Session 1: 10:30 am. Starting BR $200

If every nine hands= $.75 minimum, 500 hands = $41.66 dollars. So don't play so many damn hands. Its 2pm and I've played 546 hands today.

I went from $230 down to $180, back up to $230, and I finished at $175. I think my main problem is that I played too many hands. I also played too many mediocre cards.I did lose $30 between two hands where my set of sixes ran into an unreraised preflop set of queens and where I got my top two pair value betted by a rivered open ended straight.

I must have payed too much in blinds. %21 of flops seen, 31% winning if flop seen.

I need to figure out how many hands I play per hour. That's next.

Session two started at 2:17pm. Starting br $177. OK, I play 170 hands/hour, that's $14 in blinds per hour just to sit down.

I played poker for 12 hours today. I am burnt out. I placed 20th out of 380 people in a $7 tourney and I got $18 for my efforts. I was the chip leader at one point but once I got the lead, I stopped playing aggressively and I was frustrated by how slow the people at my table were playing. At one point I limped into a pot with AK and another time I limped with AQ when I should have pushed all in. On the positive size, I did play MORE aggresively than usual for a while.

My 1st Entry

This is my personal little slice of the online poker realm. Me, I am an online poker player. My goal is to make more money every month that I play.

A number events shepherded me into poker. Years of video games and chess come to the top of my mind. I can play a video game I enjoy and get paid for it when I win? Every time that answer has been yes, I've sunk deeper and deeper into the minefield of online poker.

The logic is simple. I like playing video games. I am really "good" at video games. I was the neighborhood champ (in my own mind) at countless video games and I have pretty much beat down every video game I've ever played through a combination of hard headed competitiveness and a level of determination that borders on obsession. My attention span for video games is unlimited, I could not count on my fingers the number of times I played a video game for over 12 hours non-stop (back in the day when I was a kid).

I also played a lot of chess and I love analyzing chess scenarios. Only thing is chess is super complicated. Poker is bet, raise, fold and that's it. This is way, way easier than memorizing the Ruy Lopez opening variations, the Queen's gambit, or trying to recreate obscure end-game situations which involve 11 move checkmate combinations. The difference is that chess relies heavily on a form of theoretical memorization and preparation, a lot of situations are too complicated to be figured out at the table. By comparison poker is relatively simple having only 10 players, 4 betting rounds and three actions to choose from. Chess has 32 pieces, over 50 rounds of decision making and millions of combinations.

I am here to make money. This blog is for me to organize my poker philosophies and strategies, to share those strategies with others, and to hijack other people's ideas and use them 2 make money at the poker table. Shuffle up and deal.