Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of my blog. THATS RIGHT! I made another decent mtt result so i did a blog lol... i never seem to post unless i have some good news to report.

I will write a little about whats been going on up till last night.

After the 2nd place in the crypto mtt ive tried my hand at cash games - with mixed results. I began playing poker as a limit cash player and moved on to NL ring games with more success than failure. For the past year i have devoted almost all my poker reading, revising and thought to tournaments while still playing ring games or sng's to keep the roll on an even keel while the final tables i so love to reach were not happening. Often i would - and still do:- play the ring games so that i dont have to keep depositing to enter mtts, then i would lose a buy in or 2 from a cooler or bad luck.. then lose another one or 2 from bad play... then as a measure to stop me losing alot of money i withdraw most of what i have on the site re-focus on mtts again.

So after my 14k score on crypto i dabbled in cash games there NL 200 and 400 then had a bad run and withdrew nearly all of the $4k i left in there to the bank. Played alot of mtts on crypto and kept getting deep - often to the last 18 people then busting out from pretty sound mtt play just running into monsters or losing the vital all ins. Then it was my freinds birthday, me and a few of the boys were going to Amsterdam to celebrate. This was great fun and i'd recommednt the city to anybody... the weather was awful though so we mostly stayed inside (the hash bars). That provided a much welcome break from poker and last night i came back with a fresh attitude and a whole new slate ready to fill up with bad beats and sad/unfortunate situations. I played a few good mtts - $150 on full tilt, $109 freezeout on stars and the nighlty $162 on stars. Tried my hardest in all of them - which in intself is a great improvement and in the $109 i made the final and lost out like this: i got about 12X the BB and i find JJ on the dolly, the BB is a bit defensive so i hoped i could set up a re raise from him... i raised it about 2.5X the bb and sure enough he pushed it all in i called obviosly his range is wide here... he had QK - not in as bad shape as i was hoping he would be... he outflopped me and i lost out in 9th. In the Full tilt i made it pretty far down to the last 120 out of about 450 or so... lost all my chips when my AhQh was unable to win against 99 - fair enough really. Then the stars nightly i came into the final 3 tables in v bad shape often with 4 - 7 X the bb... But i was patient and seized as many chips as i could where i felt my opponents would fold and also managed to win a couple of races, and a 60 40 . I came onto the final with about 200k 3rd in chips... Table was v v active and i saw no reason at all to get involved when any hand i would play could take off about half my chips and i had above 20 bbs. I let them knock heads making the rare re raise all in where i thought i would get respect and they;d fold unless they had a monster... thise worked and we were down to 4 players after not too long. Then the button raised and the loose aggresive - (and fairly bad) chip leader called out of the sb... about 70k in the pot and im in teh BB with 99 and still around 200k in chips - i decide to move all in and take the 70k preflop.... i dont rate the chip leader to be getting cute with AA or KK and if the initial raiser has a monster then power to him - cos he riases my bb every round. I went all in and to my surprised the chip leader called off about 2/3 of his chips with QK , i dont like his play here at all, its like he has trapped me with his QK... but i dont mind about that... his QK managed to beat my 99 so i was out in 4th for a very reasonable 8.9k. I could have won that race there, took teh chip lead and hopefully came 1st for 30k. It wasnt to be...

So i have a few things to consider over the next few days, how i am going to approach earning an income from poker? I also want to isolate any reasons i can possible divine as to why i was able to try my very hardest last night, when very often i think i will try my best then end up doing a v bad move and not even caring.

Anyway thanks for reading and GL