A ROCK ON WEEK!

Neteller: Last week $90; Current $90
PokerStars: Last week $193; Current $204 (+11)
Titan: Last week $105; Current $105 (-)
CD: Last week $0; Current $34 (+34)
Littlewoods: Last week $22; Current $87 (+65)
Full Tilt: Last week $171; Current $212 (+41)

Total = $732 (+151)

I've had a really good poker week, probably because I've been on holiday and therefore I've not generally been tired when I've been playing.

I've broken through the $200 mark playing 6 player sng's on Full Tilt. My agreement with myself was that, once I'd achieved that (doubling my starting stake on the site) I would have a punt on $10 games (dropping down to the $5 games if I go below $200). I came second in one of the two $10 games I played and would have won it, but for losing a coin flip. Stats for the week go...

FT 6 player sng's.

$5 = 7 games. 1st = 2; 2nd = 4; 3rd = 1.

$10 = 2 games. 2nd = 1; 4th = 1.

Sadly I played well in the Bloggerment, but after an awesomely long bubble session with Maujz, Hammerheid and Weegem, I went out when Weegem called my all in with 5's with K's (like you do). This meant that my Stars roll dropped below $200, so I played a 9 man sng there and rectified things a bit by winning it.

Meanwhile CD (which I'd quit playing on) offered me $15 to come back - so I did and won some money there too.

My little local game at the cricket club has now gone weekly and I won there too. Hand of the night had to be my poor chess playing mate Alan's. He had had a miserable run of cards all night and got to the stage where the blinds meant he had to go all in with any two - in his case, inevitably, the two were 72 off! One chap calls him and the flop comes 723. Turn 2! River 9. Alan proudly turns over his 72 for the full house. Then the other guy turns over (you guessed it) 2 9's! If it happened on Stars they would say it was rigged.

Finally, to cap an excellent poker week, I won the Raise the River League final game on Littlewoods. It was the expected harum scarum stuff as Ricky Rosa and BurnleyMik battled it out to see who would win the league, while kenn was his usual bash'em all self. Ricky was beaten on the final table to hand the title to Mik and eventually it came down to a final three battle between Kenn (big chip leader thanks to rivering Zagga with a pair of deuces) Mik and myself.

The crucial hand came when my Aces held up all in against both of them all in and then Ax did for Kenn's Kx in the subsequent all in hand. Not a big win financially but a major boost to the ego to finish ahead of so many strong players - I've definitely got a much better handle on how to play these things.

So good fun and I made some money - couldn't be better.