Pud's Poker Progress / Matthew Pitt / 24 January 2012 /

Hi there fishes, Yorkshire Pudding here updating my little piece of the internet with claims that my facial hair is actually magical and that I could become very rich by plucking out the little black, and occasionally ginger for some unknown reason, hairs from my chin and cheeks and selling them on ebay. Honestly.

Since I last updated Pud's Poker Progress I have actually made some progress, which in itself is probably a first. Yes I have been winning. The day after the last entry I had a rather unbelievable run that saw me play in a further 13 tournaments, finishing in the money places three times, coming fourth, third and taking one down! Ship it etc came the cries.

A couple of days later and I played in another 17 MTTs and was nowhere near the money in any of them, though in 65% of them I was in the final 1/3 of the finishers. I sent a tweet out saying something like I'd had a terrible session and needed fourth or better in my last tournament to breakeven and it appears the Poker Gods use Twitter because they allowed me to run like the proverbial wind and I took down the last tournament I had running! One tabling home the win like a true pro!

During January so far I have played 71 tournaments, have an ITM of 15.5% and an ROI of 128.7% which of course is almost certainly unsustainable but it feels good to be back on the winning trail after my mini PLO disaster. There is something rather deadly about running well and playing well but I think it could be to do with my stubble, it could have magical powers.

Will Swap Beard For Periods

You see I hate shaving, absolutely hate it. I even said I would rather have periods than shave I hate it that much. I can't put my finger on it but the whole shaving thing winds me up. You shave off your facial hair with ridiculously overpriced razors only for it to start coming back a few hours later and the cycle continues, until you die. Most of the time I don't even bother to shave and just let it grow, which is what I have done this past week and just look at my results at the tables. Coincidence or magic beard you decide. Actually we will find out because tonight I am going to dig out my trusty razor and have a shave because it has reached the stage where my face is so itchy I could tear it off with a wooden chip fork. I've even taken to fighting the cat just so it will scratch my flabby chops but it must think I am it's birth mother because she just meows, purrs and wants to lick my face, which just doesn't have the same effect I can tell you.

Away from the pokerz I've been working hard, probably a little too hard if I am honest and probably why I expect my doctor to tell me that my blood pressure is through the roof. I really need to come up with a plan to either work more efficiently or drop some of the work I have because some of it is very time consuming. This isn't really a problem whilst I am home but as soon as you throw working abroad into the mix, as will happen in a week or so, then it could be a complete nightmare to say the least.

I've also been enjoying writing my own personal blog which so far contains no poker whatsoever and is basically me having a rant about things in the news, experiences that don't really fit into this blog and in the coming weeks a number of other silly little things to keep me amused. I'm not going to link to it on here because I think that is tantamount to biting the hand that feeds you but it is easy to find, just google my actual name.

Erm, I guess that's it for now. Before the end of the month I will update these pages with my progress both at the felt and away from it because I have been trying to change a number of things in my life such as drinking less, learning a new language and other such bumpf. So until next time thanks for reading and good luck with growing a magic beard.

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