I'm rich!

Well, sort of. Not through poker though, I'll explain in a minute. First though, after the success of my last post the inevitable happened and I lost the £350; a couple of coolers and it's all over with only a couple of buy ins. I couldn't find a fold with K6 on a K67 rainbow flop out of the SB in a limped family pot for example, he had 77 of course. Losing this didn't really bother me that much it was likely to happen and I knew that, and it's not like it's the first time I've lost that amount of money! I just wish I could bring myself to withdraw more when I win nice sums of cash, but no I always tell myself I want to build a roll and end up losing it, countless times I could have withdrawn decent amounts. Oh well. I went on to lose another £90 from my bank, but stopped there, which I thought rather disicplined. I still managed to bank a win of about £150 or so over the week or so period, and of course made some rakeback, so not all was lost!

So I've not played poker in nearly a week, owing to lack of funds and working overtime at my job, coupled with gym and having some sort of social life doesn't leave a lot of free time. But anyway on to the rich bit. I think I mentioned in a previous post about the money I am owed from my last job, just under £5,000. I have been owed this for nearly a year now and never thought I would see a penny of it really. However some meeting occured with their accountants and we were told we should get something, I filled out some form they sent me and thought no more of it. Well on Friday morning before work I go to check my online banking to see if I had been paid my wages (I hadn't, surprisingly) but to my shock/joy there was an automated credit for £1896 gone into my account!!! I had no idea this was coming and was a little taken aback, but it put me in a good mood for the rest of the day, despite spending all day weeding! I was hoping it wasn't some error my boss had made because the transaction didn't say where it was from at first, I found out when I got home however it was indeed some insolvency money so happy days! They owe me more of course but that should come at a later date.

All it really means though is that I am no longer overdrawn and just slightly in the black with regards to my bank account for the first time in aaaaaaages. But when it says I have over £2,000 available it does look so nice and tempting! I have to remember I have a £2K overdraft though, bank's money not mine! I haven't put any into poker yet, I'm hesitant to, although having money in my bank makes me feel strange and I feel like I need to spend it on things so that I don't waste it playing poker. I will see how it goes, please let me stay away from £10/£20 one time!

Some action

I haven't been playing poker as much as I once did, owing to having a full time job and bit of a lack of funds. I built up a roll on Stars from a $100 deposit. Withdrew the 100 and was left with 270, but I lost it playing mainly HU games I think. Last Sunday I deposited £50 on to Interpoker and played some £50NL and managed to win some. I withdrew £75 for a small profit and played on with the rest. As of Friday night I had got up to £279, and after a hard week at work I settled down with a few beers to see what I could do at £100NL. Frustrating session however, not being able to hit hands, getting pushed about a bit by aggressive Europeans which worked as I was playing scared money. I ended up losing it all.

I had been paid 2 weeks wages on Thursday so as soon as I lost the last pot I automatically reached for the deposit page, ignoring the voice in my head telling me I was gonna lose all my hard earned money, it was impossible to not re-deposit. So I put £100 in, got up to £193 and then lost the lot, again. So again I deposit another £100, I knuckle down, I can beat these clowns I thought, just play good fool! This is getting bad now I was thinking, I can't afford to be losing this money, have debts to pay, but tilt is too strong. I finished the night on roughly £150.

Saturday - play some more, I win a nice pot with AA. It goes like this. Folded to the SB who makes it £3, I make it £14 (a little large but I did this same raise to this same player a few hands before so I know he thinks I'm at it and doesn't wanna get pushed around. Flop 333, so ideal for aces, he checks, I check, gotta look weak. Turn a K, he checks, I bet £15 and he insta-shoves for another £83 or so to me! I can't call quickly enough and ship the pot my way as he shows K8. After this I have about £293 in my account. So I do something sensible for once and withdraw the £200 I had deposited and leave myself with £93. I play more later, super loose and super aggressive on a table with another even looser player who called 99% of my raises pre flop. I get down to £38ish at worst but leave the room on about £200 I think, not entirely sure.

I play a bit more here and there and bank a couple of £50 wins. Want something to show for the money so withdraw £100. I play again today, two rooms of £150NL this time. On one table I make over £200 and leave, I stay on the other though, because it was ridiculously loose. I raised to £9 on more than one occasion pre flop and got calls from all 4 other players. Almost every pot was a family pot regardless of pre flop raises. Lots of the players on the Boss network are crazy Europeans so it can be very profitable! Here is a nice pot I win with Aces, it shows dollars but I'm playing in pounds. Another ideal flop for my hand, I wonder what he had? Annoying that the hand history doesn't show what they had when they muck. I had been raising a lot pre flop quite large with good starting hands but having to check missed flops because the entire table would usually call, so I think my check here is the right play. At best I'm up £150 in this room but leave £80 up. I withdraw £122 to leave me with exactly a £350 roll. So I make it that I'm up £625 since yesterday morning and about £550 on the week, not entirely sure and I can't be bothered to work it out. Of course I'm earning rake back all the time as well.

So I guess it worked out well this weekend, it could have been a different story of course, I need to be careful. At least I have won a bit of money to pay for things like my car tax which is due and over £100 for 6 months! I need a set of new wheels for my car because one of the alloys is totally cracked, not gonna go for anything flashy though I'm not that bothered, no idea where to get them from either and what size etc? Anyway I have a £350 roll now! How long will it last?! I should obviously play lower, but I just have no interest in grinding right now, I don't have the time to put the hours in and it just bores me. I like the feeling of winning big pots, lol.

Will leave with this hand that I played sometime mid week (£ not $!). It was a turbo room and I literally had what felt like about 6 seconds to make a decision on the turn. The hand just confused me and to be honest I didn't really have a clue if I was ahead, if I had had more time to think about it perhaps I would have folded but the turboness got to me!

I plan to play the $20,000 guaranteed tonight on PKR for $22 buy in if I have had dinner in time. It starts in an hour so not looking too promising lol. Might have to play another on there instead, it's been a while.

Edit: This just happened, what a lucky fish, ouch.