First month of the year and im off to the perfect start! A 30 buy in plus month, 50,000 raked hands and I bagged the $5k live event rake bonus. To be honest at the mid levels that I play I know this isn’t anything special, it’s a good solid month, that’s all, but to do it while doing a full time mentoring job and having to do more than my fair share of household duties (have I mention the missus is 8 months gone?!!), well im pretty happy with the performance. The p&L side to be honest is a little disappointing, on true EV (I mean true EV, not HM EV) I worked it out I should have been close to 45 buy ins in profit, buy hey im not complaining!!! It’s the rake side of things im most pleased with, having to play 50,000 hands was a big ask for me with my currently work load, so to do it was a big plus…………though I don’t plan on doing it again anytime soon.  Another big plus was once again playing and winning in the 2000nl game, theres still not enough value at that level to be playing daily, but when the right players are there im scoring well.  Though the month was a good one it did end on a down note with the weekend being nothing but pain!! Again though this is no complaint, the money went to the blessed fish, and every now and then you got to feed the fish, just happens the weekend was my time to pay.

 Buts it’s the regs who never fail to amuse me, lets have it right someone who plays between 4-10 tables for 12 hours a day you would have thought would have some understanding of “outs” and “pot odds”, but from what im seeing on a regular bases a lot of them turn to the trusted quote of “it was suited” and/or “I thought you where at it”………….5 years on and its still the same old same old! And again, this is no complaint!!! In-fact I cant remember the last time I moaned about anything poker, no, I cant remember the last time I complain period?! I think these days its more a case of really realising how blessed I am and how grateful I am, and its true, I am bloody blessed and I am bloody grateful!!! Thank you!

All being well the online form and results are going to transfer to the live arena. This weekend im kicking things off in Birmingham in some team event, im playing for the poker magazine WPT team which includes Paul Jackson and our very own Sandy Jackson. This will be a nice warm up for the following weeks UKIPT event in Manchester which I am told has already sold out, no surprise really as its only a £500 buy in and has the backing of pokerstars, this itself will be a even better warm up for my first major live event of the year which is the Irish open…………………..i cant wait, just hope its my time to catch a few fish rather than feed them.