Now that I have your attention!!
So this month has been very busy for me. Apologies (to myself?! lol) for not getting anything out sooner!! Despite hitting up Vegas for a major foosball tournament, and house hunting in Lincoln, NE, I managed to get some decent volume in. I am super happy with this, as I was hammering out 3-4 hour nights of 2 tabling.
Annnnd... *begin funny story*
With one day left to get VIP points in order to make 'water status', I was busy in Lincoln house hunting / socialising with some friends we were staying with. I needed 940 points left (40 x $50 games) which was going to be impossible on my own.
So I asked a good mate of mine to play a little on my account to help me out. We agreed to split any winnings, and split any losses up to $800. 3 hours later I get a phone call saying 'I have been stuffed like a large mouth bass'. Bad news, lol. I gave my mate the keys to my account with $4622 total roll. He called me saying we had $2600 left! This was not part of the plan at all lol. He said he would cover any losses over the $800 we agreed, and asked if he could continue to play in order to try and make it back up. To which I agreed, as long as he left me $500 no matter what happened. He's the kind of player that can really get on a roll, especially as he plays mid-high stakes PLO cash games. Also I know he's good for the money, so it was kind of like cashing some of my roll out at a much quicker rate than Merge will let me!
1 hour later he calls back saying he's left me the minimum in my account. I could do nothing but laugh. $4k in 3 hours. I hope one day I can do that and not bat an eyelid at the damage. For right now though, I would throw up if that was all my money.
I cancelled my pending cash withdrawal, exchanged all my VIP points for money, and played a little later that evening which has built my roll back up to around $1600ish. Thats enough to continue playing $50s (occasional $78) for now untill he sends me what he lost.
So without further ado:
March stats:
Water status achieved!! :D
As you can see my volume as decent considering how busy I was plus how the $50 level is slower in action.
$1281 + $300ish (Vip points exchange) - $400 I lost staking my friend = a respectable $1181 made for the month.
Oh, and PS... I didn't last very long not looking at my balance/amount won etc etc. Man that is hard to do! I'll keep trying though!! :P
Life news:
The Hall of Fame Classic foosball tournament in Las Vegas is the 2nd biggest tournament of the year, with all the top players in attendance. I managed a personal best of 7th in Open singles, and I defended my pro singles title successfully :) Very happy with my foosball results.
I played a little poker to. 4 hours of $1-$2 resulted in -$10 net loss, lol. On a side note, if you ever thought the games were dead then go to Vegas. You play $1-$2 online and you are battling a lot of pros. You play $1-$2 in Vegas and you are likely to hear someone shout '3 pair, read it and weep!'.
My wife and I have found a house, and are moving to Lincoln, NE on May 1st! Very exciting stuff for me right now. As a result of this, I am going to use this month to do a lot of poker studying. I won't be able to put huge volume in as I will be going back and forth moving our stuff around all this month.
Poker news:
I am going to dip my feet into the cash game world on Merge. Mostly 6-max, but I have good instructional videos on both 6-max and full ring. Ultimately this is what I would like to play full time, so I see this month as a good opportunity to test the waters. I will continue to play HU as well, but will not set a volume goal.
I will try and have something like a hand of the day / update on cash game progress by the end of the week. No excuses, this blog will continue untill I can say I am a successful full time poker player!
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