ABSENCE OF POSTING

A few people have asked me why I have stopped updating my blog lately.

Well, first of all the facts.

I am a Bad Beat trader and as such should only be playing poker for Bad Beat. I have not yet signed my contract with Bad Beat as I have been trying desperately to clarify some figures on my statement as I don't know how they were calculated. It is possibly 3 weeks now since I asked for this clarification.

I was also awaiting return of the bossman from his holidays as he said he would talk to me after his return. This was after my Sunday warm-up win - a milestone in my poker career - ad I was kind of hoping he may have had some kind of opt-out for me to continue playing MTT on non Bad Beat sites provided I fullfil my cash requirements. That call never came.

So I played some more MTT and two of the sites I was using were Mansion poker - a Bad Beat site, and Ladbrokes, still classed as my home site and one where I like to play forum games etc. (but now a BB site). After winning a few large payouts and one Major win on Mansion (and also coming 5th in Ladbrokes Daddy for a sizeable sum) I was understandably contacted by Bad Beat and told to make a decision - with Bad Beat or not? All was explained about the expected phone call and the question of the statement and I told them I wanted to be with Bad Beat. I was informed that posting my results on my blog was not the best idea as they involved Bad Beat sites and I can fully understand this so I stopped playing the Bad Beat sites and stopped blogging. I was promised a phone call from BB the next day to explain the statement figure. 2 days later and it hadn't arrived so after a bit of prompting I got the call.

The call went well and I again re-iterated I want to play cash for Bad Beat. Unfortunately, the accounts dept was on holiday for I can't remember how long so my answer was not given. I was given the option of having extra money to play MTT on Bad Beat sites. I rejected this. Not only because I am happy to not play on those sites (Ladbrokes dodgy software and Mansion was just getting rid of a few $$$ I had left over), but because when I begin playing cash I have no intention of playing MTT on Bad Beat sites and it affecting my P&L.

On top of this, I bought myself a new PC. I cannot for the life of me get Poker Tracker to connect to this new PC and have been pulling my hair out with the PT forums in desperation to get it working. I will not play cash without this software as I know 90% of my opposition are using it and I also don't want to play unless I am 100% about my game. This issue is ongoing and my desperation can be seen in this post... here

I have now been contacted by BB to tell me my Pokermon is not working correctly with Vista. Although I was told this would be looked in to, I have heard nothing since. This is not a problem while I am not playing cash so I have not forced the issue. But this will obviously need to be resolved before I play again as not knowing if my hands are being reported back or not is another thing that can affect how I play.

So, poker has taken a bit of a back seat lately and perhaps this is a good thing as so many have pointed out to me how the feeling of invincibility after a big win can seriously affect your cash play.

But for those of you who know and those that don't, I can't see any harm in posting this...

Last Saturday I travelled to Kent for a home game day of booze and poker.

On my return, I was obviously feeling a little worse for wear but wanted a couple of leisurely games. As I could not play cash, and did not want to stoke the fire by playing any Bad Beat sites, I chose to play my little regular game on trillion and the $50r on Stars.

9 hours later and almost dead with exhaustion,...

TRILLION 10K
110 runners
FIRST
$2,900

STARS 50r ($155k prizepool)
723 entrants
FIRST
$27,110

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!





I sincerely hope this post does not cheese anyone off at HQ and highlights a little of my frustration at not being able to do what I am meant to be doing - playing cash.

But it has also made me think a little about where my future lies. Cash or MTT? The last month has been spectacular to say the least. But before that I was no different to most players I know... the odd win here and there but nothing to write home about. So my guess is it was a one-off month and will never be repeated. And therefore my choice is cash. I just wish things could be sorted out so that I could give 100% to that area and not always have something holding me back.

In the meantime, ...

Well, you tell me 'cos I just don't know.

What I do know is that Tom gained superb results in his GCSE's and as a reward I was able to buy him a top of the range turbo nutter bastard laptop and am very proud! :D

That's ma boy!