April

Well it’s been a good month for poker. Have played my most hands in a month for this year. Admittedly we are only in the 4^th month but considering I haven’t been wanting to play much getting in over 10,000 hands is an achievement. This is by enlarge by having a couple of 5-6 hour sessions getting in over 1,500 hands each time. The start of the month was pretty brutal like within 30 mins i would drop 5 buyins and spend the rest of the night trying to get it back which worked!!

The 2^nd half of the month I’ve run pretty well and have booked a nice profit for the month. Graph below

Also in April we saw an apparent dark day for poker in that UIGEA has pretty much come into force and the US are not allowed to take bets, and they took up a huge % of the market. However it doesn’t affect PKR as they never accepted US bets. What it does mean is that they are offering 150% bonuses which is obviously going to suck me into another bonus grind!!

Outside of poker there was the Grand National which Ballabriggs won, I obviously run good in the National and backed the winner for ~£400 win :D:D. Also had the Royal Wedding between Catherine and William, and I actually loved it. I don’t know what it is about a Wedding that makes me feel so overwhelmed considering my thoughts on weddings. I also love the Royal’s but that’s a blog for another day for why I do! 

For May I am likely to play Dusk Till Dawns Grand Prix with 80,000 Euros GTD for only a 50 Euro buyin. It's also the 1st Flat Classic's of the year which I hope to bink with getting hot favourite Frankel turned over.

2011 So Far

As shown the main reason for the loss is my drunken Penrith session at NL400. Unfortunately it's also missing a ~$120 winning session on a friends computer

Cheltenham

Since I set up this blog I have been finding ever more difficult to motivate myself to play poker and that continued through March. The only notable session I have had after grinding back my losses suffered in Penrith (see previous blog post) is that I lost it back getting tilted and moving up to NL$100 and losing there to. I decided to move back to NL25 for now as it just doesn’t affect me or my bankroll as much. It does mean its hard grinding my bonus as I have to play a lot more hands obviously. I kind of want to give up trying to get it but my motivation is that I have only ever failed once achieving it and that was my 2^nd attempt when I didn’t know what I was doing!

Away from poker during March was the Cheltenham festival, one of my favourite times of the year. Every year I go to the opening day and every year I never have a winner on the opening day, this year was no different. It is like Groundhog Day every year.

Get train with Dan

Drink a bottle of champagne

Couple of pints in the 1^st pub we come to

Walk to race course

£20 in the Supreme Novices…lose

£20 in the Arkle…lose

£40 between two horses in the handicap…lose

Ridiculous bet in the Champion Hurdle…lose

Lose the next 3 races trying to chase losses. These bets always vary considering how drunk/tilted I am. I have to say I did rain it in fairly well this year!

Almost miss/miss train home

obviously in between all this copious amounts of lager/guiness is consumed...making me care less about anything (mainly money)

This has happened to a tee every year now for the last 4 years, I should really think about changing days!

I also had a £50 match bet in the Champion Hurdle Peddlers Cross v Hurricane Fly which I obviously lost. I did however have a £20 saver on Hurricane Fly to stand this bet as the thought of giving him money depressed me to much!

I never really get involved in the betting on Wednesday and Thursday as I just watch them on my own and the Wednesday is spent nursing a hangover. However my dad had 3 winners of a lucky 15 on the Thursday to net him £1,270. MBN

However, it was my turn for luck on the Friday…spending it with my Dad and his mate in his local I got the 1^st 3 of a yankee for £531. I also had £20 on Zarkandar in the Triumph Hurdle @ 7/1 which was obviously nice. Lost a little playing crash but it was only friendly money ~£10. So all in all a fairly successful Cheltenham coming out a small winner.

Should also add went on a Stag do to Edinburgh where I dropped about £290 in the Casino playing ridiculously drunk poker…they really shouldn’t let you play lol. I did make about £120 playing with the stag party so although a loss it wasn’t to bad. Especially as I was in bed by 5.30 on the Saturday due to getting immensely drunk in the space of 1 ½ hours, so I saved another £100 from not going out I guess!  

This weekend is a great betting weekend with the US Golf Masters and the Grand National…I have only had a quick look so far but will no doubt get involved in both.

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