Not had anything to report recently apart from the usual downward spiral, but I do have to report that I'm no longer part of Stable Evilpie. It's been great to be staked, but the results aren't coming my way at the moment so I'm finding it tough. The main reason for my decision was that I'm unable to rake $100 playing tourneys on blonde. At the times I can play, there's only 3 tourneys which rake $2 total, per day. Clearly that over 30 days isn't enough and I'm unable to play all the days in the week. There's the 10pm + ones too, but they finish too late to play on a regular basis and my work has to come first.

So with regret, I've decided to quit working for the Pieman. Sadly I'm in make up at the moment and need to find £600 to pay back, but thankfully Matt isn't in any rush for it, just when I have it but I'll crack on with getting it sorted and pay back some each month till it's gone. I've still got $200 in my account that I could carry on with, but I think I'd best use that to take off some of the make up so it's 'only' £450ish.

Thanks to Matt for giving me the chance to be staked. Seemed a good idea at the time, perhaps one day I'll sort things out and either won't need staking, or be in a position where I can fulfill what's asked of me! On the plus side to this, money aside, I've been feeling bad and under pressure about results and the lack of tournaments I've played in so it's some relief to have that removed.

In other news, Stars have a great promo on for UK players in May. Basically a dead easy way to make supernova for a lot of players, but small stakes like me will be pleased with Platinum for next month and should I ever get good at this game and move up, 60,000 vpps towards the 100k needed for SN. The downside to this is that I've pissed away a bit of cash playing Limit PLO8. Thankfully in 20 points I'll be at the target and I can stop!

I also need to build a bankroll. I've been playing for a couple of years now and apart from a few tourney wins, I've done nothing. All the money I've won has been from these tourneys and I've lost it all doing other things with it. I need a plan, a proper plan and whats more, I need to stick to it. I'm thinking of moving back to cash at NL25 and building up, probably full ring for less variance but maybe 6 max in the future. I'll play the odd tourney here and there and hopefully get some better results. If that fails, I'll need to rethink, perhaps play less or consider that poker just aint my game!

I do enjoy it though ;o)