Another 5$ stt

today on laddies which took about an hour to fill but cashed in 3rd for $8. On the last hand I raised from the big blind after the 2nd chip flat called in the small blind. I then pushed with my J5 after hitting a J on the QJ8 flop and was insta called by the 2nd chip leader who had flopped a straight with his T9 lol. I couldnt really wait any longer with less than 10 big blinds 3 handed.

Challenege bankroll is now $328.80

Loving the EPT Barcelona live stream on www.eptlive.com Great work PokerStars!

Most stts ive played for ages...

I played 3 stts today which is probably the most in a day for months! Unsurprisingly there was no traffic at my favoured stts until the evening so I had a look on stars....I came 5th in a $3 9 seater, then won a $1 9 seater and then came 2nd in a laddies $5 super deepstack so a few dollars up for the day. Would have won the $5 if I could only get a medium pocket pair to hold up against two overcards heads-up but at least I'm getting them in ahead!

Challenge bankroll is now at $326.30 but still no where near the $1k i was aiming for this time last year! Better than losing though!

Quick update

Not played much (again) recently and have only managed to squeeze in a few Laddies 5 pay equal stts. These are 10 hand levels and turn into a crap shoot pretty quickly so not my cup of tea. But managed to cash in those that I have played in and along with the STT win and some free cash from Pokertrillion a few weeks ago the bankroll is now up to $319.90.

I will start playing the $5 stts again but the deepstack games i prefer are few and far between with the traffic on laddies rapidly disappearing!

I'll update again

when I finally manage to play more than a couple of games! played 2 STTs a couple of weeks ago and won the first and then in the second had my full house that I hit on the turn after flopping a set beaten by the nut full house that he made on the flop so no complaints as I was never getting away from it!

Hardly played at all recently...

Well, I think I have played about twice in the last 5 weeks and that was just a couple of quick cash sessions! Been a hectic month as we've bought a house and are moving in the next couple of weeks so had tons to do to sort everything out - the other half would not be impressed if she was left to do it all by herself while I played poker! Its also been Euro 2008, my birthday, had friends staying, started a new job so no time at all for poker!

Once we get moved in and get stuff sorted I will hopefully get some free time back and play a few more games!

Been following the WSOP a bit and at the moment a few of the guys from the laddies forum are playing in the main event and they've all made it through to Day 2 which is a great achievement! Let's hope they all go deep!

Another STT and...

...bubbled. No cards and a table of calling stations/ donkeys is not much fun. Was ahead in a few pots and my bets when I was ahead were called to the river with A high or gutshots which of course hit. Last hand I had ATs and raised to 400, the sb raises to 800. I've had enough and push for my last 2k. Maybe I should have waited but ATs 4 handed is gonna be good enough most of the time and if I start laying down to re-raises from donkeys I may as well quit now. Of course he calls for almost 2/3 of his stack with KJ offsuit where he is in a coin flip at best or at worst dominated... and of course hits his K on the turn.....sigh. So from being a 3:2 favourite and in good shape to double up and probably make the money I'm out....sigh. Still I want that call every single time as its winning in the long run...or so I keep telling myself lol

Challenge bankroll is now $291.56

May 2008 stats

Well, another winning month overall but a profit of $17 isn't much to write home about. Then again I only played 9 sessions. But at least it wasn't a losing month which is always good. The games I played broke down as follows:

STT

$2.30
p7, cashed 4 times (2x 1st, 2 x 2nd) for $9.50 profit

$5.50
P1, cashed o for $5.50 loss

MTT

P1, cashed 1 for $13 profit

And I have a really busy month this month with friends staying, doing stuff at the weekend, my birthday and hopefully moving house so I am probably gonna be playing even less this month. I'll try and play the odd STT but am not expecting to have much chance.

Oh and the WSOP starts so good luck to all those on the laddies and blondepoker forums who will heading out to Vegas hoping for big cashes and shiny bracelets! I'd love to play in it just once and maybe one year I'll decide to just say 'sod it' push some cash into it and be serious and play some satellites! You never know just win a few races in a sat and get lucky and it could happen!

Challenge bankroll is as it was on 26 May, $293.86 and has been hovering around the $290 mark for about 6 weeks now. Once it gets to over $300 I will go back to the $5 stts.