Week 4: Review

With a losing one and a half hour session at The Hippo just now that cost me £500, I suppose I have to be pleased that I've ended the week in the black to the tune of about £600. With two days to go before the end of the month, this gives me a monthly total, thus far, of £880. Not exactly a monthly-nut but at least it's a profit for the week this time round.

The week started satisfactorily enough with a few reasonable wins and some minor losses but it really took off after a £700 winning session at a £2/£5 table at The Hippo on Friday night. This, thanks largely to a ~£1k pot where my trip Queens with a King kicker held up against my villain's trip Queen with a Two kicker after we got it all-in on the flop. Cruising along with a monthly profit of £1.4k (and a £1.1k profit for the week), I went into the Sunday sesssion confident that I could build on this.

Alas, it wasn't to be as I pondered calling an all-in turn bet of £400 while holding 2 2 on a 2 10 Q 8 board and with £250 behind. Yep, I read the villain for the J 9 all right and with the pot swelling to around £1.2k after I'd make the call, I was getting very marginal odds to make it profitable. After a long tanking session, I did finally make the call but seeing the river hit a Six, failed to make the full-house I'd hoped for. He did, indeed, show the J 9.

In retrospect I only have myself to blame for not properly raising the flop which did show a couple of clubs and which obvioulsy meant it was extremely draw-heavy and crying out for me to bring it in for a hefty raise. An expensive mistake and a bit of a shame. Had the board paired, I'd proudly be announcing that I'd made my monthly-nut and be feeling very comfortable and confident indeed; as it is, I'm falling around £1k short of my target and know that next month is going to be a real slog to generate that extra income. As I've stated before, unless I pick things up in October and November, it looks like the business is going to be a 4-month experimental dabble rather than the long-term business venture I envisaged.   

On a positive note, I did manage to put in 30 hours for the week. This means I'll have put in around 125 hours for the month come Tuesday which is satisfactory. Next month, I intend to put in more. I'll do a monthly round-up on Tuesday to sum up how things have gone and then we're off again for the month October!!