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Long Trek to the Top

Whatup everyone who checks this, 2nd day of writing this blog and going to continue doing it daily. There is going to be a ton of hand plays where I examine an interesting hand a day. Basically it's going to be how I think, with a bit of my life mixed in. This is mostly an exercise for myself to become more analytical with my poker and to continue striving to be better, figured I could share my struggles and ups and downs with all you fine folk haha.

Probably the first time I'm writing a poker blog, infact, in the past, I thought it was unnescessary, but for my personal sanity, I must write down and depict what the heck i'm doing wrong when I play online.

In live events at the local poker places I play in and around London, I seem to be an ok player. I know I have the ability to always cash up on a live event and at times win them. Weekly tournaments and games I play in casinos and poker rooms always seem profitable. It may ...

You may not know, but I had a pretty vicious down swing this year. -20+ k over 4/5 months and more than 1500 games. It's sick enough for a downswing, to be able to say "there's something wrong with your game."

A coaching session with Andres Sopranno and a lot of time discussing hands with friends on skype...especial thanks to vestvik... taught me that the style of play I developed to multi table crush mtt sngs did not serve me in the mtt world. Basically I didn't know ...

The whats-up-with-poker-part

FT bubbeled the FTOPS #2 today. Rest can be seen in status. Had a long break even stretch, but managed to kill it off by winning the 40K and a couple of other scores.

Right now I hate poker. Dont know if its because: it ruins my life this month, destroy my health, I ran out of tobacco earlier tonight, elvis is dead or simply because I cant watch the new Harry Potter movie for ages.

The whats-up-with-life-part
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The whats-up-with-poker-part

7/10 wins, 25/50 finaletables and I feel like half the days I've put in has been half-empty volume.

Much can be said about variance, much can be blaimed on variance, but variance still doesnt mean shit either way. It just does not make a difference, it is not a factor I, you or anyone else can control. My results this far has been good, but does it really mather? No.

I have been slobby in my preparations ...