Irony/ March Review

So my last post I showed off my office set up and my new pc. Ironically a few days after that post my PC started having problems where it would freeze and then blue screen. Not ideal for grinding online poker, despite only being a very simple problem to fix it took 2 weeks to get sorted so with lots of free grinding hours in March, it was a volume write off after an already slow start to the month :(

I managed to play a few live £1/1 sessions where I came out a small loser. I spend a bit of time on my old crappy computer researching 6 max hyper turbs and experimented 4 tabling the $3.5's. Seems to be reasonable money to be made in these at least if your playing $7's and above. Not sure if a positive ROI is achievable in the 3.5s with the rake being higher, maybe 1/2% if your good which I would be happy with as you can play so many. I played 200 of these and won about $5 LOL. At the very least they are lots of fun to play and a nice break from the sometimes tedious zoom grind. 

Also played about 100 micro MTT's over the month, a few cashes but nothing major netting me another small loss. Thankfully the one live MTT I played I binked a chop which pretty much saved the month from being a loss. 

   

Online Cash losses: -$129

Online Tournament/ SNG losses: -$75

Live Cash Loses: -(£50) -$83  

Live Tournament Winnings: +(£400) +$664

FPP Value +$10

March Total: +$387

So a pretty terrible month that was only in the green thanks to a Live ROFALMENT bink! Oh well. Lets see what April will bring :) GL everyone! 

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 :)