Wasting my time?

Just to show I have not been wasting my life away at micro stakes using the free cash I have been given I have also played a few more hands of my quarter roll game.

Ever since my initial $200 balance dropped to $30 I have really been grinding away to build back up to my start. So 2700 hands in I have worked the balance back to just over $150 still playing at the .25 / .50 level.

In fairness I have been pulling any trick in the book to build the balance back but in the main the hit and run tactic has produced the best results.

Now I know I won't be making any friends using this method, but when I only have 3 buy ins left at this level I have to take what I can.

I am hoping that the fact i am not short stacking will win me a bit of karma back, sort of a trade off between the two evils.

So hopefully the balance will be back to $200 shortly and I can go ahead with building it to the $400 that will allow me to step up to the .50 / 1.00 level.

Until Next Time

Keep it tight

Paddy Power Freebies

Paddy Power very kindly placed two $5.5 SnG tickets in my account for not playing there for a while. So I invested them in two double up tourneys and cashed in one giving me a free $10 to cash out.

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Not much money you say, but when you add this to the free $10 placed into my account from full tilt (currently at $20) and the $60 free over the last year or so I have had from Party Poker and a free birthday £15 added in CD poker it starts to add up.

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So heres some tips for getting freebies:

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1. Make sure your email details are totally up to date in the lobby / account sections of all the poker sites you are signed up to.

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2. When you are offered a bonus be sure to try and clear any clearance requirments in order to keep the cash.

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3. Once you are cleared, if you do not normally play on the site ... cash out.

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Hopefully after a short perid of time you will be emailed with a free amount to join them back at their tables.

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So whilst it looks like I'm freeloading (which I am), the site does gain some additional rake from my winning play which I presume is why they do this.

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Until next time

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Keep it Tight!

Changes ahead

Well after another 10 months working in London it has come to the time where I have had to make some life changing decisions again.

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5 days a week living out of a Travelodge has taken its toll and it is time to pack bags for the last times before I return to a normal home life.

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Currently it looks like I will be working down here until the end of July, but after that, who knows.

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Still I have lots to do around the house and at last some proper poker time (hopefully).

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On the poker front there is nothing much to report.

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I am still playing my quarter roll experiment when I can (currently sitting around 2500 hands) and many SnG's. I have also been having my last 1/2 hour before going to bed playing micro stakes with a free $10 Full Tilt credited to my account. This is currently sitting at $22 - nosebleed stakes eh? - and I am bank rolling this in the same way as I do with the quarter roll experiment. I keep thinking it would be a great story if I turned my free $10 into $10K - so that is my intention. Graphs to follow.

Until Next Time

Keep it Tight!

Now I'm Calm ... my Truro Week!

A quiet drink at the pub after a sail to Falmouth

Not much to write about really.

I have a customer at Truro that I have had for about 7 years. Anyway this month was one of my visits.

So mainly it was work, work, work ... trying to get 40 hours completed in 4 days (which considering the travel time involved is pretty hard work).

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But I did get to go out on the Clients boat.

Leaving Falmouth

Until Next Time

Keep it Tight!

This green and beautiful land!!

I just wanted to write a quick post to thank the council official who thought it would be a good idea to close the A46 at the M40 junction for road works this week. I especially liked his idea to send everyone on a glorious diversion back down the M40 for a junction - and then through Leamington - and back on to the A46 half an hour and 12 speed and traffic light cameras later - to find myself about 100 yards further on than than the start of the road works.

The whole glorious adventure was made even more enjoyable as it arrived 4hrs 45mins into my normally 5 and a half hour journey back from Truro where I chose to work this week.

Am I missing the point or is something really wrong with this country?

I travel a 600 mile round trip to earn an honest weeks work, putting my life at risk on our road work riddled roads - to end up watching the front door mat for speeding fines and court sommons. Despite trying really hard not to exceed the speed limits ... or cross traffic light cameras on amber ... should a fine happen to come my way the likelihood is I would be in negative equity on my weeks hard work ... or as the real criminal I am ... trying to dodge a short ban.

Perhaps I should pack it all in, and wait for the government to wing me some paid for housing and a few benefits that I have kindly donated to during my working life.

Better still I could become a politician, get chauffeured to Truro ... stay in a 5 star hotel and claim it all back as a boost to my income.

Rant ... rant ... rant ... !!!

Until Next Time

Keep it Tight!

Update on the year

A quick post to show my graph for the year to date.

After a losing April I dropped back down the buy ins and played mainly Micro SnG's up to $10. But I also decided I was going to multi table for a change so when I played i fired up to 4 x 10 man and 6 man STT, and managed to eek out a small profit.

These stats do not include my quarter roll balance which I still have a bit of, but I haven't really been playing with that roll that much, just getting into a winning stride again was my aim for April. That done back to increasing the levels again!

Also just a quick good luck to those who will be heading to Vegas for the WSOP, wish I was going to be there!

Until Next Time

Keep it Tight!