PKR fun

I've somehow managed to amass a roll of $1233.27 on PKR since Wednesday. I started with a $50 deposit playing $0.50/$1 and lost it, so I deposited $50 again, which had to be my last money cos we still have not been paid from work. I managed to win this time however and left the table, withdrew the $100 I deposited which left me with $70.

I started on $0.50/$1, moved up to $1/$2 before long and then $2/$4, I'm not a BRM freak, this was merely a spin up. Thing is, a LOT of the players are very very loose and bad even at $2/$4 and will call you down with top pair no kicker. Here is an example of a funny hand, I pasted it in this format so you can see all the emotes that went on during the hand which just makes PKR the funniest site to play on:

Table #9340308 - The Nook
Starting Hand #467726816
Start time of hand: 26 Jul 2008 12:10:38
Last Hand #467726433
Game Type: HOLD'EM
Limit Type: NO LIMIT
Table Type: RING
Money Type: REAL MONEY
Blinds are now $2/$4
Button is at seat 5
Seat 1: bazoolie - $1,322.65
Seat 2: Rottisen - $394.40
Seat 3: MattHubb23 - $421
Seat 4: forbzy - $515
Seat 5: Goldeneyehd - $513.50
Seat 6: qvark789 - $302
Moving Button to seat 6
bazoolie posts small blind ($2)
Rottisen posts big blind ($4)
Shuffling Deck
Dealing Cards
Dealing [9s 9d] to forbzy
MattHubb23 calls $4
forbzy raises to $16
Goldeneyehd folds
qvark789 folds
bazoolie folds
forbzy acknowledges his own nice hand.
bazoolie says thank you.
Rottisen folds
MattHubb23 calls $16
forbzy thinks MattHubb23 made a good call.
bazoolie thanks himself.
Dealing Flop [2h 8s 5h]
MattHubb23 checks
forbzy bets $35
MattHubb23 calls $35
forbzy tells MattHubb23 he can't believe it.
Dealing Turn [5c]
MattHubb23 checks
forbzy bets $65
MattHubb23 raises to $250
forbzy tells MattHubb23 he can't believe it.
bazoolie congratulates himself.
forbzy raises to $464 (all-in)
bazoolie can't believe himself.
Goldeneyehd laughs his *** off.
Goldeneyehd laughs his *** off.
bazoolie calls MattHubb23 a loser.
Goldeneyehd laughs his *** off.
bazoolie laughs out loud.
MattHubb23 folds
Taking Rake of $3 from pot 1
forbzy doesn't show
forbzy wins $605
bazoolie says well played.
Seat 1: bazoolie - $1,320.65
Seat 2: Rottisen - $390.40
Seat 3: MattHubb23 - $120
Seat 4: forbzy - $819
Seat 5: Goldeneyehd - $513.50
Seat 6: qvark789 - $302
End Of Hand #467726816

And look at this idiot here with the AQ!

Table #9340308 - The Nook
Starting Hand #467743449
Start time of hand: 26 Jul 2008 12:32:48
Last Hand #467743170
Game Type: HOLD'EM
Limit Type: NO LIMIT
Table Type: RING
Money Type: REAL MONEY
Blinds are now $2/$4
Button is at seat 1
Seat 1: mayotacker - $394
Seat 2: Rottisen - $519.40
Seat 3: player13985 - $388
Seat 4: forbzy - $827
Seat 5: Goldeneyehd - $379.10
Seat 6: qvark789 - $647.70
Moving Button to seat 2
player13985 posts small blind ($2)
forbzy posts big blind ($4)
Shuffling Deck
Dealing Cards
Dealing [2d Ad] to forbzy
Goldeneyehd raises to $16
qvark789 raises to $64
mayotacker folds
Rottisen folds
player13985 folds
forbzy folds
Goldeneyehd raises to $208
qvark789 calls $208
Goldeneyehd laughs his *** off.
forbzy can't believe it.
Goldeneyehd can't believe it.
Dealing Flop [Qd Ts 6s]
Goldeneyehd bets $171.10 (all-in)
qvark789 calls $171.10
Goldeneyehd shows [Ah As]
qvark789 shows [Qs Ac]
Dealing Turn [5c]
Dealing River [Kc]
Taking Rake of $3 from pot 1
Goldeneyehd has One Pair: Aces
Goldeneyehd wins $761.20 with: One Pair: Aces
Goldeneyehd says thank you.
Goldeneyehd laughs his *** off.
Seat 1: mayotacker - $394
Seat 2: Rottisen - $519.40
Seat 3: player13985 - $386
Seat 4: forbzy - $823
Seat 5: Goldeneyehd - $761.20
Seat 6: qvark789 - $268.60
End Of Hand #467743449
PKR is a very funny site to play on with all the emotes to just take the piss out of people especially when you stack them or beat them in a big pot. I can't even multi table cos my computer is too shite to handle it with any decent speed, so luckily the banter keeps me from getting too bored. I am not earning any rakeback or bonuses which is a bit shit, although I am getting PKR points, not sure what I can do with them, buy a PKR poster or dress my character in a new suit or something lol. I should probably withdraw some of that money seeing as how I'm not even sure if I am going to be paid at all for 6 weeks work so I am very broke and might have to find a new job. But I just wanna keep spinning, $5K or bust?

Edit: Soon after making this post I sat down, quickly jizzed off $200 in my 2nd hand, reloaded, then this hum dinger of a hand happened. Note I was BB in this hand the replayer thing went a bit wrong. I know he has the bullets but I'm obviously set mining for a flop just like that, ouch though! So I was down half my roll in 2 hands! I managed to win a bit back then this little beautay happened, glad my opponent can't lay down a hand here. The positions are wrong again here I was SB for this hand. So now I'm sitting on $1,160 in that room as I type this - about $160 up for the session, I gotta be more careful or it's bye bye roll, I should probably drop a level or 4, but where's the fun in that?

Life bad beat

I'm sitting here on Tuesday at work and only 5 of us have bothered to show up because we still haven't been paid when we were supposed to get paid last Wednesday- bad beat. Our pay better come in and the company best not go bust cos I am pretty broke right now!

Last time I had £203.55 in my crypto roll. I played here and there a bit, various limits, even dabbled in Omaha with great success and also played Pot Limit Hold 'Em for the first time which was interesting. Anyway, at peak I got this up to just under £700. Then I started to lose a bit and got scared so withdrew £272.24 to cover what I withdrew from by bank last month. Inevitably I lost what I had left however. Deposited again, spun up again, withdrew, lost, deposited, spun, withdrew, lost etc etc. So I don't have a roll right now but that money I withdrew is safe, I bloody needed it seeing as we haven't been paid and my overdraft was maxed out!

I'm not sure where to go from here, it's likely I will need to be looking for a new job, but what? I have no idea what I want to do, I have a degree in English but I don't want to be a journalist or a teacher which is what everybody seems to suggest. I need some direction in my life but right now I'm just not getting it from anywhere. I was speaking to a friend the other day who was telling me about a Freudian theory that we self punish in order to have some justification for our misery. I told him this was very true and can be applied to the blasé way that I threw away £250 the other day very quickly at £50 NL raising nearly every hand preflop to at least 5x the BB and calling every 3 bet; in one way tilting my tits off because of a JJ vs AA on an A J x flop cooler (he flatted my standard raise pre) and in another, wanting justification for the despair I often feel about working such a boring low paid job and getting nowhere in life. In some ways it felt good, almost refreshing - to rid myself of my roll yet again and along with it the false aspirations of spinning a large sum of money and escaping the daily monotony of this shit life. They must have loved me on that table as I have loved similar maniacs; I can just see their notes now - 'LAG fish, no concept of position, will call all in with any draw, never folds to a 3 bet pre flop, raises nearly every hand, donk.'

I realise this sounds quite morbid, but it's hard to be optimistic when faced with the reality of this life and a ridiculous poker pipe dream for someone with too much compulsion to gamble it all away and say "See, I told ya, my life is shit, I just lost a months wages in 3 hands!"

CoD4

This is the new poker - Call of Duty 4 online play for the PS3. Since I got in to this I have barely touched the virtual felt, it's sooooo fun, poker sucks!

Down not up

Managed to win a bit and get rakeback so roll is £203.55, giving me a £415.59 loss for the month which was mainly my crypto roll. This gives me a loss of £14.69 since I started to actually keep record last month. Losing £14.69 in 2 months is not terrible I guess. Plan is to play $50NL for a while this level is pretty soft on crypto, have to try and tone down my aggression though. Wow this blog is dull, laters.