Disapointing night. Played a sat to the APAT event in Luton and also the Inside Edge freeroll to Luton funnily enough, but that was the GKUPT thingy. Anyway, was going well in both until I decided to call an all in with AK on the button in the APAT site and lost to KQ or KJ, something like that and went out in 23/4 - 15 seats and I was just 7 away. The IE one was going well too but I managed to bust out in about 40th. Then played a $2.5 mtt on Stars to vent off. This was quite fun and I managed to get really low, then really high and with 200 left, I was in the top 50, then I decided to call a small raise with 99 and push someone all in on a Q66 board but he had AA, then pushed the rest in for pot odds on a straight draw but it never happened. Also managed to spend a bit in a sat to the nightly $150k but failed to make a seat.

Lots of losses tonight. I'm a bit disapointed about the APAT one and also with the $2.5 one, I was so tempted to fold the 9's, I just had a feeling but when he bet small on the flop, I convinced myself he had missed and maybe had AT, AK, AJ - well I got one card right anyway.

On the plus side, I think I'm playing better at the moment, on the downside, my account don't really agree with me!

Onwards and upwards.

Took some more macros over the weekend. Took loads actually, but most were rubbish and I only ended up posting 3.

Following on from Monday nights small success, I played another sat tonight, the $5 rebuy into the $55 $50k on Stars and managed to win a seat, so more T$ for the collection. Also went quite nicely in the $5k $5 on Stars, finishing about 145ish out of about 2000 people. Had to go for it towards the end, not getting any decent cards and even if you made the final table you only got $120 I think. The payout seemed pretty crappy and very very top heavy to me. I'm not keen on paying 400 runners, especially when you've got go get so deep to get a semi decent return. I think even 200 into the money we are only on about $10 back. Surley it's not worth playing for 3 hours to get $5 profit? Anyway, I knew the rules before I started so I can't complain. Nice to cash in two out of two on Stars tonight.

Also played the Open on Sky but the software was so bad it was unplayable but I did hit a nice full house on a cash table to win a small profit.

Had a good day yesterday. Played golf for Richies birthday then off to the boozer for a few, as you do! Didn't feel great this morning, but I've been worse. I think I may give up the booze for a month or so, try and lose a few pounds and try to get a bit healthier in general, perhaps my concentration will improve - you never know.

One of those nights where you lose loads, the nights when aces don't ever hold - beaten three times and only won once when I picked up the blinds, every time I made a move, I ran into decent hands and lost, the just when I was going to give up all hope and go to bed in a bad move a strange but wonderful act of kindness by the poker Gods occured.

I was in a $10 rebuy sat to the nightly $162 and about 25th of 50ish with 11k in chips. 40 spaces were being paid out but the blinds were 2k/4k and going up every hand with the amount of time it took people to act. Anyway, I was getting concerned as it looked like I was due to be in the BB in two hands for about 6k when all of a sudden, someone went out and my table collapsed and I was moved to the button seat of the new table and didn't have to face another blind :D

Thank you Poker Gods, I needed that, the T$ are a help, I shall no doubt donate them back again in due course, but thank you for moving me.

Also a strange thing. Some guy was UTG +2 and had only 700 left or so and it was a 600 ante and he's called with A5 and got knocked out. Not quite sure why he did that, there were about 7 all in's that hand and pushing the fold button would have got him a seat. Perhaps he got one anyway, I'm not sure, but it was a strange move.

Sunday donkaments

Amber and Heather away - check
Internet on - check
Laptop on - check
Day of poker - double check

Aim for the few days the family are away is to play as much poker as I can, including hitting the Western Club as many times as possible. The plan was to go today, tomorrow, find a cheap freezeout on Wednesday and go Thursday but this is already looking unlikely as I have to bowl tomorrow and they're coming back Thursday. I may not find a suitable game on Wednesday which leaves tomorrow nights the last one for the week!

Anyway, started the day off with a few games on Stars where my best result was 90ish in the $8 rebuy, but I collected enought to make a profit for the day. That finished around 7pm for me and then I had to wash up then spend about 15 mins trying to get the chickens back into the coop. Rushed out, then hit traffic on the M4. At 8:30, I'd just pulled off the M4 on to the north circular which was thankfully clear. Made it there 10 mins late but they were running behind so it was all ok.

Started off nicely, picking up AK early on and managed to get some chips of the guy to my right who had AQ. Then disaster hit. Same guy raised to 600 preflop on the button. There were two callers, I looked at QQ and called. Flop came 9 high so I bet 1500 into the pot. He pushed and for 900 more, I had to call. Needless to say, he had KK. Down to 1400, called a preflop raise on the bb with 88, flop came 6 high so I pushed, ran into JJ. Not my night, out before it was dark! Bit disapointed as I was hoping to win some nice cash tonight after doing most of my cash at Ascot yesterday.

Back home to Stars. there's a tourney starting at midnight that I may play in that I like the look off, but in the mean time, I seem to have joined a limit game (again) by mistake!

Edit: damn, not only is it limit, it's not the game I ment to join - it's a 750 fpp sat, I ment to play the $4 rebuy!

Well it's been a while and sadly I don't have too much to shout about. I managed to get an invite to the Sky Poker live event in Birmingham which was great fun. Did no good in the ME but did manage to win a sit and go from being down to 75 chips and in the big blind for 50! Also played an omaha sng with Norman Pace who was quite good fun. It was a great day out and if you get the chance to go to the next one, I'd certainly recommend it.

I've treated myself to a nice new 150mm Macro lens for my camera. I should have bought one of these before instead of the other lens I bought but never mind. The other lens is still great, but the macro lens is such fun.

Couple of samples below but the galleries can be found here I'll be adding fairly frequently from now on!