Sunday Majors

It's been a fairly slow few days. I've felt pretty tired over the last week and have had major troubles sleeping most nights, averaging perhaps only 3 hours a night! Given i need 8 hours a night, ive had a constant headache, stomach ache and generally not feeling great. I'm going into see my consultant at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital later in the week, and will be discussing whether i need an operation on my bowel to get better. I'm not overly keen on going through this again, but i guess if i have to then i have little choice.

After the £300 at the GUKPT last week i've not played too much poker and tried to rest up. I played the £100 FO at the International on Saturday and played pretty well for the first few hours, before making an awful call on a flop where i had nothing but a flush draw. I thought maybe my cards were live too and i was getting the right price, but the guy flipped TPTK, i missed and lost half my stack. With 15 big blinds after that i played a re-shove game and eventually got caught out and knocked out.

I've been running dreadfully in online MTT's over the last few weeks. If i have kings they have aces, if i get it in with an over pair they make a set etc. Given Sundays are when all the major online MTT's happen i couldn't really not play though. I went very deep in the $1 Million Guarantee on Full Tilt eventually losing a coin flip with 170 people left (out of 2500 starters) for a $1k cash. Winning that pot would have out me chip leader... :-(. I also went deep in two other MTT's and got another couple of cashes off them. I played well throughout and busted in only 2 comps where i got it in behind. In every other MTT (around 12) i got it in with an overpair vs under-pair and they got there, or set vs some flush and straight draw, and they got there. Very disappointing, but at least when i get it in good I know it's going to work out well in the long run...

Tonight i'm going to play the GUKPT £300+£300 event at the Vic. Not my favourite venue, but the standard of play down there so far has been awful, and i know if i can catch a break in just a few spots i can go deep. I'm looking to do a STT challenge during April. I've spoken about it before, but i seem to be running OK in that area of my game and also need a little direction for a month. I'll probably settle on a target of $5,000 profit over April allowing myself to just play the $16 Turbo's (or thereabouts) on Stars, Full Tilt, Gutshot, Ipoker etc. Over the last 3 months i'm running at around 42% ROI, which whilst not sustainable is certainly a great return. It would be good to know if anyone has any thoughts on this?

Barry from Gutshot kindly loaned me the Camtasia software a couple of weeks ago. Tomorrow i plan to put it into use and do a video. Probably just 8 tables of $16 turbos. I'll sent it across to the Gutshot pros for their opinions, but hopefully it'll go up on the Gutshot site, or failing that i'll just post it on here.

Laters, db