A dry spell
Nov. 29th, 2005 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksNow, in poker terms, "a dry spell" can mean bad news. However, when it's applied to boilers, it's good news indeed. I spoke to a plumber, and he said what he thought had happened, and concluded that it probably needed a service, but would be quite safe to leave on "frost control" for three weeks. Excellent.
I've been perusing the blogs of some of the people who are going to be in Vegas for the World Poker Blogger Tournament on the first weekend after I arrive. Since very few of them are likely to know that this site even exists (I hardly promote myself to the blog gliterati) I will probably be something of an unkown quantity to most of them. That will make a nice change. Should be a fun few days.
Lunch tomorrow with Mr Galloway to pick up a few dollars, after a morning trip to Mr Smile in Southampton Row for some sterling. I was frantically trying to get to $10,000 profit for the year before I left for Vegas, but it looks as if I shall end up a few hundred short. I have plans for next year, but first we must see how it goes in the 15-30 in Bellagio.
It's been an interesting year. I can't imagine last December feeling somehow insouciant at the prospect of a $2,000 loss in a single night. It's a lot easier to cope with when the money has not been written to book! For 2004 I was targeting $5,000 profit for the year and I was pleased to get rather close to it. For this year, I kept that target, so on those grounds, things have gone rather well. Even though I feel that I have been "treading water" since the end of June, in fact I have won about $1,500 since then, a better performance than last year.
For 2006 it's clear that I need to focus on two parts of my game, which are somewhat contradictory -- game selection (i.e., find the weakest games) and self-improvement (i.e., beat the stronger games). I had toyed with the idea of solely focusing on tournaments but, the more I look at them, the less I see how they can be a route to certain wealth. It would probably take me a year to get up to any speed, and then you have to cope with the inevitable volatility. Why bother, when there are limit cash games just waiting to be hit, and when that's the game at which I have hundreds of thousands of hands worth of experience?
Onwards and bedwards.
I've been perusing the blogs of some of the people who are going to be in Vegas for the World Poker Blogger Tournament on the first weekend after I arrive. Since very few of them are likely to know that this site even exists (I hardly promote myself to the blog gliterati) I will probably be something of an unkown quantity to most of them. That will make a nice change. Should be a fun few days.
Lunch tomorrow with Mr Galloway to pick up a few dollars, after a morning trip to Mr Smile in Southampton Row for some sterling. I was frantically trying to get to $10,000 profit for the year before I left for Vegas, but it looks as if I shall end up a few hundred short. I have plans for next year, but first we must see how it goes in the 15-30 in Bellagio.
It's been an interesting year. I can't imagine last December feeling somehow insouciant at the prospect of a $2,000 loss in a single night. It's a lot easier to cope with when the money has not been written to book! For 2004 I was targeting $5,000 profit for the year and I was pleased to get rather close to it. For this year, I kept that target, so on those grounds, things have gone rather well. Even though I feel that I have been "treading water" since the end of June, in fact I have won about $1,500 since then, a better performance than last year.
For 2006 it's clear that I need to focus on two parts of my game, which are somewhat contradictory -- game selection (i.e., find the weakest games) and self-improvement (i.e., beat the stronger games). I had toyed with the idea of solely focusing on tournaments but, the more I look at them, the less I see how they can be a route to certain wealth. It would probably take me a year to get up to any speed, and then you have to cope with the inevitable volatility. Why bother, when there are limit cash games just waiting to be hit, and when that's the game at which I have hundreds of thousands of hands worth of experience?
Onwards and bedwards.
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Date: 2005-11-30 02:31 pm (UTC)Look after my beautiful dollars for me and bring them home safely....
Munchies
Date: 2005-11-30 10:42 pm (UTC)But, the quality - superb. And the chips and asparagus were nice as well.
One to add to the food roster, definitely. The Canary Wharf one is ony 15 minutes away on the DLR.