Own a little bit of me
Thats right this is a one in a lifetime chance.
Im selling shares in myself for the WPT Pokerstars Carribbean adventure in 5 wks time. Basically for a $160 you get 2% of me. Should I cash in the event you will receive two percent of my winnings thus if i take home over $1,000,000 which im planning on doing you will receive $20k... cant be bad.
Ive sold a couple already and I am only planning on selling 10% at a push so if your interested email me Matthew@i-reraise.co.uk money transfer can be via Stars transfer, Neteller , Paypal, Full Tilt.
Their selling like hot cakes so you better be quick!!!!
Out.
Matthew on 11.28.05 @ 05:56 PM GMT [link]
Not Playing my 'A' game
Think i need to post to get some frustration out. For the last 2.5 wks I've been playing like a complete donk. I've been unable to lay losing hands down, I've dropped more money than I care to think about in MTT's and tilted cash games. I'm simply playing bad poker.
The good news is I think I have identified why this is happening and hopefully how to solve it.
1. Arrogance and Impatience.
For a while I've been far too cocky. In any other game/sport I'd have had reason too (in a 6 week span i came 2nd in the crypto £15k for £2700. I came 4th out of 1473 in the Pokerstars Inagural Blogger Championships for a 24" Dell TFT. I won the $12k WPT package to the bahamas and I also won my first B&M tournie for £1050). Through all this new added confidence I've found myself not respecting other opponents and not waiting for good opportunites to shove my chips in purely because I am feeling Im too good to go out which is a huge NO NO.
2.Bad Bankroll Management
While I'm no danger of going broke any time soon I have been entered much higher buy-in tournaments in an attempt to play against quality opposition in prepration for my big dance in January. While I have been playing some good poker in these tournaments when I don't cash I notice it missing from my poker roll. This also seems to be affecting me more than it should.
3. Variance
Something which alas I cannot control. While I admit to having made some donkish moves I have been getting incredibly unlucky in coinflips, dominating hands and the flopped or turned nuts just have not been holding up for me. Heres an example where I whinge alot 
Level 2 of the Stars $150 + 12 MTT.
Hero : 2250
Villain:1975
With blinds of 25/50 from MP2 I make it 200 to go with black aces Villain pushes from the cutoff. All folds and I call. Villain shows JJ flop KJK Turn 2 River 6 Im crippled in level 2 of a tournament.
Working through this I had what I would like to call a breakthrough last night.. Playing a Full tilt 30+3 sng we were in a very long bubble with 4 left I think it was 2-3 levels worth. I was the shortstack for a lot of it and managed to finished 3rd. I thought I was incredibly patient and played the Aggressive poker that I was doing during my hot streak.
After that I played the $6k Guaranteed and finished 5 out the money which again I was not dissapointed with if anyone cares again I got bounced with the best hand preflop.
Im watching my game closely now and believe I am getting back to where I was during that Hot streak.. slowly but surely.
Matthew on 11.26.05 @ 10:52 AM GMT [link]
Site Goes Live
After much tinkering and toying my weblog has a new home. HERE!.
Tournaments and Images pages are under construction everything else is fair game.
Poker wise since winning my Atlantis package it's been fairly quiet. Ive got two £1,000 sattelites at the Gala Maybury the next two Wednesdays so I'll hopefully get my place in the Edin mini-festival main event.
Other than that its been grinding along with STTs and MTT's at stars. Got an email from them today regarding a $120 bonus which was nice...
My new goal for stars is to rack up W$ and make a run at the EPT events in Deauville, Copenhagen and Monte Carlo. Reason being is they are only maybe 1hr tops on a plane and would not require a full week of work.
Hope everyone enjoys the new site.
Out
Matthew on 11.18.05 @ 10:12 PM GMT [link]
