Just to let the THPers know that I am back from my little London trip and I have started updating my blog again.

The address is http://crack2.livejournal.com/

Cheers!

Hi,

To try and get some more readers, I have decided to start my blog on a more public bloggers site. You can reach the blog at

http://crack2.livejournal.com so please add that to your favourites

Thanks.

Hello.

There isn't too much to report really. I have pretty much been playing MTT's and SNGs since we last spoke, so I kept true to my word.

I just purchased NLH by Sklansky and Vol 2 and 3 to go with Vol 1 of the Harrington series. I am yet to read 1 yet, so when I go back to London I plan to have all 3 read.

The NLH book is very good as well by the way. I am not too far in, but the start is giving you some really good advice. I already knew most of it, but it has taken me two years to figure it out. I am really looking forward to what it has in store for me in later chapters though!

It's not a typical Sklansky book either. I mean, don't get me wrong, there's still the mind boggling mathmatics in there, but he really does do well in explaining the different concepts and even during the chapters, he has grey blocks, summarising what he has said.

If you play NL Hold'em then it's a must buy if you are looking to improve.

So, I think I will tell you what I have been up...

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I probably played the best poker in a long time tonight. I think it was something to do with the big cash yesterday.

Anyway, I played poorly HU, and should have won, but made a silly bluff, got no handsthen pushed K8 into KJ.

The rest of the tourney I played realy well, and made some really good bluffs to pick up big pots.

2nd was £1.6k so I will take that.

I know I said poker break, but that doesnt include tournies. I aso cashed in some stars deepstack today for $9 WOOT

And it was nice!

I took away $5.3k for my troubles.

I was playing a bit of cash games as well, which was uneventful.

I busted in the Pokerstars Million

I busted in 10th in the THP v EMS with a good play.

THPer raised utg to $500, EMS called and I was going to just call but with about 1.5k n the pot already I decided to just push and the EMS player made a bad call with ATo and rivered a straight.

So down to the Crypto tourney.....


I was playing really well. The aim of this is to get chips after the first break, because it starts to turn into a real crapshoot. I was down to 800 chips at one point, then made some back, then came AK v AJ.

I had AJ in the BB, and decided to call, flop came QJ*, I had seen this guy push a lot, so I check, he pushed and I call and double up.

I pretty much didn't have another hand for hours and just stole my way into the cash, top 50 paid $200, which was cool.

I had some real luck in the tourney, with the best being A6 v AJ,...

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