New Blogs

Its been a while since I've been through my whole blogroll but I now feel duly updated. I've also discovered a handful of new Poker Blogs which have been duly added to the list:

I first read The Milybarkid's Blog when Otis was blogging on the EPT. I rediscovered it thanks to Doubleas' link-up. That guy is living the dream: £10-20 PLO and the big tourny circuit. Maybe I'll get there... one day!

Other UK additions to the blog roll: Sherwood Poker, The Camel Ruminates, and Lucky Blind.

In other news...

I met with my essay advisor today to get some ideas for structuring the beast. I've fianlly submitted my title: "Innate Immune Mechanisms in Allergy". It's sufficiently vague to allow me still to figure out what I'm gonna write, although I'd better make my mind up fairly quickly since it's due in just over two weeks.

On the poker front...

I'm continuing to tread water on Party. I think this is a combination of my crapness, which I'm going to put down to the distraction of knowing that whenever I play I should actually be doing some work,and also the fact that I'm playing at the quietest time of day in the USA. I therefore decided to re-deposit on a Eurpoean site. I'd got a "Comeback! We've really missed you." bonus from Victor Chandler but when I tried to deposit it told me that the code ws invalid. The woman on the helpline was suitably lacking in any help so I told her that Will Hill could have my money instead. Besides, the Crypto Network, of which Will Hill is a member, has re-established its £25 monthly prop.

I'd forgotten how good Will Hill had been to me in the past. God only knows why I cashed out from there. The play is abysmal and this was during the day. I transferred $400 of my bankroll over there and by the evening it was up to $900. I played one table of $100 NL and one table of £2/4 short-handed limit. I trippled my buy-in on the NL table. Most of it came when I had AA thanks to a chap with AK who called pot sized bets on the flop and turn with only over cards. The last Ace came on the river which ensured that his whole stack came in my direction. The short-handed limit tables were even better. I've never seen such loose-passive play. I remember the $5/10 6-max tables on Party being juicy (back when I had a roll big enough for that), but they were always very aggressive.

I think short-handed limit is where I want to aim at for the summer. If I can biuld enough of a roll to play the $5-10 game on Party then I can aim to follow in the footstpes of Geormiet and Scapegoate from ITH. It'll be interesting to see if Will Hill's 6-max tables continue to be so passive as the stakes rise. I haven't scouted them out, but I doubt they'll continue to be as easy as things were yesterday.

Right, back to the books....