Day 1

- solid lecture/ seminar block 12 - 6.... = no val.
- 3 days off = max. val.
- Catching a second dose of fresher's flu = no val.
- Being able to get a 12 hour sleep tonight = max. val.

:)

I dont feel great this evening, having caught "fresher's flu" for the second time in 2 weeks, but decided to play 1 SNG..

Went for a full table one, obv. $5, non turbo. Came second for $13.50, which is $8 profit, so shiiipp that.. good start to the challenge!

Few hands:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4757948

Love this hand, normally I check in this spot post flop (which I would like some critical comments on) but decided to drop a tiny little bet in, for no reason other than to squeeze a bit more value out of the hand, I think if he hasnt hit the jack then he checks behind if i check, and folds if I make a bet >100 (based on his style previously). Lovely surprise when he shiiiippps.. obv. insta call.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4757972

Heads up now, and have 4-5 in BB, SB limps, I check.. flop = 9,9,J; killamonjamie min bets ( i understand that this is the move i made before with trips, but I'm a soul reader.. :D) I bet 2 BB, which is only ~7% of stack, so am not too concerned.. he folds..

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4757980

Final hand, I'm in SB, I raise to ~3BB he ships, (he has done this 3 previous hands) I call, sadly board is completely blank for both of us, and his Ace takes it.

... There were a couple of hands I played poorly but I can see the issues, and will work on keeping them out of my game..

Bonfire Night Challenge..

I haven't been playing much poker recently with work and music, but decided yesterday to get back in the online world.. I have deposited in a few accounts, but have decided my main account will be Full Tilt Poker.. I love their software, and it works great with Poker Office.. For those who have read this blog, you will know I have had little success on FTP in the past, so this is even more of a challenge for me... Here is how it will go..

I have deposited $200 into my FTP account, and over the next month (ending on 5th November, bonfire Night) I will play $5 SNGs exclusively and will keep track of my BR over the month. I will provide some updates on a reg. basis and will post graphs and some PokerOffice stats at the end of the month.. Also will chuck some HandHistories up.. If you are online I am playing under the name "UEA PokerStar" check it out, and shout at me if I am playing anything other than $5 SNGs.. :D


In other news... UEA Poker's first tournament of the year was a huge success with over 80 people, Tidey, John and Stephen chopping it up 75-80-80 at the end.. Next week is going to be in Constable terrace, so that should be interesting.. We have around 150 fully paid up members now which is sick, and should make for a great year of tournaments!

Start of Year :D

Hello everyone.. Blog has gone a bit quiet recently, so thought I would chuck in a little post.

Online Poker: haven't played much recently as had been working long hours but just started up again, hopefully will post some interesting hands soon..

Live Poker: played a couple of times at the new poker club in my home town, really nice setup they have. low point: donked off £25 on a hopeless bluff, high point: read my way to a £50 win on pair of 10s on a board with A and K..

Have a nice little chip set all ready for a Premier league style tournament, which will hopefully happen soon..

Home games have not really happened for a while for similar reasons to why I haven't been playing online......

Poker Soc: Completed the new website ( www.ueapoker.co.uk ) and set up the new facebook page ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=74766802002 ). Have set up affiliate schemes with Best Poker ( https://www.bestpoker.com/signup?bonuscode=ueapoker100 ) which will be the home of the Poker Soc's online tourneys for the year; and also with Poker Office ( http://www.pokeroffice.com/?AffID=11673 ) which will earn the soc. some munns to go towards some great prizes etc....

Soc mart was a huge sucess with approx 190 sign-ups and more are expected.

Non Poker: Spent the first part of the summer working, and in the past few weeks have been volunteering with Norfolk Music Works in their summer projects.. Met some awesome musicians, and it has reignited my interest in music feels great to go and make some music :D :D Have sorted out my home studio completely so have real nice recording set-up... :D

Now going into final year of Law degree, have chosen: employment law, company law, medical law and Human Rights in the UK as my four subjects, so looking forward to that.. Not sure what the plan is for this time next year yet though would like to take some time to travel a bit, but who knows, Vegas is definately on the cards for next year though!

Thats me done, not to much poker stuff, but will be soon, check out website for more info on the poker soc!

VEGAS BABY!

Temporary blog here:

http://21daysinvegas.blogspot.com/

In other news:

I'm a graduate
I am 21
I had an awesome time away with my gf
New house is sick
Walked into post office today with £4k to change into dolls for me and owe. it was fun.

-Adam.

Adam 19th July

Hey

Am coming to the end of the busiest week ever i think!

Tuesday was my sisters graduation which was pretty cool. Both her and her bf are doctors now, scary! the family came up tho and we had a party in our garden afterwards that was pretty cool. in the evening went to jeals 21st thing in his garden with hannah for a bit which was nice, his mum did a sick hog roast and there was a crazy 10p 20p cash game that saw wins of £200 and losses of £300 for some, loool!

Wednesday we got the new house keys (!) where me owe and jeal are living next year,which obviously meant a busy day. am really pleased with it, its gradually getting how i want it to be too.

Thursday was my graduation! Will post pics on fbook soon, was a really good day. didnt fall over on the stage which was handy, and was nice to see some friends again. again the family came up and we had a chinese in the evening which was good, then i was in bed at 10pm as i was ridic tired.

Today has been manic, got to the bank about 10, they wouldnt help me with my isa (wtf) so im taking all my money out of halifax and putting it in lloyds tsb, who actually are nice to me. then bought a new tv for the house (42" plasma, ship) and had to get back for lunch as the sky man was coming to fit the full works package. got the 360 up and running too which is handy. then spent 2 hours on the phone with sky and bt trying to sort out broadband, has gone from 3-4 days, to 1 week, to 2 weeks, to 21-24 days ffs. writing a big letter to sky as theyve really done us over, i am a bit anal and have a call log of who i spoke to, what they said and when so will hopefully get some compensation for it.

This evening i sat down to play as hadn't played for a couple of days. won about 100 euros in sweden and felt i was playing really good. decided i would play 20 games of 20 euro headsup non turbo, and got off to a flyer winning 9 and losing 1. However, in the next 10 games i lost 7! Was pretty standard, had a few sick coolers and then some hands like me 3 betting QQ pre then letting them stack off with middle pair on flop, followed by them 5 outering me on turn/river. I guess you cant win all your 80:20s! Also ran QQ into KK at 50 100 which sucked.

So after rake finished 40 euros up (but played a 10e comp) so balance on 750euros. Will hopefully rake 400-500-600 euros this month too, the plan is to have the balance at a minimum of 1k at the start of august when rb comes in. 1.1k is better, and 1.2k good, with anything above being awesome.

Played a really decent reg called S@mS@m too who i beat, had to play a different style ofc, but was doing things like CRAI on the turn of a AQ56 board after he limp called a raise pre knowing he was floating the flop with such a wise range and would find it had to call without 2 pair +, somehting im obv not doing vs fishy players!

Anyhoo, i think thats everything....not playing as many mtts as im focussing so much on hu, but really feel my game is improving.

Off to lounge in front of big new telly with beer and pretzels...ahh.

Gl all,

Adam

Owe 13th of june

Holaaaa, been very bad and lazy with updates, been "busy" and basically lazy tbh(great combo i know). Been playing a fair bit online, last month won 4.4k and am happy with that result, have came up with the conclusiont hat i dont play enough AND not enough comps either, probs won about 2k this month , althou 1200 was basically a gift since there was a sick comp with 24 runners, came third for 1.2k SHIP!

Adams been running pretty good, bubbled today in comp, wasa lot of discussion about the play but meh, it is what it is, even thou too of my buddies apparantly railed me and got told of for playing it badly in the comp when i went out etc (sorry Adam) lol, but expalined it wasnt me playing and LOL AT NEITHER OF THEM BELIEVING ME! Its all good thou :)

The heads up has been going so so, up 300ish today, but had few important games that i lost in semi harsh ways.

Saw an interesting prog on tv just now about the absolute/ultimate bet poker scandal, was very interesting and sick sick, basically the guy never got into any serious trouble even thou they knew who it was. Val in shipping millions from pros without getting into trouble haha... Amazes me that ppl still play there....

Goal of this month is 5k shoudl be doable :)

Will be going back to Norwich for Adams Bar Mitzva so will be in Norwich on the 29th fun fun, moving into new house which shud be great fun and setting up my room and grind pad, and make it nice for the ladies haha!

New updates are promised! will be keeping them coming!

Peace Owe

ship. it. holla

Adam here...

1) Scholarship got confirmed today. absolutely over the moon, means no finance problems (well, still on student budget but no debt!) for next 4 years if i want it, insane. Looking forward to giving the phd a good crack, we'll see.

2) In prof this month on b2b, was always in prof from sngs but donked off on cash at start of account so had to start stuck. up 120e now, if i hadn't have donked cash or mtts etc would be 500e. So, that means this month no mtts on b2b! lol.

3) talked to my old sixth forms current yr12 economics class today. went through how i did at alevels and what i had to do to get where i am today etc. they really seemed interested which was nice, in general it was fun and we even talked about how game theory affects heads up play, tangents ftw!

Now watching a couple of films with jeal before we leave for stansted.

gl all

adam