How to give up poker - Final Day

Done it, didn't even play the $1000 freeroll last night on Blue Square, wasn't interested. Didn't care about it in the slightest, I had other things to do.

So this Poker Blog is finished, over, as I have nothing more about poker to add.

How to give up poker - Day 4

Well it would bloody well help if Blue Square wouldn't reschedule Bubble Freerolls (God knows why, must have been a problem) for tonight at 7pm and then send me an e-mail about this.

Right this tournament doesn't count, it's just a freeroll and my new rule is that you are allowed to play freerolls once you have retired from poker!

PATHETIC :(

How to give up poker - Day 3

It's easy when the weather is this nice. Yes the TV is crap but it will improve when the world cup starts so that will help. And no the only way I would let down all you great Flashmobbers would be if I played poker and bust out early due to rubbish play/ being unlucky.

The fact is that on Sunday I wasn't that unlucky with my QQ against Allez's 44. Flop was KK4, could have put it down against most players. But Allez was playing loose and I gambled that he was trying it on. He wasn't. But even when I went all-in I wanted to see Allez with something like KJ or K9 to show how unlucky I was being.

Anyway I'm writing about poker, stop it, I don't play this game anymore.

How to give up poker - Day 1

So that's it I'm not playing anymore. They are my cards and I'm taking them home with me. But wait, it's not easy. I'm already thinking up excuses of why I should play again. They are ....

1. I want to beat these lucky bastards.
2. I still have some money in Betfair, Sporting Odds and Mansion.
3. I can just play freerolls on Blue Square using my Action Points.
4. It will be a nightmare withdrawing my money from Mansion what about playing those little 1p games .......... NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

I am an ex poker player!

Well That's It From Me

So you don't place in 7 STTs in a row, combination of bad timing of bluffs, bad beats and generally missing flops/utterly card dead. Never mind this happens, let's come back tomorrow and have another go :)

So back you come and manage a win and 7 unplaced efforts, see above (Except for the win where I just blew everyone away and won it easy).

So it's Sunday, you remain calm and log on again to the STTs. Playing only £5/£10/$10 games you manage a 2nd in a Thunder Sixpak and 6 other unplaced efforts. And so I go out for the afternoon and have a nice time and realise that I don't want to play this game anymore and it is a bit of an addiction.

So we come back and try the Flashmob, table loony (Allez) takes you out when his pocket fours hit a full house and you don't believe him with QQ. Champions League on Sporting Odds? My QQ will lose to 99 because it has to, this is Doob's Law.

So I'm not putting myself through this anymore, I'm not putting friends and family through this as it affects my mood. I've got to stop playing this game and I will, I do not have the mental strength or the confidence. I ALWAYS think I will lose every all-in and therefore I am.

I will be at BFWCOP (But not playing in the Flashmob team) in September as that will be a good laugh but I will not waste anymore of my life sitting in front of this fucking computer getting pissed off.

Good luck all, all the best, see some of you in September.

STTs

Are these really difficult now or have I just become utterly useless at this game?

Can't seem to consistently do well at these things anymore and managed to lose 7 in a row on Monday/Tuesday where I always seemed to pick my moment to attack the blinds just as Mr Rock on the BB gets dealt AA.

Can't actually remember the last time I won a Holdem STT on Betfair, if it wasn't for the Omaha STTs then my Sharkscope stats would be in all sorts of trouble.

Aims For June
1. To play in the Sporting Odds Champions League.
2. Top 10 finish in the Flashmob League
3. To continue playing the 1p ($500 added) tournaments on Mansion (Got a 5th last week)
4. Enjoy playing poker (which I am, I stayed very level headed after my opponent hit his 2 outer on the river to bubble me and losr my 7th STT in a row, I was proud :)).

Just a quick update to prove I'm still here, good luck.