I Slept till 8pm (Remember – poker players that don’t have partners have no lives…), then after some snooker (I was rubbish!) and beers (2, anymore is -EV), I played some poker.. Managed to Final Table of 1 mtt and bubbled the FT of another.

Meanwhile I played a few cash tables and made nearly 2k in about 4 hours. My cash game is in good shape mostly due getting loads of hands in, and watching a load of poker training videos. I have learned a lot from watching high-stakes cash table videos, and now I find that I can actually hold my own with, and outplay people who used to own me completely in previous months, often spectacularly calling their hands before they show. I have come to believe that reads are as important as position and cards if not more important..

Anyway, Some Hand histories from today:

Guy gives me his money. Literally.
I nail a full house – $1673.02
Pocket 5′s gets paid off, all the way! – €469.50 – Mega donkey play by my opponent. I suspect he had ace high.
I win a small fortune with no showdown. Weee – €724.50
Matey takes a coinflip for $1k, and loses (he did get some of it back later when he rivered a str8 vs my QQ overpair, so his pillow might not be as completely sodden as it might have been)

after a wee run like this I sometimes wonder why I play Tournaments. Of course, getting Rakeback of over 2k a month is peachy too.

more poker 2mor – maybe I’ll take another shot at the big games on Stars. Fricking 5:43am here. What the Fck am I doing with my life.