Alex Bowler

Not a good month, although at least I did in theory earn about €2k. There were some rake-races explaining the large number of hands, and also probably the bad results. At least that means I raked a fair bit, although I don’t feel any personal credibility from spending another month as a ‘rakeback grinder’.

I am starting to suspect that there aren’t as many fish in the games this summer as there have been in the past. Certainly the regulars have been tougher and more numerous since Ladbrokes began sharing the Microgaming network tables last year.

I also suspect that I haven’t been playing as well as usual. Partly from playing more tables, partly from the psychology accompanying weaker results, and partly because regulars, and even fish, are taking some more creative and better-balanced lines, and I need to re-calibrate some default assumptions.