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Hey n00bs, been a while since I last updated my blog and few people from msn have asked me to do so, so I am!!!

Last time I updated my blog, I had just beaten 25nl, had trouble in 50nl and now I will continue with how I have been recently, life and poker.

Well shortly after my last update, I spent a weekend in London with EA in Trafalgar Square, doing some Red Alert 3 public bashes lol, played on stage and met lots of cool celebrities. JK and Joel, McFly, Kelly Rowlands, The Automatic and few other bands which I hadn't really heard of them before. Because I was playing on stage and against the public for set periods I was considered an "Artist" which gave me a VIP pass so I could get into the celebrity tent T_T free bar ftw!!
Every night we went out drinking with a free tab (from EA) which was sick good, because its deadly expensive in central London to drink rofl. Anyway I included link below if you wanted to check the event out.

http://www.electronicarts.co.uk/PagesView.aspx?id=11927

Straight after this event, I was taken to Coventry for Multiplay i35 where I met up with fellow team mates, dignitas and Team UK, where we all hung out, drinking and playing games/poker. I spent few days just wasting time because I was waiting to leave for Colonge, Germany. Unlike every other team.... we DIDNT fly out.. we got a TEAMUK bus rofl and drove to germany.... including a ferry over the english channel zzzzzzzzz Very lame lol.

This was my 2nd wcg event and I enjoyed this one a lot more than Seattle for some reason (even though the hostel sucked balls), met some cool people, through my constant drinking week in Colonge because I didn't want to compete in my standard cnc3 tournament lol. Met loads of SC players through midian and hung out with mondragon/elly/lilsusie/midian basically every day. I was even dragged to the TL dinner/drinks even though i dont even have an account on the site :D:D:D I met quite few people from here as well, if any1 remembers me ^_^

Overall, wcg08 was really good week and I drank lots and had super fun timez!!

Right.... well into poker..

After WCG08, I felt almost embarrased at my preformance in the tournament because pre wcg I didn't care but being at the event made me change my mind about playing games and I couldn't concentrate on playing poker anymore Not sure if any gamers who are reading this have had that feeling before but its not good.... I therefore cashed out my roll LOL?!? and starting gaming seriously again.... Until about a week ago.. where I was like LOL wtf is the point gaming, so -EV especially since EA RTS games only have one big tournament a year, wcg... When I cashed out, I left myself $20 just incase something like this happened....

One of my big weaknesses in poker was bankroll management mainly struggerling to move down and taking to many agressive shots, I also have other weakness, tilting to fast which is because of the above. In my restart of poker, I took all this into consideration and have been concentrating on improving my game from the start... I don't really care about making mass $$$ just improving my weaknesses and making $$$ will come naturally.

Here are my graphs since my restart of playing poker, I am aiming hopefully to be deep into 25nl and pushing 50nl by the start of January.




I remember reading NeillyAA blog about his 25k challenege and was really proud of what he was doing until he went and busto/lost most his efforts in 100nlhu ;@ But just like to say wp for lasting while you did

Ive been talking to quite few people on msn about poker recently and would like to shout out to Mcturnbull and Roseeker as ive been speaking to them every day and they are very interested in how I am doing and moving up. Hope I can continue my run because I am feeling quite good about playing poker again, very motivated to get to where I want to go....

Hope I didn't bore you to much, thanks for reading =) CU around

Havent ever really had to post about problems when moving up but this time I think I have to since I have no1 on msn to talk to about it... So just looking for some advice and pointers...

I have been rolled for 50nl 3x now in past few days and busted out moving down back into 25nl and having to rebuild from there... In 25nl, I am running at like 6bb/100 over large sample, like 30k sample but I don't understand why I am having trouble in 50nl? I seem to get tilted easier and spew off a lot more than I do in any other limit, has any1 else had similar troubles?

I just moved down into 25nl again but have to leave for football in the next 10mins so I will rebuild when I get back and hopefully be ready for another 50nl shot in the next few days but in the mean time I would greatly love some help from some of you.

Thanks, if you want me to upload some stats or something which would help you understand more of my problem, let me know then ill upload when I get home.

Thanks again.

Hey liquidpoker users and other viewers!! Just sitting down before I hit couple of dexter episodes and thought id update you with my progress so far this month!!!

At the start of the month, I was playing 10nl and set myself a couple of goals to finish by the end of the month... So firstly, I will just go over them. Below are my listed aims for October.

1. Main one obvioulsy is push for $500, which would mean gaining 28buyins over 31days which should be possible!!!
2. I am concentrating on 4tabling 10nl, really getting a feel for players/table (I don't have or use ingame stats) I want to improve my game, not robot it out, quality not quantity!!!
3. Post more in the forums, I feel this will express my opinion instead of keeping thoughts to myself, and then hopefully be corrected when out of line in thoughts.
4. Really concentrate of identifying LEAKS... I already know of a few and already started the plumbing work!!

Now I shall just quickly go over them.

1. This was certainly raped quite easily... My bankroll is currently sitting at $1014. I took two shots at 25nl and just starting my 2nd shot at 50nl, so I really surpised myself with my progress here.
2. I have been playing mainly 4tables of 25/50nl concentrating on players, fish, stats and like I said, simply improving my game. Thanks for midian as always, with his help, I certainly have changed from a 8/8 nit.
3. I post around more, some stupid topics (neilly $3rebuy :D) and I read/post in the lowstakes forum, so this has gone well also!
4. Identifying leaks, midian again helped me out here. I know I still have leaks in my game and its far from being stable for 50nl play, trying hard to vastly improve this aspect of my game at all times.

As you can see, things are going rather well for me this month, I have had my share of downswings, break even patches and heaters... and because of the amount I play, it happens often which you will see in my graph in a minute.

Ok... gunna hit up few graphs of this month!!! Please comment on what you think and slag me off for mass of hands.






In real life, I haven't really done too much this month, midian came up and stayed at mine for a week over my birthday which was cool, lots of beer/drunkness and money wasted on pool/itbox machine/ and basically crap, funfunfun. I went to see Oasis live last night in Cardiff which was pretty fucking sick. Class band, class show, well worth going!! Haven't really had much luck on the birding aspect of life since I been concentrating mostly of my football and poker So that sucks ;D

I am attending an EA event in London next thursday and then going into Coventry for i35 (UK LAN) so ill be around to chill/talk/game/poker it up if any1 is around and interested in meeting up!! Then after that, I will be flying to Germany for WCG where I will fail at my tournament because of poker lolz. I guess thats about it... OH LOL ONE MORE THING.

I was driving home last night from Oasis in Cardiff, and ran over a Badger... doing about 60-70mph, 2mins later, tempterature gage on my car started beeping and it rose up.... FUCK.. badger raped my radiator -.- Not cool, had to get break down recovery guys out to pick me and mate up ROFL...

GG GL GG

Any1 interested in talking poker or general chat, hit me up on msn: apollooo@hotmail.co.uk