Once again its been far too long since my last post, jes nearly 2 months!!!!!! Unlike last time though its not because ive been running bad and thus not wanting to write about, its actually be the complete opposite, no the reason for the lack of posts is purely down to lack of time!! This is not a moan, this is just the way it is, time is becoming more and more hard to come by, like I said I m not moaning, I wouldn’t change a thing in my life at the moment, I am blessed and I know it! But trying to find time to write on top of the mentoring, playing poker, working on my game, family life ( I seriously cant remember it being so hard having a baby in the house!) and some how trying to fit in the things like eating, running, socialising ……..well its kind of hard at the moment! Still a good morning session that I decided to bank has freed up 30mins and so im using it to write this! So to May, well it was a great month , I finished well into five figures up, added to some good rake figures its was the perfect come back after such a poor P&L in April. Added on top of this was the $1750 I picked up for the badbeat May madness promotion, all in all a very nice month indeed. But it didn’t end there, as part of the promotion as the biggest overall winning player for May I got to pick a group in the World cup, if a team from this group goes on to finish 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd in the world cup I can go on and collect another live poker buy in up to the value of $10,000!! Not a bad freeroll in my book! Naturally I went for the group of death that contains Brazil, Portugal and the Ivory Coast, a good group me thinks!

So to this month and of course the WSOP. My initial plan was to go out for the WSOP early June, for one reason or another this was put on hold (mainly the missus asking me not to go this year due to the arrival of Oliver), so my next cunning plan was to see how this month went and maybe pick up a main event ticket somewhere along the line and head out to Vegas at the back end of this month. Also there was the attraction of trying to take advantage of this months  badbeat promotion: to net $5000 for the month combined your GROSS rake (no misprint, it really is GROSS rake) and the month P&L and you pick up a $1500 live buy in ticket, put simply this is a give me, this is free money! Part of the deal is you must finish +$1 on P&L to qualify and well the poker gods in the first part of this month decided that there were in no mood to make things easy. After 2 weeks I found myself in a deep black hole with losses for the month touching 5 figures, the gross rake was in place but the +$1 P&L was  looking a distant dream, and the WSOP was even further away! As has been the pattern this year the losses where down to a combination of set up hands but more often that not me holding a solid 2^nd best hand, nothing worse in poker than the 2^nd best hand! This inevitably lead to some poor play on my part, thankfully not to much was lost due to bad play as the errors in my game where quickly found after a few hours pouring over my stats in holdem manager.  Slowly though the hole has been filled, getting back to the basics and focusing on banking winning days followed by a real hot streak as seen me finally reach profit for the month, and ive got to be honest im a happy bunny! Five figure losing months are never nice but when its also going to cost me several $1000s in live buy in tickets, well the pain becomes two fold! But that’s last weeks worry, im back in profit so need for that conversation! The last few days have been very nice, its been sooooo nice to see the best hand v 2^nd best coming down in my favour for a change! And ive certainly had my fair share of AAs too! So where does that leave me regarding Vegas? Well the truth is I really don’t know! Naturally I want to go, it’s the WSOP!!!! But then theres the family issue, the missus wants me to leave it this year, and well I probably can bit my lip and miss the big game for one year……………not sure im convincing myself though!! To help soften the blow I have of course got the World cup to watch and help me forget! Truth is im really unsure what to do, or what I want to do so today is not the day to make the decision! And then theres also the badbeat promos! Not sure what the next promotion is, but I know there going to be big and I want my piece……………lets wait and see.