Poor show...

After feeling pretty rotten last week i only ended up playing two live events and very little online. Sadly i didn't cash in the PLO event at the London Poker Masters or the Main event. I'd been pretty card dead in the ME for most of the first day, but still had increased my starting stack from 14k to 28k by the second break. After that I was still card dead, but worse than that the positions to steal blinds or 3 bet dried up too. I leaked chips to well below average of about 18k and eventually raised in late position with 88, the big blind 3 bet me as he had on the last 4 circuits and this time I took a stand.

The previous 4 circuits i'd raised and he'd 3 bet me with 77, A10 twice and another mystery hand. He was actually playing reasonably tight and so this time after raising to 2.2k, he raised to 5.6k and i pushed. He snapped me off with KK and I was out. As I was leaving I heard a couple of players saying why didn't I 4 bet fold. I guess I could have raised to 9k and then chucked it away to his push, leaving myself with around 10 big blinds, but given this was the first time I'd done it and the hands he'd 3 bet me with previously would be folded I'm happy with the way I played the hand.

That means overall last week i invested around £450 (i was nearly 50% backed) in buy-ins with no money in return. A poor week. The only shining light was winning the fantasy LPM player comp that was ran on the forum. This paid exactly £450 so it was a breakeven week. Still poor, but bearable.

I'm still running pretty bad online, and not playing my best. I've cashed once in 10 MTT's online over the weekend, and will be glad to take a breather from the game for a few days this week. I'm off to Le Touquet to play golf now until late Saturday. It'll be nice to have a bit of fresh air and exercise after feeling pretty unwell last week. Hopefully i'll feel OK for the next few days, tho' if not i can just stay in the hotel anyway i guess and watch DVD's. The same as in London!

Next week i'll be playing the GUKPT London satellite on Tuesday evening at the Vic, but aside from that will try and put in some hours online to repay the faith Howard has put in me, by backing me online.