Well its been a crazy hectic year so far! After deciding to go for Supernova on Stars in September I ended up playing a ton of poker to round out 2012, unfortunately as December loomed and the VPPs weren't racking up as fast as they needed to be I ended up having to grind out a ton of hyper turbo heads up SNGs to get there which didn't exactly go swimmingly. I ended up limping over the line with a bit of a battered bankroll but looking forward to playing a more manageable number of tables in 2013 and concentrating on my game a lot more instead of robotic button-mashing!
Playing volume was pretty light at the start of the year but having some time off definitely helped my mindset immensely. There tends to be a bit of a split amongst players coming off a big downswing. People tend to either want to put in huge volume and grind their way out of it, others take some time out and do a bit more studying. Before this year I was firmly in the insane grinding camp, happy to just go into lockdown and put in massive volume until its over. Not so much now though and I'm pretty happy with my decision to chill for a bit and work on my game some more instead. I ended up playing pretty light volume during the week and spending weekends in Sheffield/Leeds/London grinding the DnB gig circuit.
February marked a return to a more reasonable level of poker volume and luckily things started off well and continued in that vein. I'm playing pretty small compared to this time last year but crushing the games is huge for confidence and when I'm feeling good about my play I'm just going to play so much better. Obviously its no secret that fewer tables and greater concentration should lead to higher ROIs but I think its something that I let slip away from me a bit last year so its nice to return to some discipline and its showing in my results. Maybe its a symptom of getting a bit older but I don't so much want to win the world and play as high as I possibly can any more. I'm happy being a bankroll nit and just having a easy life. I've taken some pretty big shots in my poker career but I'm not one of the doom sayers that predict that poker will be unbeatable in a few years and at 23 time is firmly on my side, so for now it'll be slowly slowly catch monkey in terms of moving back up to the levels I was playing a year or so ago.
2013 So Far
I've recently joined Team Titan along with lil Dave, Stu Rutter, Ben Jenkins and Ben Jones which is a really exciting prospect. They're all great players and it'll be fun representing the biggest room on iPoker at live events around the country.
Yesterday the new betting service from Titan and The Firm went live. It's called PokerBet and it allows you to bet on Team Titan players through the sportsbook. If the player you bet on final tables the bet returns whatever multiple of the buyin the player cashes for. The first event will be GUKPT Didsbury which is a £500 buyin so for example if you bet on me, I final table and cash for £3,500 the bet returns 7x your stake. The Firm will be doing live updates for all Team Titan players so it should make for a great sweat and hopefully it'll catch on!
Sign up to Titan using Promo Code: PokerBet and deposit £35 and you get another £35 in free bets
Full details and FAQ available here:
http://thefirmpoker.com/services/pokerbet/
Happy Punting
