End of the Month

I'll be honest, this month has been absolutely insane. That 2 week heater propelled me from having a bankroll barely able to cover enough buyins for PL10, to now where I am safely rolled for PL50 and borderline PL100. Obviously I will not break poker player rule number one, never tell anyone what you're worth, but safe to say, it's a lot more than I've ever had! The only shame is that I'm going to have to cash out a fair portion of said gigantic bankroll in order to pay for Christmas, but you know what, this actually makes me happier.

Let me explain. When every grinder begins his long arduous crawl up the rungs of the cash game ladder, he aims to acheive 3 main goals.

1. To make his way up to the highest stakes game and eventually crush Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey for millions of dollars (not alot will acheive this)

2. To make enough money to quit their boring dead end job and play poker full time (many do achieve this, but few will become millionaires)

3. To grow their account to a size where they can make regular withdrawls to support and enhance their lifestyle.

Now, if I'm honest myself, I can't see myself crushing Ivey in the near future, and going pro, while pretty awesome, probably will not happen either. However, if I can cashout even $100 a week, that's around £60. That will pretty much pay for my living expenses, assuming I don't get too drunk at Walkabout and break out the plastic excessively. That would seriously change my life, honestly. As a student you look to cut corners in nearly every possible area. Food, drink, clothes, travel etc, it can get pretty depressing. To be able to go out and buy that brand name loaf of bread, to buy that increasingly necessary new jumper, to drink a pint of Kronenburg rather than London Pride, apologies LP faithful, would dramatically alter my lifestyle. And if we think about it, $100 isn't that difficult is it? I mean that's 2 BIs. If I keep up this months winrate, which is approximately 6BBs/100, and keep up with the volume I really should do as a PLO8 grinder, then withdrawing $100 AND continuing to build a BR should be attainable. Once I hit the promised land of PL100, and settle in nicely to what I assume is a tougher game, then we could possibly move onto withdrawing more, but I think this is more of a long term goal than a hope for the new month. Right now I need to concentrate on playing solid poker, not getting worked up after losing a few pots, an issue which is sort of troubling me right now, and most importantly, getting in that volume. Although I'm hitting the 20k hand mark for the month tonight, I would really like to be much further than that this time next month.

I've got a few things I'm going to share with you but it's getting on, and Man Utd just lost 4-0 to West Ham, yeah I know! So I'm off to drown my sorrows in a haze of watery tea and mediocre porn. We'll get around to the other stuff later. Toodles.