Good start back

That's my graph for the last 7 days. I am pretty pleased with how things are working out in general. I started off slowly, On Wednesday which is middle bit of the graph I played really badly. I was really unhappy with myself after that but I reviewed through the hands and made some conscious decisions of what I need to do to improve and played much better for the rest of the week which the graph shows. I think I was still a bit rusty thought when starting off. Now I have to say I am running pretty good. I can think of 2 or 3 times when I got an underpair in and hit the 2 outer etc but still aside from that I think I am reading situations well and making a lot of good decisions. Today didn't go that great but I just reviewed through the hands and pretty much all bar 1 hand was coolers or standard flips etc so I am not too worried by it.

I am playing on Devilfish Poker and it's been going pretty well. Software looks a bit like some of the final year projects people out of my course could do but it does have seem pretty nice features such as box you tick you keep you topped up at all times which is sweet. The standard is pretty poor. You get the usual donk who just donates to you but the site is absolutely full of tagfish. People playing 23/13/2 etc. I really don't mind playing at a table full of them cause I can just dominate it and run them over, they are really easy to read and I pretty much always know where I am at in a hand. Some of the downsides are player liquidity due to B2B being 16th biggest network overall. When I was going for the bonus I thought I would be playing on Boss a lot but turns out that is cardroom2 and to really get the big rb deal you need to be playing on B2B. The other major problem is only Pt2 supports it and even worse PAHUD doesn't work on it so I have had to revert back to Gametime which is rather painful as it is not a patch on PAHUD or HM hud but I should get around 54-55% rb when you include the signup bonus and combined with poor quality of player then it works out pretty good. I'd certainly happily take 4 weeks of winnings like the ones I have above that's for sure.

In other news I watched the finale of lost last night, not going to spoiler it or anything but I really enjoyed it as per usual. It's so annoying that it is off the air for 8 months now. It is by far the best show on tv by a country mile at the moment imo. Euro 2008 starts next week. But in general not much on tv which may not be a bad thing. It means I can grind it out. I am hoping to get 30k hands done for the 30 days. That should ensure I get everything I need for the various bonuses. As for the rest of summer from a non poker capacity. I have nothing planned as of yet. I always assumed I would go somewhere abroad as there was lot of plans for things but nothing has come to fruition as of yet. I think it should go abroad at least once. I mean what is the point of winning lots of money if I don't spend on it anything afterall.

The end!!

Exams are over \o/

I think they went ok, bit touch and go on whether I get what I need but I think I should do. Once I get a pass then that is all I need. The degree means absolutely nothing to me. When I started college way back a long time ago. I had certain goals in mind for what I wanted to do and achieve by the time I finished. Not 1 of them involved getting a good degree. See back when I started I was a whole lot different then I am now and for the worse. I needed to "improve as a person" That sounds too much like what a self help guru would say but I can't think of a better way of putting it. I think every goal I set myself I have achieved. So while coming out with a pretty worthless degree in an area I have no interest in working in may seem a failure to some people and understandably so. I look upon it differently. I set out to achieve certain goals and I got them and that is all that matters to me.

So after my final exam I dossed around awhile and got home for the champions league final. I was up for Chelsea as I am firmly in the ABU camp and have been so I can remember. The first 25 minutes were awful, very reminiscent of the cup final last year but once Ronaldo scored game started for real. It turned out to be a pretty good final. The best one since 2005 imo. Chelsea were the better team overall on the night but they couldn't put United away when they had the chance and that usually costs you. I feel sorry for Terry, I can't imagine trying to deal with that.

Still a few things which annoy me. When there was a big brawl and Ray Haughton goes "nobody likes to see this" stfu and speak for yourself. I *love* seeing brawls, they are great, the more the better. I think I speak for 95% of people when I say that, seriously who doesn't love seeing a good punch up? 2nd thing which is sort of a function of the first point. Drogba's sending off. While I don't blame the ref for sending him off I think the biggest problem with football is the ridiculous rules Fifa and Uefa lay down. The fact that a little slap like this is seen as an automatic red card is so retarded it's incredible. It was a nothing incident, at best it should be a yellow card. This is an area football have it so wrong while rugby union have so right imo. You watch a Heineken cup match, you have a a bit of punch up, ref talks to them and tells them not to do it again and they both shake hands. That is the way it should be done. Red cards ruin games, the more it happens the more it takes away the spectacle of the game and it's happening too much and I sick of it!
So more brawls and less cards, that's the way forward!

So on to poker, being looking around for a few deals. Devilfish poker has been launched and they have a pretty good deal where you can get a 53-54% rb deal when you add in everything including signup bonus and rb. I think it will be good for me to do something like this for a few reasons 1) I think it would be good to start on different network, fresh start and all that as Devilfish is on Boss network 2) I perform better when there is a signup bonus as opposed to rb. What I mean by that is if I get 50% in rakeback which corresponds to €1000 or get a signup bonus which I have to complete in 30 days and that too is the same as 50% rb and €1000 then I am much more likely to get it with the signup bonus because the feeling of having to play a certain amount of hands otherwise nothing is so much more motivating. This is true of the Unibet bonus I got in February. I played more hands in 19 days then I have ever had to before or since just to get it. It's the same motivation when I have 2 days to go to an exam etc. I just need that pressure of having to play to really put the hands in. There are a few more deals around as well which I am looking at so hopefully I can really motivate myself for the summer and really put the hands in.

April - Quick graph

So here is my graph for April
By no means nothing special, still it's far better then March in every respect. I become much more aggressive so I think I am likely making way too many spewy errors where I bet when I shouldn't do etc but I am trying to work on it and think long term it will turn out good for game. I am happy that I am making money in non showdown pots as I am trying to work on that. I think what I need is just to play consistantly day in day out. That is what I did in february for the Unibet bonus, I think if I can do that then it would really help.