Sorted!

Since my last post i've pretty much sorted my poker life out, i've deleted and closed my account at Stars completely, so theres no going back there, i've moved my whole roll to one site and i'm determined to carry on playing till i hit my $2k roll goal, then i'll be rolled enough to play the limits i want and take home a wage from any profits.

The site i've chosen was not one of the 3 i listed in my last post, i opted for Littlewoods due to the weak fish but for some reason they have decided to close my poker account and not let me open a new one or reinstate my old one, weird but its there loss. So instead i opted for Everest Poker, basically i was looking for a non rakeback site with weak fish, where i'd be able to dominate the games against far less skilled players. I think i choose right as i've binked a tidy score playing PLO25 and 50 against some complete gutter fish! Today winnings has seen me double this weeks winnings in 2 sessions, which is obviously running hot, but i basically stayed patient and waited for the fish to make the mistakes, generally most of my money came from flush over flushes and higher straights over lower, the less skilled somehow can't seem to find a fold, which is ofcourse nice! I'll continue the grind until i'm rolled enough to skim profits off and maybe move back to a rakeback paying site, but for now my home is Everest!

Enough is enough!

Jumping from site to site isn't doing anyone any good, depositing on Stars was just plain dumb, thinking the RNG may like was even dumber. My poker has been a waste of space this month, chopping and changing, moving around sites like a crazy man, it needs to stop and stop quick! I need to pick a site and just get my grind on, get used to the players moves, get used to the site and what it offers, so thats what i'm going to do!

I've made $147 this week, not including RB or bonuses and i have cashed out all monies out of all accounts back to neteller and will make a decision on what site i'm going to grind fully on out of these 3:-
Powerpoker - my old faithfull, 33% RB, full of fish, a site i've consistantly won on, decent bonuses through the gold chip scheme!
Betsafe - decent traffic, 50% through a $500 deposit, cashback equivalent to rakeback but at a low %
LuckyAce/Littlewoods/Pacific - a very old favourite, weakest standard of player i've come across on the net, may be able to find a skin and get some kind of deposit bonus etc, but no rakeback etc

So i'm taking the next day or so off, will total relax from poker then restart the grind, get to around $2k Bankroll then start skimming off a profit per week/month. Should have around $400-500 rake race payments next month (thats how much i've chopped and changed) so i'll be adding them to the bankroll, need to get back playing seriously and not mucking about, just look at last month when i stuck to one site and won big!

Note to self:- Sort your fucking head out!!!!

Not a bad strike!

Cracker of a goal, not that i support Spurs or Gunners but great to see goals like this!

Poker struggling at the minute like i have been for most of this month, its going to be nothing like last months big pay day! Just can't seem to get a winning run going, no matter if iam playing correctly. Flamingo bet i lost $40 for the day yesterday, but should of been around $100-150 up if the donks hadn't hit massive suckouts or i had won my flips. Deposited on Stars to play some 180 manners but after 25 mins i was bored stupid and basically dumped myself out of them, guess i dont have the concentration or the patience to play NLHE mtt/sngs, so i'll be withdrawing from there pretty soon!

Flamingo Bet and Russian Pokerplayers

I've found a new site to play, mainly due to the rake race only having 12 runners, the site is called Flamingo Bet on the Everleaf network (US players excepted) I thought i'd give it a try with a little deposit. Apart from permantly having Barry Manilow's Copacabana song permantly in my head whilst playing it, the pink Lobby, yes pink lobby and the Tropic themed tables, its not to bad. The wife did make a passing comment last night asking 'Is that a gay poker site?' Yes it does look mightily camp, but if the standard was anything like last night, i don't mind a little camp! It didnt take me long to move most of my roll over to it, i didnt run particularly good, but the standard is totally soft, reminds me of Party Poker 6 years back and the mtt's are softer than Sky Poker! The site mainly consists of mad Russians and other Eastern block countries and there PLO game needs a lot of work, they consistantly chase any draw 80% of the time, any flush draw is good for them to stack off with, 2 pair is the nutz also to them, all i need to do is run semi decent on there and i'll clean up! Spoke to a Danish reg on a 0.25/50 Euro table who was sat with 6 times his buyin, who said basically just nut peddle and you can clean up on the site! Played a few mtt's aswell and from what i saw QJ is worth all the chips to most on there, not matter what stage of the mtt........sweet! Another sweet deal is i get 40% rakeback paid every Monday on the account, plus a 100% deposit bonus just wished i'd deposited a larger sum than $180 when testing the site out, oh well rake race money will boost it a little probably somewhere between $300-700 payout!

Yesterday i won $36 on Betsafe before switching to the gay site where i won another $73 (As said above i ran like crap at first!) which makes me $142 up for the week with hardly any real volume of hands! Still hanging on in the rake leaderboards for Ipoker and Betsafe aswell hopefully around $300 payout at the end of the month from them. Actually going to deposit on Stars today and try some 180 manners as a break from PLO grinding then its back to the Gay site tonight to catch the mad Russians!

No real desire to play!

For some unknown reason i have no real urge to sit at a poker table, have probably played about 3 hours total this week, for a profit of $69, pretty pathetic really as i am missing out on rakeback, rake race points which basically equals free and easy money. Business has been real busy of late, and i find my time being took up alot by that, which is ofcourse a good thing, but even when i have spare time at night, i prefer to waste it reading blogs, facebook and stuff. Maybe a change of game might motivate me, problem is i'm average at any other poker form, and find no joy sitting in a mtt to bust close to the money! I type this words with dread as i am considering depositing on Stars and playing some PLO mtt's, the site hates me, but thanks to reading Custo's blog i now know i can ban myself from cash games! Maybe a night of plo donking in a mtt might encourage me to get back to the grind in the spare time i have! At one point last night i even considered re entering the world of Warcraft and killing a few things, then i came to my senses and realised a 36 yr old running around as a Elf is a little sad, espcially when everyone else playing is under 21 years of age and spend like 20 hours a day mastering the dam game!

Oh what to do, what to do!

Weekly Roundup, Rake races and few changes to blog!

Last week since restarting my bankroll at $1k i made $309 profit not including rakeback or bonus at PLO25, so not a bad week, will try keep up the volume and clear this Betsafe $500 bonus. I've come to the conclusion that playing poker at a high level isnt really for me, so i'm gonna try and get to 80-100 buyins at PLO25 and then start removing winnings on a weekly basis and enjoy the profits, no point grinding all the time and not spending any of the winnings, poker at the end of the day should just be for fun and any profits you make is a bonus! (This poker view may change - as my ideas/views often do!)

For anybody who reads this and doesn't have rakeback/VIP status on their accounts WTF!!!! is up with you? Rakeback can turn a bad month into a break even and a winning one into a even sweeter one! Anyone with any complete sense should take advantage of sites of giving you money back, so i've affiliated myself to a very good professional site and can offer some pretty amazing deals! These guys i work with are amazing and offer upto 40%+ on some of the biggest sites out there, they are very professional, answer all questions/problems quickly and efficiently and are by far the best i've come across in over 6 years of online poker playing. If anyone wants to know more, you email or msn me at r-payne@hotmail.com

Another massive bonus of signing up through me is some amazing rake races. For those who dont know what they are, basically the top earning rakers win bonus cash just for playing their normal game on certain sites. Now normal rakeback sites offer these and they are flooded with pro grinders who clear all the top prizes month in month out, well i can offer races that are so quiet you wont believe how easy the cash is, its basically free money! Heres a taster of some and what rake you need to earn to get a decent payout:-
Bodog - At the minute the top rake earnt is $73 (WTF) and the current leader is looking at walking away with $1000 hard cash, its a $5k rake race so anything over $1 in rake will earn you atleast $50 at the minute, absolute crazy, so basically you could play 10 hands of $1/2 and walk away with over $100 of race bonus!
Ipoker - If u rake more than $160 u could look be over $300 in race bonus, Crazy!
Flamingo Poker - Another quiet rake race, i'm looking at $150 bonus for earning $12 in rake, i only played the site for 25 mins!
You can be a break even poker player and earn a profit a month just by playing these races, i'm on 3 leaderboards at the minute and looking at over $500 race bonus payout at the end of the month, shame i already have a Bodog account or i would be gunning for the $1k first prize, its free money and any player is daft to miss out!!! More on these deals and rakeback in future posts.

How do you like the new blog look? I'm currently working on it, and will be adding a few banners and stuff and trying to make it look a little better!

Sorting my game out!

Since i have reset my bankroll and starting again at the bottom (probably the only level i can beat) i've ran ok, since my last post i've grinded out $244 at PLO25, been trying to keep to a set schedule, but for some reason my business has really took off lately and i find myself more and more busy with that, shouldn't complain in todays climate, better to have a steady income and win some poker cash on the side, than trying to grind out a living. Played two, 2 hour sessions today making $77 for the day, this included being stone cold even in tonights session, would of been up but for one bad beat, but i kept my game together, and have actually adapted it to suit the players i'm trying to beat. I've returned to Betsafe to complete the bonus (i chop and change so much) and to also prove to myslelf that i can beat the utter euro donks on there! Changed my game a little in the following ways to beat the nutters:-
Pot Control
Playing position far more
Limping with Premium hands rather than firing, then blasting the raiser pre, enabling to get 60% of my stack in pre, thus making it a easier decision to commit on a flop.

Seems to be working quite good, or maybe just variance swept back in my direction again after a horrible week last week! Also playing Bodog to try and take 1st place in a very juicy but quiet rake race, hopefully i'll bink the top payout of $1k!