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Joe Czech Republic. Sep 30 2008 16:38. Posts 5987

I havent updated my blog in quite a while, so I thought now that September ended, it is a good time for some update.

First a quick word about August:
In August I was travelling throughout Spain, Portugal and south France in my car with a few friends from high school. It was a very cool trip, we drove like 11.5k kilometer and visited almost every important city/place in Spain. We also made a quick detour to Maroco, which was my first time being in Africa ever

I might post a few pictures once I get them.

I played close to zero hours of poker during the entire month, but I still somehow managed to end up +$500 for the month in poker

Now lets move to September.
So I came back home for September after being abroad for more than 11 weeks (except for a few days inbetween). I was going to play a lot of poker and was looking forward to it

I was also about to go back to school after half year's break.

With the school it went kind of complicated, I dont want to go into details, but everything should have been sorted out by last friday and so far it is still not unclear whether or not I am actually coming back or not for this semester. We shall see

With poker I indeed played quite a lot, putting in almost 50k hands, which is a lot by my standards as I usually only play around 30-35k hands. I also put up a challenge for myself in the beginning of the month to make 30k VIP points on Unibet, which ensures me 50% rakeback. It was a tough goal as I never made more than about 18k before. It was kinda tough but I made it

I had to play like 12 hours of 6-8 tabling in the last two days though, which was kinda sick for me.

Also, in the middle of the month I attended a live tournament in Casino di Campione, close to Milan, Italy. It was a 1,500 euro freezeout and I was being sponzored for this by Unibet

Unfortunately I didnt make it to the money, but it was still a very nice trip. And btw, the cashgames there are pure sickness, I can recommend it to anyone. Eventhough they have uncapped rake, which is kinda sick for a 10/20 CHF game (1 CHF is almost 1 USD, like 0.9x), the game is sickeningly soft because most players there are very loose / very passive who pay any amount for any draw, no matter what.

Btw, does anyone else think that 10 CHF (Swiss Frank) looks like a playmoney note?

We all agreed on that with my friends.

Ok enough rambling, lets go to the results:

Final result: +$22,680 - finally I had a 20k+ month again, after long 5 months. I am quite happy with this result, eventhough my goal for the month was slightly higher (+25k). I think I ran slighly below expectation though, especially in the 2nd half of the month.

Looking forward to October, it has been my best poker month of the year in both 2007 and 2006, so we shall see if this continues to 2008 - I hope it will!

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there is a light at the end of the tunnel... (but sometimes the tunnel is long and deep as hell)

Last edit: 11/10/2008 08:30

VanDerMeyde Norway. Sep 30 2008 16:49. Posts 5127

congrats

nolan Ireland. Sep 30 2008 17:07. Posts 6205

well done

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Sorgen . Sep 30 2008 17:29. Posts 1

Really nice, gj !

Logiabs~ Colombia. Sep 30 2008 19:15. Posts 9133

grats