Take it easy

It’s been good to have a break. For the past two weeks I’ve hardly played poker. I took the decision to cash all but £1k of the bank roll out into savings and get back to basics. In May I’ve played about 4000 hands so far all at £1/2NL. Normally, I’ve have played about 4 times this many at higher levels.

The shocking run I’d had on the Betfair account seems to have come to an end. I’ve been using the Hills account as I’ve no chance of hitting the WSOP package with the number of hands I’m playing at the moment and WH account is on a better rake deal.

Since the change I’ve even managed to suck a few people out! You know your luck has changed when you call and all in from a short(ish) stack with JK on a J 6 4 flop … he flips 66 and I hit runner runner to make a jacks over kings. Also had an amusing hand this morning and was paid in full after calling a big preflop re-raise with 5s6s only to see a flop of 4s 7s 8s. The only mildy annoying thing is that these are for £100-£200 pots… not the £500-£1000 pots I was getting killed on in March/April. But so far so good, it will be interesting to see if I can rebuild a decent size BR from £1k, it’s already over £2k with no real effort at all… if I keep things simple and ticking over there would be no money pressure to go back to work full time.

I’d like to thank everyone for their support, both in the comments and the people who’ve had a chat on MSN. Rob suggested I have a dabble in a few MTTs and having not played any for a while I thought it would be fun to have a stab at some of the smaller ones… managed a 3rd place at my 1st attempt with 150 runners, it was only a £20 buy in but I really enjoyed it so may well play a few more. Tonight is the Virgin Poker bloggers free roll for a $1500 WSOP seat, I’ve just had a look at the structure and it could be a long slog for one seat!! 70 runners, 2500 starting chips, 15min levels and a 10-20 start for the blinds!