25th of Febuary

Played 5600 hands of 5nl to 25nl and lost $45

24th of Febuary

played 3500 hands of 10nl to 25nl making a profit of $48

23rd of Febuary

Played 1900 hands of 10nl to 25nl making $19 profit

22nd of Febuary

Played 2100 hands of 10nl - 25nl fullring cashgames and gained $66 profit.
Also played some 25nl 6max on the iphone application and gained $12.

21st of Febuary

Started playing cash games for an hour or 2 at the stakes ranging between 10nl and 25nl. ( I had no idea that there was a 16nl - must be reasonably new.) made $33 profit in 1000 hands for a BB/100 of 9.38, so pretty good going :)

20th of Febuary

played lots of cap games today ran so bad - $200 down on estimated all in ev.   also played some $7 sngs and made $18 profit.

19th of Febuary

played 3 hours of 50nl cap and lost 70 dollars.  got quite a lot of VPP'S though.

18th of Febuary

Today I played a few tournaments with no success and also played pretty badly in some 6max 25nl cash games and ended up around 70 down for the day

17th of Febuary

Played 4265 hands of $0.10/$0.25 NL 6max and had $112.35 profit.  Which was very good.  won a massive $94 pot in one hand when I flopped a set of 3's against a flush draw and also against top pair,top kicker. 

Ran pretty good with my aces meeting kings a couple of times also.

16th of Febuary

Started the day well playing Razz with the stakes between $1/$2 and $3/$6 and dominated on the $3/$6 table making over $100 profit very quickly and after around an hours play ended up for a total of $115 profit.
In the afternoon I played in the big $22 and for the 2nd day in a row I got deep, however when I shoved AQ against TT I thought i would get a nice double up when the ace flopped, but of course the ten on the river ended my good run.

I had a disasterous end to the night though, because I entered 20 STT's all of a $15 buy in and then my internet connection died. 15-20 minutes later the connection came back, however it had crippled my chips so much in every table that I was not able to salvage one cash.

15th of Febuary

Played around 10 micro tourneys up to $5 buy ins with no real success and ended up around $40 down from that. 

I jumped on some 1/2 razz and 8 game tables and swang from around $10 to about $60 up to eventually coming to a $24 profit.

Finally I played 26 SNGs's which were 45 and 180 mans.  buy ins ranging from $2-$8.  I won 2 45man SNG's and unfortunatley got 2 9th place finishes in $2 180mans.  Still got a $102 profit which is very good :)

Blog Post for the WBCOOP entry - How I would spend the $5000 best blogger prize.

Five thousand dollars is a large sum of money to me, so at first I would not really be sure what to do with it all.  I think first of all I'd have to give a small percentage to parents for their help and support that they have given me.  I am also a big fan of tennis and although my house does not have enough room for a tennis court, i would love to have a table tennis table that will go with the pool table and dart board.
Of course I would put a sum into my pokerstars account so that I can learn to progress my game up out of the micro stakes and into the low to medium stakes where the strength of play is a lot greater.  it would be great if I could win that money as it would allow me to have a bankroll that is a lot higher so the poker tournament series, such as the TCOOP and SCOOP and WCOOP would be a lot more fun and intersting to me, because it would allow me to play in a lot more events then I would have used to have previously played.  I would have to be very strict on my bankroll management however as lots of dollars can easily be lost at those stakes... and very quickly I may add.
Also I think that I need a comfier place to play poker - especially when I am grinding the MTT's on Pokerstars as I can be sat at my laptop for quite a few hours on end, with just a five minute break every hour, because I usually find myself to be slouched over and have a curved spine, which could result into poor posture and back problems in later life.  Therefore a comfy chair would be a neccesity.
Some of the money would have to go into my savings account as I need to keep saving for future events in my life, so that I am not struggling to get by.
Gaming is a thing that I enjoy quite a lot, as it brings me some nice relaxation time ( I am not a hardcore, intense gamer), so I may splash out a small bit of that money on some new xbox games or perhaps the reasonably new xbox kinnect as that looks quite fun.

Finally I think I would go on a vaction.  This holiday would have to be abroad and out of the United Kingdom, because I love travelling to new places.  So far I have not been out of Europe and would love to explore the world further.  The United States of America would be a good option as there are lots of tourist attraction spots and cool stuff to see.  Asia and Africa would also bring an expierence as it would be very intesting to see the various cultures and how other people live their daily lives.

So in conculsion the five thousand dollars will give me lots of things from expierence, fun to learning more about the ultimate game that is... poker.

14th of Febuary

Played a lot of cap games and ran very poorly, however I think it is a poor choice for me to be playing the Cap games as they never really seem to bring me any profit and in reality i only play them for the VPPS you gain from them.  so was down about 10 buy ins on the Cap games.

Played 20 $15 STT's which went a little unfortunate towards the end, getting some bad run of cards. so was down a fraction around $35.

I must have played around 30 heads up hyper turbos between the buy ins of $15 and $30 winning around two thirds of all matches for a healthy profit.

13th of January

Grinded the MTT's again today - got 26th in the big $22 for around $100, which was slighly dissapointing as there was some major cash to be awarded on the final table and went out 14BB deep with A-K vs Q-T all in pre-flop.  Also got a 22nd in a $22 big antes tournament.  So in quite a few tournaments I am getting deep just losing those important flips to get the big money.

Also played 2 hours of 25 and 50 NL cap games and gained $5 haha. got a lot of VPP from playing those games though.

12th of Febuary

Grinded the MTT's today, buy ins ranging from $2 - 22 ( won a few satelites to $55's) no major wins to talk about.  placed around 30th in a few events.  got a final table of a $3 rebuy 180 man at the end of the night to take me to just 45 under profit for the day

Played an hour and a half of 25nl cap and ended $30 down

11th Febuary

today I grinded MTT's ranging from $0 - $5.50 entries.  I was fortunate enough to secure my first "decent" MTT prize of the year, worth $1899.95 for coming first in a $5.40 knockout ( turbo) with 3003 runners.  during the tournaments early goings-on I achieved a good, well above average amount of chips, however when it got towards the deeper stages I kept taking a few knocks and one substantial blow to my stack after attempting to steal the blinds and antes from the small blind, led me in the ultimate danger zone - being under 5 BB's with a bit of luck i was right back in the race, and soon enough i was on the final table.

I was in 8th out of 9th place going into the final table.  I got lucky with 8 players left getting A8 against A9 in a blind battle and fortunatley hitting an 8 on the flop.

I survived on blinds until I shoved K-Q on the small blind to get called by K-8 and my K-Q held. leaving just 4 remaining.  After this hand i shoved A-Q and ran into the BB's Q-Q.  Fortunatley I flopped an A.  I remained reasonably dominant from then on and took down the event.

5th Febuary - 10th Febuary

Did not play hardly any poker between these dates, as I have been very ill recently.
played an hour or two of 50 fixed limit, which resulted in a profit of around $10.
Also played some small stack razz and 8 game which started well peaking to around $25 profit, however then started to lose a bit so stopped when i was $6 up.

4th of Febuary

got staked in the big 55 and the 33 turbo. Did not cash in both of those.  However was railing and helping my friend who got 4th in the $5 2r1a so gained $120 for the help.

3rd of Febuary

played some more 50FL and was 20 cents down.  then played 15 $1 sngs at a time and earnt $11.  the $1 SNGS are very easy to multi table and on the micro stakes I can play around 20 at a time

1st and 2nd of Febuary

played a few thousand hands of $5nl winning $4
also played 50FL 6 max games and made $16 in a short amount of time, so may try a few more of those games in the days to come. 

31st of January

Played roughly the same amount of poker as the day before.  won a few dollars against this terrible play who decides to call 1/2 his stack with J-8ss against my KK and then shove the flop of 2-3-8. ran out K - 2