My Office Set Up

Here's a picture of my office set up:

I'm pretty happy with it and I have enjoyed slowly improving it over time. I'll list all the key components below, there's nothing to fancy involved as I think I have managed to cut costs where I can :)

Glass Ikea desk (approx £80)

3x acer monitors (approx £200 each)

3x monitor arms (approx £35 each)

Logitech M510 wireless mouse (£35)

Cheap acer keyboard that came with my old PC

Philips over ear headphones (£50)

Standard Xbox controller & Microsoft wireless receiver

 

I have two different chairs which I alternate between and these are both by far my most extravagant purchases. The one in the above pic is a standard office chair which I use when I want to grind using a mouse. I cant remember the brand but it's a pretty decent one (approx £300). The chair in the below pic is a big ass comfy recliner chair which is amazingly relaxing and great for grinding with my xbox controller or watching movies. Although it can be argued being in a relaxed position is not great for concentration. I picked it up in a boxing day half price sale at a furniture store for £500 down from £1000. 

 

I have recently upgraded my main rig. Its really sweet and super powerful. I paid £700 for a custom build online which seems pretty cheap considering the components are pretty high spec.

  

It has a cheap generic gaming case, AMD FX 8350 Eight core processor, 2TB hard drive, 16GB RAM and a really powerful graphics card which powers my 3 monitors no problem. So that's pretty much it, I think I will post a blog all about the software I use and my table set up etc, so look out for that. Thanks for reading :)  

March So Far

Volume and results online haven't been so great this month, a rather lame 15k hands played to be break even. 

Thankfully on Friday I played a live tournament just to get out and be social and ended up making some reasonable money. It was a £20+5 buy in with one optional re-buy of £20, GTD prize pool of £2k. It only got about 40 entries and didn't make the guarantee. I pretty much cruised to the final table never having my tourny life on the line and winning a couple of those crucial flips. It was a 10 handed final and 6 prizes paid with £90 for 6th and £700 for first. Basically one guy completely bulldozed the final table eliminating 6 players while I was just able to do a couple of blind steals to stay around the 10bb mark which is very healthy in a daily crap shoot like this. So it ended up 4 handed with 3 of us on approx 10bbs (100k) and the bulldozer who had about 500k. At which point he proposed a deal of him taking £500 and the 3 of us taking £400 each which of course we snapped his hand for. 

So this little bink is pretty nice and since I'm not working for rest of March I have plenty of time to commit to the pokerz. I'm planning to play a few live sessions this week at my local £1/1 game and then next week I'm heading down to London for a few days where I can free roll my girlfriends £250 a night work hotel and grind some of the juicy London games and the amazing restaurants. I was on the fence about going down to London because it can be very expensive, especially if you run bad and lose at poker on top. However a really nice free hotel room in the week needs to be taken advantage of and also the £400 tourny win pads my bankroll nicely to where at worst case scenario I can grind the 1/1 in the Vic even if the rake is horrendous it's still a +ev game with all the lol live regs. 

Even though I planning to play lots of live poker over the next few weeks I'm hoping I can also cram in another 35k hands online as well, which I know is way short of my original target haha, maybe one day I will set myself an achievable goal. Anyway as long as I dont run like death live it's pretty hard to not win so fingers crossed my hands hold. Laterz!       

Macau Big Game

Not much is known about the huge games going on in Macau, however one of the US pros shared a pic of the game showing 200,000,000HK$ ($20,000,000) on the table. 

Rumour has it that they run out of high denomination chips and started issuing vouchers instead of plaques!