jeeeees

So, with the roll going upwards and past $800, then $900 i really, really wanted to get to $1k. I also decided i wanted to do this in one sitting whilst drinking :). All was going well, then i spun the roll to $998.75, shit the bed; only one more HU to win and landmark achieved........

Knock Knock.

Who's there?

Mr Variance, i have come to ruin your day and screw your mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you pop by tomorrow? I only have to win one more?

HA HA Fuck u, no way, i have got me sleeping bag and i am here to stay!

Jeeeeeees......................well, i got a few bad beats. Pocket queens, i used to love seeing 4 titties in-front of me, now i hate them the lezzers. I cant win a pot when ahead. Then Mr Variance phone went.....................

Mind if i answer this?

No, go ahead, make my day

Hi.........................yeah.......................no problem......................see u here in a bit.

Then the door goes again. This big furry 8 foot bugger steps straight in. I had seen this person before but last time i was pissed we had a bit of a row and i told him not to come round again; he was not welcome.

Hey Variance!

Hey TILT MONSTER! How are you?

Good thanks, a little bored so i thought i would screw up this $50 - $10, 000 thing LOL.

Anyways, i spunked a bit. Guilty. Soooooooooo close yet so far and i have to get my head down again. Balance stands on $850 so no great damage and i have realised the force of the roll. When i had less than $100 i would play 'A' game for $10 HU's now i cannot concentrate on $20, or $30 HU so need to get my head together.

Tennis betting went well yesterday with three winner; then i went deep on Almagro before going to bed and did a chunk of the winnings. Oh yeah, i also did shit in the Dream Team, although the team did well, i went out for the second week running with the very same hand...................QQ LEZZERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blip dip shipped!

Guess who's back? Guess who's back? der der der der de, de, de, de


We are back in the game. After dropping $300 from the roll the challenge looked doomed to fail. With the $450 left after, let's call it 'the drunken mishap' i had to graft the HU tables and build the roll back up to a playable amount. The graph below, at the latter stages, shows the drop and comeback and now the $50 - $10,000 target is back on the right tracks.





With $706.92 in the account i have decided to give up on the old roulette and craps and will stick to punting on Betfair for a bit of a laugh. Hopefully this will ensure that this account is ONLY FOR POKER. I have been flirting the rules somewhat, playing $50+4 HU's and a losing run could have busted me. I think these stakes are both manageable and beatable though and now the roll is a little beefier i will continue with these. I still cannot believe the quality of play on the site, it really is shit. I cannot even talk about any hands of note because you can get away with aggressive ABC poker quite easily. There is so much value on this site too, absolute little goldmine, and i will be dipping into MTT's with money added and the re-buys often when a good opportunity arises.





In other news, i had an awesome days punting yesterday winning the best part of £2k on the tennis. I layed Daveydenko at 1.18, bet the beautiful Hantuchova at 1.48 and went DEEP on Nicolas Almago at 1.46 later on at night. I came back from the pub a little worse for wear and switched on the computer to see him in a third set tie-break. He had been matched as low as 1.04 but was now 1.36, so i went in again and layed back at 1.12 before he went on to win - SUPERB. Stuck a bit on Tommy Haas and Hantuchova today as i have a day off work and will play a little poker too. Oh yeah, Dream Team tonight (not the crap prog. on Sky but a poker league) And bugger me do we need some points!!!!!!





So the recovery mission went well and now i can look forward to building a $1k roll, only $300 to go but it has been difficult making this next step. Nothing but the 'A' game will suffice and i think i play my best poker when i am not pissed - this is an important realisation.

Fight back!

On Saturday i went out leaving $840 in the account, Sunday morning i woke up with $540 in the account - Not nice. Sunday morning i went to bed with $440 in the account - Shit.

The $300 downswing was due to playing pissed - the extra $100 spunked was due to a $10 re-buy tournament offering too much value. With a $4k first prize (4 day trip to Atlantic City and entry to a WPT boot camp thing) i thought 'i fancy a piece of that'. Then, when only 72 runners had turned up at start time i thought, 'shit me; i HAVE to play in this'. With a $10 rebuy and a big first prize you expect people to play silly for the first hour and try and build a 10-20k stack before the end of the hour when re-buys stop. Then you would expect that the prizepool reflects the value of the tournament, say 100-300 rebuys.

NOT ON THIS SITE. At the break, only 46 players were left, people actually didn't rebuy!! The value was tremendous and only me and about 6 others knew how to play this, SUPER FAST trying to double, triple, quadrouple stacks from the off. Well, six buy-ins later and the balance of the account down to $450 i thought it really isn't my lucky day :).

And it wasn't i busted out with 66 going for a Johnny Big Bollox move and ran into AA just at the wrong time. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh well, this MTT is on every Sunday so i will deffo be playing it again because value + fish = ME THERE.

Soooo, needed to find a gear change and get the challenge back on the road, played 3x$50 Heads Ups and won them all so the roll is on a more respectable and playable $600 ish. $50 HU with a $450 roll is pushing the 5% in play rule a smidgen LOOOOOOOOOOOL but i pretty much thought the shit or bust approach would be the only way of getting back. Should have a $1000 roll already but for the weekend's exploits, but the fight back is well and truly back on.

The mighty Builder - an extraordinary talent is tearing up the BF MTT's at the moment and i can see him cashing at the World Series very soon :).

Tilted..............

So the balance has taken a knock over the weekend and Mr Sharkscope says i am on TILT. :) Well i suppose dropping a few $'s does suggest that but Mr Scope should realise that Jack Daniels is to blame and not me - anyways, i don't give two hoots - i will get it back :)

I Remember...........

I remember coming in last night very drunk, i also remember playing poker, after a flashback this morning i also remember someone typing in LOL in the chat box after i had made a donkesque play.

What i don't remember was how much damage i had done.

But i do now.........

One of my accounts had been cleared - it only had £250 in and to be honest i cant even remember playing on this account but the statement page says i did and my allaby (sp.)would not stand up in court.

What i cannot believe is that i started to play on the $50 to $10,000 account - i tried to keep that one for blog bestest and aside as a sort of focus and challenge. Somebody did a small fuck up last night - the roll did stand at $840 and was going well - let us just say it now stands at less than $550 so some pissed up fool spunked $300 on roulette and poker last night. :)

I know why i did it, had a fookin awful row with a female friend but that is all sorted now, but reacted by playing poker when pissed/on uber tilt and steamin'. This is stoooooopid but something always seems to draw me to the tables - think i sort of feel safe there or have a chance to prove myself or perhaps like a bit of a gamboooooooool to take my mind off of other things.....................Anyway, one step forward two steps back, i have to include this shocker in the accounting and will try and learn from this - know i will not - no man, woman or animal is stopping me from playing when i have had a skinfull and fancy it - :( need a minder.

Still, least i didn't destroy it completely hey? It is a headfuck though because i was about to be able to play decent stakes and will be in a rush to get it all back ASAP - this could lead to uber tilt II very soon - but lets let the future sort this fine mess out.

About to watch the Carling Cup with a Subway and a lot of Coca Cola, got a few mates coming round so might get back on the old virtual tables before bedtime tonight and claw a bit back.

Shit the bed

Before i can get on the Scots the bloooooody Italians have scored a 3rd try - 21-0 down at home - and happy to be English - at least unitl the Irish teach us a lesson in Rugby later :)

I quit........

Not the $50 to $10,000 challange but deffo the King of the Hill aim, i have been King of the Lump in this and realised i have spent $200 towards the prize pool with no return - it was a long term aim to qualify for the final STT in this but i have not got the patience. Roll conservation was and is an aim of this and i don't think its too clever trying to win this thingy so bye bye King of the Hill u got me beat.

The roll has been gradually getting bigger. Starting on $50 i built it up to $500 in under 100 games but then that run stopped and it took me another 100 games to get it to around $750 mark. After a few HU's and a couple of top 20 finishes in 500+ runner MTT's the role sits on $823.42 - and it has never been bigger than this.

Really want it to get to $1000 because i can start to play some decent stake Stts and HU and i think it will be a hell of alot more fun - LOOOOOOOOOL the Italians have just scored against the Scots 18 seconds in - :) Anyways, still trying to play in the rules but have changed them :) cash and HU are allowed but the 5% risk/roll rule is the biggy. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck me - those Italian's have just done it again - 2 trys up already in 3 mins - think i might get on the Scots now at a decent price cus these Italians aint got the staying power.

In other news i want a holiday.

Celebrate in style..........

For today is National bubble fuck me in the arse day.

Trying to play this King of the Hill thingy where you have to come in the top two on 3/4 consecutive tables for a bonza payday. Well i keep finishing third at all different levels and it is becoming a tiresome pain. Thought i would mix it up and play a 40 runner MTT with the top 4 winning a $100 + $10 entry to a bigger MTT - i came 5th!!!!!!!LOOOOOOOL.

Not too much fun playing for 3/4 hours and losing money when so close but to be fair i would play A game poker up until the bubble, that means playing pretty tight for me, then approaching the bubble mix it up a bit pushing or folding picking on stacks that should not call unless holding AA, then, just when i have got right back in to it i make a bad play. One bad push (or one too many) when i have built my stack back to a playable level and all the good work donked off in a moment of madness. AHHHHHHHHHHH WELLLLLLLLLL. Roll = $730.56 and i wanna get up to a $1000 so i can play decent games. So GL me.