**** CHALLENGE ABORTED ****

I withdrew my money and stopped the challenge due to generally being fed up of it, I might have another crack at some point in the future though - watch this space!!!

(For the record I cashed out at €1000, or €996.47 to be precise)

Played 3 games. Finished 1st in the €5+0.50 forum game for €102.50, finished first in a 50FPP freeroll for €25.00 and went out in 96th out of 377 in the €10+1 €3500GTD (to a bad beat).

Quite a good first night back really. Though I still got quite bored and played a bit over-aggressively at times, had a bit of luck when I needed it though!

Current balance: €1170.68

Long time no update...

So what has happened since I last posted nearly a month ago? Won loads? Gone bust? Well....not much, as I haven't been playing! Too many sick bad beats have left me frustrated and I find I just can't be bothered with poker at the moment. Struggling to concentrate and finding it a bit boring really. I've played the Gambling.co.uk forum game a couple of times which I normally enjoy as its a good standard of poker for the buy-in but even in that lately I've been getting stupid beats and bad luck so just haven't bothered playing much.

Having said all that I might play some poker later so I will see how I get on and if I want to get back on with the challenge. As it stands I've played just over 500 games which isn't much at all over 7-8 months.


Current balance: €1059.68

Still no tilt!

I have managed not to tilt for a while now, which is pretty good. I am running a bit better so not sure if that's the reason behind or if I am genuinely improving!! Not making massive progress but am generally making a small profit each time I play and I came second in the Gambling.co.uk forum game too, my hands held up all night until heads up when I was rivered into second, ah well. Might play a few more games after this but as things stand...


Current balance: €926.67

Profit again today..

..not that much though but better than losing (which I started off doing). Playing mostly €20 games now with some €30's and also €10 games as they fill up quicker. Surprising how bad some of the players are still, though I did notice in a €20 10 seater it got much tougher towards the end and a bit crapshooty as there was 4 of us pretty much playing standard sit n go tactics, the blinds got really high and I ended up finishing 3rd but it could just as easily been 1st, 2nd or 4th really.

Played 9 games today and still haven't tilted woop woop!!! 2 days clean! haha!



Current balance: €865.77

Coolers!

Just mostly been playing coolers today, managed to 5-table comfortably at one point which I was pleased with as I normally only play 2-3. Going to try and stick to 4 or 5 tables at a time when playing the Cooler games in the future (top 5 double their money in these), as they are easier to multi table.

Also, I invested in a new book - Zen and The Art Of Poker! To try to stop my tilt problem!! It teaches you the art of "Zen" and how to apply these philosophies to poker - something to do with Buddhism, I've not read it yet so not sure exactly what, but I read a bit at random and it seems good!! And I didn't tilt today for the first time in ages! Not sure if that's because I was winning though and didn't get as many bad beats.... watch this space!!


Current balance: €827.77

Back once again...

Well I'm back, and the no tilting plan went out the window in the first game I played (damn me!!!) It was the weekly forum game and I was chip leader when I lost a 4000 pot at the 50/100 level with AA v KJ on a J high flop, played a bit silly after that...

Still trying not to tilt but it seems like when I've got stressful things going on in my personal life I can't shut it out when I'm playing poker and every donk bad beating me sets me off :o( I've chucked away quite a few games by shoving all in with crap on another table after being bad beat on a seperate one....trying hard to stop this now!! I have had some silly beats though and they seem to keep happening in the €20+2 games. I was playing a €20 one, a €10 or €15 and a cheaper one but kept cashing in the lower two and getting no luck in the 20 euro, e.g the most recent one I was chip leader with 7 left and the person in 2nd couldn't fold their J-J pre flop. I had K-K and I don't really need to mention the obvious J on the flop.

Anyway, enough moaning!! I haven't really made any progress and have dropped down to the €640 mark at times but have got it back up to over €750 so I thought that deserves a blog update!!


Current balance: €768.52