While I am waiting to upload more money to my Poker bankroll I have started working on a relevant plug-in for WordPress which I am going to use on this site. This plug-in, called ‘Bankroll-Chart‘, will present a customisable, Flash line graph which represents a person’s bankroll over a period of time. The user will enter bankroll data (recorded against each day) through the WordPress administration interface and the data will be stored in the MySQL database using a custom table.
I caught the Sunday of the Loch Lomond 2008 music festival. It was very wet and muddy but all in all an excellent day and I saw some great bands. I have been to concerts before but this was the first time I have been to a festival. I caught The Haze, The Complete Stone Roses, Idlewild, Ocean Colour Scene and the Sex Pistols.
I manged to go on tilt and bust my bankroll… I had some awful luck today though. Three times I was in a heads-up situation with someone with a winning hand and them on a drawing hand. Each time they made their draw (two flushes and a straight) putting me out of three S&G tournaments. The last two S&Gs i played were big buy-ins hence why I have no bankroll left.
I wish I had more discipline for managing my bank roll :-( I’m not gonna upload any more until my wage is in. That will give me time to cool off and work on this web site.
I played three $2.25 buy-in Sit and Go’s and went out pretty quickly in each one. They were 18 person tables. I got dealth 6-2 offsuit and Q-3 offsuit what seemed like an inordinate amount of times today. I also remember being dealt the same cards twice in a row (with different suits each time) at least five times (unsurprisingly, I am not talking about pocket aces). Sometimes I wonder about the Random Number Generation for these sites…
That being said I had some good hands as well. I played two drawing hands (which I am often reluctant to do) and made the cards I was after. One was a flush draw the other a straight. I also played some low pocket pairs and flopped a set a couple of times. I tried my best not to scare my opposition off by putting in small value bets but there was no takers.
Overall not a great night. My bankroll is at $74. $10 down from when I started.
This personal blog is mostly about my experience playing poker online at ‘Full Tilt Poker’ as well as other things that interest me (Graphics / Game Development, Web Development and Electric Guitar etc).
I have a bit experience playing poker, specifically Texas Hold’Em, and have read a few books which I believe have helped my game. I consider myself a capable player but prone to making stupid mistakes that I kick myself about afterwards. I prefer playing tournaments (Sit and Go’s) over cash games but will play cash games every now and then if I want to gamble a bit. This usually happens after a bad-beat in a S&G and is responsible for wild swings in my bankroll.