oi oi
too long, i know. here we go... some info
So,I haven't been entirely good. been topping up to play mtts. oooops. but i love 'em, you know. AND --- been covering myself. cashing enough so i've always putting back in what i've put out. right now, i'm approx $80 over, which aint bad considering i've been mtt'ing for a week.
if i could only stop making donk-calls, i'd've come nearer some big money. ho hum --- but actually, been doing okay and finishing deep... only final table was on a 110 runner, 3rd place so not mega bucks, but - loving it!
more info at some later, better, point
Thursday, 15 March 2007
Tuesday, 6 February 2007
sober
.... oh, if only i was!
then i would write about the following:
a) poker stars vs all other sites, but esp crypto. stars so wins! sooo much slower and better. why do i play anywhere else?
b) live poker. for the fourth time ever, last night i played a formal live tourney. damn rebuys and damn reading others. i truly suck. please give me the anonymity of online. and the properness of freeze-outs
c) addiction. gonna go there some day. friends and family, be truly scared for me. poker world, read and relate
d) glossary. see point c) ... apparently people i know are more interested in my blog than poker peeps. AND apparently these friends and family know not what an sng is, why i might really need an mtt fix, and whether crypto is animal, vegatable or mineral... soon all will be revealed ;-)
update:
crypto: same as before. not been there since
stars: $77
bringing it... (as tyra would say)
xc
then i would write about the following:
a) poker stars vs all other sites, but esp crypto. stars so wins! sooo much slower and better. why do i play anywhere else?
b) live poker. for the fourth time ever, last night i played a formal live tourney. damn rebuys and damn reading others. i truly suck. please give me the anonymity of online. and the properness of freeze-outs
c) addiction. gonna go there some day. friends and family, be truly scared for me. poker world, read and relate
d) glossary. see point c) ... apparently people i know are more interested in my blog than poker peeps. AND apparently these friends and family know not what an sng is, why i might really need an mtt fix, and whether crypto is animal, vegatable or mineral... soon all will be revealed ;-)
update:
crypto: same as before. not been there since
stars: $77
bringing it... (as tyra would say)
xc
Sunday, 4 February 2007
Update
I have been accused of blogging when i'm winning and keeping quiet when i'm down. this is unfair:
update: crypto: $48 stars: $66
proper entry to come
adios
update: crypto: $48 stars: $66
proper entry to come
adios
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Full Moon
Well this is a poker blog right, but, heck, it's a blog written by a woman. and one with a teensiest hippy streak. so the full moon counts. it really does. i drink more, spend more, play more internet poker. play worse. much worse.
so avoiding the web and protecting the 'roll. please do project willpower my way... restraint is the only way i'll be able to protect my ££££ and be able to afford a buy in to a decent mtt sometime soon.
update:
Crypto: $144
Stars: $70
So doing ok, kind of sick of the crapshootery of crypto sngs. half the time, when you're 3 or 4 way in the shorthanded games, you might as well be spinning a roulette wheel. Fortunatley, luck's been on my side, and i've been doing a lot better there than at stars, where the structure's so much better.... puts me in mind of the one the one time i went to vegas... came back down in games of skill and up in game of luck ;-)
adios
but basically ok, playing well. not playing too much -
so avoiding the web and protecting the 'roll. please do project willpower my way... restraint is the only way i'll be able to protect my ££££ and be able to afford a buy in to a decent mtt sometime soon.
update:
Crypto: $144
Stars: $70
So doing ok, kind of sick of the crapshootery of crypto sngs. half the time, when you're 3 or 4 way in the shorthanded games, you might as well be spinning a roulette wheel. Fortunatley, luck's been on my side, and i've been doing a lot better there than at stars, where the structure's so much better.... puts me in mind of the one the one time i went to vegas... came back down in games of skill and up in game of luck ;-)
adios
but basically ok, playing well. not playing too much -
Monday, 29 January 2007
Living Wrong
Ok ok, new post. About time too… and the time precisely? – Ladies and gentlemen it’s donk-a-buck o’clock, ten to tilt, half past steaming bloody maniac.
The combo of excessive anticipation and the absence of husbandly supervision saw me lose February’s £100 by Friday afternoon. I regrouped, took a walk and re-bought another $100. That had gone by the first Big Brother eviction of the night, so I re-bought again – another $100. Didn’t lose all of that….. Til Saturday. I wasn’t even drinking…. just rubbish.
So, two nights - £200 ….there’s a bit of honesty for you. To anyone who’s read the blogs of the big higher rollers, this will seem like peanuts. It’s not peanuts to me – it’s almost half my spends for the month. Shamed-faced confessions to the husband on his return, who pointed out that he’s doing additional marking (he’s a teacher) over the next fortnight to try to earn a third what I’d lost in just 48 hours ;-(
….. Then a regroup and look at my finances. Am now restricted to £75 poker spends per month this year. I decided – oh the logic of the addict – that it was best to start afresh for Feb and put in that £75 rather than go a whole month without.
No chance of a poker-athon on Sunday with the watchful eye of mr donk on me… so cooked, sorted spare room, did tax and a couple of work things, watched Shipwrecked, Back to the Future and Shilpa winning Big Brother. Soooo much more fun that playing poker
…. Played three SNGS on crypto once I had started to repair the karmic balance, and with all my living right that day, won two of 'em. Of course.
Keep coming back to thoughts on addiction. Will write more about that soon…. Meanwhile, wish me luck on living right tonight.
The combo of excessive anticipation and the absence of husbandly supervision saw me lose February’s £100 by Friday afternoon. I regrouped, took a walk and re-bought another $100. That had gone by the first Big Brother eviction of the night, so I re-bought again – another $100. Didn’t lose all of that….. Til Saturday. I wasn’t even drinking…. just rubbish.
So, two nights - £200 ….there’s a bit of honesty for you. To anyone who’s read the blogs of the big higher rollers, this will seem like peanuts. It’s not peanuts to me – it’s almost half my spends for the month. Shamed-faced confessions to the husband on his return, who pointed out that he’s doing additional marking (he’s a teacher) over the next fortnight to try to earn a third what I’d lost in just 48 hours ;-(
….. Then a regroup and look at my finances. Am now restricted to £75 poker spends per month this year. I decided – oh the logic of the addict – that it was best to start afresh for Feb and put in that £75 rather than go a whole month without.
No chance of a poker-athon on Sunday with the watchful eye of mr donk on me… so cooked, sorted spare room, did tax and a couple of work things, watched Shipwrecked, Back to the Future and Shilpa winning Big Brother. Soooo much more fun that playing poker
…. Played three SNGS on crypto once I had started to repair the karmic balance, and with all my living right that day, won two of 'em. Of course.
Keep coming back to thoughts on addiction. Will write more about that soon…. Meanwhile, wish me luck on living right tonight.
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
No Pain, No Gains
.... OR if it don't hurt, it don'work etc etc
Damn, it's tough not playing poker. 2 days so far, going to re-buy on Friday - a day early, I know, but husband is away and would be foolish not to make the most of that.
Someone else who hasnt been able to play games he'd like is Barrow boy Craig Metcalfe. Craig won a seat at the Copenhagen EPT in Noble Poker satellite. Noble Poker, bless 'em, had decided against actually booking any places at the event, so it was a no-dane-go for Craig. Good work, Noble - it's not as if it's a competitive market place.
.... it's been swings and roundabouts for the biggies in the online poker world. The weekend before last saw record activity at Stars, UB & Bodog. Then came the news that Neteller was pulling out of actvities with US customers and a lot of sites saw a steep downward swing. Hankies at the ready guys... the neteller boss, arrested last week, is so darn wadded that his bail was set at $5m. That'll be the exortionate charges on withdrawls and transfers then. I know loads of people rely on neteller for cross-site BRM, the rates attached to it have always struck me as criminal in their own right.
No organisation is considered beyond the reach of current scope of investigations led by the US justice department. Unable to go after the online companies themselves -- as they're based abroad --- the yanks are targetting the investors. Big Wall St players - including Deutchebank, Credit Suisse and HSBC (all of which underwrote online gaming co's when they first became public listingsin the UK) have been issued with supeonas as part of an increasingly active campaign.
Don't ever let anyone tell you this has anything to do with american right-ist puritanism. Wait til the biggest players in the US online gaming market are the likes of Harrah.com and talking to me about protectism instead
ho hum. off to re-read harrington in preparation for my storming return to the tables. counting the hours....
Damn, it's tough not playing poker. 2 days so far, going to re-buy on Friday - a day early, I know, but husband is away and would be foolish not to make the most of that.
Someone else who hasnt been able to play games he'd like is Barrow boy Craig Metcalfe. Craig won a seat at the Copenhagen EPT in Noble Poker satellite. Noble Poker, bless 'em, had decided against actually booking any places at the event, so it was a no-dane-go for Craig. Good work, Noble - it's not as if it's a competitive market place.
.... it's been swings and roundabouts for the biggies in the online poker world. The weekend before last saw record activity at Stars, UB & Bodog. Then came the news that Neteller was pulling out of actvities with US customers and a lot of sites saw a steep downward swing. Hankies at the ready guys... the neteller boss, arrested last week, is so darn wadded that his bail was set at $5m. That'll be the exortionate charges on withdrawls and transfers then. I know loads of people rely on neteller for cross-site BRM, the rates attached to it have always struck me as criminal in their own right.
No organisation is considered beyond the reach of current scope of investigations led by the US justice department. Unable to go after the online companies themselves -- as they're based abroad --- the yanks are targetting the investors. Big Wall St players - including Deutchebank, Credit Suisse and HSBC (all of which underwrote online gaming co's when they first became public listingsin the UK) have been issued with supeonas as part of an increasingly active campaign.
Don't ever let anyone tell you this has anything to do with american right-ist puritanism. Wait til the biggest players in the US online gaming market are the likes of Harrah.com and talking to me about protectism instead
ho hum. off to re-read harrington in preparation for my storming return to the tables. counting the hours....
Monday, 22 January 2007
First Prize: $34.....
.....Entrants: 4876
blessed is the world of freerolls. please dont think i won this, i just entered it.
mistakenly thought i had enough fpps to enter the krypto £500 freeroll. wrong. instead i used my last few stars fpp to buy me into this gem of a game.
made it to the last 1200. had above average chips but got overexcited with pocket jacks and a ten-high flop (my opponents had AA and QQ). especially gutted given i was only 400 places off the money. tho', in truth, the $.07 payout for 800th wouldn't have been enough to keep me playing this month. i was looking for 18th and the $.78 pay day that would have been enough to get together a $1 buyin for the $.01/.02
ho hum. bring on february, i got a good feeling about it
blessed is the world of freerolls. please dont think i won this, i just entered it.
mistakenly thought i had enough fpps to enter the krypto £500 freeroll. wrong. instead i used my last few stars fpp to buy me into this gem of a game.
made it to the last 1200. had above average chips but got overexcited with pocket jacks and a ten-high flop (my opponents had AA and QQ). especially gutted given i was only 400 places off the money. tho', in truth, the $.07 payout for 800th wouldn't have been enough to keep me playing this month. i was looking for 18th and the $.78 pay day that would have been enough to get together a $1 buyin for the $.01/.02
ho hum. bring on february, i got a good feeling about it
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