One of the key areas I’ve been working on in my recent sessions has been eliminating distractions while I am playing. A few years ago, when I was at the peak of my game, I found it very easy to put in long hours without being distracted by things on my phone, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, browsing the web, looking at my hold ‘em manager or cashier all the time. In the last year as the [...]

Now that I’m back from my trip to Perth I really want to hit the ground running and look to put in some pretty solid grinding and working on my game until my next trip (likely to be in August). I’ve come to the realisation that my mental game is not what is used to be and I want to get it back and actually make it even better.  I’m going to look to work [...]

I’ve just returned from a poker trip to Sydney and feel obliged to post a trip report! I was there for the duration of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour main event and had a really awesome time. I shared a 68th floor apartment with epics views of the centre of Sydney with 5 other full-ring cash grinders. We had Raiderduck from AP, LacieK, Newmanmi, skelm from FTP and petteytheft from Stars in the household and [...]

Think that is my third in the last twelve months. Thankfully, my opponent in this hand was so awful I actually got the chance to hit it on the river. Full Tilt Poker $2/$4 No Limit Hold’em – 7 players The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com Hero (SB): $464.80 BB: $80.00 UTG: $69.00 UTG+1: $397.20 MP: $78.00 CO: $1733.90 BTN: $637.00 Pre Flop: ($6.00) Hero is SB with J K 4 folds, BTN [...]

My venture into the world of live donkaments wasn’t really all that blogworthy, but I’ll share the details anyway. I basically ran completely card dead for the most part, and the times I did pick up hands they didn’t go so well. I never got above my starting stack of 5,000 and last about 5 or 6 levels. The first big hand I picked up was QQ utg, I raised and the button and big [...]