I just got Supernova on Pokerstars. Can someone please suggest to me what the best thing to do with regards to a bonus is. Should I just keep my points for now, or is there some good reward for me to get? I have about 220k FPPs and 100k VPPs.

We have our one year anniversary coming up and there's a really good contest we're running for it. You can find the information here. It's a cool contest in my opinion, and I definitely would've liked to have done something like this a year ago. Look it over and enter!

I'm having a poker night at mine on Saturday night. It's going to be fun as we haven't had one for while. At the last one I did some dodgy dealing when it got to heads up as one of the guys was about to get married and I thought it'd be fun for him! It turned out to be pretty funny, and noone really minded as we're all friends and it was only a fiver to enter. We also went out after and I got to share the winnings with him, which was a definite plus for doing it! We normally have shots if you win with certain hands so hopefully that'll be in full effect on Saturday. I get a little bored otherwise!

So I'm back to positive! The bit around hand 9k was pretty funny. I'd just got back to even for the month and then my friend John stacked me immediately. I need to get him back sometime soon because he's up on me lifetime at the minute! I also made a terrible river call right after that, which I was pretty pissed off about. No worries though because I took a break, came back, and owned.

I need to apologise to some guy called Hesselgren (I think) as well. I just made a really bad flop 3-bet against him because I thought we were only 100BB deep. I ended up sucking out on the turn and stacking him for 200BB so I got real lucky there. If you're a Leggo member I'm sorry! If you're not I couldn't care less! (joke)

I'll be the first to admit that I haven't been playing as well this month. That's hopefully fixed now and I'm ready to go on my tear.

In other news, I think I was the most drunk I've been for a long, long time the other day. I wasn't planning on going out but my friend was going to some house party and then to the pub so I tagged along. It was his brother's ex-girlfriend's house warming party. She's Polish and there were a bunch of Polish people there. I was immediately forced to start on the Polish vodka (I don't drink spirits much) and it was a bad idea. Long story short, I end up hammered in the pub. Next thing I know, I wake up. Luckily I'm in my bed. My clothes from last night are on the floor so I pick them up and they're wet through. ****! I start to think I pissed myself.

So I'm lying around downstairs trying to convince myself I'm not dying and my mum rings up. Apparently I'd forgot my keys and was locked out when I got home (still not sure how I got home), so I phoned her to bring my spares round (she lives 5 or so minutes away). I have no idea what time this was, but it was definitely the wrong side of midnight (and probably quite a way past). So she gets round to mine and I'm asleep on my bench outside in the pissing rain. I didn't piss myself. Thank the lord. Thank my mum!

I felt like a complete tool though as I'm old enough to know better now. Those damn Poles and their vodka.

P.S. I think I was asked some questions in the comments of my last two blog posts - I'm about to answer them now.

Fun times.

I had a decent month winning around $36k. I didn't play as much NL as I would've liked due to playing almost a week of PLO and spending too many days drinking too much! I'd really like to start grinding more hands of $5/10 each month and really raking in some money. For that reason I'm going to set a goal of 60k hands of $5/10 for November. This shouldn't be too difficult to achieve, but it is a decent amount more than I normally play so I'll be happy with it.

On Sunday it's the biggest match of the season for my football team. It's Forest v Derby which is the local derby and just a huge match for the fans. We've been in different divisions for a while, so it's the first time we've played each other competetively for years. Forest are doing really poorly at the moment, although we did win our last game, and Derby have been doing ok. I guess that means that they're expected to win, but I kinda like that as there's less pressure on us.

I played again in the evening yesterday after having a good sleep. Unfortunately I got owned again, but I played much better and was happy with the session. I ended up losing $15k yesterday, which was my worst session to date. I think it was split about half and half between 5/10 and 10/20. Unfortunately it happened just after I took a bunch of money out (due to the dollar being strong again) - that damn cash out curse! That just means that i'll probably just play 5/10 until I win a bunch of buy-ins, although it's not really a problem as I obviously have the money to redeposit if necessary.

Just as a minor brag, I believe I made somewhere around $20k in the last couple of months just from the exchange rate changing!

I played a session just now that went pretty well. Hopefully I'm going to start owning again from now. I'm going to take a much needed night off now and go up Notts to drink.

Sigh. I was storming this month and then "one of those days" hits. Lost over five figures today for only the second time (I'm low variance), and it hurts because I was really looking forward to a great month. I definitely think I spewed a little, and I'll review my hands tomorrow when I've simmered down a bit to check. In general it was just one of those days where every situation seems to be horrifically difficult and your timing seems to always be off.

Oh well. I'm going to take at least the rest of today off, and I'll see how I feel when I wake up tomorrow. I may end up taking the whole weekend off.

I've decided to put myself out there for coaching now. You can read about what I offer (and other details) on my coaching page on here. If anyone is interested just PM on here and we can discuss it.

In poker I've been messing around with some new lines/ideas. Some of them I like, and others I dislike. I have to be a little careful to not go too crazy and start spewing, but I do like to try weird stuff out from time to time. If I find anything that I particularly like I'll be sure to mention it on here or in a video.

On Saturday I went up to Nottingham to hang out with a friend who lives there. We went to Hooters first which is right next to his flat. I didn't realise but it's the only one in the UK apparentley. It was pretty crazy on Saturday night. It's right near both of the football grounds and the cricket ground, and it was packed with football fans this time. Also, there were two stag dos in and the girls have to make a lot of noise and make people down pints! It was a lot of fun though.

After that we hung out in his flat for a while and drank beers and listened to music. Then we headed off to this pub right nearby. It's a really ****ty little dingy pub, but then out back you can follow a path down to some caves where they have musicians on! It's pretty awesome and very unique. There was some guy playing on Saturday who was decent. He was really good at different types of fingerstyle techniques, but his voice was kinda average. Then there was some weird, butch lesbian type woman on. She scared me so we went back up to the pub and hung out there.

On Sunday I hung out till around 3pm at my mate's watching films. It was really cool because I live on my own and it's nice to hang out like that now and then. It's definitely something I miss from the uni days now that I live on my own, although I think I prefer it overall. We watched Very Bad Things which is pretty insane and one of the most uncomfortable films to wtach feeling hungover! We watched Go too.

Poker's been going pretty well. I'm trying to table select less at the moment. That sounds weird, but I have reasons! Firstly, if there are good tables I'm obviously picking them over bad ones. The change I've made is that I will sit at tables with regs if I can't find other ones. I never normally do this but I'm doing it for two reasons at the moment. One, I want to get more hands in and waiting for good tables isn't helping that. Two, I want to improve as a player and this will help. It might negatively affect my winrate at first, but I think it's going to help me progress in the long run.

Lastly, tonight I've been roped into going and playing in some pub poker league. I want to go play as it's something to do weekly with a few friends I don't see that much. It's going to be pretty annoying though. I don't really like live poker at the best of times, and this will be horrific. $10 buy in. ONE TIME.

I just finished 100k hands at 3/6 and higher since getting Holdem Manager, so I figured I'd post it as it's a decent sample and I haven't posted any results since joining Leggo. The last few weeks have felt good after that breakeven stretch!