I run good at losing...and exporting....

Well I hope you admire my strong will to keep blogging through these tough times, because I am certainly proud of myself for doing so.

After a losing session, dark thoughts cross my mind for like 2-3 hours, these include to never step into a poker room again, fuck the blog, fuck the records (I have had enough of all the red losing sessions!).

But then I get myself home (doing 100mph hoping to crash and die!) and re focus. Listen to a few power songs...

And then everything is fine, and I look forward to my next session.

I lost about £600 last night (Thursday night) at The Empire, I actually thought I played pretty well. I think seeing Syko Sy and talking to him really inspired me.

I played aggressively, missed all my draws, and ran into some sick coolers.

I think The Empire is definitely a more profitable place to play than The Vic, but there are so many other significant factors which make The Vic my first choice of venue.

The Empire is like the Mecca for all retards. Seriously they all congregate there, and it was pretty awesome to see them all in one place. God bless you boys!

The rake is half of what it is at The Vic, and this alone is worth thousands of pounds.

The games as expected are super good. Its fair to say that the games at The Vic are tougher. The regulars at The Vic are better than the regulars at The Empire, and there are definitely more "dead money".

The turnover of players in the games are very quick. One mug does their money, the next one comes in, they do their money, the next one comes...its like a factory chain.

The dealers are OK I suppose (no where near The Vic team though), but the management are awful, they really don't have a fucking clue.

Logistics of getting there, parking, and safely getting home is an issue.

But the toasted sandwiches are well nice! No biscuits though!

I think I will stick to The Vic!

So as I was saying I dropped some money on Thursday night there, but came away with some great poker wisdom...he are some of the highlights...

"...I didn't really like my hand, but I had really good position..."

The guy was under the gun, he limped 7 4 off, and called a raise from late position, only to check fold the flop (face up).

"...all the blanks were my outs..."

The same guy gets his money all in on the flop with top pair versus his opponent's multi draw.

"...he had 24 outs....no no actually....19 outs on the turn..."

After some guy done his money with a flush draw on the flop, which improved to a flush draw + a gutshot straight draw. This guy actually used his fingers to add up the outs.

I returned to The Vic last night, and managed to make about £300 without really doing much. Always nice when things go right from the start, and you are not stuck.

I also (in my goal to live a balanced life this week) got some quality time with Gurdeep (my best friend). We played some tennis, and he gave me some good advise (similar to Tiia)...

I am currently playing an Omaha tournament on PKR, I didn't realise how much fun this site was. I love it. You can do so much with your character, its so funny! Down to the last 2 / 3 tables, and I barely know how to play Omaha.

Weee....