Happy New Year!

So a new year and my new year poker resolution was to play cash games. But just before I got into that there was this extra value added tourney at Mansion last night. $1 buy-in with $20080 added to celebrate the new year. Only trouble was there were 3533 runners and starting stacks of 3000 chips. It could be a long night.

Well after a marathon game I was finally out in 8th place for a prize of $413 which is a new cash high record for me from tourney play.

Let's hope it's a sign of things to come for 2008!

Happy New Year indeed!

2007 Summary

So the difficult second year. Or am I confusing it with bands and their difficult second album? Anyway, after discovering poker in 2006 the challenge in 2007 was to maintain my enjoyment from the game as well as my enthusiasm.

Some good early MTT cashes, including a win in the Laddies Deep Stack Tourney left me about $1k up after 4 months. I then moved house and refurbishment took over my life with little time for poker!

In the next 6 months, poker took a back seat and I played mainly STT’s to resurrect my challenge and hopefully win enough to buy a new PC. That went well although I tailed off towards the end but I finished the year with the challenge looking like this:

Played 192
Entry Fees $1056
Prizes $1440
Profit $384

Plus $15 from $10 STT's

November provided a couple of nice wins in some low entry high value tourneys and then December I decided to have another crack at cash games (more about that here).

So all in all another good year on the poker tables but an even better one off of it with a new house and new baby boy!!

Overall 2007 record:
Freerolls - $749
MTT's - $523
STT's - $248
Cash - $217
Bonus - $139
Rounders - ($17)
Total - $1859

Let’s hope 2008 is even better.

Challenge Update

Things have been a little slow on the challenge front what with one thing and another! But since the last posted update I've played 43 more STT's and added another $88.50 to the total profit.

Which gives a summary at present of:

Played 184
Entry Fees $1012
Prizes $1425
Profit $413

Plus $15 from $10 STT's

Getting there. Slowly!

Gnuf Said!

Well updates have been a little thin on the ground here, but with decorating the house and now being a Dad (woohoo!) have had little time for poker.

But I did manage to sneak away for a couple of hours last night and play in a $2500 Gtd tournament at Gnuf (who?) which only had 121 runners. Big value – we like it! Anyway, after a solid start and then very patient and perhaps a bit too cautious play I made it to the final table. Then had 2 slices of luck (thoroughly deserved lol) where I rivered a 3 outer and then made a 4 card flush (I hate it when that happens!) and eventually finished 5th for $150. Happy with that.

There’s some good value tourney’s coming up in December and hopefully I’ll find some time to have a go at a couple of them.

Painting & Decorating!

Well in between painting and decorating, I've been concentrating on STT poker play rather than tourney's for two reasons mainly. 1) To clear my freeroll 'winnings' and 2) To continue this challenge. The challenge now has an added goal. It's still to make $1000 purely from STT's but I now have a purpose in that if (when!) I get there I'm gonna treat myself to a new PC cos this one's getting slower and slower!

Good news to report is that since the last update on here, I've played 22 for a profit of $89.

Summary:

Played 141
Entry Fees $775.50
Prizes $1100
Profit $324.50

Plus $15 from $10 STT's

So a 3rd of the way there now. I really think I should try my hand at a few $10 games, but the trouble is I like the winning feeling at the moment! Maybe when I get to $500 I'll have another go at those $10 games.....