It’s been a bloody long time since I last updated my blog. How long exactly, I’m not sure and to be honest I can’t be bothered checking, but long enough to make it difficult to find something to write about. It’s like when you haven’t seen a good friend in a long time you should have a ton to talk about but for the first few minutes you struggle a little to find conversation points. That’s my excuse anyway for the abomination of this introduction, and presumably also my excuse for the rest of this entry. Bad-mouthing my own work before I’ve even put pen to paper, I’ve sunk to a new low.

Anyway…..

I took a trip across the ditch to Melbourne in January for the Aussie Millions and came back (rather predictably) empty handed. As with all of these trips I had a great time, but spent a lot of money in doing so. I also had the standard epiphany that I experience whenever I go away for any period of time and spend shed loads of money. This epiphany is basically always the same – I’m going to get back home and get my head down and work hard… I always have the best of intentions, but my work ethic usually doesn’t last that long. So 7 weeks on, how have I done? Let’s look at the numbers.

I’ve played poker on 22 days out of 47.

I’ve played 689 tournaments with an average buy in of $156.31.

I’ve run @ 5.44% roi making $5544.50.

Obviously I’d like to have been more successful over this period, but I really can’t complain about running badly, especially over this kind of sample.

I’ve just picked these stats from my google document. Poker-Allies sponsored players have been using google docs to track their tournament results since October. There’s been some teething problems but we’re almost there and I’d like to thank our head of IT Steven Hillson for putting up with our annoying requests over the past few months and creating connected documents that give us access to statistics on our players as a group. We’re now able to see Poker-Allies sponsored players’ ROI by site and of course across the board at a glance. Amongst other things, this allows us to estimate profitability of certain tournaments for certain players and to be able to gauge their expected ROI to a much more accurate range than ever possible before.

Away from Poker, another part of my epiphany was that I was going to get fit and try to play football to a decent level, although strictly speaking I had already decided this prior to the Aussie Millions.

I have much better things to report on this front, I’ve lost about 4kgs (8.8 pounds) and am feeling pretty fit. Unfortunately I’m still in the reserve squad, but I think I should be pushing for a place in the 1sts in the next couple of weeks, if not I think I’ll enjoy playing for the 2nds because I’ve managed to bullshit my way into play attacking centre midfield, whereas if I make my way to the 1sts it will likely be as a left back.

So that’s about it, been pretty short really. Having done this entry though I feel like I can follow it up quickly with an offering more focused on poker. I’ll be playing the next few days and I’m sure I’ll find a few concepts to blether about. Hopefully I’ll also be motivated to write a couple of articles as well. I’ve actually written one on combating good regs on Ongame and ipoker with an aggressive preflop strategy, I haven’t looked at it in a couple of months though, so probably needs some editing. On top of that I’ll discuss my (lack of) Vegas plans and probably just re-iterate my distaste for live tournaments in general.

Until then, good luck.