Sneaky update

Been pretty busy so not had any big updates, lots of stuff I've got planned to post though.

Coming up...

• Posts on Motivation, C-bet sizing, and blogs to watch in 2008.
• Offering a sweet new loyalty deal I've been working on for the past couple of weeks, at my new poker site of choice.
• Introducing the new group members, and some thoughts on sweat sessions.
• The hunt for coach continues.
• Maybe I'll post some fk'in hands?

Anyways, on to some news...

Life (or excuses for not playing enough hands)
It's a pretty cruical time in the office at the moment. My highest priority is to make sure my work is polished up and looking good, this means I'm currently spending quite a lot of time in work. This should slacken up a lot in a few weeks though. Been playing a bunch of 5-a-side footy and squash, this combined with 12 hour working days usually means I'm too tired when to play in the evenings. Not really finding much time at the weekends to play either as I've been out a lot, playing a lot live though!

Friday night game
Speaking of live, played in Andy's weekly home game on Friday night. Think we got about 10 for the STT, which I bust out of pretty early. Then played some low limit NL cash while the tourney finished up, and built up a decent stack of £££s... which I promptly donated to Ed at Omaha Hi/Lo. Fairly standard!


Played a bunch of mixed games inc Razz, 7 card stud Hi, 2-7 triple draw, etc. It's fun to losing $$$ at/learning new games. After this was probably the loosest most mental NL cash game I've ever played in, with at one point the blinds being straddled/re-straddled right the way around to the button lol. Which begs the question, can you straddle from the small blind?!


Officepoker
Gonna try to play in as many OfficePoker tourneys as possible this year, they're great live practise as the play is pretty good. Got sat next to Jas on the first table which was fun, until he got 3 outered, doh! Anyways, I wondered if I've be able to play my A game after the previous higher buy-in tourney. But as Jas pointed out it's not about the buy-ins, it's about improving, and sure enough I think I played my absolute A game on Saturday. I found myself reading players exact hole cards in a few spots, and really felt like I had great reads on all of the tables I was at.

Anyways, I FT'd (55ish runners I think). Had an average stack on the FT, but because the bubble went on so long my stack was only 12BBs. MP opens for standard raise, I ship JJ from the BTN, she calls with AQ, flops an A and I bust in 10th. Weh. Great tourney as usual, people there are always really nice, much better play and atmosphere than regular casino tourneys. Cheers again Neil.

Cash update
Played an 600 hand session shortly after my downswing post, and absolutely crushed playing 25/22 and finishing up a buy-in. 2,500 hands played this month so far. Need to get a lot in, I'm sure the opportunities will come up to blitz some soon.

Traffic
My blog traffic seems to be increasing, which is cool as it means more people are interested in whatever I'm posting (or are waiting to see me go busto?) ;). Thanks to everyone reading and especially leaving comments, it's great to get advice/feedback/ideas/whatever. Cheers dudes.