This blog was initially designed to be following my first year as a poker pro and grinding elite. But as im sure anyone who has tried going for it before knows, its a massive grind. So ive given up. Definatly wont make it this year.

Instead i decided to play some on euro sites and try and beat some bigger stakes games instead of grinding out the short stack filled 400nl stars games. This has been going reasonably well and ive put in decent volume at 5/10 and 10/20 with a fair few shots at 25/50 and 50/100 and have run good shipping my first 20k month last month.

Also recently secured a live tourny backing deal allowing my flatmate and I to play a bunch of tournaments in Australasia and also a full schedule of Holdem events at the WSOP (yay!) This is the first year i can play wsop and i my online tourn results are pretty rubbish due to never cashing in anything with over $200 buyin, so im absolutely stoked to be in this situation for the wsop.

Just went down to christchurch for the NZ poker champs, went into the final table with the chiplead, but ran really bad on the seating draw getting the only good player at the table on my left, who i proceded to double up twice before losing QTdd to Q9o on a KdTx7d flop and busting in 6th.

Pretty gutted because it wouldve been a cool title to win, but in the overall scheme of things it means nothing. Especially with vegas coming up and im gonna prob ship the big one.

Leaving NZ for vegas on the 27th of May, looking forward to it, but also gonna be hard being away from my awesome gf for 7 weeks. Hopefully i can come home rich!

Peace,
Joe