Well, I finally did it. I pulled the trigger and put a sizable chunk of my savings into my PokerStars account and I’m going to start playing and streaming more consistently. I want to get better at poker, run my bankroll up and aim to be profitable instead of the hit and miss player I’ve been up until now and build my streaming confidence and ability. I made the decision on Sunday night and originally, I had attempted to make the deposit so I could stream straight away… but my bank and PokerStars had other ideas. I must have spent a good hour putting numbers into a spreadsheet to work…
Category: Lifestyle
Having just finished up a stream that has knocked my confidence and caused me a level of frustration, I’ve had to turn my head off for an hour or so and reflect on what I’m doing that is preventing me from succeeding. I understand that with poker the variance can lead to downswings and this is to be expected, but I know myself that it isn’t to do with variance and there are other things I’m doing on stream and off stream that are holding me back. I had a long think about it and I’ve condensed it down into 3 major areas of focus. No Bankroll / Bankroll Management…
A lot of people already know that I’ve got Ulcerative Colitis, an auto-immune disease that effects my digestive system and can be extremely debilitating. On the whole, I’ve been functionally suffering – a few symptoms but on the whole, able to manage day to day. What a lot of people don’t know is that since Christmas 2018 I’ve gotten steadily worse and I’ve spent the from March until June working from home to try and cope with escalating symptoms whilst having tests done. I’ve had pints of blood taken from me, cameras shoved everywhere and I’m surprised I don’t rattle when I walk from the amount of pills I’ve been…
When Jesus apparently died all those years ago and rose from the dead, I doubt that his real intentions would be for us to have a 4 day bank holiday weekend and use it as an excuse to overindulge in alcohol and chocolate egg consumption – but here we are. The 4 day weekend still messes with my head in terms of time – it is Sunday night right now but I feel like I’ve already had my weekend, but with tomorrow off as well I don’t feel the urgency to go to bed, even though I’m still up early on my day off. This is further compounded by the…
In August this year, I’m going to be embarking on a holiday of my dreams… a week in Las Vegas with my friends in a luxury villa off the main strip with dreams of making some money and avoiding being fried to death in the Nevada desert sun. But before I go, I need to put some solid hours in getting properly back up to speed on my poker game. I’ve played odd tournaments here and there over the last couple of months but not consistently – mainly because I get my chips in good and fly into raging monkey tilt when I get beaten by the worst hand. In…
I decided a few weeks ago that I would make a blog, but I had no idea what it would be about. I toyed with the idea of it being targeted towards a specific interest of mine such as geek culture, gaming or gambling, but I couldn’t commit to a single theme. In some regards I feel like if I did commit to a single genre, then the blog itself would feel like a job – I’d be waiting for specific news in that field to post about and that doesn’t leave any room for anything else. Instead I’ve decided that I just wanted a bit of space on the…