Pain Stops Play

Yes its back, and TBH I havent play a single hand of poker for 3 days now, and for peeps who know me, know that something must be wrong for me not to play any poker. Its a real shitter, but I just can't do it at the moment and its like April will be just a wash out now and hope for a recovery in May. I am also away for a week from this Sunday so again nothing for next week anyways. I just don't feel right and we all know you need a clear head if your going to make the correct decisions. I have a few things on my mind to top everything off which I won't bore you with but needless to say its not good stuff !! Your best off checking back in just over a week and hopefully the break up north might do me some good, but I cant see it, but you never know. Sorry there is nothing to read about the challenge, but I thought I might as well set the record straight and save you checking back day after day.

Hmmmmm

Exactly that, nothing much has happened since the last update. Played 351 hands in April thus far in 4 sessions or days whichever is the correct term. But still out of those 351 hands I am up just shy of 5 buy ins. I think its a case of hitting and running to be honest, and of course trying to fit it in while feeling ok. Been playing really well in both tourney's and cash. The tourney's obv being the major plus side. Managed another 2 cashes tonight, one was playing the €2 rebuy with €4k GTD with a max of 5 rebuys allowed. Top 90 cashed and I finished 70th when I was in with JJ v AK with the Ace on the river for a top 20 place. I was surprised I have never bothered with this tourney before with 1st getting €800. It wasn't much of a cash when I shelled out €6 in total but at least I was ahead and thats all you can do. The 2nd cash was a super turbo and just missed out on a Final table finishing 13th I think, not quite sure and wasn't that bothered to check. There is one thing that narked me today, I dont know if I have mentioned this but my rakeback for the month still has not been paid, so I started checking it out with emails and Live chat. Only to be told I had not raked the the min of €100. Although the site I use to track my rakeback said 125.60 and was due just short of €70 which I aint to pleased about. Apprently the site is calculated in dollars and not Euro's so the figures obv didn't match. I was just €2.50 short of the 100 but it was not my fault and if known I could of easily got passed that. Come on I played over 11.5k hands last month and with all the tournaments I played. But fair play to my Affailate, he said he was going to sort something out for me and was talking about 30% poss more out of his own pocket. I did say no, but he thinks I'm a decent fella ( lol ), well I am really !! So thats good of him and now I know I need to rake about $130. I need to put my foot down a bit cos I am due to go up north in 8 days for about a week and I wont be playing on Opoker thats for sure. I might be tempted to come back early but depends on circumstances. I really want to get into my dealing in shares and part of the trip up north is get some funds together in order for me to try my hand. Pretty weird at the moment cos its Good Friday but feels like a Sunday but yet tomorrow is Saturday. I dont know what the plans are for tomorrow poker wise, but I defo need to put some volume together. I'm just €200 short now of my next goal of €4k which was not even in my plans for 2012, so what a morale boost that would be, either before I go up North or after, I aint to fussy.....

Wow, didn't realise it was over a week ago.

So sorry if you've been back checking for any updates over the last week or so, I didn't realise it was over a weel ago. I have updated the thread @ pokerplayersplace.com but thats only updated every 2 weeks or so. Where this is should* be updated more regular. So what's been happening then, quite a bit to be honest. Not all good but I can't do anything about that and it's the reason for the lack of updates on here, and yes its the back again. Flaring up more and more and its starting to scare the lifing crap out of me. I can't stand for more than 2 mins in the same spot now without dire pain and once I do sit its still killing and takes an age to wear off. But Meh I aint dead yet so plenty more poker left in me yet :) So yes on to the poker and another month over. I have offically made it to 3 yrs doing this and although 2011 was almost a complete wipeout I still feel chuffed to have made it thus far from nothing. I still remember playing the KS POKER FREEROLLS, 3 times a week for a few cents to then play the 10c rebuy, of those were the days. Of course I do still play the 10c, but its the cash tables for me now and said before I really should be playing much higher, but I know my cash game is not my strongest so instead of thinking I can play higher and trying to be the bigshot that grew it all from nothing. I am not afraid to admit it and there is no big ego for me to compete with. Its about Bankroll Management and nothing more, but I think to me anyways it's about how to manage the bankroll knowing I am more than rolled enough to play higher, but also knowing that the standard by playing higher is a lot better than the limit I play mostly, and that being the 10nl game. Yes I take shots every now and then with a degree of sucess, but also a loss, like last month and then tried all month to try and claw it back. I amost made it back into the green and if I was not so ill towards the back end of the month I am sure I could of gotten that green for the month, but I didnt but over all I can take the half a buy in down over the month, but to me it was the volume I put it. I defo wanted to make 10k in the month, and was thrilled to see I had made it over 11k for the month. But what the cash tables failed to do the Mtt's defo made up for it. With previous Sat win for €85, the 2nd in the Bounty €5 but also a massive win in the €10 rebuy I played Monday morning. Yes you read it right Monday Morning. I have been trying to get up earlier and earlier to get use to it for when I go into hospital on the 2nd July for 2 weeks. But I still need to have a nap at least twice a day during the morning get up's so not quite there yet, but still loads of time to get ready for it. So yes managed to win the tourney and collect €400 odd. So not only a good month in March with an overall increase of €306.62, but April is off to a flyer to. Still not managed any volume of cash yet just 100 hands or so, but to be fair when I fire the poker site up there is less than 1k players online, so I'm always going to suffer trying to find enough tables to play, and like mentioned I need at least 2 naps during the day which if I was grinding away would have to stop to sleep. So that's about it and now up to date with everything. I will have a screenshot of the winning tourney in my next update cos it needs loading up and can't be arsed right now. But for the doubter's out there, not like there is any, but you can check the Sharkscope out, and I now have a whale swishing its tail next to my username of PlazaPPP on the IPN network. If you do, check-out the spike in my graph. Looks like Everest :) Adios