Update

As usual it's been a long time since I've updated my blog. A lot has happened in the last month and I've just been to lazy to post on this blog. The biggest news is that I took down the 40k gtd on pokerstars for $7,650. That is my biggest win to date, and I was very happy to finally take that tournament down. It was number one on my "hit list" and I just never seem to run good in that tourney. So, I now have rebuilt my bankroll from the sick down swing I experienced during the last part of 2008. My tournament game has really been improving lately and I credit that to the SNGs I was playing for the month of January. Playing a lot of SNGs drastically improved my short stack, and my push/fold game. These skills are critical for tournament poker. I've been working very hard on improving my mid-tourney game. I really believe this part of the tournaments are where you separate the good players from the bad players. It's such a huge grind and I see a lot of players make some big mistakes, including myself. So, that is my personal goal right now. If I can really beef up my mid-tourney game it will make me a very dangerous tournament player.

Here is the link to my win in the 40k. I would be happy to answer any questions anyone has about hands in this tourney.

http://www.pokerxfactor.com/HA182427/5154_20090212_184337/5154

If you really want to see some great end game play this is the hand history to watch. I feel I played really good at the last few tables (ran pretty good too). So if you want to see how to really open up your game and play super aggressive this is a good watch. I really just recommend the last few tables as I played pretty tight up to that point.

Something else I wanted to touch on is cash games. I've gotten back to playing 100NL and have been doing pretty well. I'm not going to make the switch to full ring as I find it EXTREMELY boring. Playing 6max is just more my style. It plays well to my laggy style. The one major change I'm making is to set a loss limit for myself. This was my biggest leak in my cash game in 2008. I would lose a ton of buy-ins, start to tilt, and then lose more. So now, if I lose two buy-ins in a session I will sit out, analyze my mental state, and decide to play on or quit. I'm hoping to get a small study group together of players with similar limits and styles to get together once or twice a week to go over hands and discuss cash game concepts.

Another one of my projects is going to be making a few videos. Camtasia gives a free 30 day trial to test out the software. So, I'm going to try and make a few videos in the next month starting with the Sunday tournaments tomorrow. Hopefully anyone who reads this blog will enjoy my videos.

One last thing, this is for anyone who reads my blog. Please leave me a comment, say hi or whatever. Just let me know that I'm not talking to myself here. It would give me a lot more motivation to keep this updated more if I knew that people actually read it.

Thanks to all! See you on the felt.