Fish and Chips

A poker themed blog, charting the demise of my degree and the rise of my poker career.


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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Newcastle GUKPT

Just a quick good luck to Rick Trigg, who I've met recently on the Crypto cash tables. He won the DTD Trader freeroll for a seat in the GUKPT leg in Newcastle and is now second in chips going to the final table. Live updates can be found here.

Saturday, July 21, 2007

I Knew He Looked Familiar

Looking back at some of the Oxford Cup photos I noticed that I'd been playing at the same table as John Kalmar. He just came 5th in the WSOP main event for a cool $1.2 million. We had a good chat at the Oxford Cup and it turned out that we'd played a bit together on the online cash tables. He's a really nice guy and obviously an excellent player so it's great to see him do so well.

I've not much else to report. I've had another good week online, although haven't put in the hours I would have liked. This month's rakeback cheque will be somewhat depleted unless I pull my finger out over the remaining days.

The bankroll is now big enough that I'm playing the £100 and $200 with full stacks. I'm also taking a few more shots at the £200 and occasionally the $500 with a short stack.

I've been spending a lot of time on Cardrunners.com and it seems to be helping my game considerably. Somewhere over the last few months I seemed to have lost all of my aggression. I've rediscovered it thanks to Cardrunners and it's been making a big difference to my game.

That's about it for now. Off to the zoo this afternoon.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Still Grinding

It's been a while since my last post, as you may have noticed. Real life bad beats in the shape of bereavements in the extended Pink family have unsurprisingly diverted attention away from posting here.

I've been grinding away nonetheless and the results have been good. I also received June's rakeback as a lump sum. So now the bankroll is more comfortable and I've been able to pay off the credit card.

It's no overnight recovery, just the first step on a long road back. I'm still playing the £100 and $200 tables and will be for at least another month, unless things go very well.

Today, I've finally taken some steps in poker tuition which I've been meaning to do for some time. I wanted something more than can be gained by posting and reading on 2+2 and other such forums and I don't have the cash to spend on one-on-one lessons. I believe I've found the perfect middle ground in signing up to CardRunners and now have access to all their tuitional videos. From the first couple I've watched I have no doubt that I'm going to learn a lot.

Now go back to your WSOP reading.