Triple Bollox

Long time since my last post, but I have been busy doing revision for my December exams, and then busy doing them...

They went CRAP! And failure on at least one appears almost enivitable...

Fortunately my girlfriend is a qualfied accountant now, so... at least I can be a kept man, which given my poker performance last month is handy!

At one point I was up POSITIVE $400... Only to end the month on just under NEGATIVE $100!

This was a tough pill to swallow. I may have been playing hyper aggressively, but this is a strategy that has been suprisingly steady and profitable for me in recent months.

However, bearing this in mind, I have decided to tighten up my cash style, especially when opposition show strength, recently I feel I may have been going back to old habits of not considering the texture of the board enough, and firing three barrels too often, and too quickly.

However, I have also noticed alot more aggression in my normal games, maybe it's just me. But I like to be the most aggressive player at the table, and normally there seems a 3-4 man fight for the table captain role!

Just played a 'raketherake' freeroll ($5,000). Played well, getting down from 133 to 25 players. Then UTG I pick up QQ, blinds now high at 200/400 25 ante. I raise to 1,000. Folded to BB, who calls (no image). Flop comes 10 5 5. He bets out the pot, I don't particularly like it, but put it all in (4000 more). He calls with A10, and well we all know the 10 falls and I'm out right?

Was pleased with how I played, but I can never catch any break in tournaments. I mean, I got lucky with one hand earlier, but it wouldn't have bust me if I'd lost, it would have put me back to average chips.

Everytime I go deep in any tournament, I always get it in with the best of it (near enough), and everytime it goes bad.

This leads me to pose the question... How can tournament pro's exist?!?!?!?

Hopefully I'll play a bit more poker this month, although when I play tournaments and suffer bad beats, it seems harder to take than cash beats... Even if it's for less money!!!!!!!!!! I think I just take it more personally... Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

Will probably not play till Tuesday...

Anyways, sorry to my friends for not staying in very good touch recently, but hopefully I'll be better now...

Merry Christmas everyone!