Look at me! Less than a month between posts!!
The last 3 weeks have been crazy with poker. I went on two annual poker trips with some buddies and it was a blast. Dead Money in New Orleans is always one of my favorite weekends of the year, at least what I can remember of it.
Last week I was in Vegas on business, but I did manage to get a little time in on the tables. I won about $600 in cash games, but crapped out in tournaments. I think my record keeping may help steer me away from tournament play for a while. I started out with a nice win early in the month, but now I am down for the month in my tournament play. I have two tournaments this week to try and turn that around, but my cash game play is carrying me this month.
I really like that I am sticking to my record keeping. I made a really nice spreadsheet with graphs and such. It is fun to enter data after each session and check out all the graphs. If any of you would like a copy of my creation, let me know. If you have some other good poker tracking tools, I would love to hear about them as well.
That is it for now. Hopefully I will be motivated to update tomorrow after I win the tournament tonight!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
New Year, New Me
Once again, I apologize for taking so long to update this blog. I think my new strategy it going to be short and sweet and more often. For some reason I have felt the need to write large posts with lots of content, and that pressure keeps me from updating as often. So, I am going to try this new approach this year and see where it goes.
For the first time in my life, I actually decided to do some New Year's Resolutions. I never did them before because I saw so many people around me make the "promises" to themselves, but they were rarely kept. I didn't really see the significance of that date to make a change in your life. If you need to make a change, just make it. The time frame doesn't really matter. Maybe it was just that the stars aligned in such a way that I needed to make several changes in my life right at the New Year, or I just needed an excuse to hold myself to them. Either way, here they are for all to see. Hopefully, I will not fail in following through with these this year, and 15 days in, I am still going strong.
1. Keep complete and accurate records of my poker play: In the past, I have started and stopped so many times I cant even count them. I generally have stopped when the cards are running bad and picked up again when the cards are running good. HA! This year I plan on keeping it simple and just tracking net profit/loss on cash games and tournaments. So far I have stuck to it and will push through the rough rides to see my true winnings for the year.
2. Keep myself in better physical condition: I know that everyone's NYR is to get into the gym and workout. I joined my gym back in October and have been fairly consistent, but not to the degree I would like. So far I am keeping with the schedule, except for the fact that I have been sick the last three days. Once I kick this cold, it is back to the gym.
3. Don't drink while playing cards: This has been an on and off problem for me. I really enjoy drinking and I really enjoy cards. Put the two together and I have a fantastic time losing all my money. My plan is not to deny this beautiful Reces Peanut Butter Cup all together, but limit my buy in when drinking and playing. I wont say my limit here, but it is definitely a hard and fast limit. So all of you can stop salivating when you see me a little tipsy at the table.
Well, that is it for today. I guess I still made this a little long. ;)
For the first time in my life, I actually decided to do some New Year's Resolutions. I never did them before because I saw so many people around me make the "promises" to themselves, but they were rarely kept. I didn't really see the significance of that date to make a change in your life. If you need to make a change, just make it. The time frame doesn't really matter. Maybe it was just that the stars aligned in such a way that I needed to make several changes in my life right at the New Year, or I just needed an excuse to hold myself to them. Either way, here they are for all to see. Hopefully, I will not fail in following through with these this year, and 15 days in, I am still going strong.
1. Keep complete and accurate records of my poker play: In the past, I have started and stopped so many times I cant even count them. I generally have stopped when the cards are running bad and picked up again when the cards are running good. HA! This year I plan on keeping it simple and just tracking net profit/loss on cash games and tournaments. So far I have stuck to it and will push through the rough rides to see my true winnings for the year.
2. Keep myself in better physical condition: I know that everyone's NYR is to get into the gym and workout. I joined my gym back in October and have been fairly consistent, but not to the degree I would like. So far I am keeping with the schedule, except for the fact that I have been sick the last three days. Once I kick this cold, it is back to the gym.
3. Don't drink while playing cards: This has been an on and off problem for me. I really enjoy drinking and I really enjoy cards. Put the two together and I have a fantastic time losing all my money. My plan is not to deny this beautiful Reces Peanut Butter Cup all together, but limit my buy in when drinking and playing. I wont say my limit here, but it is definitely a hard and fast limit. So all of you can stop salivating when you see me a little tipsy at the table.
Well, that is it for today. I guess I still made this a little long. ;)
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