Solid finish to the month!

Having not played online for a week now it's time to get back to crushing and finish the month solidly. I absolutely smashed V Fest last weekend and was well worth the time away from the tables. I spent all weekend drinking beer and champagne and loved every drunken minute of it.

The weather was decent for both days and not a patch of mud in sight. I went with my girlfriend, sister and her boyfriend. The boose and food was pretty expensive but the food was good quality and the beer was ice cold so no complaints! My girlfriend wasn't prepared to camp so we stayed in a hotel lol! Not quite the full festival experience.

We managed to see loads of amazing acts but the two hi-lights had to be Kings of Leon and Rudimental. Rudimental was absolutely insane, with 50,000 people all raving in the sun. I have never experienced anything like it. They tweeted after to say it was their best ever gig so that was cool.

My grind days this week and next week are Thurs-Sun which is optimal for timing for me to cash in on the lucrative weekend player pools. This gives me 7 playing days left to finish the month well and release a couple of bonuses too. Hopefully I can put in some good volume and come out the other side with a nice profit.

Also the Gukpt Goliath festival has just started 30 mins from where I live, so I might end up playing that this week. It looks like such great value. £120 buy in, 25k stack and 40 min levels with a 200k guarantee. I'm sure the cash games will be really juicy to so it would be a crime to not commit at least 1 day to this. It is being played in the beautiful G casino at the Richo Arena which is an awesome casino.

Thats all for now, will be back soon to update on the week whether its online or livaments! GLGLGLGLGLGL

Festival/ No Volume

I have managed to get hold of 2 VIP weekend Tickets to V festival this weekend which is AWSOME! My girlfriend and I will be raving it up in our wellies to Beyonce and Kings of Leon so I'm super excited for that. Obviously this means no poker on top of what has already been a poor week volume wise. I have had to work the last 2 days so I could get the weekend off so I'm going to have to work really hard next week if I'm to make platinum star this month. 

Working Mon-Weds next week, so got the optimal grinding days of Thurs-Sunday to put in some big volume and get the month back on track. GL to everyone grinding over the weekend. I will try and get some pics with celebs in the VIP tent YOLO  :0 

Disaster Tuesday

Unfortunately things didn't go to plan at all yesterday. My body clock is all over the place because I work nights 3 days a week. I attempted to start playing at 6pm but was so tired I decided to have a power nap at about 8pm and ended up waking up at 3am FML. So it was 4am Wednesday before I started playing properly.

I had missed the best of the grinding hours completely. But never the less I decided to load up four 25NL tables in a pretty reg infested pool and proceeded to get absolutely brutalised dropping 5 buy ins in about 60 mins, sigh.

I was playing very LAGY and admittedly a bit tilted but the run outs I received were just pure LOL. I had two set over sets, one set that couldn't hold v flush draw on river, and then had two identical spots where I 4 bet with AK suited and the board runs out dry A7x and both times they find a set of 7's.

Thank god I'm playing micros because I cant imagine running that bad for more meaningful stakes. I'm going to tilt off a few more buy ins on the golf course now! At least my friends can be the beneficences of my cash and not some Russian Nits!

I will probably play later tonight if I'm not to tired since I will have been awake since 2am lol. I have to work 6 of the following 7 days which is pretty sigh, so my next day of grinding will be Sunday unless I can fit some hours in before work.    

Mondays Session

I jumped into the zoom pool later than planned yesterday at about 8pm UK time. Since it was Monday and I had a bit of weekend rust I decided to take it easy and just play a mix of 25NL & 10NL. I was planning to play at least 8k hands but unfortunately it developed into a bit of a lacklustre session volume wise.

After about 1k hands I was running pretty poorly, especially at my 25NL tables and was down about $50. I had built stacks on my two 10NL tables so decided to sacrifice some volume and  drop my 25NL tables and just 3 table 10NL for the remainder of the evening. It was worth dropping tables and lowering stakes as by the end of the session I managed 5k hands and $110 profit which is reasonable hourly rate at these stakes.

So although I only managed 5k hands it turned out to be a reasonable session. I was still about $26 below EV but I cant complain to much as my situational luck was pretty good. Here are a few of the fun hands i played during the session.

Cold deck in a 4 bet pot...

The classic AA v K6 vs massive whale in 500bb pot.

I guess he was bluffing...

Nut flush no good mate!

About to start my Tuesday session. Hopefully can improve on volume and run better at 25NL tonight. Time to CRUSH!!

Grind Time

I've managed to gain some twitter followers and a few other bloggers have kindly included me to their blog lists so I'm at least on a few peoples radars now. Its nice to know I'm not talking to myself :/

So my grind days this week are Monday to Thursday. I plan to play between approx 5PM and 1-2AM Western European Time whilst the zoom pools are at there busiest and most soft. I'm going to set myself a modest target of 30k hands for the 4 days which I should make comfortably 4 tabling  for 4 x 8 hour sessions.

Just got back from having a really nice full body Swedish massage so I'm feeling great and in the zone. I've got a few essentials lined up at my grind station to keep me focused through out the session.

I will report back soon with how I'm getting on. Also if anyone has any questions to ask me feel free to ask in the comments below.

Introductory Blog

Hello and welcome. I've been awake all night designing this blog so I'm going to make a swift opening post to explain a little about me and what I plan to do with this blog. In case it wasn't already obvious, I'm a Zoom grinder @Pokerstars. I've been playing online poker for a few years now with solid results up to this point. I'm a 23 year old male from the UK and I play small stakes Zoom six max approx 40 hours per week.

I would describe myself as a semi-pro as I play 4 days per week and work part time during the other 3 days. In 2013, 50% of my income has been made playing poker but my long term goal is to turn it into a full time gig. 

Up until now I've always been a lurker, never posting on forums and communicating with any other cash regs and bloggers. So I decided to make an effort and create this space to reach out and be more interactive with other regs and bloggers. I <3 reading all the other poker blogs out there and I have listed all my favourites down the right hand side. 

The page will be similar to other poker blogs, I will be posting intersting spots, monthly reviews etc etc... and any other cool life stuff really. At least for now I would like to keep my anonymity so I'm not going to divulge my screen name or my real name. I have also created a new Twitter account, which hopefully I can use to connect with as many English speaking regs as possible.

I will describe more about myself and my poker journy in my next post. As for now knowbody knows about this blog to, I guess I will spam some other bloggers on Twitter to try and get it out there. I hope I can make a success of the blog and meet some other grinders/ bloggers along the way :)

Thanks and GL, Zoompokerz :)