Tempt Fate Would We?

Good Jaysus...I will never post about doing well again. Entraction network is rigged beyond all belief...Went back to Everest to find it was also rigged now. Dropped $3.5k, or 11 buyins in less than a week. Time for a break. Hopefully I won't hate poker for too long. Bankroll still at about $13.5k I think... so not the end of the world but a serious f#$%#$n kick in the guts.



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Heat of the Summer

About time for an update I suppose...I had the first two weeks of July off and for various reasons didn't go on holidays, and I don't know too many people around here (lol Belgians) so I played a lot of poker and watched a lot of videos. To be honest I was pretty happy to get to work (even though I do absolutely nothing), because I was just getting stir crazy sitting in the apartment all day with only the dog to talk to.

At least going to work involves leaving the house to read the internet all day! I’m moving back to Ireland in November so I’m starting to look forward to that, even though moving the whole show back is going to be a giant pain in the ass.
In terms of results, I dont have my pokertracker to hand but I've played about 12,000 hands so far this month, and I'm up over $4.2k so I'm very happy with that. I'm just dreading that I may be just running good and there's a soul crushing downswing around the corner. But sure we can't go about life worrying about getting hit by a bus, so I'll just enjoy it while it lasts. I'm happy with how I'm playing and I think I should be a comfortable mid stakes player by the end of the year, unless the games catch up and pass me by!

For my last 50k hands at 100nl, 200nl and 400nl I'm beating them for a combined 7ptbb/100. I know its not a huge sample, but its encouraging all the same.
I never bothered putting money on ipoker in the end. Instead I put some on the entraction network which is in euros. This is great because the exchange rate means there's intermediate levels from the dollar amounts, so at the moment I'm playing a good bit there to clear a bonus at €200nl which is the dollar equivalent of about 320nl, a level that I'm pretty happy playing at for now...So in due course I'll mix in some $400nl (which I've been playing a bit of on Everest) and some _€400nl.
Away from cash, I played a €200 buyin tournament on Betdaq last night, which I got a free ticket for. 145 started and I got down to the last 30 (18 paid) with TT being rivered by AK for a pot to go about 10th in chips and virtually certain of making the money (a not insignificant €422). Tournaments have been pretty soul-crushing in the last while for me, I don't see how people can play them regularly. That said, I booked my flights home yesterday for the weekend of the International Poker Open which is on in October in the Regency (check www.boylepoker.com/ipo for details). It figures to have 1200 runners and the buyin is a paltry €150. It'll be great to have the chance to play in such a big event for that money. The structure looks great and I'm really looking forward to playing in it, as to date I’ve only played a tiny amount live.