So I play some limit and despite a good start I manage to hit a loss by the end of the session, that game is really annoying me at the moment. I just cant win. I'm getting called down so thin I feel I cannot bluff and I keep getting outdrawn when I do eventually have a showdownable hand. Even if I have a good read that the opponent is floating me a lot and my ace high may be good you can bet they spike lucky on the river. I believe in my game but no good.

Having had a rant I'm winning this week.

Hit a nice little run on Bodog and PKR playing the micro NL(25nl).

I have just left a PKR table having sat down with $25 I left with $110 which is sweet. I played a bodog table at the same time and walked away with $54 from a $25 buy in although if the game hadn't become shorthanded I would not have done my stack heads up with 2 pr vs a set. Can't be helped!

I'm therefore happy with my poker although my NL seems to be propping me up.

I believe I have a slight leak PF playing hands like JJ and AQ too agressively in 6 max. You can play them for 4 bets at limit but I rekon they can be laid down at some stages. AK as well, managed to get all in pf vs KK the other day, not a good idea.

I have always believed that a solid preflop strategy is the foundation of all poker and I must not tilt off cash with non made but good hands. note to self.

I have now kicked some ass at PKR.

I was in the poo having deposited $200 I went down below $100 before my 4th place in one of their $5 MTTs which got me about $140.

I have run good at cash and am now up to $300 on PKR.

I'm coming back with avengance, I know my roll has hit $700 since my challenge started and the $550 odd that it is now is no fortune but watch this space. Once i start running good I'm in business.

My plan is to go to $1k then I can play $50NL and once I hit $3k I can play $5/10 limit and the coin will return.

Remember poker is not going anywhere and neither am I, once i have ground it out and my roll returns we'll try to mix it with the big boys!

Have just cashed the bonus, or some of it out of Tower Poker.

I played mostly limit there to get the bonus out although I ran like poo for the last 1000 hands and lost money, paid in $200 cashed out $232.

I am looking to build my $200 roll back into the 10k I had before I spent it all on my wedding.

I have done it before so i will do it again but it's a question of how long it will take me.

My belief is that I should go after the bonuses more aggressively, I know many good players multitable and whilst i am well capable I only play 3 at a time max and this bothers me at times.
I am also lazy having a table running whilst i go on ebay or some other site and this costs me.

I see other player's posts and blogs and I'm sure that whilst I'm game wise not too far behind them I just am not making the money I should.

One thing is for sure, poker isn't going anywhere any time soon. I'm in it for the longhaul. Poker has changed my life, it has paid for my wedding and in yeard to come i will make big bucks from the game.

One thing at a time.

I'm now off to play video games and drink beer at my mate's house. Myabe I can get them to play poker with me again.......

Bad beat, bad play or just bad luck.

Played at Dusk Till Dawn last night. I always enjoy playing there but have 0 cashes out of 3 buy ins there.

I played in the 50 +5 and in the early stages played quite well, I felt I had a command of the table and I had solid reads on everybody. I was close to top in chips at the table at the first break, had about 7k.

I had hit a couple of nice hands and bluffed/semibluffed the rest with c bets.

Then some dude with a massive stack comes to the table, probably had 15k.

I have k9s in the cutoff and it's folded to me I raise , he calls and the flop comes k52 rainbow, I bet out a little over half the pot and he calls the turn is a harmless looking 2 he checks and I fire out 1800, he raises me all in. I now have about 3k left, the blinds are 100/200. and there is 5.5k in the pot.

I felt sure that the 2 had hit him however with all those chips he could have been doing the same thing with a kx hand jj tt or something similar, it's my first hand with this guy. The tournament at DTD is so fast that I don't feel you can fold top pair as within 20 minutes your decent looking stack is worthless. I call and he has indeed hit his 2 having called my raise with a2 and floated the flop.

I should have known the way these people get such a big stack relatively early in the tournament is by playing like a fish and getting very lucky.

I just wasn't good enough to lay it down. I can't help feeling that I was very unlucky but I run through the hand and I can't, barring over the top agression how I can play it different. I mean you have a king on a K52 board and then the 2 comes off, you don't exactly sit there woorying. I even thought about checking the turn for pot control when the 2 came off thinking it was one of his floating hands.

I'd much rather go out firing with a junk hand pushing all in short stacked than like that.

I'll get over it but it is safe to say that I won't be going to DTD all the time, I just can't seem to get a result there.

Been playing poker today. Ran OK played OK so all is good.

I am concerned that I'm spending too much time playing poker/computer games/ drinking beer and not doing enough exercise.

I can feel a new year's resolution coming on.

I'm still fooling around with my new computer.

Won $162 playing in an MTT on PKR last night which was a buzz. I have been running like poo lately so I'm happy to get some cash into the coffers. I played well but got lucky. It was a 6 max all in fest towards the end. I won some big double ups, some from behind in the hand so ran nicely too. Made the final table out of 150 odd runners so very nice.

I have also been doing some computer gaming.

I have bought Tha Orange Box which has Two Half Life episodes on it. I am very impressed with the half life game. it runs smoothly and is genuinely challenging and entertaining. I would recommentd it to anybody.
I am also able to aquire cheap games of EBay. On XBox 360 the games are expensive but if you shop well they are very good. I play COD4, HALO anf FIFA 08 online.
I have aquired Quake4, Deus Ex, Devil May Cry 3, Lock On and Family Chess all for less than a couple of quid each.

I wanted the chess program as i enjoy a game every now and then.

I have just loaded quake 4 up. It is very hard and dosen't seem to run too well being a bit jerky on my system.

I can feel a PKR sit and go coming on!