Love the idea of tracking results on a whiteboard. Would find it really motivating.

Or a horrific reminder of the downswing you're on every waking moment.

Weekend Review

The weekend kicked off on Thursday, after getting changed and heading heading to the casino I sat in a £1/1 game while waiting for the £1/2 or £1/3. I sat at the table and in the 5 minutes it took the chip runner to get my chips off deposit I'd won two hands for £159 and been called for the £1/2 game, not a bad start to the weekend! Unfortunately the £1/2 game turned out to be a bit of a damp squib, played for 9 hours and broke even. I went home and had a good sleep as I had a first round telephone interview with PwC to prepare for.

I spent all of Friday preparing for the interview on Saturday and didn't get to the casino until early evening. It was a good session, booked a small win for £148 which was nice. One thing I noticed was when a gentlemen sat at the table who had clearly very little experience playing poker in casinos. After winning the hand he tipped the dealer (who I won't name) £5. To his credit the dealer advised that this was a bit bigger than normal for a tip and that usually people tipped £1 or £2 for a bigger pot. I thought it was a really honest thing for him to do and reflects well on the standard of dealer at The Vic.

Saturday brought my interview at midday, I think it went well and I should hear in the next 5 working days how they feel it went. After I was done I headed to the casino to put in a session. Long story short I lost £800 before getting into a hand with a guy I play a lot with. I was facing a river bet of around £300 with a further £400 in the pot. The board was 48T9Q and I held 44. This was a big pot and would get me even if I called and was right. The flush draw had missed and I really felt I was ahead. I had been thinking for a couple of minutes and a middle aged German tourist who spoke no English at all called the clock. I absolutely hate calling the clock in cash games, there was no reason to call it in this spot and I probably spent 40-50 seconds of the minute calling out the German for being a prick. I made the call and he mucked and I was back to even. I had been playing for around 13-14 hours at this point and I was so glad to have fought back to even after the start I'd had. I doubled up someone for £200 with KJ vs 44 on a JJ4 board and bled a little raising and missing flops and cashed out for a £309 loss.

I came back on Sunday determined to make up for what had been a pretty piss poor week in results. I feel I've been playing well but I wanted to translate that into results! I bought in for £400 as usual and had worked my stack up to around £500. I picked up AA in the SB and 3bet an open to £39 and was quickly raised by the BB to £125 who had me covered. I put my stack in and after tanking for a few minutes he called off with KK. The pot was a shade over £1k and was a great way to kick off a session, unfortunately the poker gods had other ideas and the flop and turn brought 4 diamonds and the pot was shipped in the other direction. I will admit I'm pretty good at not tilting but I did decide to cancel my breakfast order at this point as I'd slightly lost my appetite. I bought back in for £400 with only £200 left on me, I was feeling a little deflated but I knew I needed to keep playing well and results would come. I ploughed on and managed to fight back to book a £500 win, but it could well have been a four figure winning day if I had held on that first hand.

I love poker and every time I head to the casino I genuinely can't wait to play. This week however felt like a real grind, I put in around 50 hours this week and don't have much to show for it, at least in terms of results. I have however got 50 hours more experience and confidence in my game that even if I do get stuck I can play my way out of it.

Looking forward to getting back to the tables this week and smashing it!

were u playing 1/2 at the vic last night by any chance? think i may have played with you.

Certainly was, who were you? I've played every day for the last 3 weeks I think

i was in seat 4 of the table up on the stage. were you in seat 5 and had kings when you bet 140 or 160 (cant remember) on the turn. i said i hit my straight on the river

Ahhh I remember of course. How did you guess it was me Say hello next time!

i was reading back through the thread. noticed you bought in for 200bbs last night. you said 'ill see you guys tomorrow' when you left and i know u said ur playing a lot. just had a hunch haha. will be there later will say hello for sure.

The Irish Poirot! See you this evening.

The Empire in Leicester Square has been tweeting that they have big news. I replied saying I'm on tenterhooks and are they moving poker to the main floor, they favourited it. If this is the case I may consider switching my play to there as it will be so good for casual traffic.

Just came off one of the best weekends I've had in poker, everything just clicked and booked a really good win.

I've just thrown away almost all of that work in one session this evening. I played a hand really badly and for the first time since I started the stake I feel really bad about my play. There were reasons I played the hand as I did but I broke two of my cardinal rules and paid the price for it.

I'll learn a lot from this mistake. It was my largest losing session and I don't want it to happen again as a result of my bad play. I can take running badly, it doesn't bother me in the slightest, but when I play badly I feel absolutely horrible about it and it takes me a while to recover.

I cashed out what was left and we're still comfortably in profit on the stake but I just felt I needed to take the rest of the evening off. I wasn't really that tilted, just really disappointed in how I played. I was however tilted by the f****** Uber driver who was 10 minutes late and eating f****** fried chicken and chips in the car that made it smell worse than I imagine his fat sweaty arse crack does.

Onwards and upwards, I absolutely believe I am profitable in these games. I will keep grinding harder and working harder than everyone else in these games.

I took a couple of days off this week, I had a lovely wedding on Tuesday and spent most of Wednesday recovering from it. Thursday I had my assessment centre with one of the Big 4 consultancies which went ok but I'm not sure I'll be progressed from, fingers crossed though!

I played a session again last night and got involved in a battle with a holidaymaker from Dubai. He was sitting around 1k deep at 1/2 and took around 200 off me playing almost 100%VPIP and running hotter than the sun. I kept reloading to the max and managed to win a couple of big pots to book a 800 win, erasing my loss from Monday and edging further ahead into new profit ground.

I felt really good after playing as it could have been a big losing day had the cards not run out too well but I always felt comfortable and confident. Let's carry the momentum into the weekend!

Good job, good luck this weekend!!!

+326 for Friday evening.

In other news I'm the most hungover person in the world.

If anyone finds a wallet and watch in London let me know. (Not mine)

Vic at 2pm.

Quality results again man. Hope last night was great! Gl

July Review

So the first month of the stake has come to an end (I'm including the last couple days of June) and here are the results.





This has been by far the hardest I've ever worked at poker, to nearly hit 200 hours whilst working at least 200 in the office is something I'm really proud of. There have been some highs (+£1.5k on the opening weekend) and some lows (losing £500 in a session at £1/1 and AA<KK for £1k) but I'm really happy with the results.

I'm not feeling too burnt out, I love the game as much now as I ever have and I can't wait to hit the tables hard again. I'm having to take a week off as I am deep in the application process with a couple of the Big 4 consultancies, I have my final partner interview on Monday with PwC and am sitting rounds of tests with others.

I'll finish with a few chip porn pictures from August all from £1/2, nothing too special but I'm definitely going to work on building some bigger stacks!

For reference:
Yellow = £1
Red = £5
Blue/Black = £25
Orange/Pink = £100
Large Pink = £1000 (I have had one of these in play once but didn't take a photo before I was asked to break it)







(Don't worry, I didn't wear sunglasses at the table, they closed all the roads in London for a cycling event and I had to walk to the casino)

Thanks for all the support and comments I get here, they're a great incentive to keep working hard. I should be back on the tables at the end of this week and we have the loyalty freeroll to look forward to, should be around an £80k prizepool.

Good work mate, wish I had a little of your motivation. Can't even get 100 hours nowadays let alone 400

My boyyyy. What an amazing month. You seriously should be so insanely proud with your volume and of course, profits. I do think we need to work on that chip porn though i think taller stacks are needed!

Thanks man, means a lot! Hopefully will be able to play tonight as have moved some stuff about.

They have told me to stop building chip towers and make me change up my reds to colours, if all the chips were £5 like I see in some of the US chip porn photos...

Obvious answer is to crush the game so that you can build up £25 chip towers ldo.

Obvs, never had enough for more than 4 stacks of £25s though. Need to work on my game.

what a beast

fwiw, this is what a chip porn looks like...

Argh I know I know. How about you send me to Vegas where they'll let me build towers? I can play even more hours there.

That's impressive volume alongside a full time job, nice work. You might not have so much free time if you get the job at PwC!

I used to live/work in London and play in the evenings, so have been enjoying this thread esp the pics of the city.

Good luck.