Exciting news

Today is my last day of full time employment!

For the last couple of months Helen and I have been thinking a lot about what to do about childcare when her maternity leave ends. Without going into the fine details we basically decided that Helens business must not suffer (she is self employed) and after a lot of number crunching we decided the only option was for me to resign and become a house husband.

I resigned a few weeks back but my employers have been very understanding of the situation and have given me the opportunity to work part time and mostly from home.

I am very grateful at how accommodating they have been and my boss actually said to me that he understands my daughter and my wifes business are more important than my job and they will just have to accept it!

So for the next two weeks I will be taking some time off for the xmas holidays and from 1st January 2009 I will be a part time Underwriter, part time house husband and semi-professional poker player/coach.

Pretty cool life balance imo :)

The Evidence

How to win 3 buyins in 19 hands:



Fish 1 said, "wauew"
Fish 1 said, "thats lucky"
sgb5000 said, "sry ul"
Fish 1 said, "a2 and hit like that"





Fish 2 said, "not 1 in million"
Fish 2 said, "but 3 in million"
Fish 1 said, "raise with crap i aearly"
Fish 1 said, "and hit against set"

Fish 1 and Fish 2 both left at this point. gg all.

All pretty standard really but the chat made me chuckle. "sry ul" is about the only thing I ever type in the chat box these days and then just leave them to get more and more annoyed :)

Run Goot!

Table select well and occasionally poker becomes easy :)

November Review

Back up my hands

Not very interesting and I still haven’t done this but I have just bought a nice new external hard to back up some important poker and non poker stuff.

Hand Group Reviews

I have started to group certain hands together and intend on doing some detailed analysis using excel in the new year. Already I have realised I am not using the button to full effect.

Study Poker Math

Another long term project that is going well. I have done a lot of work on 3betting ranges and looking for spots to 4bet bluff.

Finish Planning Hands/Anticipation Article

It’s sort of finished but I am not that happy with it and can’t work out why!

Watch MTT or PLO vids

Watched a grand total of 0. Did do some work on my MTT strategy though and finished 15 of 1700+ in supernova tourney on Saturday. Cashed for $260 which is not bad for a freebie but I was starting to think I was in for a nice $9k boost to the roll until my AKs ran into KTo AIPF. Lol donkaments.

Investigate Website

I have been looking at Google Groups. It looks cool and could be used for some poker/coaching stuff I have in the pipeline.If anyone reading has experience in using Google Groups I would love to hear from you.

Work on numerous coaching ideas

My priority as always is to ensure my current students are given the best possible service and I am constantly working on ways to make this happen. Having said that I do have room for one or two more students.

Play a session or two!

Success, just :)