It's been an age since I last updated the blog, I've actually been pretty busy (as busy as a poker player can be) over the last 6 weeks or so since my last post. With the poor action at 1/2 and above on PKR particularly in the morning and early afternoon I decided to put some money onto another poker site. This is something I've been meaning to do for a while, as I'd like to have my bankroll spread across a couple of sites. For one it's a little extra security (you know the old saying about having all your eggs in one basket) but the main reason is so that I can maximise the amount I play. I can now log on and instantly start 6 tabling as opposed to having to sit around on empty tables waiting for action.
I started out grinding $1/2 on the new site with a monster 8 BI roll. Thankfully I ran good and managed to spin up to a roll of around 20-30 BIs and am now dipping into the 2/4 games, these so called dips haven't gone too well but so I'm currently back at 1/2 nursing my wounds. This is the first time in almost 2 years that I've put in any serious volume on another site, so it was interesting to see how the games differ from PKR. The most noticeable difference is the increased aggression pre and post flop, generally people seem to either 4 bet or fold when being faced with a 3 bet. Obviously there are ways to deal with this and I'm fairly happy with how I've adjusted.
With a constant supply of games I was able to put in just over 50k hands and book my first really solid month of the year. I still managed to put in around 13k hands on PKR spread across 1/2 through to 5/10 where I ran pretty well. This month I'm hoping that I can move up to 2/4 on the other site and get back to the days where I play the majority of my hands at 2/4 and above. So far the month has started well, I've managed to make a little in cash and have finally ended what has been an awful run in Tournaments on PKR with a HighRoller final table and me winning the Vegas $4.5k WSOP package. Huge commiserations go out to JJBird who nut bubbled the satellite.
I say 'awful run' but in reality I'm pretty sure I've still run above EV in tournaments on PKR, as you can see from my sharkscope below I ran like god over the first 20 or so tournaments I entered. I then proceeded not to go on a fairly big downswing, in that time I nut bubble the $5k WTP Dublin package and the 500 HR. I ran pretty bad tournament wise during this time but also made a tonne of mistakes, on the upside the downswing wasn't as bad $$$ wise as a lot of the HRs I entered was with player points earned from cash games so I was basically free-rolling them.
In non-poker related news I'm now part owner of a company called the Sourdough Pizza Kitchen. A good friend of mine approached myself and Will (BrotherM) a while back about the possibility of starting up a company with him. We're now at the stage where we're a registered company with us down as directors along with 3 others all with a 20% stake in the business. Currently we're look for a premises to open up shop, at the moment there are two strong candidates, one in Upper Clapton and the other one near London Fields/Hackney. If all goes according to plan we should have a pizza place up and running within the next 2-3 months. For sometime I've been wanting to branch out away from poker as I don't think it's going to last forever, in the 4 years or so I've been playing the games have got tougher to beat and there's always the worry of new legislation, there's even been talk about taxing poker players in the UK. I'm pretty aware of my own abilities in poker, I know that I'm a reasonable winner in most of today's 1/2-2/4 games but I certainly don't have any great natural gift for the game which means a few years down the line I may not be able to beat the games for a decent living. This pizza kitchen is the perfect chance for me to get involved in something outside of poker so I won't be totally screwed if I get to the stage where I can't make money from poker anymore.
If anyone is interested in sampling some of our fine pizzas, the E5 Bake House (under the archways of London Fields Station) holds a pizza day every Sunday. You can also follow the Sourdough Pizza Kitchen @SourdoughpizzK on Twitter and Facebook.
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