Shortish session this evening, had to work late, boooooo..

747 hands, 6.8 ptbbs for $50, plus $20 in bonus.

I have a sick few days coming up, tomorrow is a funeral (I didn't know the guy, just going for my girlfriend) and it's an Irish funeral, or more to the point, Irish wake. Lolsluraments. Friday it's my works Christmas do, Loldrunkaments. Posh restaraunt and all that jazz. Saturday I have to help my mum move house, joy. Satdee night it's my mates bifday, drinks up town, Lolsleepinthegutterments. Sunday, I shall mostly be dying of exaustion, and alcohol poisoning.

So, I'll either play zero poker for 4 days, or donk off my nicely growing BR when drunk. Drunk poker ftl, std.

So yes, I'm still alive.

My works Christmas do was ok, good food, nice wine, got drunk, played live poker, std.

I waited around an hour to get seated on a $1/2 table, which meant I was even more drunk by the time I arrived. They opened up a new table and it was pretty obvious there was very few fish on the table and most knew what they was doing. So I moved table and started making money, because the players were so much worse. In total I flopped 5 sets in around 6 hours of play. 2 held up and got paid, 1 didn't get paid, and two got cracked.

I was $360 down at one point, after being about $400 up. I pushed AQh on a A672 flop (2 diamonds) after my PF raise, and flop bet got called by a guy on my immediate left, obv I'm putting him on a FD or weaker ace. He tanked and tanked and ummed and arred and eventually called with AK. I didn't suck out. Two hands later, I flopped a set of 9's in a raised pot and got it all in on the turn and the AK villian showed me T8o for the turned straight. I was nearly sick all over him but kept it together and got most of my losses back. Namely when I flopped a set of aces against someones flopped set of sixes. Set over set is fun!

Saturday I helped my mum move house and went out for my mates birthday drinks and got smashed, had a row with Siobhan (std) and woke up yesterday dying of a hangover. Kissed and made up with the missus eventually.

Not a bad weekend all told.

I shall mostly be grinding 6 max $50NL tonight...

Puking over your opponents would be sheer class. Was this the Vic again? Any of the same players there again?

I saw Dec last night and (believe it or not) he's up for another Vic trip in a couple of months.

Yeah I know. He claims to have been rusty, but I'm not so sure. Still, he could always get lucky next time and catch his 3 outer.

Time for an update.

So my cold "coming on" came on and I was as sick as a dog for 4 days straight. Luckily I recovered by Christmas Eve and went and got drunk with my pals. Christmas day was good, usual dinner with my folks, and since Christmas Day I have more or less stayed at Siobhans house. She's not been well either so we pretty much stayed in. Had her brothers wedding on the 28th, was ok, nice greek restaraunt, was all over at 9.30 though, strange.

Poker wise I have only really played the last two days, a bunch of donkaments in which I couldn't catch a break and grinded some $50NL just now. Now I'm not one for posting a bunch of graphs but I have to share this one with y'all, just highlights the swongyness of it all.



Was a pretty sick session really, ran KK into AA, had a flopped set of Queens busted by a runner runner flush who flopped TPNK, someone ran their KK into my AA, I ran QQ into a 45/27 AA, AIPF. LOLSWONGAMENTS.

So tonight it's NYE, and I am going to a comedy club with about 8 of my mates, should be a good night.

My month has finished up goot, should of/could of been better though, all told, including live cash games, online $50NL and online donkaments, +$2700ish. Not bad for a part time retard like me.

I'll take this opportunity to wish anyone who reads my journal a very Happy New Year, and I hope 2008 is a blinder for you.

All those who don't read my journal, I hope you DIAGF and go broke.

I set myself no targets for 2008 pokerwise, as I'm not sure I even like poker right now. I like live but am starting to hate the lack of donks online poker seems to yield. Maybe I just can't find them.

As it stands, my online BR is $1367. I'd like to try and take a few more tournaments down, and have a $5k BR and play $1/2, as $50NL doesn't interest me very much.

I'll definately be playing more live cash games, as I believe that's where the real money is at. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect to make around $1200 a month, playing 3 or 4 sessions of $1/2 and $2/4.