Back from Doubling!

The tour was incredible, 8 games of football to rip the body to pieces with roughly 4 hours a night recovery time after big nights out on the lash! The Wednesday was a write-off for me as I had a nasty reaction to some food I ate and was sick all evening and night but I pulled it together to play the last few matches on the Thursday before our last amazing night out. Dublin is a pricey motherfucker, and I was horrified to see 2 pints of coke cost 10euros40 in a restaurant, so over £10. A pint of lager was 4.40ffs, how can coke be more expensive unless you're snorting it?!! To compensate, I have hit the tables hard since I have been back.

Prompted by the challenge between me and Keys, I had planned to play on Friday night, but a 45 minute nap at 7pm on Friday developed into a sleep until 10am Saturday. I planned to mix in work and poker this weekend, but I have tried to read through my work and am still too tired from the tour to take it all in so that hasn't been too productive. Luckily, poker has gone well and I have taken a huge stride towards winning the illustrious $100, winnin around $1.2k this weekend and sending my bankroll up to over $6240. Included in this was a 750FPP Double Shootout win for a Sunday Warm Up seat when there was less than 20 entrants so the first round was just a heads up and the secnod table had two seats. $215 in the bank and thankyou very much Stars for not reaching a guaranteed one time! I chose not to play any of the big tournaments this weekend, as I don't remember how to play them!! I have played a few of the monthly freeroll tournies this weekend including the million turbo takedwn and the monthly 100k freeroll, and haven't made it past the second or third blind stage. I need to remember how to play these, Ptevey come back plsplspls!!

Anyway, tomorrow I've got to get myself to the library to work hard on my dissertation, but I hope to play a few hours in the evening. I'll try to update again before I hit the UKSPC on Wednesday from where I'll be getting the train to Llanelli for the Uni Snooker Home Nations.

Also, apparently Keys has been benefitting frmo the exchange rates which has taken him closer to his target without even playing...what a cheating bastard!!!

Sooty,x

Challenge Anika!

The PaulKeys Pig challenge is on, a race for the sum of $100 and more importantly bragging rights and an ego boost! I'm on $4935, he's on $5500, and I have to reach $10k before he makes $11k...simple right?! Well, given he plays 1/2 he could be there in a few sessions of running well, whereas my heads up will be a more steady rise and running like God for a few sessions still won't get me over the target. Still, it will hopefully prompt me to play more, and even I lose the bet, hopefully I will make more than I'm losing in the bet in profit than I would have anyway making it still a good bet for me. It's not great timing for me to get involved with bets like this, with a dissertation and heavy revision on the cards, but I should still be able to get a few hours an evening in if I can plan my work well I should have a good chance of winning and more importantly earning more than I would do otherwise.

March has been a very quiet month for me due to work, but I think i am slightly down after having a downswing where nothing could happen for me at all. I made $500 in an hour before I came back home for a few days, but I think I may be a few hundred $$$ down which is just standard variance and I hope to turn March into a profitable month. Tomorrow I go to Dublin for a football tour which I'm really looking forward to!

Anyway, I hope to post regular challenge updates. One time!!