You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink

The month of November started with a bit of shot taking at $2/$4. I was dominating and quickly won a few buy ins and went nearly $4k up in about 3000 hands. I was playing solid poker and running well also. But I soon reached a problem, I felt unbeatable and carried on played $2/$4 solidly as my main game and disregarded the good tables at $1/$2. The result was that I was playing in games that weren't optimal against mainly regs. I ended up losing back what I had won mainly due to variance. I got a bit unlucky but had an ear bashing from my mentor for playing in bad games. I was annoyed at myself because I pride myself in my game selection, I think it's so important. So, as you will have heard me say a million times in this blog, I have learned another lesson. This hand didn't help too much though! http://www.pokerhand.org/?5791615

As a result of this I had a bit of a frustrating dip in my graph but I dealt with things professionally. By professionally, I mean I decided to go out and get double boozey for a few nights on the trot and then when my hangover was gone I got back to the tables and crushed! I was back at $1/$2 dominating, it felt so much less after playing $2/$4 and I felt really confident. I'm a real confidence person, when I have it I'm unstoppable and when I don't I can be fairly useless. I played a few fruity hands flicking in 4 bets light but then I calmed down and worked hard again and have had a few decent solid sessions since. This was an interesting hand for you to take a look at: http://www.pokerhand.org/?5806371. So far for November I have played 40 hrs (20,500 hands) and made $3k profit. There's a few days left so will see if I can put some quality hours of volume in. My volume is pretty disgraceful considering that this is my only source of income. I need to be playing at least 100 hours a month.


(I was in the orange, what's a blog without random morph suit boozey mayhem)

I'm moving house on the 1st December with another poker player, my legendary mentor Christopher. We've got a sweet pad, I will hopefully post some photos when we get moved in. This move should be great for my poker career as Chris is a bit of a genius and what some might say a 6 max NLH legend. I have already learned a great deal from talking to him daily about hands and also getting help from other poker hero's such as Dan Rudd, Martin Malone and Seb Powell. Chatting to these guys had helped me improve far more than any other factor, so thanks! Hopefully Chris can help me not only with my game but with the hours I put in online. I want to be making $10,000 p/month and this won't happen unless I put volume in. Maybe we can have some volume prop bets or something?

I went on a night out in London on Saturday. Me and a few of the boys went to visit our mate Langdown. We went out for a meal in a really nice restaurant. Langdown had organised our own VIP table with unlimited beers and 2 bottles of champagne and we had some sweet steaks too 'bruv'! Then we went on to a club where we got a table. One of our mates had a bit too much too drink and was sick in the VIP area so me and Matty 'The Magic Man' Vanders had to deal with him. We had to get a cyclo thing across town while our mate was being sick out of the side of it. Then we managed to get a taxi to go to his place, we had to call his mate to find out where he lived because he was triple boozey and couldn't speak. Then we got to his place and me, Matty and the taxi driver had to carry him into his apartment past the concierge guy and eventually got him in. We put him in the recovery position and left him with his flat mate and went back out to the club. When we got there everyone had gone and we had had enough by then so went to get a taxi back home. No taxis would go from central London to Croydon where Langdown lives so we had to get some crazy guy to take us and a few stragglers that tagged along for free (i wasn't 100% happy) back to our mates house. We got back and no one was answering and Matty kicked the door mat in a fit of rage and a key flew out from under it and we were in...at 5.00am! I have had a few good sessions at the tables since then so I like to think that's karma!


(Here's the Magic Man on the right with broken man Thompo while I went to find a cyclo)

Toby continues to run incredibly bad making the semi finals of the world head's up championship in London (his horse won it by the way for £30k). He then he came 8th in FTOPS 6 max event #32 for $20k. Bit gay finishing just off the final table though and I know he will be gutted with that but I'm sure he will get a jersey soon. Toby you do have a really tough life so chin up ;-) lol.

Unfortunately I have to finish on a sad note, a friend that me and Jez met travelling passed away this week in an accident. He was only our age, we are yet to find out what happened exactly but it's devastating news. He was such a great character and a nice guy so RIP Ethan 'the legend' Chong, you will be missed bro, much love x


(Here's me the and legend himself back travelling in Laos)