Bump!
Gonna be bringing this back to life I think, as have found a new lease of life with regards to the game. Way more motivated to work hard on and off the tables than I have been in years, and I'm actually enjoying putting in the hours again.
What have I been up to in the interim?
Well, basically, I got stung for mid to high 5-figure £s by someone close to me towards the end of last year, which really put a dent in my cash flow, bankroll, life roll, motivation etc.
It really hurt and I didn't deal with it very well at all. Went into my shell a bit and ended up frittering/punting off a lot of my remaining cash in a bit of a downward spiral, in which I went from financially very comfortable, to pretty damn close to busto. I wasn't really able to get my head straight again until the beginning of '17.
Since then I've knuckled down a lot, moved down a few limits (and then back up!
) and frankly, been crushing it. Pleased to say that I feel I've turned a pretty big corner within the past 6 months. Excited for the future and definitely much better at poker than I was 9 months ago, if a little poorer. Every cloud, etc...
Mid August to present day graph
Volume has been lacking a little as I played a lot of MTTs throughout the summer, and was also lucky enough to get into a pretty big, gambley live mixed game which ran for a couple of weeks in my local. I ran pretty good in it and made a wedge, but there were genuinely a few people in the games who didn't know the rules to the most of the games. So it was actually quite low variance money.
Going forward
I'm gradually regaining the confidence to move back up to the big boy stakes. But I also have a prop bet with a friend that I can beat 50nl-200nl zoom at 7.2bb+ over my most recent 100k hand sample, so I've got to get that out of the way too. Initially it was 50-100nl zoom at a 8bb/100 winrate, but I renegotiated as I was getting super bored at 50 zoom.
Hope you're all doing well, and that I can keep this thing going for a while yet.
Thanks for reading!