Pud's Poker Progress 
/ Dave Allan / 07 March 2011 / Leave a Comment 
Most poker players really look forward to the Sunday grind where the big tournaments take place and the fishes are out in force, but not me. The past six Sundays have seen me end my session with less money than I started with and I honestly cannot put my finger on way.
Variance obviously has a part to play because I don't play all that much but I can't help but think there is something else there too. Maybe the fact I have had losing sessions on previous Sundays somehow gets into my psyche and mindset and makes me play differently to how I usually do, I don't know. Looking at last night's hand histories and statistics I played 520 hands and lost $38.89, which is bugger all in the grand scheme of things really but I don't like losing! To add insult to injury I should have lost $91.20 if the cards fell the way they should so I lost despite running good, marvellous.
I'm still up for the month, $174.93 up to be exact but I have only fit in 1,428 hands so far in the six days of March that have been and gone. When I see how little I play it makes me chuckle at how someone accused me of being a gambling addict the other week, the man who plays at most 10-15k hands a month and has taken five years to grow a pair of balls big enough to play $0.25/$0.50! Of course it was a non-poker playing fish who came out with this lol-tastic accusation, the type of person who won't see that I finished almost $650 up last month they'd just as "but how much did you lose?"
I had some great fun with 38 kids on Saturday which makes me sound like Gary Glitter but I assure you nothing could be further from the truth. Although I live in Huddersfield I hardly no anywhere around here and I was surprised to find a laser quest type place a couple of weeks ago by complete accident so Pud Jr and I went on Saturday. It's great, like real life Call of Duty except with 38 kids running around there is no need for tactics or anything even remotely like but some of the little gits were like crack elite special forces, talking about pincher movements, covering fire and getting to sniping positions! I should have started pistol whipping the little sods to improve my score, though I did come 3rd, 5th, 6th and 8th but there again I did have 20 years on most of them! It gave me the urge to go paint balling again as I went years ago and loved it and there are some places now that make a big deal out of it, give you proper missions and have real enemy troops etc. Yes I am a big nerd!
On a more negative note the phenomenon known as "Pudding Luck" where if it wasn't for bad luck you wouldn't have any has struck again. First Mrs Pud's laptop gave up the ghost and it was only £50 more to get her a new one than it was to repair it, now my car's exhaust manifold is blowing and needs replacing, as do the front brakes which would cost more than what the car is worth. Add to that Baby Pud decided it would be a good idea to spill a tin of gloss paint on the living room carpet at 0620 Saturday morning and now my old man has been stung with a £6.5k tax bill after he was given some piss poor advice by an independent financial advisor. As Doyle Brunson said in his blog last week that a lot of this is not really significant and if you have your health then you should be grateful.
Plans for this week are to log plenty of hands, ideally I'd like to be at at least 3,000 hands by the time Sunday comes and goes, 5,000 would be ideal but also highly unlikely in all honesty but you never know, us gambling addicts like to put in the hours!
As always, thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!
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