Just the half a year on hiatus...
I've been so busy this summer with exams, holidays, work, and enjoying what good weather we did have I had little time for poker, or this blog...
I have now passed all my ACA exams, which is great cos I don't have to do anymore, but bad, cos I don't think I want to be an accountant!!! Oh well... We'll see what happens!
As I was saying to my 'main man' C (A Year in the Life), I have decided to try and use this blog as a memory aid for myself as to what I have done, and do with my life...
To get a little personal, I have a bit of a phobia of not taking chances, not making the most of my life, not accomplishing anything, and generally just a bit worried of growing up, planning for the future, and generally living an adult life...
I'm getting better, and it's very hard to describe, but I know I've have achieved a great deal in my life, and I'm just scared of standing still basically...
I really enjoy my life I have, with my girlfriend, and the only thorn in my side is my work... which is dull as f**k, and I for one am not someone that can do boring work... I get bored far too easy...
Any ideas people, on what interesting job a newly qualified ACA accountant can do?
Anyways, enough about that...
What I've done this summer... Passed my ACA finals with flying colours, and got a big raise at my work (it's still dull tho!), 3 week holiday to Australia and Dubai, driving from Perth to Broome, visited Brighton, did a couple of weeks work in London
Poker - I went on a massive downswing, and lost all my profit from this year... Therefore my results are, 2006 and 2007 $2,000 net profit in both years (roughly), and 2008 - $0... This will allow me to start over in 2008 I hope... I haven't played really in about 2.5 -3 months
I did, however, play an Isle of Man, £100 freezeout last night, 40 runners, top 6 paid... I'd nursed a small/avg stack all the way thru, and honestly in 6 hrs (inc breaks), I can't remember playing a hand where I made better than top pair all the way thru the hand... Anyways, I find myself on the final table (8 peeps) with 4 good players, 1 decent player, and 2 fish... Of course I had the 4 biggest stacks on my left, all showing previous of mixing it up at any given opportunity... Marvelous...
About 2-3 orbits in, no real action thus far, I have QhJh in the hijack seat (next to cutoff), not wanting to get too involved, I call the BB, with 9BB's behind, weak possibly, but I felt too good to pass, but not worth an all in, given my lack of fold equity when faced with the four biggest stacks behind, who all like to call... With hindsight, I should have just pushed, 10BB's was still a decent bet, and even the weakest of players is gonna be playing tight at this point. My bad... (MISTAKE 1) Anyways, just the SB and BB carry on... Flop, Ks Js 2c... Check, check, I bet 3BB's... SB tanks, and pushes in, BB folds... I have 6BB's behind, and I (for some reason), insta call... I figure him for a draw, or absolute air. Although he'd shown down decent hands in general, I'd seen the guy was capable of bluffs... Anyways... he has a set of twos, and I bow out.
Very disappointed really, because I can honestly say I can't remember playing a hand badly before this one... Bad, bad call...
Anyways, I'm off to a friends house now, and I'm on a course in Preston next week. I'm taking my computer, so I might try to play some poker in the evenings online... Start a fresh...
In London next weekend to see friends...
I did lost $50 this morning, spun it up to $100, then got it in with my overpair J's, to a guys top set 6's on the flop. I should have passed on the flop... My bad again... It's just the odd brain spasm that ends up costing me dear... Ho hum...
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