well went on my first poker road trip for about 8 months, NEVER AGAIN (until next time)

hands not in particular order

loads of gay hands really. had some dude called julian thew on my table. got into an early big gay war with him due to his old image but it was really bad looking back at the day because he was just a massive station.
so blew 6k (hundo bigs running some dog shit bluff vs him)
anyway obviously with it been live poker and tard city and a 500bb (25k) stack to work with its only a small set back and i go about business and get my stack back into the black fairly easily just owning people in position etc



few gay hands among the day to note. 1st set the guy who peeled every flop and ran dog shit bluffs peels pre as per he only had a 90vpp so he most certainly has room for improvement on getting that vpp to 100percent . i always wonder with these people like what hand do they see as unplayable cause 84 off tug was very playable apparently and 105 on the button in a 3bet pot was also playable.
anyway flop top set 1083 ss i bet he calls .ace spades turn (NOT THE PRETTIEST CARD IN THE DECK FUCK U ACE OF SPADES)
anyway i bet the fucker anyways to juice the pot vs the clown and his holdings= he calls. river i check call some gay arse bet . oh flush nh sir.

second set was slightly more unusual 3rd hand at new table . in the big with 55 5way limped pot. start hand on 30 bigs with an utg limper. i bet flop 579r utg calls. turn ace check check river 6 he bets 5bigs out of turn and I'm like hmmm guess i have to call not sure what he got and can't really make some sick arse value raise . oh QUEEN 8 sooted wp sir nh u win.


then get last 20bigs in resqueezing . 3 with a 3 . I'm a lil more open to out an out gambling with twenty bigs just to try get a playable stack so i can chip up none showdown style and just run live poker over.

final hand get twenty bigs 20k in with 33 vs ace 9 and thats all she wrote. incidentally was 3callers of the raise so 50bb pot


few other notable hands i use live read skills and make a king hi call .(really should of turned my hand into a bluff and raised but called without enough thought) . he was bluffing with a better king hi . silly me


last notable hand i open utg 5 with a 3 of the same suit. love 53 deffo the best hand in poker and lets face it any hand that has potential for a steel wheel is worth playing when u have lots of chips and droolers to own.

flop ace king 4r i bet 1/3 pot and small blind 2x pots it. obviously him been a nit means I'm guna win this hand cause he aint got a set of fours with his sizing and i don't like to fold so obviously call flop cause i has potential for a wheel. he checks the turn when the 4 pairs and lets me have it with a bet . LESSON 1 kids don't fuck with me i might be a dinosaur but i got wheel cards init.



shitty blog but had to rant .

hand is still broken been wearing the cast a little bit but its really inconvenient . didn't get a wire in my hand not got time for such things gotta make $$$ january was a good month at the tables hopefully february can be another good month .


laters all take care and sorry for the shitty written blog but thats the salfi way .

well as people who read this u will know I'm a bit of a life tard .

so i bust my right hand when drunk and its the most pain i ever had . docs say i need k wire so today i go to hospital and they screen me for MRSA . god knows what that is but I'm worried when i don't understand gibberish . so anyways they tell me i deffo need wire in my hand to piece it back together. this point they ask me if I've eaten and i say yes so i can snap leave and put of the opporation. i don't really know why hospitals worry me but was hoping they just say its minor knock and send me on my way.

anyways il decide tonight what to do. part of me wants the op and part of me thinks itl be ok.


now i know people call me an idiot with things like this but hospitals are my kryptonite just feel like a victim when I'm not in perfect working order and the thought of needing help by strangers who use tools on my body scare the hell out of me. so today i sit home write this blog and think bout tomoro and going back.


poker was going so well of late. the last month has been ne of my most successful ever. 5figs months are rare so its nice to be doing well pre accident so i can at least take sufficient time to recover without rent and things hanging over my head . anyway piece out

so january hasn't had the volume i would like so far.

i had a good end to the year and january has continued the same thankfully.

its been a long time since i had a ten k roll and I'm within touching distance ..

only had one night out during january and I'm keeping good discipline of not having the need to drink until i can't stand up.

think I'm been a bit lazy with volume but i am managing a horse and that takes a lil time and effort.


not really bothered with tcoop as mtts are mega tilting and drains the energy levels so opted to stay out the bulk of the schedule.

so its over another year passes me by and its been kinda a blur.

the hi light of the year was going bust i guess. was down to £300 pound bankroll at one point .i didn't have a great year at the tables overall but i started the year staked so i dumped all my own life moneys away on nights out etc then my backer went bust and i was left in a hole. i kinda never really recovered for the next ten months and i just struggled to get by .

about 2 months ago i started playing a lot more live poker and the mix allowed me to chill out a lil more and play with a more varied routine of live and online play. this has resulted in a new found relaxed me been a lil more at ease with poker again and not having the hate the game feeling i sometimes get .

i never hate the game i just get frustrated when I'm grinding games i should of moved up and graduated from . i still find great comfort grinding 20games at once. and I'm very content grinding a 30 dollar hourly rate if i need to grind dollars to live and shot take etc.

i split up with my girlfriend at the start of the year and i think things personally are getting a lot better . i have a little boy and i have to still murge this into my routine. i love my lil lad ever so much and as I'm not with his mother its impossible to be a great dad .
i miss the little things he does day to day and just feel like I'm missing out on so much . me and his mother were together for about 7 years and we never really got along we just went thru the motions .obviously u can cherry pick some good moments and I'm grateful of the years we were together because i got to be a dad who worked at home and saw my lil boy everyday.


something I've struggled with more then ever this year is fitness and nutrition .

for anyone who knows me I'm kinda a joke when it comes to food. I'm not 19 anymore I'm very aware i can't eat what i want and burn the candle at both ends and not pay the price. there is a kfc two doors along and its just so easy to just pop in . HELLO CHICKEN .
its something i have to go cold turkey with and just quit eating it.

I'm aware i need to get back into running but i think i need to address my eating patterns and behaviours before i get back into running again. it is a constant battle but its something that i refuse to fail at and il keep trying reguardless of how many times i fuck up.

as a 29 year old man ive spent most the year happily been single but part of me misses having someone about who has my interests at heart. I'm not one for going out and trying to hit on woman its just not me and lots of the time i forget I'm single.
this might sound bizarre but as I'm still a dad and i have to deal with the ex gf a lot more then i like i still find myself running to hers if she rings me for a bit of action this perhaps isn't good to move on and i know I'm been used but i just love her body and can't say no as much as i know its terrible for my mind set .
i don't really have any family about anymore so I've become a lot less respectful and tolerant in general i think. my family are scattered all over the globe my dads family are all italian and my mums side are scattered in australia at various locations. i still have a bit of family in leeds but I'm not very close to them and just about manage the odd text every 6 months or so .

i guess its very good that I'm self aware of how i act and behave to people so it allows me to change how i act if i really wanted to. this year should be more eventful then ever and i have plans to do a lot more travel this year if i can get my head down and make money without the life spew. going bust has been a wake up call and i end the year in a much healthier place then i started the year.


all in all my bankroll to end the year sits at about $8000 and although thats not a lot it was only 3000 pre this week , I've just had a mini heater of loads of lil scores and managed to be a lil more sensible then i would of been usually .

last note is i have a horse and he has made me a few quid. I've decided just having one horse and pumping money into him is a better way to shot take then just buying random pieces . my horse is generally solid and its good going out on the razzle knowing someone somewhere is grinding u equity . my horse plays the same games as me and with my share of profit i intend to just shot take him in a bunch of stuff


anyways uve had enough insight into salfi world for another year so thats all ya getting for 2011




congrats to luke and dan for making the wise choice of moving to leeds. leeds is the poker pro place of choice.

good luck in 2012 x

merry xmas everybody.



will be back into grinding in the new year , happy holidays everybody x

so been playing a lil more live cash poker . really frustrating week. dropped a couple of dimes over about 5 sessions


like not been playing great but been rather solid . keep making no hand but seam fine with the spots that develop. as I'm one of the more nitty regs with a lot less spew they decided there gonna keep making 2pair plus vs me and just take my dollar with shit odds and facerolls

i do a lot of limp reraising. my general game is sit to the right of the most aggro player who likes to make it 7 pre relentlessly. generally trap 40 or 50 squid in the middle before i pop it up.
last time out he wasn't in the game so sat with all the terrible regs and sat and peddled.

my last hand i get the young aggro dude to try donate 400 to me but he failed with a lil help from the deck. the hand bugged me cause its one of the few spots u can bet call off with ace high and know your ahead when 200bigs each are in the middle(not optimal played but with op tendencies it was like taking candy from a baby except this baby had some kind of aggro spakka deck assistance working in sync with his powers). though i aint been doing well in these pots over the last 15months sulking does not change anything.

anyway river completes his hand and i go home pissed off again.

now i was a bit pissed of with my reaction to losing as i been working hard on zero emotional attachment to any hand of poker but as I've done in all my comp winnings from the other week I'm cash busto again so I'm out of the game until i spin up some more dimes to get back in action.


been out of action sucks hard but i guess been busto i get time to smell the roses :/


pokerstars having the 10mill sunday millions in a few weeks thats going to be crazy.
i think i have a stake for it on a 40/60 freeroll so bit of luck i do somet in that as my cut of 2mill(800k) could be of use right now (sounds depressing thinking about a 1 in 10k shot of me actually winning but i guess someone has to)

other news my horse has started to stop losing. i decided i was going to quit him but he had a few hundo dollars left so I've left him with the task of doing whatever the fuck he wants. if he loses it I'm done as i aint sending him no more..

weather in the uk absolutely sucks at the moment. don't want to get out of bed to face coldness

should be going to macau in the spring if all gos to plan.

i have held on to a property for a while and now seams like a good time to get the cash out of it and sell it. will get a shitty price but I'm not keeping it for any other reason then sentimental ones . it was my 1st home and i been letting it for the last 7 years or so .
a lil part of me dies if i sell it but ho hum fuck it gamboooool. whats life without been in action. just hopefully I'm a lil wiser and don't flick in strippers and what not too often with the proceeds.


anyway rant over .

so i been playin a lot more live at the local gala where I've been playin a lot of £1/ £2 with the game been straddled . 1k stacks are regular its been interesting to say the least.

i was playing plo the other day and managed a quick 500 profit where i span up from £100 to 800 within my first orbit(gave a little back by making nuts on turn a lot and folding on gash rivers).
the game seamed really good but I'm no plo player really . was just playing 4,5 or 6card and i kinda know u need the nut cards to start with as anything other then nut flushes or million card wrap outs aint much good when u get ya dollar in the middle. some reg dude gets all his money in with me with 47kq no suits on 56jdd flop . he managed to turn me but i resucked on the river with my 5689dd holding. fun times and my first pot with over 500 in the middle for about 6 months.

anyway managed to give about 1200 back to the nl regs somehow. really struggling with live reads and suffering from tunnel vision in hands. can't seam to get a pot whatever line i take . feel outplayed and outclassed . perhaps should just play tighter for a while make my choices easier. truth is there just a lot of people clicking buttons but i aint getting the better of this button clicking madness over the last 12 months . I'm losing the big pots when i have the best of it and even if i was winning them ide be close to even rather then crushing the game. hopefully its just a few thousand hands of run bad. did spaz 150 bigs in other day with kq for some reason with emotional attachment of a fuck you style move :/


no idea how much i down in the game perhaps could delude myself and say I'm close to even and i might be but all i can think of is all the dumb shit I've done in the game and how much ev I've lost as a consequence of it. i must be close to even as i have all my winnings from the comp last week but up down i think affects my sanity more then ide like to think. i was born to nit up at the table i think sometimes and maybe thats what i should do more of. maybe the place for all these crazy moves is in spots where I'm a lot more clearer its going to work rather then marginal spots of not been sure . idk



laters
comments please welcome as i always appreciate any feedback x

just shipped 3bags for besting 265 field at gala. winning fifty freeze has no creditworthiness i know. but three bags at the minute gos a long way and atleast lets me make rent this month . pretty much bust at minute as my horse has just done my net worth.

not even sure if i should have a horse can't afford to keep him . not even sure he beats the game in all honesty. how he plays when i rail is one thing but when i leave him to it i just watch him fold to death far too often. maybe should pull the plug but its too easy to get emotional stuck into these things :/ anyway 3bags allows me to dump a few more quid his way and at least gives me something to do if nothing else.



clocks have just gone back here in the uk. extra hour in bed

well as a complete retard in life and in general generalness of genralisation of idealism . not sure what i quite did there but it sounds kinda cool cause there lots of big words .

well i get the mac pro super balh blah blah with all the fancy aps and stuff. obv i have no idea where stuff is on it and im sat on my old piece of shit computer writing this blog were i feel comfortable.


the magic mouse confuzzles me and im gettin to grips with it slowly. teh title of this blog is slight confuzzling cause i havnt really returned teh mac but part of me thinks i should and stick to what i know (simple and none adapting and dinasaur like)

well i will have to try take some pics of my set up as i feel kinda happy that i self indulged in somet that is going to take effort and time to addapt to. works well for pictures.


what i will say about it though is 2x 27inches of monitor is way too much and far too much of it is wasted. spew purcahse as i cant use table ninja apparently and have to get rid of HEM and go back to PT3 .the mac prehaps isnt poker friendly im not too sure until i get into ita lil more. change is scary but im dealing with it. im not really upto date with teh world of hud so can make some alteration to my hud now as i have much more screen space .
used to just use vpip pfr steel and hands. (kinda just identfy regs from spastics), im a tiler so generally know table flow and who doing what . good thing about micros is everyone spewing so flow and metagame isnt as important. when i play the 109s plus i generally play very few games so have much better understanding of who doing what hud less important. anyway im going on now

anyway been on teh phone for three hours to virgin to try get my intermitant connection fixed as ive had loads of problems with disconections . all i can say is FUCK U VIRGIN .


sat here drinking wine and its all going to my head. havnt played poker for about ten days and not missed it in the slightest . still done lots of railing and my months chat ban will be up soon. i got one month for tryin to make donald on stars feel about 1inch big. i wont repeat the conversaton cause i was a lil harsh and prob a bit mean . but FUCK U DONALD.

just bought some bought myself a computer .

now im techno tard but i figured as i spend so much time at my computer i might aswell go nuts and buy somet decent . here is the mac pro spec


One 3.20GHz Quad-Core Intel Xe
8GB (4X2GB)
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s

One 18x SuperDrive
Magic Mouse..
Apple KB User's Guide-GBR
COUNTRY KIT.GBR
along with 2x Apple LED Cinema Display (27" flat panel)


now this is prob a dumb waste of money but i figure its better then spending it on slaaaaags.

had a few days off playin as i decided to deposit like 5bags online and managed to wipe it off.

will be back on it in the next few days though.


excersize has been awful but gettin to footy once a week is better then nothing i guess.

not been upto too much else just doing my bollox and gettin pissed as per. FUCK WCOOP cant remember my last cash


laters folks