Work
3. Bitches
4. Life

I like separating it out as I think cuz I'm dyslexic and if I think of it all jambled up i'll get confused...

1. Poker - Well after I took a couple of weeks off it was hard to adjust back into poker... also I've been working hard, so been very hard to find time when I've been awake to put in proper sessions. This weekend has been the first weekend in January I've been able to put in a proper session as last weekend had a 'special' brownie a good friend of mines mother made on saturday night and I whiteyed off it pretty badly and took a couple of days to recover.

So this month there has been the theme of me playing well, then 1 reg comes along and challenges me on 888 or ongame and i donk off $10k to him in a session.so this has happened about 4x and today was another example, where I challneegd a top player to 4 tabs of 10.20 hu, while player 2 other ops...pretty dumb

Long story short in terms of results - played 35k hands and about $10k up including rakeback, which is sick bad for me as I should be making $1.5/hand....

2. Work - Going good, no complaints - putting in longer hours than I ever have - semi enjoying more responsibility and generally like the people around me and work itself more. I hope my perception is changing from a lazy poker addict to a clever hard worker - but w/e all I can do is try...

3. Bitches

Went clubbing 3 weeks ago chatted up a rly hot girl working there - I spent 2 hours chatting her up she offered to buy me a drink and stopped, then I tried to beat someone up - then I went home and grinded 50/100....

So met up with her a couple of weeks ago - turns out shes like hottest girl ive ever been on a date with ... like solid 9, was 31 years old, used to date nick dougherty or w/e his name is top pro golfer in his golf prime and she was WAY out of my league. Dinner was semi pleasant but i guess one thing i had on her was intelligence and she was pretty dry when it came down to it.

So a better story is that I joined an online dating site with a dude from work. And 2 weeks ago met up with first girl from site. She looked pretty good in pics and was studying to be a nurse so seemed clever.. so I asked her a drink around goodge st. So she texts me in evening saying its too far and shes jus gonna get drunk at her yard. I managed to blag my way to going round to her house in Wembley.

So I go round to her place - turned up she's slightly heavier than I anticipated but only like a stone. Then I see her housemate who is insanely fresh but I cant churpse it so I'm pretty sad. So we go outside smoke a cigarette and then go back in. After 5 mins of chilling to quote the weight deceiver 'lets go up to my bed' not even my fucking bedroom - fucking slag after 5 mins invites me to her bed. So I went up with my bottle of wine.....

In her room find out she has serious OCD issues with like where everything is so I start moving stuff and pretend im gonna stick my gum in a random place in her room when shes not looking and she's freaking out.. its pretty jokes.

Then we discuss life.. she tells me she's never been out of UK apart from tenerife, never flown on a plane that the seats recline on - let alone a bed and VOTES THE BNP. I decided to not let her know i was jewish.

I now have a conundrum, this girl is a solid 6, but im not attracted to her, alcohol will help this issue, but I am driving and I have already had about 3 wanks that day to ease the poker tension -so I don't think I will even be able to perform. So I neck a glass of wine (still under the limit I hope) and try to see if she is any bit more attractive but nope I'm still not DTF - so after 10 mins of linking on her bed I tell her im kicking....

She switches - grabs me by my wrists and is like ur not leaving... im like wtf let me go. I coulnd't get her off me because she was q big and was effort to get her off, my wrist was fucked and I didnt want to hurt her. So after 15 mins of her relentlessly begging me to fuck up - I eventually get out and insta leave.

Since these two dates, I've tried to take out 31 year old again, but shes boyed me off and the crazy internet girl is probably still trying to find that bit of gum I left in her room :) --- obv havnt contacted her

4. Life is ok atm - pretty tough working about 100 hours a week - including poker and cant go to gym, so no stress reliever so i'm smoking. Tried to start runnign but injured my foot so tahts not happening to.

Anyways , hope you enjoeyd update

Rob

This is gonna sound weird....

2012-01-08T17:45:00.000-08:00

So after I did my last blog post I went on a bit of a downswing. Played £10/25/50 live with Praz Banzi, James Akenhead, Bambos and 2 other regs (not best game selection) - but still better than online with 5 regs at 25/50.

I was up about £3k (mostly in flipping with Bambos) for the session then in the final 30 mins (of a 6 hour session) - the following happened.

Bambos on straddle, james BB and reg SB - my stack was £2.7k - everyone had me covered

I raise in cut off with K9hh, james 3b to 450 - I call

Flop Jc9h7s - James leads 700.

In my mind its a jam or fold, I can't call as I tanked too long already and very exploitable on the turn.

James was in a bullying mood and steaming from his £2k a hand flips with bambos on color of flop (which I started off ... ) - so I jam... James has J7 boooooooo and I miss

Then final hand announced I wake up with Qs with a £2.5k stack - reg 1 raises utg to 150 Reg 2 calls - I make it £1.2k - Reg 1 jam I snap... He has AK - we run it twice and I lose both.

I went home after and I played online the next day.. Dropped $12k running $12k below EV

Then I played on the Monday and lost another $12k - so I decided to take a break. In retrospect I'm very happy with this decision. Still up close to $100k for that period between Mid November and early December

My first few sessions were pretty poor, but I was only playing 2/4 and 3/6 and running $2k above EV - so I was break even in the end. Then I jumped to 3/6, 5/10 - was up about $4k, then I went to 10/20 games and I lost it all plus a bit more.

So I went out clubbing - came back incredibly drunk and played on my laptop 50/100.

There was a fish I had $4.5k stack (in for 4k) - so hand plays out as followS:

I have 85hh, raise on button, donk on SB 3b to 525. I call. Flop 346h, he bets 700 I call. Turn 2h - check , check, Riv 4h - he checks, I jam and snaps off 77. then I managed to go to bed somehow!?

Finished a session early evening - where I was up $4k and running level with EV all at 3/6 and 5/10. Felt like I played really well (Finally!!!) so I';m happy with myself and feel like this year is gonn abe good!!!

I've set my goal this year at $500k profit (although I really feel like its not feasible,b ut Ill see what happens)

Peace

Rob

Reopening Blog

2011-12-16T14:12:00.000-08:00

Hi,

Well it's something I enjoy doing and helps me get a lot off my chest so I've decided to reopen blog.

Thought it'll be good to start off by posting results...

so attached is my last 30 days. It's actually about $120k (as misses results from my laptop, where ive crushed the 50/100 and won $20k one weekend where I stayed at my house) and haven't played over the past week.

Nothing really happening at the moment. Last weekend played pretty poorly. Over 8k hands I should'v ebeen -2k EV, but in the end I won like 3k...

So it kinda sux to be a loser after 8k hands (Even tho relatively small sample)

Break feels like its done me good and won $7k in 1k hands back and lost my biggest pot of the day like this...

***** Hand History for Game 328802355 ***** (Pacific)
$10000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, December 16, 09:41:58 ET 2011
Table Dhaka (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: cobrajjj ( $6777.50 USD )
Seat 2: drdonk_87 ( $11046.00 USD )
Seat 4: fifafairplay ( $10150.00 USD )
Seat 6: vickluvpupps ( $3500.00 USD )
Seat 7: pygmyh ( $10000.00 USD )
pygmyh posts small blind [$50.00 USD].
cobrajjj posts big blind [$100.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to vickluvpupps [ 6h 6d ]
drdonk_87 folds
fifafairplay folds
vickluvpupps raises [$200.00 USD]
pygmyh raises [$700.00 USD]
cobrajjj folds
vickluvpupps raises [$3300.00 USD]
pygmyh calls [$2750.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5d, 8c, 3d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jc ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
vickluvpupps shows [6h, 6d ]
pygmyh shows [7s, 7d ]
pygmyh wins $7096.00 USD from main pot

Shit like this doesn't show in EV but was pretty sick...

K nothing else really happened over the past month

But bloggin again

Rob

No one reads my blog... BUT I DONT GIVE A FUCK!

2011-10-09T19:21:00.000-07:00

Well been writing this shit for 3 years got like zero readers. I guess my writing skills are pile of crap so everyone would rather read phil hellmuth whining instead of my shit, but whateva i dont care.

Well broke out break even like last friday cuz I won $20k over the weekend, then I dropped $6-7k midweek and made another $30k and some change this weekend. Feels nice to be running hot again and ive started playing the omahas which seems super fun.

Ive also increased the amount of tables I can play from 6 to 8, which is a nice addition and resulting in greater profti and rakeback.

8 used to be a real struggle, but now it seems OK, 9 and 10 get hard cuz they dont fit easily on my screen but if they.. they wud be beareable.

My life is pretty fucking boring atm... went clbubign last week, puked after 10 mins. Churpse a set and one ugly girl is on me... i think her hot friend told me she has a bf and her friend who was liek a 6, was on me. I settled for ugly girl and literally think i pulled her to me and tried to link it.. obv she wasn't having any of it and even got turfed by the solid 6... FML!!!!

Get my exam results on Friday adn if they go ok I will have a huge one on friday.. think I deserve it after crushing the pokers and exams (if I crush them)....

Ive got a sidebet with my friend also that I need to go to gym 6x and quit smoking till y/e so lets hope that goes well....

Actually gonna be pretty damn tough so I hope I can do it.

Anyways its 3:30, but still buzzing fromw inning again... might play some oamah 2/4 now on macbook!!!

Rob

Struggling to say the least

2011-09-16T15:59:00.000-07:00

Past week was ok had won about $10k until tonight.

Dropped $7k tonight in all games. Kinda depressed because Im feeling like a fkin rakeback pro!

All I really feel like doing is coming out of the this break even streak cuz its making me feel depressed.

Can't really do much else atm.. struggling to go to the gym cuz i jus feel like playing.

Ffs sound like an addict, but i just want another £100k month!!! FFS

Pissed off DOn't wnna write anything but been a rly rly rly shitty week!

Rob

Back at everything

2011-09-10T01:49:00.000-07:00

Ive finished my exams now back on the grind... still won about £4k live last month neways so wasnt that bad.

I finished on a bit of a downer last time i played, so I've started up again pretty low (2/4 - 3/6)... playing a bit of 5/10 too in semi good spots only.

Poker is going ok... up about $6k + RB, so probs $6.5k.

Feeling a bit weird with life recently, like Im a bit emotionless about shit... not rly enjoying going out with friends or clubbing at the moment, dunno if its due to exams or just the hunger to play poker as much as possible at the moment.

I'm moving into a new flat some time over the next week and just gonna focus on poker and gym as they are the most 2 stable things in my life and provides me with some base of stability and makes me feel good when I do them both.

I wanna try and have another $100k+ month before year end but not sure how possible it is if I do carry on going out clubbing etc.....

Im just dribbling in this post now, guess i feel like i just need to vent.

Peace

Rob

really pissed off

2011-08-04T21:05:00.000-07:00

grrrr Im just frustrated locked alot of money up today and lost another $10k.

Lost $5k online running bad at 25/50 AGAIN, then at palm A6 vs A3, raise pf flop 643, lead, he calls, turn 3 lead he jams i snap, A3 durrrrp.... Then Aq vs J9 on 8763, jam, riv 9 obv.. and lost £1k flipping

Went mahiki before was semi fun,

From today i'm leading clean healthy life, no smoking, no alcohol, no high stakes, gonna make back $20k before end of month and I'm going to revise and go to the gym every day!!!!

New Aim

2011-08-01T11:53:00.001-07:00

Well over the past month (since im back from vegas) ive been run even.

Run up to $20k+ a couple of times, but just dropped it being an idiot at 50/100.

I have a new aim now... to make $150k before year end. Thats average of $1k a day.

I have exams on the go to, but I think this is really achievable.

I will be playing 2/4, 3/6, 5/10 for the next 2 weeks, then study for my exams for 4 weeks and play live on the side.

From then on I will start up for 1 week at 2/4, 3/6, 5/10, hopefully we showing +£20k profit and then jump up to 10/20.

When I get to +£50k ($75k), I will go back to 25/50, but not until then.

Rob

Its been a while

2011-07-18T10:51:00.000-07:00

I stopped blogging because I didn't know way to complete the vegas post. It was probably the best holiday of my life and thats why I thought I couldn't do the experience justice in my blog post. I ran good with the pokers and the womenz and had one of the best holidays of my life with 3 of my favorite people and enjoyed loooooads of burgers.

In terms of pokers: I won about $20k in vegas, spent about $15k out there, cuz I was splashing out alot on my friends and payed everything for my brother.

Got back to London, won about £10k live in the 1st week, then I was up about $5k online, and I had a terribad session, which started by me misreading my hand with A9 when I thought i had A8 v KQ on 6788K board for $5k... and I played the hand rly well for A8 as I got the river call!!! Then I titled off another $3k and I was even online.

I took about 3 weeks off because of that... wasn't the money just so pissed... started last week, played 1 day and I made $10k. Stopped till yday and I won $4k yday. Was Playing a session and I was $5k up, then monkeyed off $9k, so $10k up over last like 4 days. But gonna stop now till exams.

I've had loads of funny stories partying recently, but there is one that definitely stands out and shows how much of a true poker degen I am.

It was one of my best buddies birthdays last Saturday and we went to some bar in shoreditch. I was pretty smashed before we got into the club, and when we got there drinks were only £5?!!? This was insane for me as I was used to like £15 per drink, so I was buying drinks all over the place and getting tucker max drunk at the same time.

I spent most of the night going around to random people stonecold stunnering them. I have a clear memory of going up to some German girl and literally without saying a word doing a stunner... I also have 2 friends who have fake tits, so I spent the rest of the night groping the poor victims!!!

In my drunken state I saw a pretty hot little brunette staring at me. She seemed cool, got hurt in relationship few years ago and not really got over him (perfect!). She asked me what I do, as I was wearing a calvin klein t shirt and pretty drunk, I obv drop CK model. then 5 mins later I obviously say I'm an auditor but I wanna be a poker pro!!! She wasn't too keen on the poker, but that part will come later, and I struggled to explain its a game of skill etc...

Anyways she was a failed dancer now living in Kings Road working 7 days a week at Foxtons. Her body was still in good shape, which was nice. Anyways I chat absolute balls for about an hour, and then she is the one asking me to come back to hers etc.. and buying me drinks saying im not drunk enough... was weird for girls to throw the moves like this, but w/e idc and I was embracing it.

When the club closed we went back to hers and I was smashed out of my face... nearly puked up minute I step in the door. Her place was rly cool, right off kings road, big and really nice design. After 45 mins of speaking/linking I watned to get ball rolling or go to sleep so I went up to her bed. At same time I got a text from a buddy who was in World series of poker.. this made me text all my friends to see how they were doing, while she was in bathroom probably shaving her poon.

She comes out in some lingerie and ofc im still texting as its the mofo world series of poker!!! She suddenly switches and is like I thought you could be the one... all this crap, but you find poker more interesting than fucking me. Then me being the socially retarded creature I am, say... I only want to sleep now, idc if i bang you or not. Then she switches even more and is like get out.... and she made a statement that Ive heard alot from the girls recently... (although some mean it in a nice way....)

You are good looking, very intelligent, but a complete social retard.... I think this is kinda true, but people either like me for being like that or dislike me.

I end up leaving hers at 6am and decide I am going to nightbus it the whole way instead of minicabbing it. It took me about 2 hours, but I eventually got home and never spoke to poor little ballerina girl again

On positive I realize good people around me so I bought my mum a mulberry handbag to cheer her up cuz she seems pretty low

Peace

Rob

Done with poker for 3 months

2011-06-07T20:01:00.000-07:00

cba to finish vegas post sorry....

Im quiting poker for 3 months, ive achieved my aim, feel like i am playing for nothing at the moment.

I dropped $5k today, which isn't much in grand scheme but enough to make me feel over next 3 months I should be having fun and focussing on three of my final 7 exams at KPMG

Peace

Rob

Vegas Part 1

2011-06-06T21:17:00.000-07:00

Probably the easiest way for me to write this is just do a day by day summary... so enjoy

Friday 27th

I thought it would be a sensible idea to get absolutely shitfaced on the plane, so about 2 bottles of vodka later and trying to perform the highest plank ever on the railing in premium economy, I was pretty damn hungovered when I arrived to the hotel at 4pm.

Decided not to go out on Friday as I was seriously hungovered even though I met a pretty cool dude on plane who worked for sky sports and invited me out clubbing with him and his mates at planet hollywood new ultra lounge.

I played some poker until the evening. I dropped about $500 at 5/10.... I can't believe I remember the 2 hands a week later, but I do: 1st Hand, Sitting $800 deep, raise to $40 on button with K10 and get 2 callers, flop K107 rainbow, checked around. Turn 3, checked I check. Riv 4, rainbow board and I decide to isildur the river with a $300 bet into $300ish... I get 1 caller who tanked with 77... WTF!?!!

Next pot I 3b Kh10c, 1 tilted caller, flop AJ5ddd, I do std 2/3 c bet and he obv jams with AJ, so I insta fold.

My mate James got in around 9pm, so me him and my bro went for dinner at noodles in bellagio.

We found some like 50yo mexican women who started speaking to us in queue. There was only 1 large table ready and would've taken a while for 2 smaller tabs so we offered to sit with him. It was a pretty funny , but they were cool and one of them had 21 yo twins who are coming to London a few days, so me and my bro may meet up with the girls.

Saturday 28th

We meet up with my bros mate at encore pool. I never knew this, but encore have a topless european pool where XS is!?!? WTF!??! Me, my bro and my mate james r hanging around the pool and we see 2 pretty ugly porn stars perform a show for every for about an hour. Literally though full on show, licking each other out, all positions u can dream of, tops off bottoms off (at times) EVERYTHING!!! Then we are walking to exit and see cesc fabregas and Carlos Vela!

They go an play blackjack, obv I follow and it was same day as CL final, so I asked Cesc if he is going to enjoy playing for the future champions, he just shrugged his shoulders with a smile. Then I continued to go on how great boro are and how we dominated when tuncay got those 2 goals v them a couple of years ago.

Went clubbing to bank (bellagio) that night and I was pretty exhausted but still on it. Find some hot little group of asians, 1 of them is very keen, but only 2 asians and 3 dudes so I tell one ill find her later and kick. Then go dancefloor, find a hot group of mexicans, I take a pretty hot little small one (probs around an 8). Best thing was I didn't have to get her 1 drink as she had some wrist band which gave her free drinks all night!!! Then after a while she starts nagging me for a pic... I hate pictures so i go to her u keep on asking im gonna fuck off, as this is happening the asian girl from before comes up to me, so I think I just got with the asian in front of the mexican I had just been with for an hour. I know not nice, but she was pissing me off.

Then I leave asian v quickly as shes a bit weird and go dancefloor and some bit dude with a girl tries to start beef with me for no reason. But as this happening his girl has started dancing with me and getting with me!??! I was shocked and try to show my friend, so I turn girl around and try and gte him to get with her as well, but he wasnt on it.

Then I nearly fall asleep in club so we leave and as we are by our lifts, I see one of the sweetest girl ever crying by lift on.... 'turn on nice robert'... 'why r u crying u have such a sweet smile etc...." She invites me and my mates to her penthouse she is with for a hen party. The place is insane, there was girls everything, on the floor in the living room, lieing on the dining room table and this girl told us most of the them were desperate for a dude, but then the bride comes in and goes crazy and before she got out anything dangerous to hit us with we were gone!!!

Sunday 29th

One of my best mates ben arrived, started playing 10/20 and 10/20/40 and results had been picking up. So nothing really happens in day time, but we go to PURE at caesars in evening. We get a table and minute we're inside I go scouting for talent. I found a hot blonde girl who seemed pretty sweet and ngiht was over. End up taking her back to bellagio, we go for dinner with my mate Ben, play some craps and win, then shes like im tired, so I try and take her back to room, shes like not coming and ure not sleeping with me.

I suck at breaking some this last minute resistance so im like cool, im going to play craps then, as I stil had around $400 on table!! She did ask me to walk her home and I dunno what wud've happend if i did, but I refused and play craps. I rolled for about 55 mins, and before each roll announced eat great american I was rolling for... these americans ranged from obama, to michael vick (the greatest dog carer). It was fun

Feeling lazy can't write nemore! Will do 3 parts ZzZZ

The Hickie

2011-05-22T10:20:00.000-07:00

I only really like to post stories about night out when they are fun and I got a bit of a funny story from Friday night so I'll talk about it here, but before I go into Friday night got a few things to say.

1. Made another $25kish this week, i seem kinda unstoppable in the past month and won way over $100k in the past month. Just every flip I seem to win at high stakes and I lose all the low stakes ones... but ofc im not moaning. Im having alot of coolers go for me e.g. won a 7Ke pot last night with AA>KK. and vs same person jus won 2Ke pot 1010 > 99

2. Went to a pretty well regarded japanese restaurant in London called Roka for the first time and it was pretty abysmal. Then went to waterside in 3* in Bray, head chef you to be michelle roux snr, but now its his son Alain Roux (who is an absolute weirdo) and my chef at cook school Eric Bedial used to be the head sous chef. I didn't eat meat there to respect my family being kosher and make sure we cud get a 7 course tasting menu, but i dunno... im such a carnivore it kind upset me. It was moderately priced though at around £200 p/h including wine. I know that sounds crazy, but you are paying for food and alcohol at the BEST restaurant in the country, so that is good. (especially as Roka was £150 for utter garbage and shit service)

3. VEGAS IN 4 DAYS VERY EXCITED WILL GIVE A TRIP REPORT!!!! Just changed my money so got $10k waiting to be blown on hookers and blow!!!!

Ok now to the story. Me and my mates decided to go clubbing on Friday night. Like 4 of us from uni to semi celebrate my bday and the £100k.

So we do 2 bottles of vodka between 4 of us before we leave the house, then we decide to go to loop bar. Its full of pretty dirty people to be honest and your likely to only meet pretty sketchy girls or boys there unless ur lucky. I think its better if your a guy to go there than a girl, cuz its the kinda club I would describe as your guaranteed to find a nice 6.5/7+ who is on it, unless ur a complete doofus. While girls just get groped there.

So I've been reading this tucker max book, who is super cool kid in america, who was kinda an MTV idol in early 2000s and written a book about different extracts from his life, in kinda like a blog way. Well he was in vegas and dropped a line about he was a Christian Rapper and he called one his mates DJ Orthodoxy. So I stole this line as I thought it was hella funny.

So this is what happened with first girl I chat to in loop:

Me: Hey what brings u here tonight
Girl: One of my mates birthdays
Me: Oh, I'm in a christian rap group with my buddies and we're touring the UK, my name is DJ Orthodoxy
Girl: ::::Literally laughs for about 5 mins straight then just about manages to get out::: im a muslim. (while im jus chatting to one of my mates and one of her friends)
Me: Well fuck you then im jewish
Her: Me too

Then I leave her and my buddies go smoking so I wait inside with one of my mates

I see one of them stepping up to my mate so i slam my drink on the floor run outside and grab the aggy one in their group in a headlock to calm it all down. Obv we get kicked out and I couldn't even tip one of the bouncers off with £50 to get back in. FFFS!

SO then we head to tottenham court road and find this group of 3 american girls. IMO 2 grenades and 1 6.5 (when ur drunk), cuz she wasnt gr8 but had tight ass and big tits and nice smile.... so I was satisfied.

We end up going to a salsa club floridita and I start making moves to the 6.5. She seems pretty on it and starts buying me drinks, but I was pretty messed up already and I was dirty sick last week, so I stuck to tap water on the sly w-out her knowing and jus gave away the drinks she got me for my mates. Then I isolate from her friends shes like come to the toilet with me.....

But the dirty toilet brer has flipped out at me trying to bring a girl into the dudes toilet. I try and tip him off with a £20, but the dude still is having none of it. WHY THE FUCK R BOUNCER SAND TOILET PPL NOT TAKING 2 HOURS WAGE JUST TO FORGET ABOUT THE RULS FOR 1 MINUTE!!!! FFFFFFS!

I keep her away from her friends and hoped that her friends had left or my buddies had dealt with it. Now its about 3am, club has closed and im left with her and i see her 2 friends, but my buddies r no where to be seen. They FKIN LEFT ME!!!!

So she's like we staying in a hostel come bak, so walk back, but one is her sister and she flips at letting me in the hostel, and really didn't care that much so I just go to them

"look i'm gonna win somehow tonight, so if i can't stay here i'm gonna to the casino", as palm beach was right next door and then I just kicked as I cudnt be fucked to be in the middle of some childs family dispute. Obviously the grenade senior was just stressed as she got none and took it out on her little sister.

So I go to palm and people can't stop laughing at me. Like everyone at the table is saying to me what r u 16 again. Im like wtf r u talking about.

Then the dealer goes to me 'u got a fucking hicky on ur neck' Im like WTF?!?!?!?? SHE RLY WAS A FUCKING BABY GIVING ME A FUCKING HICKY. AND I GOTTA GO TO WORK ON MONDAY!!!! FFFFFFS!

So even though i told the girl i'd prefer to gamble than stay with her, she still got the one up as she has left me permanently fucking scarred!!!! (as can be seen in the pic above)!!!

[x] £100k profit in 2011

2011-05-15T17:57:00.001-07:00

Well done... im like £2k short, but if u include my wage at month end and my rakeback its ezily there!!!

shiiiiip

Crushing!

2011-05-02T16:57:00.001-07:00

Long weekend is over and I crushed pokers over the past 3 days!!!

Friday I wrote about already and was kinda pissed off being $1k down and even over the past 2 weeks.

Well i turned it around on Sat, sunday, monday and made $40k in 3 days. About $17k on 888, $6k - prima, $5k ipoker, $7k ongame, $2k party. Plus i'm expecting $2k rakeback on 888 and $1k from ongame.

It feels good to turn around my poker like this and big win like this really puts me on track for the £100k. I'm at around £75k and need to make £25k this month and I feel like it is really achievable with the way I am playing at the moment.

I know it sounds bad, but I really regret my March where I just stopped playing and went clubbing and out a bit too much as its really fucked me up for this target.

I'm happier than ever about going to work tomorrow as I really feel like I need a break, bcuz i've probably played close to about 30 hours of poker in the past 3 days. I know it doesn't sound like a huge amount, but that is 10 hours a day of solid concentration.

This post is really going on tangeants as my mind is fucked, but the push/fold tabs rly helped me out too. I mean right at the end of today when I was finishing up, I like a $1.5k pot AA vs 44, $1.25k pot KK vs AK, $1.5k pot 710 v QJ on Q10109 board, obv Q on riv. And I lost the pot which I think I played best all day... I had $550 at 5/10, 22 on BB, cut off raise to 25, i call on BB, flop 2510, check, check. Turn 8, I check he bets 46 into 65, I go 129... to try and make it look floaty/bluffy, he calls. Riv is a 4, and I jam my remaining 380ish... he calls with 44 and said he was calling if blank fell. I really like my line here, but back to the point... the push/fold helps a lot bcuz after all of this I played push/fold and just detilted flipping $100s and $200s etc....

ofc highstakes push and fold is bad for me as money is too big and really is like proper gambling, but the low stakes is rly helpful for me.

Im gonna take 2morrow off poker as need a break, but will be back playing on wed.

Peace

Rob

My bros room

2011-05-01T19:09:00.000-07:00

My grindstation is in my brothers room. When he has been home or in the room, I have lost $40k in the last 2 weeks, when he has been away/out of the room I have won $55k.

I think friday kinda typified exactly how I was feeling. I was on a little up.. like +$3k, then he came home... i insta dropped $3k at stupid 10/20e hu and push/fold... then i went to my room and lost another $2k at push/fold on monkey tilt.

Since he left on saturday morning, i've won about $16-17k which has felt pretty good and is very much needed.

I'm gonna grind and gym all tomorrow.

Peace

Rob

Quite happy with myself

2011-04-26T16:38:00.000-07:00

Had a day to chill at work and kinda forget about poker.

Came back today and played 2/4, 3/6 and tiny bit of 5/10. One of first hands was A9 vs KQ on a AKJ board, he hits a Q for about $800. Then I lost 99 vs AK for $800 and then Had Jh10h on 9h6h2s flop and jammed v Ah2h for another $800. So I was already like $1.5k again!

Grinded for about 2 hours and turned it to a +$1.5k session. I played pretty average, but my average is +EV in 2/4 and 3/6 and I was happy with my all round game as it was far better than its been in past 3/4 days and felt a tiny bit confident again.

Feels nice to win a bit I guess.

I think I gotta write the £100k off before vegas, but I think for the year, should be 'relatively easy' to achieve, espec with the amount of live poker I'm gonna play from when I go to Vegas.

Neways, gonna try and gym in like 5 hours so gotta sleeep

Peace

Rob

fkin pissed off again

2011-04-23T18:00:00.001-07:00

Made $6k in day time today lost $5k in an hour at night time... $2.5k to same guy i dropped to last night.

Dunno jus fkin pissed off tbh.

It should be a +$25k week, but its currently at +$13k.

I really need to be having bigger winning weeks than this if i wanna hit the £100k target and jus pissed right now.

I was thinking recently and poker is like a video game, like for me right now its not about the money, of course the $12k i've lost in recent evenings wud be nice, but I just want to complete the £100k target or in video games....level. Like I'm hugely focused just to hit this thing now, whereby I will eat, sleep, work, train, gym, poker and not be interested in other shit as long as I can hit this fucking target.

I really like setting an achievable target and I think this was one of my best ideas in terms of poker, because its resulted in me having a relatively successful 3 months, reignited my passion to play and deterred me from tilt. I know this sounds fucked up, but the only time i've had focus like this in the past and put in the same amounts concentration were in video games. But the concentration levels im talking about are huge!! like nothing distracts me and right now i have the ability to 8 table including 4 heads up tables....When i'm revising for exams I would say im working at 30% ability im at right now.

Played a bit too much in past 2 weeks, but not moaning made +£20k and gonna keep on going strong until vegas as i'm not gonna be able to play after due to exam commitments.

Peace

Rob

Just Ran Horribly

2011-04-22T17:18:00.001-07:00

Well was up about $8k for the day but jus dropped $9k in the space of 2 hours. Have an awful headache ran like shit.

Can't be assed to write what happened, but not happy to end up on a $1k downer, but can't play nemore too tilted

Rob

Black Friday

2011-04-20T10:09:00.001-07:00

As some of you guys know this weekend was pretty crazy in the online poker world. Pretty much online poker is not possible for american poker players nemore as pokerstars, ftp and UB are being prosecuted for $3bn money laundering blah blah blah...

Im glad as I only had money on stars and insta withdrew on friday night!

In terms of life, I'm feeling awful. I think I have the flu. I am getting hot flushes 5x a day, but not normal hot flushes like dripping sweat, so it looks like I have just got out of a swimming pool. I have an awful throat and bones feel weak and can't sleep. Spent all day in bed playing push/fold like a true degen.

Work going ok, I got an EP rating, which is 3/5, 1 being best, 5 being worst... which means my work is going steadily. I'm happy about this :)

Played a bit of push/fold v Shane Warne (cricketer) today and won a $1k pot Q5 > KQ, was pretty sweet.

Neways I've hit my annual peak in winnings, think its jus shy of like £55k so I guess im happy about that.

Peace

Rob

p.s. the picture above is ultimate bet asking me for money and the results for when I type in ultimatebet.com into google. Don't think I'm paying up, as my friend is offering me 30c for each UB$ online...

Lockdown, Northampton, tonight

2011-04-13T16:54:00.000-07:00

In brief, ended lockdown with $10k profit.

I've been in Northampton all week and I very rarely give trip updates, but this was a pretty comical night.

Went for a meal with some work colleagues and after the meal I was pretty smashed after 4 pints and a bottle of wine.
So after the meal me and friend decide to test out Northampton night life. Start of vodka revs and they were serving drinks 2 4 1. It was literally about £5 for 4 mixers, was pretty crazy! I go to toilet to see my friend already opened on set and ofc isolated me with a grenade. Over the space of 15 mins I said about 5 words to the grenade.

So I force my friend to go another bar opposite, after having about 8 doubles in vodka revs and I order 4 more doubles and 2 shots of sambuca the minute we get into new bar. After that I insta head to toilet to get gum and lollies and challenge the toilet dude to a toilet lyrics face off. (e.g. dropping lines like no calvin klein no 69, no tissue no issue...) Ofc he lost after one round, then he tries to hussle me out of £5!!!

After crumbling the toilet mans dreams of being a freestyle king, me and my friend head to a pool table to play perhaps two of the weirdest guys you've ever seen at a game. We were very drunk, but I'm pretty convinced one of them (who had his t shirt tucked into his trousers, which were up to chest) was just saying to us wankers in the whole conversation, but I couldn't understand a word of english at the time. We decide to gamble for a drink on the game.

It was a pretty easy game (thanks to my partner), even when the albino looking one out of the two tried to throw my buddy after talking about all the fresh taffy in the bar and then pointing at a 15 stone atomic bomb. Still to this day I'm not sure if he was being serious, because he seemed fascinated at idea of getting a tit wank of this atrocity of a specimen.

Then we search dancefloor for some kind of targets amongst the grenade field and find two little blonde things kissing for a camera. I go for one and see she has braces. After seeing this I leave her and then speak to friend who reaasures me if I have 2 more drinks it'll be ok. I listen and go with her. then she smokes outside and literally after a few seconds of linking I tell her breath stinks and I was kicking.

We go to another club find them again, then leave for a casino, which wouldn't let me in, even after I pulled out £1k at the bouncers face, because they said I was too drunk :S. We run back to club, take 2 girls from before back to our hotel, because they DTF and by accident brought along a 3rd wheel.

Minute we get in hotel, they start throwing pens and stuff at reception and we nearly got chucked out of own hotel, but then 3rd wheel goes crazy starts crying and stuff cuz we were leaving her out. She grabs other 2 and they all kick in a taxi. Was pretty blong.

Won $2k over Monday and Tuesday and dropped $5k today in poker.

Going out 2mo in N-hampton again.

Peace

Rob

Lockdown

2011-04-09T19:37:00.000-07:00

On Friday I decided I wanted to have a lockdown this weekend. I really haven't been too happy at the moment and wanted to dedicate myself to something 'useful' this weekend.

For people that don't know lockdown is equivalently living, eating, dreaming poker for a weekend.

In terms of lockdown, I woke up at 11ish, played on and off until 5.. probs only played 4 hours and slept a bit more.

during these sessions I ran pretty horrible dropping $5k and lost about 5 flips for $2k in the process. I didn't play too good and wasn't happy. After gym I grinded a bit more making $2k a push/fold :S.

Then I went round to a friend of mine who having a barbecue, my mind was completely AWOL and i ended up only staying 30 mins and going bak to grind until now really. I made $8k in the evening session, where the vast majority was made in push/fold. i don't want to go into too much details, because its new.. but i have an edge in push or fold.

Tomorrow probs gonna be pretty similar to today, apart from maybe not go to gym and jus do some exercises in my garden and watch some of the football.

Im trying to find a way to be entertaining in this post, but i can't feel a bit low and drained even though I've jus had a +$8k session the past 5 hours.

Going to bed.

Will post final results 2mo

7 1/2 weeks till vegas

2011-04-05T14:09:00.000-07:00

Been a bit of a wasteman over the past month in terms of poker, training and work. So I want to set myself goals in all these 3 areas b4 i go to vegas.

In terms of training...Ive injured my knee pretty badly, so i cudnt go to the gym for 2 weeks and wasn't training up till a week ago. Still struggling to do heavy squats, jump squats... but did some light squats today in my hotel gym and was ok. It seems like more exercise i do on the leg and the more i force it... the better it gets. Weird i know...

I had an MRI on it and the doctor gave it the all clear. Sooo I guess my aim is before i go to vegas to train 6x and week and get the leg better. I will try and be semi sensible with the eating.. but when i am away from home and there are chicken wings and a burger in front of me, pretty hard to be good.

In terms of work, I guess the alcohol has turned me into a wasteman 'at times'. Last Wednesday a dude I know was opening a club in London and the mafia table next to us decided to give me and my mates free bottles of DP, so it was hard to refuse!!! ended up making love to my toilet at 6am and giving my taxi driver a tour of hampstead gden suburb (including gadafi sons house). Was a state in the club... thank god my table had our own personal bouncer otherwise I would probably be dead right now. Was a very nasty journey to work, day at work and I'm very lucky I didn't puke on my desk in the middle of the office (as I was very close a number of times)

I know that story seems to put me in a bad light at work... but I'm doing pretty good and starting to enjoy it now alot, which is a big bonus. My real aim really before vegas though is to revise for my mock exam, so there is no rush when I'm in vegas or on plane to work for it.

In terms of poker, im really embaressed about my March after having such a good February. I think I won about £6k..... but I played about half my sessions drunk or hungover, I flipped for the first time this year ($2.5k a couple of times) and I degened at 50/100 twice to have two -$15k sessions over the month.

Seeing as I was injured and couldn't go to the gym...the hours I put in were pretty lame. I played about 25 hours over the month and I would genuinely say 10 of them were drunk single tabling on my macbook in my bed, begging people to flip with me!

Live poker is really pissing me off at the moment. There seems be an uncle fan club in London right now. Uncle is this 70 year old arab dude who owns a f load of property and is losing about £2m a year. He lost his wife and mother in the past year and I heard has got very lonely so turned to poker. There are a group of poker pros who follow him round London, take him out for dinner, and try to constantly get him into their poker games (of course). They are literally stealing off the poor old man in his time of need and its kinda making me feel a bit sick about the game as well. [like seeing this dude lose so much money in front of my face consistently and the way people are acting is not nice :( ]

I was in a game on Friday night (small 5/10). 3 shitty live pro kids and a couple of older regs. One of them got a text that uncle was playing at the victoria casino and 5 mins later I was playing 3 handed. I was up a bit and ended up going back to another players house, cuz he said we could blaze there... only issue was his dealer has a police tag. So the dealer sent a taxi driver with the dope inside a blackberry box, covered in celophane and it took about 3 hours and so we only started smoking at 4. This left me properly fucked at about 5am in the centre of town and having to drive home!!!

In terms of poker... don't know what my aims are before vegas... to make £100k before june 1st I need to make about £55k in 2 months, which is not achieveable unless I don't work for one of the two months (which isn't going to happen). So I have changed it to £100k before year end. (as studying for 4/6 months when I get back from vegas)

The minute I come back from vegas I have college and exams, so I will only be playing live poker in the evenings and I will close my online accounts. I really pray I can start shipping big in the live games.

Kinda dribbling on here so gonna wrap up post

Peace

Rob

Holiday etc..

2011-03-16T18:47:00.000-07:00

Wasn't a great holiday period, went to palm beach that evening, managed to get money in AQ vs KK and 1010 v AA, I won one of the flips.... obv didnt deserve. Kinda fed up with live poker tbh atm, especially when i am 6-7 tabling hu and 6 max online

My holiday period from work 2 weeks ago was pretty shitty too. I ended up dropping $17k in about 1 hour on the Thursday, but I made jus under $25k last week which kinda helped my dieing cause.

Was a bad weekend dropping about $7k, but recovered $4.5-5k tonight.

I know I seem v result focused right now, but I don't have v interesting poker stories, as I'm kinda focused to make this £100k before June 1st.

Deciding on Hotels for vegas, but can't rly make up my mind right now. Fucked up my right knee so hard to get into good shape for the nightlife, but im trying my best.

In terms of my poker right now. I'm playing rl good running at like 4bb/100 over all games from 3/6 - 10/20, hu and 6 max. Its a shame im struggling to put in the hours right now, but don't have any more middlesbrough games to go to this season, so should be able to max out this weekend.

Got work in 5 hours so gotta sleep, but alot on my mind and become minorly addicted to sleeping pills so I guess I shud at lst try and sleep now....

Rob

Update

2011-03-03T01:40:00.001-08:00

Work has been really busy over the past few weeks so not had enough time to update blog.

Poker has been going seriously well. Over the last 5 weeks I dropped back down to 2/4 and 3/6 and bits of pieces of 5/10.

I have won about £30k and table captaining some important sites.

My focus is back and I have holiday at work over the next 4 days so I am setting myself a line for profit of $15k....

Wish me luck

Rob

Lost all profit over last month prop bet

2011-01-20T13:06:00.000-08:00

I lost all money at 25/50+ HU, my rule not to play higher than 10/20 euro and live i obv can and also to never play hu! (before june)

if i play i will give £500 to charity

Exam on monday then back to grind

2011-01-08T07:15:00.000-08:00

In last couple of week i've made around £10k and so only £90k to go to my target :P

I have an exam on Monday and hopefully i'll pass.

Next few months gonna be insanely busy at work, so its gonna be hard to balance poker around with everything.

I have 0 holiday at work taken for the next 5 1/2 months, so this is likely to be close to the most painful period of my life.

Peace

Rob

End of a year blog opened up again

2010-12-31T12:02:00.000-08:00

Settled into new job and thought its ok to make this open for everyone to see again.

After my last post I lost another £10k tilting on betfair blackjack games and coinflips with friends until i took a 1 month break from poker.

Over the last couple of month ive made about £12k in pokers, £6k in live and £6k online.

I realize my leaks and what i've been doing wrong. I'm a much better 20bb player hu than 35bb and been playing too much 35bb hu. So im gonna stick to FTP, stars, prima and entraction and bum/reg hunt 20bb. Gonna sit at 2-3 5/10 games on ipoker with 35bb too and try and grind my awful PTR until some kind of positive thing.

I have made some aims for the new year.

1. Get in sick shape for vegas in May 30th
2. Eat properly, no bs pizzas etc....
3. Try and make £100k in live and online before 30th May...

Wish me luck

AND OVER NEXT 9 Days PUT in 15 HOUR DAYS FOR MY STUDIES AND 1 HOUR GYM SHIIIP

Rob

Just lost an annual salary in 20 mins

2010-09-20T09:00:00.001-07:00

Im tilted to fuck.. blame my mum and just popped 2 sleeping pills so i can forget about this horrible day

Still doing well

2010-09-11T17:49:00.000-07:00

I tend not to blog when Im winning... don't wanna go into details about amounts, but I think the main reason I am winning is because im not tilting.

Its only been 2 weeks of no tilt but makes a big difference. Last week I took on a bum reg at 25/50 on 888 and he bt me for like $9k, then refused to play. In the past I would go crazy then go to 50/100 100/200 etc... but I didn't I went back down to 10/20 5/10 and grinded out again, until I was only down $2k for the day.

Same thing happened on the weekend, where I had like 7/8 bad coolers in a row at 10/20 and 25/50 and ended up losing $7ksh for the day and accepting it

Today I won 3kish in the morning and £1k on betfred and then $2k on pacific. On pacific I lost a couple of flips to go down to drop $1.4k. So I went onto entraction to bum hunt 25/50, someone came and he won a 4k euro pot AK vs A10 all in pre. Then I sit at ipoker and play a bum reg with gets it in v me when I have AQ v his AJ.

I lost both flips, but now I have stopped sessiona nd goign to bed. I still think I am up a bit for the day too :)

Running quite hot

2010-08-23T02:44:00.000-07:00

Up like $16k in last 2 days and on like a $50k upswong in past month...

dont wanna jinx myself and had 15/30 action with scout yesterday, who is $1m loser at a rate of -50bb/100 loool

Went on tilt and had big pot

2010-08-10T08:43:00.000-07:00

Jus before this hand he won 4k euro pot A10 vs A7... me A10, all in pre.

I had ~4.5k euro... action was raise 200 by me, he goes 600 i push all in for 4.5k, he calls. He had AJ and me JJ and I HELD THANK GOD!!!

i guess i shud write an update

2010-08-08T10:05:00.000-07:00

Last time I wrote, I had just lost like £23k over a 24 hour period. Since then I've been to israel and won £15k.

Nothing else to say, keep on getting beats like the one above and feeling pretty shitty atm... dunno why

Rob

Update

2010-07-23T17:59:00.001-07:00

Dropped £12k the next day too and been grinding 5/10 and less and a tiny bit of 10/20...

Was going good until tonight... jus had session now where i won £500 at 2/4 then some idiot plays me 5/10... he wins like $1.1k... so im like £200 down, then I flip $300 lose KJ vs 103, then flip $600 lose 96 vs 102, then lose all in pre QdJd v Ac2c for $1.2k... so I dropped like £1k in seconds and didnt feel good.

I guess I only come on here to write upsetting posts cuz its fun to rant, but w/e closed account for a couple of days cuz i need a break.

Rob

Just Dropped it all

2010-07-11T00:15:00.000-07:00

started at 25/50 on stars...

Lose $3k pot A6 vs 109
Then $5k pot AK v 1010
... $5k pot KdQd v AK on a 10d9d X board
Then $3k pot J9 v AQ

Then I go to ipoker

6k euro pot, J9 vs KQ on a KhJhX board, looked dangerous
3.5k euro pot A8 vs A7
3.5k euro pot 44 vs KJ

I LOVE MY LIFE!!!

£12.5k upswing

2010-07-10T06:42:00.000-07:00

In last week im up about £12.5k... all I really have to say, Im pissed off right now, can't be fucked to write anything about hands or any shit like that. Gonna grind live tonight.....

Rob

VEGAS POST!!!!!

2010-07-09T02:45:00.000-07:00

Im a bit dumb for trying to write this whole post in one go, cuz its hard to remember everything but I will to write like a diary in one go here...

21st....

I left on 21st, went premium economy virgin. Kinda sucky cuz we had the old shitty planes, so I spent the whole trip trying to complete the same angry birds level. When I got off plane I went 5/10, with a friend I travelled with and continued trying to complete level, while getting powned and being half asleep at poker table. I remember having AQ lose to AK and then going to bed...

Next day all my mates got in, we were meant to go out, so I got pissed out of my head at 5/10, then I go upstairs and none of them want to go out. So I start flipping online with a mate, I win $1.2k flip 62 vs KK, then my laptop dies! No online pokers for rest of trip!!! or at least until friend bought my 2nd laptop from home. That night seriously sucked as well cuz my m8s were too pussy to go out

23rd....

Another day of chilling by the pool. Bit crazy for me cuz I hate pools and sun bathing. I remember playing 10/20 that day and getting owned, like had JJ vs AA and 99 vs JJ in battle of blinds... so dropped $1.6k, which sucked. We had some mates come down from london, so we all went mandalay burger bar, which is probs my favorite restaurant in vegas. Then me and 2 other mates went to LAX. LAX kinda sucky club, full of dudes and ugly girls. I finally saw 1 hot girl, so I go to my buddies lets lone ranger it tonight :P (which means go round by urself looking for girls) All goes pretty well in club, I leave my mates, go back with girl.

Then at 6am I try and pull a Barney Stinson by leaving and I was hot and there was no water in room, so I leave. I go back to room in bellagio my mates, tell me our results have come and I find out I got a 1st, which is like best mark possible. Then I remember I left my chain in girls room and it was an 18th bday present from my mum. So I try and go back to her hotel, can't remember her name or room number and i dont take numbers... so I was kinda fucked. So girl 'A' if you read this please tell me where my chain is... it kinda means a lot to me and I remember showing you the blog. IF YOU READ THIS HOLLA!!!

24th....

another day of chilling by the pool, seriously weird for me! We went delmoniccos for dinner, which is by far best steak house ive been to in vegas and probably the world. Then I play a bit of BJ to try and get drunk at table. They take like 30 mins for each drink so I donk off $300 trying to get drunk... ffs! 5 other boys aren't up for going out, so I go bank with one of my mates. He finds a hot girl he likes and I have to wing her friend for 30 mins. Who is like a 2, and all she goes on about is how much more money she makes than me and she trying to buy me drinks, ffs!!! After 30 mins of helping out my buddy, I tell him i'm running for it. Thats literally what happened, this girl turns her back and I run!!! Night was fun from there :P

25th...

I really can't think of anything interesting to write in day times, apart from I was dropping money at this time and going to pool area. 2 of my friends seriously ill now, so in night time we go out with 3 other boys we know and a diff mate to surrender (new beach club in Encore). We get a table, was fun and I think you need a table in this club Club was cool, was like in some outside pool area with cabanas etc.. Leo di Caprio and Paris were also there so was pretty sick to see some celebs.

26th....

Im feeling super ill now, but its one of my mates final nights so we go XS. XS on a Saturday night in Wynn is craziest thing ive ever been. I have never seen such a big club in my life. I saw Urindanger (super good online player) and chatted for a bit and he was rly nice. I left after like 1 hour tho cuz i felt so shitty.

27th...

I was just in bed all day ill, felt so bad and it was a serious shitty day. My friends took me for dinner to prime steakhouse in bellagio... it was ok, but nothing on delmoniccos

28th...

Spent whole day in bed, watching that show intervention. Its about people who have like drug or alcohol problems and need to be fixed. Its fucking good and addictive trash tv. I went out with my one remaining friend and he said we have 30 mins in club, cuz he wanted to go somewhere else. I found a nice girl, super sexy, got her on dance floor, but not far enough from her friends who found us like 20 mins later when they were leaving and she cudnt leave without them. She tried to grab phone, but I hate taking number, dunno why. So then I go on somewhere else with my friend. All I can say is that I ended up trying to kill a cockroach naked with my towel.......

29th...

All by myself!!! Spent day speaking to some cool australian degens by the pool, who thought they had a chance of being live tournament pros after running good for 6 months and are still broke....lol. Then met up with a girl from back home, we went to noodles in bellagio, probs my fave restaurant there. Had an awesome night in Pure, people like devilfish were there so it was fun, cuz we went on table with them. It has a floor upstairs and moon bar downstairs, its seriously nice club with awesome music and had a fun night.

30th....

Day of leaving bellagio and going to wynn. I dunno which hotel I prefer. Wynn poker room dicks on any other, so nice to high stakes players and food was good, but service and rooms nicer at bellagio. I think I go wynn next yr tho. I went out with a few poker players I knew to Pure, I leave and find these 2 girls outside who r like 35. Somehow I got with both of them and we tried to go onto a new club, but wasnt open. So I found BJ table and said if I win $300 bet, they come bak to room. Obv I win and then they pussied out. :((( Huge beat

On 1st and 2nd I played like 40 hours of poker to kill poker rates for hotel, cuz I had to play 6 hours a day.

My friend from london came 2nd in evening and bought macbook. We first flip for UFC tickets for the next night, which were $1k each and he obv wins. Then he puts $100 on BJ and doubles until he reaches $5k then he gets up. Pretty good winning $6k by pure luck in ur first 10 mins in vegas!!!!

3rd..

We go UFC, was best night of vegas, incredible seeing brock win and we had really good tickets. Wow it really was just best sporting occasion on my life and every main card fight was incredible!!!! Went clubbing that night with some 888 crew. Lol I find some little hot girl on dance floor, its going pretty well...then after a while her friend goes to her. 'I've spent for this whole trip for you and ur not leaving me for this boy'
Literally it was that word for word.. so kinda killed it for me. My friend then tells me some random dude has boyed him with a girl, so I try to boy the other dude and then I get kicked out!!! I end up going to bed and heard my friend spent ALOT in a strip club and lived a real 'hangover' night. But don't want to go into too much detail, cuz its his business....

4th..

My friend was playing world series next day so it was a chilled day, just more live grinding and I worked out, Im actually a sick good live player and shoulda been making alot more money, but took me too long to adjust...

5th...

Went Rio, its shitty too big etc... too many people playing poker there. Then I went out with 888 crew to XS. Its sick hard to find any girls to approach without table there, but found a couple with my m8 from 888 and night was good.

6th...

Final night Pure... my fave club, found sick sexy girl in club. Never been turned on just by dancing as much as this girl, but my m8 can't fucking hold down her friend and she had to go home with her so we walk to taxi together and he still cant pull it off, so me and him go rhinos. Rhinos was sick good, then played bacarrat got to squeeze cards and was fun :) I wanna be bacarrat pro now!!!

Ok Done

Rob

Poker crappy

2010-06-24T10:09:00.000-07:00

Dropped like £12k in 24 hours before I came out. Won 3,5 online then busted laptop now lost 2k live gonna take it easy until next week and just party. I got a 1st in my degree so I guess it was worth quiting

Degening it up....

2010-06-19T13:31:00.000-07:00

Well I've meaning to write a blog post for too long and bcuz I'm such a degen I havnt been able to do it at home bcuz I've been 4-8 tabling on my laptop for the last 72 hours.... Don't really know how online poker is going. Guess I'm up
a bit but I busted entraction account today which sucked. I played shit bcuz software pissed me off too much. Ffs is made me post 50+25 with dead 25 3 handed ffs. Was only like 3k tho..... So it's a minor. I want to start a new paragraph now but I can't on iPhone!!!! Ok so let me continue I had a funny story from vic other day. Was playing 2/5 and there was a really juicy 5/10 game like this 65 year old man begging people o do 10k live flips sitting with 50k in front of him and huge donk. So a kid in my game pays £400 just for a seat in the game. I mean that's 40 fcking big blinds and def one of biggest donk moves I've ever seen. Especially thinking about variance. Even if he was phil ivey it's still a bad play you are playing 9 handed live for 3 hours at best... Well
kid ended up losing £10k so I guess he learned the tough lesson of variance....I ended up winning 500
in the 2/5 game but busted 500 in red and black flips. Well gonna stop writing now. Going Vegas in a day and playing 2/5 in casino as we speak, as a break. Just won 650 flip too jj v ak. A in window and j on flop...Yeeeeey!!!! Peace rob

Dropped £5k today

2010-06-15T10:59:00.001-07:00

Played this morning dropped £5k, but still had a fucking good day.

Off to a cambridge ball now for some pre vegas fun

Rob

Finished for the day...

2010-06-14T18:43:00.001-07:00

Final hand of the day

***** Hand History for Game 2316216492 ***** (IPoker)
$5000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, June 15, 02:36:00 ET 2010
Table Hillarys (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 5: VickLuvPuppies80 ( $1500.00 USD )
Seat 10: NotAgaain ( $2000.00 USD )
VickLuvPuppies80 posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
NotAgaain posts big blind [$50.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to VickLuvPuppies80 [ Td Th ]
VickLuvPuppies80 raises [$75.00 USD]
NotAgaain raises [$1950.00 USD]
VickLuvPuppies80 calls [$1400.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ah, Qh, 7s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ts ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
NotAgaain wins $3498.00 USD from main pot
NotAgaain shows [Ad, Qd ]

2nd final hand...

***** Hand History for Game 2316213652 ***** (IPoker)
$2000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, June 15, 02:31:41 ET 2010
Table TURBO Levuka (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: Ga181 ( $979.00 USD )
Seat 5: VickLuvPuppies80 ( $819.00 USD )
Ga181 posts small blind [$10.00 USD].
VickLuvPuppies80 posts big blind [$20.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to VickLuvPuppies80 [ Th Kd ]
Ga181 raises [$50.00 USD]
VickLuvPuppies80 raises [$160.00 USD]
Ga181 calls [$120.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ac, Kc, Ts ]
VickLuvPuppies80 bets [$360.00 USD]
Ga181 raises [$799.00 USD]
VickLuvPuppies80 calls [$279.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jc ]
Ga181 wins $1797.00 USD from main pot
Ga181 shows [Js, Ah ]

And this guy ran like a fucking god v me........don;t have hand but he won 1010vs 77 for $1.2k then 77 vs 1010 on a 7 high flop for $1.2k.... HE IS A SICK GUY WHO I WOULD LOVE TO FUCK UP RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Won like £6.5k today so I guess i should just chill!!!!

Rob

£4k session

2010-06-14T10:04:00.000-07:00

Just won £4k in like an hour... was £1.5k up and decided to take on some shitty regs at 25/50 and it went well. I'm gonna take a break till later and maybe do some cooking now.

Peace

Rob

Meh

2010-06-12T09:52:00.001-07:00

I dunno whats up with me and writing this blog recently. I can't write anything interesting about poker, its either cuz ive played no live or ive turned boring. To be honest it kinda feels like the 2nd one. SInce my drunk poker escapade 4 days ago, ive put in 4 straight 8 hour days and I feel kinda dead. Did a prob bet with a friend that I can take a break from poker this weekend, gave him odds of 50/1 :) (I am kinda struggling already!!!)

Poker is going ok... Like I am around £4k up again, BUT I HAVE RAN LIKE SHIT!!!!!! like so bad, I mean I donked off 1600 euro to a huge donk at 5/10 yday. I tilted but also ran so bad!!!

Running like even on flips, think im down like under £1k, but not really counting. I don't even know if i'm looking forward to vegas now, Im so fucking drained, can't sleep at home, just got this wicked new desktop, my arm is fucked so I can't do any exercise. I just really want to sleep, play poker on my new desktop and go to the gym, but that is too much to ask for right now I guess....

I know I sound pretty low in this post, I think its just my arm which is fucking me off cuz I can't train and im seriously overpokered which is never a good thing.

Im trying to clean my room now and kinda given up half way, guess I shud get bak to it.

OH ya hopefully I shud be $400 richer in cash leaderboard which ends 2mo too

Peace

Rob

Calmed down

2010-06-08T03:49:00.000-07:00

Well got over loss this morning .... Gonna have a serious 2 week lockdown in London taking a small 1/2 day off to pick up my shit from
bristol

Dropped £6k this morning

2010-06-08T02:52:00.000-07:00

Ran like shut on redbet losing two 70:30s for 800 euro each. Then I went on tilt to 32red. Dropped 800 quick at 10/20. Then went 50/100.. I had 98 on bb sb raises 100. Call ... Flop jj10. Check check. Turn 7 I bet 200 he goes 800 I push and he calls. 6.5k pot ... River was a 10... He had j6. Then dropped another 3000 euro to him on tilt final hand for 5.5k me a7 him ak.... Standard..... Fun game. Back to 2/4 3/6 grind!!! Fml

A little totalling of moneyz ---first week bak

2010-06-07T21:58:00.000-07:00

Down $1k stars
Up 4767.36 euro boss
Up $4781.75 Prima
Down £1754.84 ipoker (but $1k was transfer to ftp)....

so total in £ = -£720 + £3933 + £3300 - £1755 = £4758... + obv £250 rakeback = £5000 mmm good first week bak :P

Back on the grind

2010-06-07T08:48:00.000-07:00

Started playing again on the 2nd... I deposited $1k on stars and ftp and bust them both in about 1 hour.

Wake up next day and decide im sticking to euro sites for a bit so I deposited £1k in redbet, prima and ipoker (fyi, ipoker is the shittest software known to man, so illiquid full of heads up whores... like me!!!)

I won like all my money back on redbet on 3rd in morning, then I went back to uni and clubbing on wednesday night. I came home completely battered and managed to win 4500 euros at 5/10 hit n running. Musta ran so much above EV it was crazy!

Next day won a bit more in morning then dropped 3500 in an hour, went to gym to take out aggression and fucked up my left arm so i can barely move it now, cuz i was doing too much.

Since then been solidly grinding 2/4, 3/6, 5/10 with a bit of 10/20 vs one v weak player. Its gone good and ive made someone like 5000 euros in past 3 days.

Sorry blog not interesting or funny nemore, I kinda forgotten how to be funny, but im sure itll come back!!!

Also did a flip with gijs for 500 euro on my hardcore tilt and obv he won, sick fucker

Rob

How times have changed

2010-03-31T04:01:00.001-07:00

I was speakin to gijs yesterday about our flip, still can't believe this time 3 months ago I did a coinflip for $10k and now I care about spending £20 on sushi.... wtf has happened to me :(

can't be fucked with shitty live sessions anymore

2010-03-26T16:03:00.000-07:00

Just went to vic for a 2/5 session brought £400 with me......

First pot I have Q10 raise pre to £10 1 caller flop QQ7. I bet £15 he calls, turn 7, I check he checks, riv A, I valuI e bet £40 call... ship.

Then I had Q10 2 callers flop Q6h5h, i bet £15 pre, turn 2h, i bet £35 call, riv 6c, i check he bets £100 i call... he shows me A high flush.

I double up with 109 on a 106598 board, then Im sitting with £450. Someone straddles +2UTG makes it £25 i call mid position with JsJc SB makes it £100, +2UTG calls I push, SB calls +2UTG folds. Board comes Ks7s6s9sAd, he flips QsQd FUUUN!!!

So then I busoted like £300 and I went home. It's kind of frustrating because since I quit Im pretty much running even at vic now and I feel like its a waste of time. (had 2 losing £300 sessions and 1 like £800 winning session).... It takes forever to get a seat, I'm playing crap poker because Im so out of confidence and its fucking up my ego.

I have 2 decisions... I either have a relapse and play online again or I quit poker till the end of exams. In reality I can only make decision, which is of course to quit until the end of exams. I have lasted like 2 1/2 months with no online and only another 2 months to go!

The toughest thing for me is being in constant interaction with all my poker friends and them speaking about it really makes me want to play again!!!!

I smoked 3 cigs today as well cuz i was so fucked off about the poker, its just a huge confidence blow ahead of anything. It's a mixture of me missing winning thousands on a daily basis and feeling good about being really good at something which I am missing. Playing live doesn't satisfy either of these two things, cuz im playing too shitty to make any money and its fucking me off.

2 months to go .... i'll be strong and then vegas!

Rob

Exams

2010-03-13T08:50:00.000-08:00

Got my exam timetable, i finish 1st june, I have £25k ready to play around with when im done....

Rob

Kinda had enuf of live poker as well

2010-03-06T02:57:00.000-08:00

Well obv i shudnt of jus played now cuz i was exhausted and started session at like 2am and played till 4, but I dropped £300 pretty easily and kinda suked.

There are too little hands in too much time and i can't take it, even if players r hopeless i am shorting and edge isnt that high for me....Also there are too many cunts that play live poker.

Rob

Little session at vic

2010-03-05T03:14:00.000-08:00

I won like £20, but realized i am literally on a different level to any other player there.

I know have exams this easter, but i played there like 3-4x a week i could be making some serious $ in the 5/10 and 2/5 games...

Rob

Variance is a killer

2010-02-27T11:56:00.001-08:00

I told you all about earlier in the week and me winning like £550 in BJ online and live. Well variance struck me last night. I was back in London and went out with 5 other poker players. They were sick players from Denmark and my Norweigen friend. We were going out for dinner then clubbing and before we went out, I went to the casino and did a flip with Freddy and won £100 so I thought I was still gonna be lucky!

Well... i guess i was wrong. We went to sumosan for dinner and we did a 6 way flip for the bill. Of course I lose and have to cover the £750 bill, then clubbing was a £1400 for the 6 of us so had to pay my share for that as well. Bit of a shitty night after losing dinner flip, but went back to Danes penthouse for little afterparty. The penthouse was such a nice place, but long treck back home at like 10 in the morning.

I guess variance kinda hit in last night and I spent £350 on clothes yesterday 2 which sucked!

Im pissed

Rob

Degening it up...

2010-02-23T17:50:00.001-08:00

2 days ago I spoke to my friend Gijs... and I said I am going to stop cigarettes and gambling.

In the lasy 2 days ive smoked about 4 cigarettes and I decided to go to Gala Casino in Bristol last night and the night before I played some online exchange games on betfair and made £120.... I guess my willpower wasn't very strong in this circumstance.

I really degened it up in gala... I cudnt get a seat at poker so I played blackjack and made about £120 with £5/£10 and £20 bets.

Then I got a seat at 0.5/1 poker and pushed all in twice for £100 with top pair knowing opponent had overpair, but i rly didn't care in either of these situations even though i knew exactly what hands my opponents had....So I lost £200 in the poker knowing i was way behind in both situations.

After this I walked up to blackjack table and put two £100 bets on two different spaces. I think I got 20 on one hand and 9 with dealer showing 4 on another. So I double the 9 and get 19 and dealer shows 18 shipping me £300.

I decided to leave after shipping £200 profit. Also withdrew the £120 made on betfair, so I degened £320 profit in the last 2 days..... I really don't blackjack, its a mugs game and I'm kinda pissed i played it as its -EV.

My aims, which I am gonna write on this blog are:

1. Only smoke when I am drunk (dont make this an excuse to drink!!!)
2. NO MORE BLACKJACK... (unless drunk with Ben in vegas!)

Peace

Rob

Ship moneyz to me!!!!! :)))

2010-02-12T17:38:00.000-08:00

Just came back from Vic and finally had a good poker session.

It took ages to get a game so had nice chat with a couple of regs and then I got to my table. Started off at £1/3 and it really pissed me off actually. To be honest the 1/3 session displayed the exact reason why I don't win as much as I should do v shit poker players. I always expect people to have better than they really do.... I know talking about hands sux, but here is an example...

game straddled to 6 I call UTG+1 with QsJs, 4 callers SB makes it 25 BB calls, UTG calls and then I call and SB calls. Flop QcKhKd, checked around, then turn 4. SB bets 50, I have 80 left, UTG calls and I fold. Riv blanks , check check, SB flips A2 and UTG A4. I mean I think dude has similar Q to me in utg or SB has K. That really pissed me off. Then few hands later 6 callers im on button with A8 raise £35 with A8 and one dude pushes me all in I call, he has AJ. I spike 8 on flop, but he makes str8 on turn.

Then I get shipped to £2/5 table. Couple of regs next to me warned me about some crazy french man opposite me. Wow this guy was nuts, one of the regs told me he was raising £25 blind every hand, because he knew crazy french man would always make it £100! I did see the reg get paid like £800 in a pot though which seemed pretty nice. I spun £200 into £900 in 2 hours, doubling up twice from crazy french man which was nice (had virtual nuts both time like 90% fave..)

I decided to get a massage just after I won the £900 pot and I couldn't stack my chips, she was waiting and I got so much abuse from all the people at the poker table about how everywhere I was for like 5 minutes. Also the first question I asked the masseuse was 'whats the shortest amount of time I can get this for'. This italian reg was just laughing at my stupidity for the next 20 minutes... at least I made him smile :)

A few things really pissed me off at the casino this week though. The guys in the car park are one... I always smile to them and speak about stuff, give them advice on their gym training, tip everytime and they wouldnt let me into car park last week! So i had to walk through edgware road carrying £1k, which isnt the safest place to walk through with that amount of money. Then they tried and act like everything is cool this week.... Secondly I have realized I don't like massages and it wasn't a v good massage. But thats not the annoying thing. I got a 20 minute massage, therefore £20, but all I had was £25 chip off the table so I give her that and then she doesn't even offer me change. I have already made myself look like the biggest fool in front of the table so I felt a bit shy to ask her for the £5 change :((((, especially as I had won £700 there.

The most positive thing tonight was that I didn't do 1 flip!!! Maybe thats why I focussed on my poker so much...

Im a bit everywhere at the moment, I really need to put my poker $ from summer into a savings account. I have £25k in a current account, £3k cash lieing around somewhere and £3k in some online account I still need to provide proof of Id from or call VIP poker manager....I even forgot my friend owed me £600 until he just reminded me now. NOT GOOOD!!!!

I'm not gonna play tomorrow, going to lunch with a couple of buddies then pub crawl, clubbing or house party in evening... not sure what to do yet.

Can't wait till vegas now and alot of the regs who i spoke to jus now are gonna be there when I am, which is cool because its nice to see some friendly faces at the tables :)

Peace

Rob

Update

2010-02-11T15:12:00.000-08:00

In the past week too many ppl have told me they have read my blog and think im degen....

I think they fail to understand a few key things. One is my personality trait in regards to gambling. I will always tell everyone i am a very competent poker player and in my opinion one of the best online short stackers from the uk, but I hate talking about how much ive won. I much prefer to tell them ive lost £20k in a day than won £50k over a month...

I think I know where I picked this up from. When I was younger my friends dad told me never tell anyone how much you are winning, so i guess I just decided to do the opposite and let the world know when I have been losing. Of course I still discuss figures and you can read them in this blog, but I much prefer to talk about bad things here instead of good as it helps me de-tilt and forget about it. Like when I've written here I feel like its a chapter closed in my poker career and then something I can learn from in the future.

Secondly in my final week of online I had a pretty disastrous run...I mean I dropped about £20k in 3 days. I could easily handle it, but I wanted to express my anger in writing instead of whining to my friends about how much I have lost. I don't think many people really enjoy to listen to that...

Finally the abuse seems to be from people who don't play poker. Any poker player would just say sometimes I have a bit too much gamble in me, instead of telling me to quit. When I want to play its not, because I have an urge to gamble its because I really enjoy playing something I'm really good at and fucking killing everyone else at. Doesn't anyone who reads this blog have something they are fucking good at and feel good doing it because they are so good at it. Imagine that being taken away from u for 4 months in a year and its a tough thing.

I still like to continue playing live because its good money and keeps me in touch with the whole poker scene in a mental, social and economic way. Probs gonna go vic 2morrow night and play the 5/10 game.

Also Im going to vegas from 21st June to 7th July, staying in Bellagio for a week and then Wynn for the rest.

Peace

Rob

NO MORE FLIPS!

2010-02-05T18:17:00.001-08:00

Today sucked in many ways.....

1. In my finance lecture today I didn't print off the notes, but brought my laptop with. The fucking lecturer decides to make the notes a PDF file so I can't type next to the notes. Also when I tried to C+P into word it was impossible bcuz too many tables and it came out awful!

2. Then I go to my tutorial the tutor tells me that I don't need to go to tutorial next week, so I coulda come home on thursday instead of friday, but I have already booked my train.

3. I got BATTERED by my personal trainer for having shittest form ever. 1 hour battering sux and I have to be up in less than 6 hours for the next session.... FML!!!

Now I will go onto the poker. So I decided to go the vic casino tonight. The two guys I tip the most, speak to the most and just generally thought liked me the most wouldn't; let me into the car park as it was full up!!! I do soo much for these pricks, I tip them every fucking time, give them advice on w/e they need. I always thought they were friendly people, but they are fucking cunts who can fuck off now. Everything I put into trying to be nice to these douches was a waste of time, fucking queefs

So I go upstairs have to wait for like 1 hour to get into £5/10 game, I do a flip with Freddy for £100 and obv lose. Then I play game, get no hands but manage to be up £120 before I leave in the poker. Then I lose another £100 in a flip with Freddy at the end!!! So it coulda been a £120 profit day, but it wasn't as I am a fucking compulsive flipping gambling dick.

Literally I am done with flips, I lost the $10k flip with Gijs then loads more after that. If I wasn't this complacent in poker I wouldn't have gone on my recent £20k downswing!! Also today is the first day its kicked in how much money I lost 3 1/2 weeks. £13k in 1 day then £7k another day!!! THATS A FUCK LOAD OF MONEY TAX FREE, like more than im gonna make at KPMG next year FFFS.

I don't think im gonna go play poker 2morrow as I didn't feel too comfortable and i didn't really enjoy. I kinda have a rl urge to play online now too, which rly can't be good!!!

ALSO TODAY IS THE DAY I QUIT FLIPS, NO MORE THEY ARE JUST FUCKING STUPID!!!

Gonna watch the cleveland show now and then wake up in 5 1/2 hours for another gym session...

Peace

Rob

Cold Turkey or not...

2010-01-29T12:33:00.001-08:00

I haven't played any poker for the last 2 1/2 weeks and im feeling a lot better cuz of it!

I have so much more time and I don't feel this constant need to make money! I still haven't really gained the value of money again and if I played tomorrow I would be at 100/200 in about a minute.

Im playing a lot of bridge to keep my mind sharp and I really like the game. I have to buy some books on advanced bidding strategy, but after I read those I should be fine.

Next time I'm gonna play poker will be London at the Vic next week, probs 1/3 or 2/5, maybe omaha too as I enjoy omaha much more than hold em.... (although far less profitable)

I have not been tempted to play or gamble at any time since stopping.... i guess thats what losing $20k in a day does to you!!!

Life is good and chilled right now + i'm happy

Rob

IM DONE!

2010-01-13T17:40:00.001-08:00

So I searched for X in google and I saw this picture of this untalented waste of space on google so I wanted to post it as my pic for this post.

TODAY HAS BEEN MENTAL POKER WISE! I was down like $30k, then down like $2k finished down like $19-20k... I don't even know exact amount, but who gives a fuck about $1k after u jus lost $20k....! Final hand was 77 vs A9 for $21k and of course he rivers a 9!

I have been really upset today about my loss, because I kinda lost control especially going to 200/400 and it really pisses me off. I went out clubbing tonight and i couldn't help but get out about how upset i am about the loss to EVERYONE I SPOKE TO. I am sorry if I harassed anyone about my loss... im a douche, but I guess I feel better about it the more people I tell, because it helps me accept the large amount of money I lost etc...

I really can't put into perspective how much money I am flipping and literally jus gambling and it makes no sense to me when I am thinking about it like this. I am not even sure if I enjoy poker anymore at the moment, its just for the last month its felt like a need instead of a want to play.

In a really weird way I am happy I have lost the money, because it gives me a reason to take a break clear my mind for 6 months and start focussing on my studies,gym,friends and other stuff more. I really don't know what I will do to fill the days when I am not playing poker, but I have to find something.

I have asked all my websites to exclude me from playing until June 11th, because I think that will be for the best. I did it last year and the year before and it is definitely beneficial for my studies and work. This week I am gonna be down, but after money has cleared I will feel better. On grande perspective Im still about £20k up since August, which is like £4k a month, which is good going i guess....

I went clubbing tonight and club was half empty I was feeling pretty soberish and it really wasn't much fun thinking about the poker. I really hope just chilling for a week or two will help me feel better and I always said I was gonna quit before 1st Feb, I guess I will just have to quit £11k poorer and 16 days earlier..... :(

I am a drunktard tonight so I guess I have written enough, but I wanted to write in this frame of mind so I will be more honest.

Peace

Rob

P.S. MY £300 BOSE HEADPHONES HAVE JUS BROKEN! FML!!!

CRAZY DAY

2010-01-13T10:36:00.000-08:00

Well I been sititing and playing heads up tables from 10/20 ---> 200/400. I have lost my 200/400 virginity as well and lost like 2 $18k pot and won a $20k pot today.

I was stuck like $30k one point today, but now its somewhere around $5k and im not really sure what it is.

I don't really wanna talk about the hands, but being stuck +£20000 is not fun... trust me!

Rob

MESSY

2010-01-12T04:19:00.001-08:00

I managed all yesterday to not play poker until I got back from a huge night out the morning.

I've puked about 6x this morning and yesterday evening since and I managed to drop $700 at online pokers....

It would have been much more if my card didnt get blocked for failing internet security too many times....

NOT MUCH FUN!

Rob

I feel I have alot to write

2010-01-10T15:37:00.000-08:00

Well I got back from Israel and poker has been pretty insane since then.

I was really happy until like a few mins where it just all went to shit.
I was about £7k up since I was back running hot and the game seemed easy...

I was sooo wrong! I played a kinda nemesis 25/50 euro on prima. First hand was like Q84 flop, 9 on turn he pumps 100 into 200 pot (he raised pre), I call with rubbish planning to bet riv hard, riv was a 7 which made it much more dangerous, so i check he pumps another 100 i go 700 and he calls with J9. Yuk!

Then I got 66 all in pre v his KQ, board AA898, FUN!!!, then final hand AQ v 1010 which i lose again for 3000 euro pot. So I was stuck like 3200 euros.

So I go to ipoker, I take about $2k off some dude at 100/200, then i go 50/100 i bluff into someone's top pair and donk off $2.5k, then i had a $5k pot v BMW A10 vs KJ and K comes out window and I don't improve.

Im pretty pissed off right now, but here are the figures since im bak.

Pacific - ($1000)
32red - +$2400
Betfred - +£2000

I know im still showing like £3k profit, but im really pissed off now and taking a day off 2morrow.

Peace

Rob

p.s. I felt like I had to come back and write some stuff... I guess these swings should be expected, im playing 10/20 - 100/200... its like a 50/100 buy i lost. Im just being a woman and have drop down to 25/50 max on ipoker :( and 10/20 on prima.

SHIP SHIP SHIP

2010-01-10T11:13:00.001-08:00

Back in London

2010-01-08T12:59:00.000-08:00

I just went away on holiday to Israel for 8 days.

I stayed with a friend of mine and it was loads of fun. The nightlife there is pretty good, but the most incredible thing is how every man in israel is a compulsive gambler. You can gamble on anything if you want and there are always poker games running for pretty good amounts of money. The israelis are fearless they can easily lose their entire wealth in a game of poker... I have not seen stuff like this before. I played a small £1/2 there and nearly every pot was a showdown to the river with an all in.

I couldn't gamble properly there due to a lack of funds I was able to transfer over so every time i was gambling I did it for small stakes and never truly let loose on the gambling like I wish I could have done.

I played a bit of online poker and live and won £100 in live cash game, but lost it on a flip with a high stakes player there. Then I bustoed like 150 euros on one of their online websites.

Now I am back in London and I went to sleep the minute I got home as I was puking up an hour before I got on the plane. I have just played an online session over the last hour bumhunting over ipoker, prima and pacific.

I am always preoccupied in another game when I have action on pacific so I didn't play any sessions there today. I was £1.9k up on ipoker and about £1k on prima, so it was a good £3k+ session for me.

Feels good to be home, but i have LOTS of work to do for monday.

Rob

32red freeroll

2010-01-05T04:08:00.000-08:00

I was speaking to poker manager yesterday at 32red and if I can manage to get a few more followers on my blog he will give money for a freeroll with me as the bounty

So I am making a plea to everyone who reads this blog occasionally to please become a follower and it will also give you all a chance to make money for free in my freeroll!

Rob

$10k flip

2009-12-27T18:01:00.000-08:00

Been a hectic few days recently. I was £1500 overdrawn, but just lived on heads up tables on ipoker and had some good wins.
I have about £6000 in my current account now and so I've won like £7500 over the last 4 days, which is nice.
I also finally did a $10k flip with zicotumbaa.... you can see the results here! FML

Sorry

2009-12-22T17:40:00.000-08:00

Dear Readers (if any1 actually reads this blog!),

I am incredibly sorry I have had to make my blog private for the last few weeks and slacked at blogging.

The reason I hid my blog is because I thought there was a chance is might damage my chances of getting a job. Of course I love writing my blog and the minute I got a job offer I was ready to make my blog public again and continue to write.

I have come back to London from university holidays now and I am trying to kind of get my poker grind going. My laptop is still in for repair so I can play on the desktop in my bros room and also I have a macbook with stars s/w. I have been trying to grind omaha and hold em 6 man and getting pretty killed. Well not killed, but I'm down in those games. I think I have come to the conclusion my strongest game is No limit heads up 20-40bb deep as I am pretty much happy to play anyone stakes on ipoker as long as I have the bankroll to pay for the game.

I won about £2.3k today playing NLHU and seeing as I was £1.2k overdrawn b4 this session, its been a pretty positive day for me!

I have also received a job offer, but will post more about stuff when I get the contract sent thru.

Rob

Not Blogged in Ages

2009-12-02T03:31:00.000-08:00

My vaio busted and I didn't actually bust it myself.

Went home 1 weekend and won about £2k, apart from that nothing has really happened.

I keep on getting rejected from jobs so im kinda depressed

Rob

Break from poker

2009-11-05T19:25:00.000-08:00

Closed accounts last night for 2 weeks and just got like £1.5k i left on deposit in casino.

Im gonna stop for 2 weeks, go gym every day and try and focus on jobs

Rob

Past few weeks

2009-11-04T17:49:00.000-08:00

On 6th October I said I was going to try to make £22k asap. I got to about £15k a week ago and been playing crazy stakes having crazy swings and really not enjoying poker and valuing money. It is now down to about £14k and I have made the decision to close my account for 2 weeks to focus on getting and get my perception of money back again.

Even though I have had a swingy past 4 months, I have won good money and I'm up about £30k, which I am happy with. Poker is stressful, but the money is good and I just feel I need a break right now as it has completely immersed my life for the last few weeks.

Rob

I realized I only tend to blog when im annoyed

2009-10-31T20:11:00.000-07:00

Well today I lost $4000 in flips

I want to congratulate these winnners accordingly.

1bonbonlan - $1k winner
irevolutionize - $1k winner
stolen moments - $1.4k winner
Psychostupid - $500 winner
Druggy89 (forgot ur sn) - $120 winner

CONGRATS ON UR FLIPPING SUCCESS

Rob

Busted £4000 last night

2009-10-26T01:56:00.000-07:00

Well I was down about £400 decided to flip $500 with a friend then I lost $3.5k hu to bmw then I busted €600 on a k99 flop with k4 vs 97 and then lost €2000 pot aj v qj. Lost to bmw with k9 v k4 for $2k and then a2 v88 for $4k.

Bad session

2009-10-22T19:50:00.000-07:00

Well its been coming for a while, but tonight I had a big loss.

Started when I lost with AK vs AJ for $1.2k

Then I went to 25/50 lost with AQ vs 88 for $2k, then back down to 10/20, AQ vs 77 for $2k. Then 24 vs 36 on a 345 flop for $2k, then K7 vs A4 for $2k, then A4 vs KJ for $4k, then AJ vs 33 for $4k. I won one showdown in this time period which was A5 vs A6.........

Didn't hit any cards ran like shit and ended the night with a $4k loss.

On recent resuls I think im about £8.5k+ since I said I wanted to make £22k for vegas this summer, which was 2 weeks ago today.

Not running awfully for this goal, but still a long way to go!

Rob

Update

2009-10-19T07:10:00.001-07:00

When I went to back to London I grinded online and made about £3k, made another £4k and then decided to close account till next week as I was getting a bit out of control... in regards to my stakes.

I think I have changed my economics module to financial reporting which is incredible news if I actually have!

Life it looking slightly better again

Rob

Held back tears and life got better

2009-10-11T07:47:00.001-07:00

Well I didn't cry in the end on the train where I wrote last post.

Found out my economics module should be quite fun and is what I have always looked for with an economics module at Bristol

I have been really ill this week and got antibiotics on Friday so I am MUCH better now. Literaly couldnt move before. I have a bad cough though.

I won £3.5k this weekend and set I new aim before I won the money.... to win £22k as soon as possible.

Peace

Rob

Past week

2009-10-08T09:40:00.000-07:00

Moved into uni room. Was huge and nice. Won £8k. Then went out won like £100 in casino. Now comes
Variance. Ghost in bedroom too scared to sleep without light. On awful economics module which is really hard. Lost £7k Internet no longer works and on my way to my platform in the station I started to cry at how bad this week has been for me. Fuck my week!

THIS IS RIDICULOUS

2009-09-30T19:11:00.000-07:00

So im just realizing this now.... i went to EPT earlier...in the high roller tourney the field is combined of 3 different types of people:

1. Sponsored players (50% field)
2. Rich people (25%)
3. Kids from states who are too young to play tourneys in their country (25%)

THIS IS STUPID! DONKAMENTS LIKE THESE BEEN FUNDED BY STARS TO INCREASE THEIR OWN EXPOSURE.

POKER SPONSORSHIP + COACHING are slowly killing poker

FUCK ALL THESE CELEB POKER PLAYERS THEY WUDNT WIN SHIT WITHOUT SPONSORSHIP

Rob

Update

2009-09-30T10:47:00.000-07:00

Well I was 0-9 on flips, but then I won 1 and I won a flip at the victoria for £200 each last night which was cool with some online kid.

I just bustoed in the 6 man event, so decided to come home and grind some hu cash. Managed to get a couple of $500+ stacks at 1/2 and won A8 vs K10 at 10/20 for $800, to have like a +£1000 session

Won £100 in the vic yday, so made back my entrance for today....

I'm playing good online poker again which I am happy with and running a bit lucky which is nice. I'm up like £2.5k on betfred in the past couple of days

Gonna head back to uni on Friday so another day of grinding today and 2morrow

No internet at uni till like Wednesday so I won't be able to play until then :(

Rob

0-7 in flips today

2009-09-28T16:40:00.000-07:00

i really have to stop

Since being back

2009-09-28T10:52:00.001-07:00

I'm up about £2k since i've been back... including $1600 lost in flips 5-1 down :(

Entered a 6 man EPT event then back to uni.

I guess ill see how it all goes

I REALLY GOTTA QUIT FLIPS

Rob

Bit of fun

2009-09-27T04:59:00.000-07:00

Well since my omaha blow up like last week I decided at the end of last week to deposit $600 on stars and try to run it up into a serious roll in 3 months.

I did good at the start... grinded $50 omaha HU and turned it into like $2k. Then went to 2/4 NL ratholing and 1/2 omaha 100 deep like 5 tabling.

Then I got my roll up to $6k and took a shot ratholing 5/10 and got killed! Managed to bust the $600 and then had 30k fpp to spend on stuff!

Straight after this I had to do applications for banking jobs, then I went away to Portugal and just came back last night.

I read Vicky Coren's book when I was away and I liked it. Well written, funny and pretty interesting. In my opinion the book can only be trulely appreciated by a vic regular and poker lover, because I knew every character she talked about in the book, which made it an awesome read.

I liked my plane journey home... there was this typical trashy english couple in front of me and the girl made some of the funniest comments ive ever heard on a plane.

"The plane seems like it's going really slowly, they should make it go quicker"

When we were flying over like manchester (20-25 mins from London) "Wow thats the river from Eastenders" and then she starts singing the Eastenders theme tune for the next 5 mins!!!

10 mins after that comment... "Wow London is a big place init"

When I was flying home I saw some purple lights in Manchester and I was wondering... is that a Casino... so the minute I got off the plane I went bak to my house with my friend to put on a pair of jeans and went str8 to the vic for some 2/5.

I registered for the 6 man £1k NL event too... which im gonna win!

Summer cliffnotes

2009-09-14T15:00:00.000-07:00

Started with £11k.
Spent/Lost £4k vegas trip.
Lost another £2k when I got back.
Won about £15k
Spent £5k on watch
Spent another £2-3k on holidays/computers/general over summer
Completed Cordon Bleu cooking course with 71%
Lost £6-7k in past couple weeks
Have about £7k left

I sucked recently in poker due to personal family problems which I have let affect my game. I don't really wanna into these issues, but lets just say its caused me to tilt about £10k over the past 4 days since I found out about the news.

Taking a 2 week break to try to stabilize my mood a bit and get banking applications in.

Rob

I am an idiot

2009-09-03T04:01:00.001-07:00

Well since my last post been doing well like £11k profit.

But today I dropped £7k in high stakes heads up!

Im so pissed off I suck FFS! Was like over 10 mins too!

I SAID I WUD NEVER PLAYED HIGH STAKES HU AND I DID!

ITS MY BIGGEST FUCKING LEAK!!! FUCK!

Down about £6k in last 24 hours

2009-08-20T00:28:00.000-07:00

Well the blow up has finally come!

I blame heads up poker and playing too high and omaha.

If I want to make money playing this game I have to avoid heads up tables, high stakes and omaha. And flips i guess....

I have had a hit just now and its not a huge hit thats fucked me beyond belief, but enough to scare me and help me re-evaluate stuff.

If I want to carry on playing online poker I have to agree with these conditions.

1. No heads up tables
2. No stakes above 25/50
3. No Fixed limit
4. No Omaha
5. No flips

In last week I have been playing too much heads up getting stuff then winning back at 50/100. 100/200... today I lost. I think i'm going to chill carry on playing, but take it ezier with 1, 2 tables at 5/10.

I can win really well at 5/10 and 10/20, so I don't know why I bother with the other shit.

Peace

Rob

NO MORE FLIPS!

2009-08-14T12:22:00.000-07:00

I lost $9000 in flips/omaha yesterday. Never doing this crap again and gonna try my best not to flip again! (or play omaha)

Rob

2 omaha flips...royal flush and sick bad beat

2009-08-12T14:16:00.000-07:00

Luton GUKPT

2009-08-09T16:11:00.000-07:00

I will like to begin my post about the GUKPT Luton with a quote from the GUKPT blog:

"Robert Duboff and Andreas Hoivold are livening up the table with a few side bets on the colour of the flop. In the hand I just witnessed Andreas lost £100 to Robert on a predominantly black flop."

(source: http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/?p=35430)

As you can guess the flop in the picture was the one I won Andreas's sweet moolah. I am sick enough to want to do these side bets all tourney and would of had a lot more fun doing these than actually playing the tourney, but I decided to only do one because it might disrupt the tournament for the other players.

My flipping days began last year where I would find random pros online and ask them to do $1k flips with me. This year in vegas I hit he peak of flipping. I had just been to the club pure and managed to kill my chances with modelesque scandinavian, which I thought was a done deal. I returned to the bellagio in supertilt mode with my friend from home and ran to the blackjack tables with $600 in my pocket. First bet I put $400 down and get a 10 with dealer showing a 5. I only had $200 left and couldn't double down so had to borrow $200 off my friend to double down and display some degenerate gambling behavior. Dealer deals me a 10, for 20 and busts himself, so I win the money.

Then I am still drunk off my head and lurking around the bellagio poker room at 3am. I find Yevgeniy Timoshenko who I have been bothering all holiday so far and manage to persuade him to do a $500 flip with me on a random flop on a table we are watching on red or black. I chicken out at the final minute and take it down to $250 and win!!! The next few hours were a bit blurred for me, but all I remember is pestering every pro going into bobbys room to ask Tom Dwan if he will do a $1k flip with me. By the end I had to be 'kindly escorted' out of the poker room I had been putting in 6 hour sessions every day for 10 days! I must have been very messy.....

Back to Luton. It was nice format of tourney, 1 hour clock 10k starting, small ante structure kicking in level 5 or 6. I had a pretty soft first table with no real faces I knew apart from one member of the blackbelt poker team and a boy I play regularly from victoria casino in London who seemed on slight tilt. I play well for first 3 hours and get up to 13.5k. When blinds were 50/100 I got QQ under the gun and raised to 300, boy I play with called in mid position and BB called. BB has about 20000 chips and mid pos 6.5k total. Flop 7c5c2d, SB checked I bet 750, boy raises 2000 back at me and BB folds. I have two decisions here, because I go all in for 4000 more to him or I fold. Thoughts in my mind were that I hoped he had a flush draw or A7 or 8s, 9s, 10s, Js. If he had a set I will accept it and move on. So I push and he calls instant with AA!!! I miss and down to 7k.

I move to a new table with Andreas, who I have to say is a lovely guy and I am very much looking forward to playing against him on the prima network. I grind up to 13-14k with no showdowns apart from AK vs AK twice all in pre flop. In the final level of day 1 400/800 50 ante, I'm getting pretty short at around 11k and new player who just moved to the table raises in 6th position to 2.2, I push and he called. We have a showdown Ad9d vs 7c7h and he spiked a 7 on the flop and I busted out!

I have been very active online in recent weeks and running pretty well, but it was great to mix up my poker with a live tournament. I will playing the WSOPE first event which is the £1500 event next month and have started praying to win my first bracelet. Until then I will remain flipping and trying to grind some profit in online and live cash games!

Best of luck at the tables

Robert

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/poker-beats-brags-variance/2k-flip-ipoker-had-call-62-a-555019/ (Here is a fun flip I had today 62 vs 82 for $2k) I hit straight on turn..... lol!

I am a chimp!

2009-08-04T17:21:00.000-07:00

I just played a 4500 euro pot at omaha and I don't even know how to play omaha properly. Of course I lost (even though got money in 70% fave... looked up on hendon mob) BUT WHY WUD I EVER BRING 2250 euros to a 25/50 PLO table.

WTF IS WRONG WITH ME!?!?

Also Join www.blackbeltpoker.com ... its pretty much the facebook of poker! And they opening up ipoker skin next month!

Flips

2009-07-30T19:52:00.001-07:00

I have just lost in the past few minutes $1500 on flips $500 each flip K9 vs J7, he rivered flush. Then $1k each 26 vs 35 and he hit the 3. FUN!

IM A SUPER DEGEN

2009-07-29T15:38:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Betfred Live Help. One of our operators will be with you shortly. Thank you for your patience.
Jared: Welcome to Betfred Online Gaming Support , How may I help you today .
PManning76: hi can u cancel some of my uncleared funds plz
PManning76: or do u need banking dpt?
Jared: Would you like me to cancel the withdrawal ?
PManning76: i jus want £500 to muck around with
Jared: This withdrawal has already been processed for you Robert
PManning76: oh
PManning76: all of them!?
PManning76: the like £3k
PManning76: and £1k
PManning76: one?
Jared: Total amount £ 3.182.43
PManning76: oh £2.1k and £1k
PManning76: my bad
PManning76: lame
Jared: Sorry Robert
PManning76: u wanna give me some money?
Jared: I can give you a £30 bonus
Jared: as a gesture of goodwill
PManning76: sweet
Jared: One moment please ..
PManning76: ive raked enuf this month!
PManning76: like $3k
PManning76: ty
Jared: I have now awarded the £30 bonus for you
Jared: Is there anything else I can help you with.
PManning76: ty
PManning76: no ty bye
Jared: You're Welcome
Jared: Have a pleasant evening and good luck with the rest of your games. If you have any other queries please do not hesitate to contact us. Goodbye :)
PManning76: bye

I am a degen!

2009-07-29T14:30:00.000-07:00

I won $8k today and because I am so scared I will tilt money away on such a high I have maxed out my debit card so I can't deposit any more money! I have been trying to deposit money now for the last 30 mins to see if card works even down to payment of like £50 and it doesn't work! But I guess I will try for another 1 hour just in case the debit card company make a mess up and clear a transaction they shouldn't....

Peace

Rob

Past Couple of weeks

2009-07-28T12:23:00.000-07:00

Well been pretty up and down with the poker, but reckon im showing like $5-6k profit over last couple of weeks which is goodish I guess...

Can't get last pot I played, but saw lots of fish at 25/50 euro game so I joined with 1k and first hand get A10, SB pushes I call he has A7. Ship 2000 euros!

In regards to cook school... its going okay. Today was most manic day I have had so far. I was in kitchen for 6 hours preparing 2 seperate dishes. First was a rack of lamb chops with a parsley crust served with ratatouille and a jeu.

Then later on I had roast beef, yorkshire pudding, horseradish sauce and roast potatoes and a gravy. All in all it went okay and it was a goodish result, but i have been completely drained in recent weeks so was unable to blog.

I got into a huge argument with the chef today. He is new and doesn't speak english perfectly and I didn't know whether to cook beef with fat on or off, so he saw me cooking with it on in pan after I asked him and didnt understand and went crazy. We had like a little shout at each other over the 8/9 students and it was fun! In the end he said I cooked beef perfectly and chefs never pay those sort of compliments.

I'm finished for week now apart from 1 demonstration tomrorow, which is just when chef shows dish we have to prepare and im so glad, because I was so drained after today

Soz for not writing... and no that is not a chef from the school. I just searched crazy french chef on google and got that picture!

Rob

Cooking School week 3

2009-07-13T15:00:00.000-07:00

A week after I have massacred my hand it was back to cooking.

Today on the menu was poached chicken and boiled rice and a veal stock.

I began preparing and roasting the vegetables for the veal stock. That went fine

Then was onto the chicken. I don't think i am every going to be able to find a wishbone again and I had to gut the chicken... that i have to go over again and then tie up wings and legs... that was confusing but managed to do it with alot of teachers aid. About all I could do was singe all the hairs off the chicken. the poaching went okay apart from my hob not being able to cool down! I forgot to add garlic to my chicken and a bouquet garni (which is herbs, but chef never realized.... I hope!!)

Then I served my dish to the chef and he didn't touch my chicken!

See my theory here is I think he was scared he was going to get ill and knew that mine would probably make him ill. After I saw him do this i binned my chicken immediately, because I didn't want to make myself ill!!!

We have an assessment soon where we have to roast our own chicken with no recipe and no help and im gonna get fucked!! this is not gonna be fun!

Peace

Rob

Gone temporarily insane

2009-07-11T04:54:00.000-07:00

When I start to lose pots now... I spit. Like I get a sick beat I jus spit in my room. I can't help myself now, I guess its cuz im disgusted. I tried to play high stakes fixed limit and had some gay ass pots. The one that made me go crazy was KsQc board Jc10c9d5c, we have about 1000 euro in pot as its 50/100 and riv is a dead club and he bets 100 i go 200 i he calls he has Kc!

I dropped about $3000 yday $2000 the day b4 and $2000 the day before.

I DONT HAVE A CLUE HOW MUCH I HAVE WON OR LOSt IN THE LAST WEEK. It could range from £5k up to £5k down i just dont know!

I'm taking a week off till friday as losing days are killing me and gonna try multi tabling 5/10 6 seaters again and not calling all in with 105 off.

L8tr

Rob

been busy

2009-07-07T01:12:00.000-07:00

Soz no posting been busy with cooking school and poker

Winning bits not much... cooking school going okay...

Safe

Just won £1250

2009-07-01T02:56:00.000-07:00

Good session this morning in 90 mins, min buy in hit n run at 5/10 I won £1250.

Gotta quit the heads up and prima and i'll do okay

Peace

Rob

Cordon Bleu

2009-06-30T09:05:00.000-07:00

Today was the first proper day of cooking school. We had a 2 hour demonstration then a 2 hour practical where we repeated what we saw in the demonstration. The demonstration was on different cuts of vegetables and fruits

I knew the day was going to start off bad when I didn;t read the demonstration sheet fully to see there was a whole appendix I should I read about the all the different cuts I would be encountered with!

In the demonstration I swotted it up sat front row and tried to note take as much as possible! No help I couldnt remember any cuts and was shitting myself before the practical! I took up smoking again before the practical as well.

Practical comes everyone in class introduces themselves and its good to see that 7/9 people already work in food industry or have given their jobs to work in catering industry and fully dedicated to food!! FUCK IM FUCKED! (p.s. the 2 people that don;t include me and this girl who like 3 years older who obv knows bare about food)

Well it comes to cutting I was shaking like a bitch at first and was really slow... I got a tiny bit better, but got 30% at the end and 50% is a pass.

I left a few things off cuz I was out of time and when I was chucking out my food some woman goes to me why have you not put X on your plate... I nearly hit her!

Anyways I'm stresed this was so hard and this like the hardest thing ive ever done. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK I gonna persue this to the end, even if i fail as i have paid 5 fucking grand. I coulda got a fucking jaeger for the money and woulda been a much easier effortless way to get pussy!

FUK FUK FUK FUFK FUK , This is so hard, I wish I had a fellow retard to be with on this course!

I have never even cut a fucking vegetable in my life before this.

P.s. poker been going shit I dropped £5k this weekend... maybe I coulda got a jaeger with that as well!

FUCK MY LIFe

Rob

I RUN LIKE SHIT

2009-06-28T15:04:00.000-07:00

Well I lost AK vs AJ at 10/20 for like a $1k pot then J6 vs J7 on a J63 flop for $1k then went 25/50 lost a $3k pot with Kc5c vs AcAd on a Kd9c2c flop. Then donated some $ at 150/300 fixed to a shark

So I got over that played a session tonight at 10/20, 5/10 six man. I have lost every showdown pre flop and I am still up??!?! I lost KQ vs 66, 66 vs AK and A10 vs JJ and ran top pr into top pr in battle of blinds, obv my kiker not good enuf.

Rly dont wanan go cooking school tomorrow gonna get owned!

Back to ipoker and cooking school

2009-06-26T22:27:00.000-07:00

Played ipoker last couple of days.... lived at 1/2 - 3/6 hu and 6 man tables and turned about $2k profit short stacking hit n running.

I was thinking hours in respect to hours I put in etc... if I was to do channing's blackbelt it would be a bit pointless, because all the table time and hours he asks players to put in will be too much for me. If I was to play these kind of hours in normal month I would probably turn $70k profit which is the sponsorship package....

(I know this sounds arrogant, but last time I put in a semi decent month for hours I turned $60k profit and that was at uni)

Cooking school started everyone there seems to have alot of experience in the kitchen or be chefs already so I am way behind and going to get killed by all these pros. I just want to pass this course!!!!

Peace

Rob

Crazy Gamblor, show reviews and restaurant reviews

2009-06-23T11:42:00.000-07:00

Well I dropped $5k yesterday... i do kinda care, it sucked.

When I get back to London i decided im buying a jaeger watch and gonna play low stakes for a while... obviously gonna jump to 25/50 in like a week.

I wanted to give a review of shows I have seen so far in vegas as well:

1. Criss Angel

Maybe it would have been better if I was high, but this was the biggest piece of garbage I have ever seen. There was very little actual magic or illusions and it more of a dancing bunny rabbit performance. Very poor and I strongly advise all the readers of this blog (probably about 2 people) to not see this show if you come to vegas! 2/10

2. 'O' Cirque du Soleil

One of the best shows I have seen in my life. The acrobatics was world class and the diving seemed close to what I would expect if I was watching the olympics. Nice storyline good length of show. The only negative was that they use these clowns in like intermission periods and before the show starts. I really didn't like these clowns and thought that they were a waste of time. 7.5/10

3. David Copperfield

Wow this old man has taken too much cocaine in his life. It was pretty cringe the way he only chose attractive 40 year old women for his shows and forced them to kiss him at the end of each trick and then did this weird smile. He did a few kinda impressive tricks, but it was a real dated show and the show was half empty so on the whole pretty poor. My favorite part of the show was when he picked a chinese girl for a show and asked her where she was from. She said los angeles and then he does this asian impression and goes ROS rangeres.... it was pretty funny, but also pretty racist i guess 3/10

Top 3 restaurants since I have been here:

1. Delphinos steak house

Immense steaks which melt in your mouth. Quite pricey, but you get what you pay for. 8/10

2. Burger Bar in Mandalay Bay

I was privileged enough to go the burger bar twice. I had the angus burger and this other one which is like the best burger meat in the world, but I forgot its name! It was insane though and the milkshakes are delicious. My brother had a salmon burger and really liked it. My sister and friend had salads and said they were okay... 8/10

3. Bellagio buffet

Never before in my life have I been to a buffet that is such high quality with such a large selection of food. It is around $25 for the buffet and prices change depending on days of the week. The range of food includes a magnificent salad bar, vast selection of meat ranging from turkey, ribs, burgers, steak and roast chicken. There is an italian selection with around 8 different pizzas and 6 different pastas. There is a fish selection with 5/6 different fish dishes and an indian and sushi selection. The desert is pretty insane with about 15 different deserts to choose from. Even though the selection is so vast it is very high quality and very tasty and I really liked the buffet. Fruit is a bit lacking on certain days. 7.5/10

Last night

2009-06-22T11:56:00.000-07:00

I am going to copy my 2p2 post when i was fucked last night....

So I've just had a mad night clubbing in caesers just lose $170 on table games and $300 left in my pocket.

I go back to bellagio where im staying and put $200 on blackjack i get 11 dealer shows 2 and i ask friend to borrow $100 for double and i win and give him $200 to have $595 in my pocket (tip dealer $5)

Then I go to club 'bank' in bellagio as I have these free passes and spend $30 on bottled water to try to sober myself up as they dont serve tap water. But I have to get another vodka red bull as its so much fun

Then I leave bank and start to harass yevgeniy timeshenko (if thats how u spell it) about losing to primordialAA and ask him to flip red or black flop on random table for $500, but then I pussy out and do $100 and I win.

Then he goes I go to random table 2/5 and ask dude to $100 on red or black and I win. then I sit with $200 first hand 88 I push o/c and run into KQ and he busts out duhhhh.

Then I get AK 2nd hand all in $200 and run into AJ and hits J, same player so sick. Then by end play a bit and do some more flips leave with $400

I STAND OUTSIDE BOBBYs ROOM FOr 15 MINS ASKING PROS TO ASK DURR TO FLIP $400 WITH ME. I literally harassed ming lee and if you read this ming I apologize I was drunk and still am drunk.

I got no flip just got back to my room with $400 and feel like playing 100/200 fixed.

Drunk poker gambling ship it.

I want some hookers and some blow right now

Brag: got drunk and tried to do some flips with some pros
beat: Cudn't get dwan to flip $400 and scared ming