The MTT grind starts here, for the whole month and the foreseeable future!

Well I haven’t written anything for ages but that is sort of because I have been busy doing lots of things, basically all of them having nothing to do with poker. Since my last update I have probably played less than 10k hands. I did maintain SN in June but it fell by the wayside since then, I have about 55k for the year so its not impossible to get it back by the end of the year depending on what I do.
I also did not end up cycling Lands End to John O’Groats due to severe tendinitis caused by a silly training schedule but its not like that challenge will ever go away and it can be done later in my cycling career.
Anyhoo, ill keep it short but I am currently job searching for a grad scheme hard and studying for an extra qualification (an FSA) Financial Regulation course; the exam is in 10 days. Gulp! I hope to slowly return to playing and have dipped my toe back in with a little 50 nl recently but I still don’t have the want to play, so I don’t. Simple.
Gl all and find me a job :)

got a 2:1 at uni woot. now i can concentrate on poker and cycling fully, both of which have fallen to the way side. i need 6k vpp in 5 days to maintain SN as i skipped last month. gonna be hard but gonna try and have a huge day tomorrow to get ahead. lets rock and roll

Hello Blog. Sorry for ignoring you.

In uni terms I had a huge hand in on the 4th, 2 4k essays. Cheers to people who helped proof read etc, I was reasonably happy with them but obv wanted more time, although I did finish over 24 hours early which is pretty amazing for me. The last 3 days I have done effectively done no work, lost money in a casino, drunk multiple G & T’s, a few bottles of wine and seen beardyman live. Great times. In online poker news, I suck and have dropped back down to 50nl for the meantime to grind out 20BI. I tilt withdrew a fair whack of my bankroll as I realised I never spend any of it and it’s the end of time, time to have fun. I also should start to clear the 1.5k bonus this month so that will restore a fair bit of it. I have 1 exam on the 24th so will hope to play a good amount of hands this month.

In cycling news, I did 1 35k ride and 1 50k ride this week, I will prob do another this afternoon. Was quite pleased, did the 50k in 2h 35s (gutted to miss the 2h mark but hey ho), my bike is being fixed until Wednesday so ill have to keep gyming it.

Over and out and come on wigan!

a 20BI down swing has hit me mentally hard but after a chat last night with a mate and a HH review, i think i am playing wellish, obv i make mistakes but nothing awful. The W$SD is hovering around 40 which isnt helpful but i take solace from my redline being B/E for the month, i know its not the be all and end all but it is an indication that i am playing well and not auto piloting. Ill hit 7.5k vpp's again which is good (or i should do) which i am pleased about and i am ahead of where i wanted to be with uni work, which is good. Just disappointing that my red line is B/E but so is my green line, hopefully after uni is done i can get in some serious volume and serious study, maybe try out a euro sight, change things up for a month after i hit the 7.5k vpp.

had my last ever lecture, have 2 4k word essays in for tues 4th and then an exam on the 24th and im outa here. cant wait to take on the big bad world.

My training for the bike ride is sporadic to say the least but I did 30k in an hour the other day and felt ok, uni is crazy at the moment.

I played the GUKPT £330 side event and came 14th/110. Was pleased and gutted, went out shoving a9 into aq from LP to SB or so with 10 BB. 11 got paid. FML. Great experience though, I made some good plays and 1 bad play, I learnt a lot and was pleased with my patience. Cheers to all my backers.

I haven’t been playing much online due to uni and other stuff, I cant wait to its all over now. D-day is may 4th, 2 4000 word essays in, shoot me please.

Threw my toys out the pram last night playing 100nl, which I haven’t one for a while. so frustrated with how i played. i played really badly to start with, only lost 3 BI so nothing big, put my try hard pants on and grinded it back, proper red line and thinking about stuff. Only to have my fucking nemesis (karliban) 4bet shove 88 on me after i squeezed with qq, slightly deep on a euro table and obv he gets there. Whilst this wouldn’t normally tilt me, it did as i was talking to him on Skype at the time, so obv got sick rubdowns :). i sort of have to keep playing a bit, as i need 4k more vpp this month for SN, not too many hands and I cant leave a lockdown day at the end as i have so much work. 750 hands a day or so should do it. i must put my try hard pants on more often, wish i had the discipline to play shorter sessions and after uni is done, actually work on my game more. My red line last night went into freefall after 700 hands, i must stop playing for too long. Playing whilst tired or frustrated by uni life is not good. Ended about 3 BI down, which obv is not biggy and im winning well for the month but feel I constantly have a good start or week, then throw it away with silly sessions and a bit of run bad.

I have not done any training since my last post, which whilst not good has been due to my extremely busy schedule at uni recently and some deadlines. On Monday just gone I had to hand in an essay/project answering the question ‘Who is Iraq(i)’. I mean what the hell sort of question is that? On the same day I then had to give a double period (2 hours) presentation on ‘why women are absent by their presence in the current war on terror’. Again WTF. It’s done now though and onto the next thing on Wednesday, an essay on ‘what are the implications of perceiving international development as a form of governability?’ All the work is starting to get to me but it is nearly over, two months to go.

On the poker front I played yesterday and played really well, I made one bad fold with 2 pair but everyone makes mistakes. I was sweating and unfortunately lost 8 BI which wasn’t great but it was a good learning experience. It means I have played 133k hands at 100NL and won $30 (on PTR). The definition of a B/E player eh, but I feel I am always improving and that the rake back gives me something to smile about. I am sure with some proper volume when uni dies down I can start to win properly at this level. The difference between when I started playing and now is immense, watch this space.

Have a good week.