Make me a bettor man

jeeeees

2007-03-02T18:24:00.000Z

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!

2007-03-01T12:38:00.000Z

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!

2007-02-27T13:48:00.000Z

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..............

2007-02-26T13:43:00.000Z

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...........

2007-02-25T14:34:00.000Z

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

2007-02-24T15:07:00.000Z

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........

2007-02-24T14:49:00.000Z

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..........

2007-02-21T12:04:00.000Z

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.

Lock me up.......

2007-02-20T11:06:00.000Z

And bin the key. I am breaking all the rules. So, played cash, $50 HU, and a new couple of games called Craps and Roulette!!!!!!!!

I was happy playing away in the King of the Hill format and kept bubbbbblin. This tillted me somewhat and i needed to let off some steam and address the luck/fortune measures that were not being balanced.

Think i spun $30 into $130 on rouletted hitting number 8 when i needed it. And on Craps, which is my favourite table game, spun $50 into about $125. Then after getting bored at work whilst losing a $30 HU trying to represent the flush on the river against Villains Trips :( he still called - i decided that because i was not concentrating i should not be playing - but a bit of 1/2 nl cash wouldnt hurt :) so i sat down with $50 on a 3 seated turbo table and started to play super Agg. I was picking up all the little pots with steals, bluffs and reraises and built up to $80, then i did a stooopid bluff and donked my way back to $50. The best thing about this bluff was that i was now the table loon and everyone wanted a piece of me.

Next hand i get AA - raise to 4 one caller, flop 447 (2spades) i go for a check raise when Villain bets $5 i raise it up to $15 and he calls - turn a 10 of spades - mmmmmmmmmm. I didn't want to see this spade as i didnt hold one with my red aces and could well be behind. So i pushed :) and got called by AK off - one spade, the river was a heart and i was up to $100, then a really funny hand happened.

On the button (3 players remember) i am dealt 55 and raise to 3, one fold then BB reraises to 7. He is only playing $35 so i don't really give a shit about putting them all in here for a coin toss to finish the day off but decide to flat call and play the flop.

Flop comes K 5 2 (rainbow) trips, quality, now lets try and get them all in :), he bets - i push - he calls with KQ soooooooooted.

turn

K

:(

river 5 :) for quads and i leave the table about $100 up.

I am playing gambboooool poker and it is paying off. Think the stakes i am playing at are doing my head in and i am getting bored. The roll sits at $728.56 at the moment - it peaked at $740 a while back but i actually donked it down to $450 at one point. Some of the beats are crazy at the $10-$30 level because the players are so shit. Beatable - oh yes yes yes, but when you play ABC poker you cannot stop sick beats and the tilt monster - this is what happened to me.

Now, this is a typical hand. I get dealt AJ sooted in late position. This is the first hand of a STT, 10 seated and blinds at 10/20 - stacks 1000. SO, you don't wanna go broke with AJ sooted :).

MP leads out with an 80 bet and all fold to me - i call wanting to see the flop. SB and BB both fold. Flop comes J 4 7 rainbow and it is looking good for me. Villain bets 200 and i want to know where i stand so re-raise to 450 expecting a fold. Villain pushes - now at any other stakes i fold think QQ, KK or AA. At these stakes i call - i am trying to work out the WHY? - and Villain turns over 10 10 leaving himself 2 outs. Either he is a great player representing AA or a total fish who cannot lay down PPs. My play (the call) was poor but profitable but i hate playing shit poker.

I am going to move up sakes and lose to better players :).

Whoooooooooops

2007-02-15T11:21:00.000Z

Golden period over, the lever well and truly released and afer the great start came the shity period. Just when i decided to up stakes - SUPERB.
Went deep in a few MTT's - getiing into the top 25 out of 600+ runners but would then play a crazy hand because the blinds were getting big and waste four hours of good work pushing with ATC's. This also put me on tilt and from starting the day with a $700+ roll i ended it with only $450 left - not all blown but i was breaking every rule - cash, $50 HU's, out of the role etc. etc. worst of all i was playing badly and i knew it................................
So, with $450 left i rocked up for a while, played within my limits and built it back up to $640 - crazy. I have found a new game to pay too - it is called King of the Hill and is sort of a cross between STT and MTT - a four level kind of comp and you can buyin for $3+.3 or $20+5 depending on where you want to start KILLER RAKE at the $20 stakes but winners (top 2) are put through to another level and on the 4th level you play a 10 seater STT but the prize pool has been added with +$1600 - AWESOME! I think i will win one of these - might take me 40 goes at the $20+5 starting level i reckon but the value added is superb and it offers the chance to get the roll +$1000 and rocking.
So, plans are to play this King of the Hill until busto, will mix it up a bit but that is th eplan stan.

RULES IS RULES IS RULES

2007-02-05T18:14:00.000Z

Ok, so I needed some rules. Rules are made to be broken, but I think they help focus what is possible and what is not and develop good traits/intentions.

So,

1) NO CASH – no playing cash until the bankroll reaches $2500. Think this is the most important one for me – cash tables are my weakness – because the blinds don’t go up I see no ‘end’ and try and win EVERY pot I play in with the ‘You cannot possibly call this bet’ ideology. This works well for HU, STT, MTT but not cash. So I will stay away.

2) The 5% bankroll rule. A rule of thumb often applied to build up a roll is never to play with +5% of your bankroll at any one time. I will try and follow this as a guideline – even if it means missing out on value MTT’s.

3) RAKE – I don’t get any on this site just pissy points and invites to freerolls. So, rake cannot and will not be included to the roll. I think this makes the task more difficult – well, it naturally does, but if I can beat the tables and the rake long-term them I will be well ahead of the game.

4) Cut down on HU. I love HU play but the rake will cripple me long-term 20+2 is shocking, meaning having to win 7/10 to show small gain – this makes me sick – I also don’t like the 5 handed STT’s but will have to improve. I think I play my best/most profitable poker in 20/30 runner STT’s and large field MTT’s so even though these are the variance fields that is where I will play up to $2,500+.

5) Take notes. Player notes are very important and even just putting ‘Wank’, ‘Crazy’ etc etc is better than nothing. Obviously my terminology could be improved but spotting the sharks from the fish will be important.

Anyways, that is a start. Played a bit over the weekend. Bank stood at $740 at one point but down to $650. Not down to bad play – I did push with 6,6 late on in a multi (out in 29th out of 500+ runners I think) but this was an elaborate squeeze play. A serial limper had ‘limped’ and I knew I could pick up his bet, the SB and BB if I pushed or get a call which had a fighting chance. I had a 30k stack, blinds were 2k4k and about to go up. When BB called I thought shit the bed, limper folded and I presumed I was up against a big hand – I was – the mighty JK OFF – what a cunt – J on the river sealed my fate but pre flop I was 51% favourite and can’t believe the call.

I am a pretty tight agg. player if we are going with labels but if I feel I have the beating of the table I loosen right up and try and run it. When you play a loose game you often get called and show wank – but this is more fun than waiting for AA and KK.

I spunked a bit of the roll playing a 12k gtd. $20 rebuy – I like to go crazy in the first hour and get a stack built – as soon as I hit x3 or x4 starting stack I slow down a bit but still let the cards do the talking. Starting on 2500 chips I quickly got up to 8,000 then went for a 24,000 pot three way with AK on a K high board and lost to a flush draw, got back in and went built up to 8k again when I lost another all-in three way pot with top pair good kicker against the flush draw – same cunt again. Once I had pumped $60 into the prize fund I thought it was all going a bit anti bankroll management and died a sorry death with 88 v AQ. The play on the tables was beatable but the roll could not really take the re-buy(s) so will have to keep out of this buy-in for a bit. SOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY, I am actually starting to protect the roll, I even stepped up to $20 Heads up pmsl!!! The play was better than $10 HU and I thought I had stepped out of the comfort zone – I joke – but the $10 players really are shite, at least the $20 players know what a check raise, stop and go move etc is.

Right – try and get in 20 hours this week – really want to start playing $50 games but not until I break $1000. The start has been super quick and I think I am due some Bad Beats, but he who dares Rodders!

SICK

2007-01-30T13:37:00.000Z

If i didn't have the Shark Scope to back this up i would be called a liar. 80 games on this new platform, 44% ROI, YEP 44%, and the magic $500 mark has been achieved. With the roll on $400 i was hasty to push push push and entered 2X$10 heads up, 1X$10;5 seater STT and 1X$10 20 seater STT. I won them all - so as i am writing this i am pretty pleased with the remarkable run of results and the possibility that the target of $10,000 (a long way too go) might just be possible.

I am due a big swing soon though i suppose and it would be shitty if this coincided with a move up in stakes but that is the next step.

I think i need to set myself some rules for the challenge. Scope says total profit $508, the actual account holds $740 - big disparity - this is due to a $50 bonus being cleared, a run on the cash tables (.50 / $1) heads up cash - i sat down with $100 (25% of the roll at the time) and destroyed some chimp. I had watched him for about half an hour and could not stop myself from playing him. NOW, two things, i should never have sat down with %25 of my roll on a cash table - NOT THE FUCKING POINT OF THIS! and also can i count bonus payments and cash play to the roll?

Need some rules - and also a excel spreadsheeeeet thing to start tracking it all properly. I am off to the betfair forum to ask for one :)

Oh yeah did i say 44% ROI Fooooooooooooooooook me!

SHIP IT

2007-01-29T21:02:00.000Z

This is the bad boy Sharko Scopos states - all finned up and rocking on a $388 roll! CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FINTASTIC

2007-01-29T20:43:00.000Z

70 games played on the new tres GOLDEN account and a fin on sharkscope has been achieved!

Serious progress has been made and with an ROI of 37% i have built the roll up to $405. This has been by playing all sorts of MTTS and heads up but at the very comfortable $10 stake. Now, i am not the greatest player on the planet; far from it, but i am absolutely dicking the tables and am so suprised at the lack of quality on the tables. Most site's players' have improved in quality but this site seems to be stuck in the dark ages: Bonus. I have been playing poker for about 5-6 years - pretty hard too, mainly smallish stakes (less than $100) buy-ins and a few live comps at casinos all over the place. At one point i was playing about 30 hours + a week and home games on top and doing pretty well - getting about a grand a month out of the game. Then, at 25 years old i got offered a job in London as an odds compiler - pretty much my dream job so i wasn't going to pass it up. A result of that is my pokerplaying days/hours have reduced to about 10 hours a week. I have a grand plan though - with time on my side i am going to learn the game for the next few years and before i turn 30 take a year out of the rat race and travel the world playing poker. If i succeed, then that's great - if i fuck up - then i will have had the time of my life, no regrets, and a job i can fall back on.

Right, enough about me. I am off to spin this bank up a bit. First stage of task is the $500 mark and we are not too far off!

2007-01-26T18:54:00.000Z

Stats:
So 300+ games into the $50 - %10k challenge and some ups and downs.

Time for a stat review.
Well, here they are on Sharkscope - well they were until the fooker didn't import properly :(. Things looking ok at the moment. I cheated on the Cypto account by depositing another $100 when shit hit the fan, and the Stars account is rigged – the SUPER TILT form remark is proof of this as I don’t tilt :) . That account, and the $42 left in it was withdrawn to keep the challenge going and moved to Ongame, where even a 23% ROI puts me on Super Tilt – the cheeky cunts. I will keep the records on ‘scope for as long as possible but when the fin comes they will be off. The roll stands at $239, and no playing out the roll, so all good!

Playing at these crap stakes is not giving me the buzz, but the challenge is and I am determined to get to $10k.

Playing a bit tomorrow and this weekend so will try and keep the blog and bank rolling onwards and upwards.

ROLL = $239 - long way to go :)

Hello FEEEEEEEEESH :)

2007-01-26T18:42:00.000Z

This is the third attempt on a new platform that is full of feeesh. I took the remaining $40 out of Stars and put it in this new golden account. My results have been pretty amazing; sticking mainly to $10 buy-ins I have played shit loads of heads ups, 10,20 and 30 player STT’s and a few MTT’s with 500+ players. Without sounding like a cocky fucka the standard of play is woeful and I am going into every game at these pussy stakes with confidence. I suppose the time is now to up stakes. If I want to get to $10k from $50 I cannot play $10 buy-ins, especially Heads-ups, even if I win 70% of games it’ll be 2010 before I hit $10k pmsl. The thing is I am in no rush, and I am an advocate of the motto "find your stakes and beat it". So I am at a bit of a crossroad; the feesh swim in the $10 games and I should perhaps take the easy money? Be interesting to hear what others think. My game is good enough to play anything up to a $100 buy-in BUT the idea is to keep the bankroll intact, playing $10-$30 games until I hit $2k.

Second Attempt you Muppet

2007-01-26T18:37:00.000Z

Ok, second attempt at making $10k from $50. Opened a Poker Stars account and started to play $5-$10 STT’s. All was going swimmingly until I got a bit cocky. I had been running good and in my haste to hit the $1k mark I jumped up stakes really quickly. Lesson learnt. Playing $50 buy-ins with a $300 roll is risky when the variance monster decides to invite himself to the party. I tilted big-time after a couple of beats and very nearly did the whole roll. I knew I had a rigged account :) after a ridiculous suckout cost me $100. It seemed that as soon I had cleared the bonus I had to start losing every pot. Before it all went tits-up and the roll lost I withdrew the last $40, now this is a pikey move in the extreme. If you are on tilt do it properly son!!!! The task now was to find a new platform, less rigged, and build up again. I got a tip-off from a workmate about a site with loads of feeeeeesh :).

Shitty Death Update

2007-01-26T18:28:00.000Z

Ok, long time no speak. So why the vanishing act? To be honest I have been on a few holidays and working hard in the mean time. I have only been getting, say 10 hours a week for poker and it didn’t seem worth blogging. Betfair poker has a new platform and it is utter wank. I hate it. I had been offered a decent enough rake back deal from them so I thought I would test it for a bit but couldn’t get used to it. I started betting more on sports because I had money in a betfair account that was not being spent on poker. After a good punting run, probably the best of my life, it all went pete tong when for no apparent reasons I was betting shit loads on sports for a laugh. Having a grand on the NBA match and then going to bed before it started smacked of WANKER mode so I stopped. I wanted to learn bankroll management, after reading others’ woes. The Bluescouse blog shows you how not to do this and other players I know have managed to spunk $5k-$10k in a day playing well out of their roll. I had this much to lose and thought about playing a bit of $5-$10 cash but cash is not my game baby. I had a feeling I would do the lot and this is not a good way of going into any game. So, I put the poker/betting roll into the bank and have it as a deposit for a house or a few snowboarding holidays (Whistler 20008) when the time comes.

So, what now? Well, I thought I would start a $50 to $10,000 challenge. Original? No Fucking Way – but I don’t give a shit. I hadn’t got a platform to play on so popped over to a Crypto site to start the journey.

Starting with $50 I began to play $5 and $10 STT’s. I had built it up to $100 and then I went and played out of the roll – the graph below shows what a monumental fuckup I made in the space of 10 games and no cashes. I even put another $100 in the account at one point and built it up to $240 after caning the $5 and $10 STT’s. I then started to feel like a dirty fucka because the idea was not to deposit $100 when you make a mistake. The Crypto account was no good for the task. I had cheated by depositing so even though profit was showing I had to start again.

ITS ALL ABOUT BANKROLL management you gimp!

Take me to the tournament...............

2006-10-12T09:26:00.000+01:00

Well, i might be at the back of the line, but i wanted to join the cyberworld of blogs and get a few words scribbled down on the monitor.

In the great words of Austin Powers "please allow myself to introduce.................myself". Well, i am a 26 year old lad living in North London trying to pay the bills and have a lot of laughs on the way. For a living i am an odds compiler for an online betting firm - pretty much my dream job - so no complaints there. Wait for it..........................i thought i'd wait at least six lines................i like to play the odd game of poker. Yep, like most other blogs i like to read, this one will be full of punting escapades, good luck and bad luck, cool runs and hot streaks.

Urm..........not exactly standing out of the crowd here, lots of other ramblings by gamblers can be found on the net so if may well need to spice things up a bit somewhere down the line. To begin with - whilst i am trying to get to grips with this 'interface' (not too techy gifted) i'll probably keep it plain and simple and leave it a month or two until i start to divulge about my online sponsored live sex change for charity - only joking :) might get some weird creatures on the wrong side of a fooked up google ending up here now!!!!

Anyway, this is a start - not expecting anyone to read this so the only audience to begin with will be moi - and i am content with that, just fancy brushing up my writing skills and diarising (surely that isn't a word?) my life story in digital format.

First one done - i promise (myself) that it will get better and more interesting but.............we have to start somewhere.