Well it has been 6 weeks since previous blog post and alot has happened in that time :-) 

Ibiza:

I final tabled and came 8th for $3k (2500eu) which was pretty nice, although first was $30k. You gotta win your flips at that stage, and I did not so that's all there is to that. But generally throughout the 2/3 days I played really well and certainly felt I deserved to be on that ft. Below are 3-4 pics from the event (will post later) and it was very cool to meet alot of the betfair regs that I battle with on a daily basis. Randomly too the balla 90's footballer Ronaldo was in Ibiza and kept dropping by to play 2/5 and 5/10euro cash and was giving lots of action. So that was Ibiza, but I think my live game is definatly improving generally and I'm getting the urge to play them more as a holiday/change of pace.

Badbeat stuff:

Well I'm not sure if I mentioned it before but badbeat had kindly previously offered me the chance to join the team and become a cash game mentor. I started at the begining of July and so far it has been going really well! I have done a fair bit of private coaching in the past and this was a great opportunity to gain more experience, along with keeping my own game sharp. I had mentioned in previous blog posts that I was looking for some sort of garentueed income as late, for security and peace of mind, and this was exactly the perfect job. I'm still playing alot myself, but oddly having more work and responsibilites has forced me into far better time management and I know I'm being more productive than in as long as I can remember. 

Poker:

Poker has gone really well since last blog, aside from the $3k live cash I've also recieved a few $k to spend on live buyin's as part of promotions, and this month earned a trip to Dublin for the UKIPT tournament in September. I understand alot of badbeat people are attending this (I got my package via the promo on the home page) so looking forward to putting some faces to names! Keeping on the live poker theme, I will also be playing in the £1k wsope yearly turbo test of how well you run.. this is just a few days after the UKIPT, so that should also be a great time.

Online poker has treated me well, I will post a couple of graphs below, but this month has been super weird. I've played alot on pokertime (a great new skin of microgaming) and mainly just played anybody that comes along to play 1/2. The site isn't super busy so usually this is HU or 3 handed but it is getting busier day by day and below $200nl the games are well populated with a good mixture of players. I think this month so far I've won about $7.5k with rakeback, about $500 in bonuses and also this UKIPT package which I think is worth about $2k so definatly proud of my results. 

Finally last thing worth noting, is my beloved betfair is merging with the ongame network in a couple of days. I'm not too sure what this will mean for me or betfair poker, but only time will tell. I'm all for more fish and people but sometimes I just believe in the 'if it aint broke don't fix it' moto and I really enjoyed the small betfair community and the super fishy games lol. Got a feeling it will be bad and the influx of regs will outway the fish.. but I'm going to give it a go and if I don't enjoy it there are plenty of other sites to play on!

Travelling:

I think I quote myself when I say 'if I cash in Ibiza I'll be at the wsop this year', sadly I couldn't make it in the end. Had a great result to cash obviously at the Betfair bash on the party island, but a couple of things stopped me. The main one was that I was starting this new mentor position on the 1st July and that would mean I would have had to go to Vegas and work alot whilst out there. This isn't ideal and to be honest vegas + work ethic don't go too well, so definatly didn't want to disappoint people within my first week! Also ontop of that was the financial cost too, as the WSOP can easily cost $10k and honestly I was thinking of better ways to spend that money... which leads me to... Malta!

Around Jan/Feb it was my intention to move to Malta, but the person I agreed to move with had some personal issues and financially I just didn't feel too comfortable to move there on my own at that time.. well now with this job things have perked up and poker is going well.By coincidence the person I had agreed to emailed me 2 days ago to say he too was now ready to head back out there.. so the plan is before the UKIPT, around the 20-25th August all meet up in Malta and find a nice place by the beach to rent. Really excited about this and just happy that even if people pull out this time, I am not too fussed it won't effect what I do. Towards the end of July there is a cool tournament series in Malta, at a casino I played a $3k event back in November, called Malta Madness (www.maltamadness.com). It looks like loads of fun with a cheap team tournament, which allows chip dumping, seat swapping, asking for advise and all sorts of crazy things. Coupled with a boat party and a free bar for players in the 1100eu main event, I think I'm already set on playing it!! There are online seat qualifiers on the site that is sponsoring it and is sure to have a great turn out with so many poker players living in Malta and it being just after the WSOPE so maybe even some Americans will stick around in Europe for it.

Anways GL at the tables and I hope to meet a few people in Ireland soon :D

 June: Was ok given that I was away for 2 weeks of it and had a nice live score!

 July: Pretty sicko month to be honest but I've worked hard for it!

Since May.. just a pure barg..