Blog expanation and first post

Hi all,

This is my new blog which is all about poker and horse racing, hence the title. I am currently unemployed and plan to make some extra income from my two main hobbies that being 6max no limit hold em poker on the betfair poker site and UK and Ireland horse racing.

As I currently have shag all money i deposited €200 on betfair last Monday and it now currently stands at €420. I have over 11000 hands played at 20NL. Once i reach €600 i will take a shot at 50NL which i know i can beat but for comforts sake i need a decent bankroll and even with €600 i am still a bit short.

I will use this blog to post my observations of the limits i play and how i need to play to defeat my opponents and to note my mistakes, of which many i have made in the past week. I have gone back over results and have blown at least 200 dollars in bad mistakes. Poker is all about playing your A game and my negative results stemmed from trying to force myself to play poker when i wasn't in the right frame of mind to do so.

Now for the horses part of the blog I intend to analyse one race a day and use my own ratings system to see if i can pick out a winner or lay a favourite or both. This is just to get back into the horse racing scene as i have not placed a bet since last march. I was travelling the world for the past 18 months so i kept away from horse racing during that time bar the Cheltenham festival last march.

I also hope to be able to produce a video of me going through my process of selecting a race, and showing what to look for before you make a selection. I am a marginal winner in both poker and horse racing but that still makes me better than 95% of the other gamblers out there and hopefully with this blog i will keep track of my results and document my mistakes and learn from them.

And if some one actually does come across this blog, then please leave a comment.

cheers

JPR