Not referring to play poker money in the title. Rather, I think I have some issues about the size of my poker money and real money. Real money is money that I use to pay bills, to buy groceries. Poker money is, for me, my accumulated poker winnings. I’ve made no significant cash outs, any [...]
This is just me, working through something that I need to work through because I don’t have it burned into memory yet. Last night I sat at two $25nl tables at Tilt to earn some FTP points for their September promotion. At one table I had been fairly active due to the hands that I [...]
Followup post based on the the theory that your primary objective as you play poker should be: “Play and study so that you can work your way up to higher stakes and make a decent hourly rate.” In theory it sounds good, though perhaps a little money-hungry. I’ve been playing poker for a while now. [...]
When you start a new job, go on a first date, join a new club or sport, the sheer newness and unfamiliarity will tend to make you nervous, uncomfortable. Some people will compensate by talking too much or too fast. Others, like me, will go the other direction and tend to hold back, to say [...]
I think that we all become attached to the image of us as a poker player at a certain buyin level. “I’m a $100nl player.” “I usually play the $20 rebuys.” “I play 18 tables of 0.10/0.25.” We use this to define ourselves relative to our friends or relative to ourselves in the past. “I [...]
I drive to work each day on a street with two lanes for traffic each direction. It goes through mostly residential areas so the right hand lanes in both directions are available for street parking in the evenings or weekends. You know the type. During rush hour there are long stretches where there are often [...]
I woke up this morning two hours too early. This after having gone to bed about an hour late. I was having a dream where my mother was driving, driving a few of us, and at night. This would be pretty unusual because for the past few years my mother has avoided driving, and especially [...]