Month in review - TL;DR

The month isn't over yet but I have completed the Devilfish bonus, which I started in the last week of May. So the graph along with 400 hands at ipoker is above. It really isn't too much to write home about. After the great opening week, which I posted about it, all went downhill and in fact I have lost 600 since I made that post which is all pretty depressing. I am running at .75 pt bb/100 over the 30k hands I played so I was virtually breakeven.

So what happened? Well I think my last post covered it pretty well. I am a station. I called way too much and kept calling my stack off continually when I was crushed. I say I lost a good 10 buyins doing this when it just wasn't necessary. I posted a fair few hands on boards.ie amongst other forums and pretty much every hand I posted went along the lines of everyone saying I should fold and I had called and was crushed. I went through my stats and the most striking thing was won $ at showdown was 48 which is pretty low and it basically equaled my w$wsf
(A good thread on what the numbers mean:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055197237)

It's something I was starting to curb near the end and hopefully in the future I can continue to improve on that. As for running bad. Did I run bad? My guess is I did run below expectation (Unfortunately none of the software which tracks that works on B2B) It was a frustrating couple of weeks though. The reason I didn't post an entry last week was because I was just pissed with everything and didn't want to acknowledge it or think about. I took 2-day gap and things improved a bit. In general though it's not an issue and isn't important.

Good parts: I played 30k hands and completed the bonus like I wanted. I did in 27 days in the end. That's the first time I broke the 30k threshold, which is not very much compared to some of the sick stats you see posted on 2+2 et al. The simple fact is I doubt I will be ever 1 of those guys who 16 tables for hours on end and plays 100k hands a month. So to make good money I will just need to play a decent enough level and play it consistently well.
When rb and bonuses gets added I will still make somewhere around €3k-€3.5k which is still pretty nice and more then I made total in my time at Universal Studios last year or roughly half of what I made in 8 months at Vodafone so I have certainly had it worse.

Where to next pokerwise? I am not sure what I will do, I have been looking through bonuswhores as ever, and nothing has really stood out for me. There are some big bonuses out there but rb% they don't work out that great and ultimately that is what I am looking for. So probably just play on GJP a bit, maybe a bit on Devilfish as well until I come across something, which takes my fancy.

Away from poker Euro 2008 has been taken place and it has been a really fantastic tournament. So many good matches and so much top quality flowing football. Russia being the highlight so far. Their match against the Dutch was fantastic and Arshavin looks like the real deal. Turkey has also performed 2 miracle comebacks so it's really had it all. I am hoping Spain or Russia take it down although I have a feeling it will be the Germans who win it all.
I also have to mention Tiger Woods. He is incredible. I was compelled by the US open more so then usual. I watched it from the Friday on. His final 6 holes in round 3 on Saturday were just staggering. 2 eagles and a birdie from the rough, which had no rights being anywhere, near the hole. It those sort of shots which separate him from all other sports men or women. He constantly produces the impossible over and over again. To win in 18 hole play-off considering how bad his knee was is also a testament to his character so yeah all in all I rate him pretty highly.
Another great sportsman continues on his campaign to greatness today. Wimbledon starts today. Go Federer!

Oh yeah this week my exam results come out. Something to look forward to!