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I have not posted in a long while, although there is a ton going on in my life, poker and otherwise...

First I will start with poker:

I have taken a break from live poker since my final game I hosted, a $300 tournament near the end of summer at the end of July or early August.

I accomplished a lot of nice goals coming down the stretch of my live games.

- $100 Winter Tournament: 1st
- Spring League Points: 1st
- $100 Spring Tournament: ...

As I sort of hinted earlier, I have begun to record some of my sessions of online poker. So far, I have only recorded 2 sessions, along with one very short video explaining what the PokerTracker numbers on my screen are.

So far, after having produced two videos, I feel that the time I have put in to this has been very worthwhile.

First of all, I feel that making the videos helps me to deeply think about my game while I am playing, as I do not want to make a "stupid" ...

Graph current as of 5/16/08. As you can see, less swings again and a steady increase after the cash out. For some reason I do so much better at 100nl than 200nl.

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I cashed out on Full Tilt today.

I have had my second losing day in a row, a bad losing month so far in April, and finally I am convinced that I cannot beat 200nl, at least not with how I have been playing. Constantly making mistakes in big pots, and more importantly, letting tilt creep in to my games. I used to NEVER tilt.

Ok, this is not as drastic as it sounds... Here are the factors...

1. I am down about 400 for the money of April, which is not very ...

I decided I am going to try to post an updated view of my pokertracker graph at the beginning of every month. It will further help to keep my honest with myself and aid in reflection, and maybe even provide some entertainment for others...

Some disclaimers: My graph begins when I downloaded pokertrack in September of 2007. I was at 100nl then and had already built a bankroll from 10nl, 25nl, and 50nl respectively. The graph does not show winnings from these levels and the graph does ...

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