2009 Catch-Up

Weekly (and yearly) Total +$261

Well after my extended absence from the virtual felt I’ve managed to cram in about 20 hours of play since I’ve returned to HK, the vast majority of them four tabling 25NL on Stars. Having run my Stars roll down to $60 at my lowest ebb I’ve now worked in up into $400+ making going bust pretty unlikely unless I step back up to 50NL to soon.

I’m running at around 8PTBB/100 at the moment in 2009 and would be happy to continue at that win-rate.

I sent various documents to Neteller showing my UK address and they have told me they just need to phone me to confirm my account.

I’ve also tried setting up another alternate online payment service using the same docs but not heard back from them although I had to upload the docs onto their website. Basically I have yet to resolve the satisfactory movement of cash online as yet. I’m getting pretty pissed off that I’m missing out on bonii that would be accounting for about $2,000 a year in profit.

I’m considering depositing on a new site with a rake-back deal using a Scottish bank card and that is something I want to explore.

I’m also looking at investing in a top of the range laptop at the moment. Shit hot spec with 17HDscreen and Bluray DVD+writer (50 gigs of data on each disk!). I’ve offered 14K but the seller is looking for 16K.

I’ll try out 6 tabling if I do get that monster although I want a decent sample of hands to compare my 4x against 6x win-rates first.

Major change in strategy for this year is table selection. If I meet any resistance online I’m walking even if I think I’m probably better than them. I broke my new rule yesterday playing heads-up against another player who was aggressive but medium stacked. I was given drawing odds all the way with a hand that almost doubled him up. I then did double him up when I shoved on a J 98K board with JT and he called with KK. Anyway that is the exception to the new rule and it seems to be working out okay.

A recent improvement to my game is being able to lay losing hands down. Always the danger of folding the winning hand of course but sometimes you have to. I’m also shoving a lot lighter now as well if I think I’m good and of course with some drawing hands. With this in mind my pot size manipulation is improving all the time.

Having signed up for Deuces crack instructional site for six months I’ve allowed over half of that time to go by having watched only two vids so my belated New Year resolution has to be to start watching more although it is more fun just playing.

PS
And my horse has been running strongly of late but still an expensive pony leaving me about GBP4K down.