Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Communication Overload!

I have taken the next progressive step in my poker journey ontowards becoming the best I can be.
First of all I have started the Nick Rainey 100 $3, 90 man SnG challenge without realizing it. I was poking around with Poker Tracker 3 and it says I have played over 30 games at this level... I was planning on playing 100 straight and no other games in between but the tease of the MTT on a large scale is far too great. I have been playing around with the $3 games to get a feel for them. I also am enjoying the odds provided in satellite tournaments as it is almost as good as 4-1, in some cases, were as a regular payout is about 9-1 in most tournaments. I have collected $110 in tournament $'s on FullTilt since I discovered them just 3 days ago with PT3 showing that I have 5, 1st place finishes but also shows a negative in profits as I did not win cash, per say... this doesn't bother me at all, though the graph looks "sad" because of the missing winnings!
The next part of my journey was installing communication tools so now I can talk with fellow people in the world through my computer! Mostly I set it up to speak with other PokerVT members and to be able to go over Hand History of each others' tournaments to get rid of all the leaks in our game, by being able to interactively share our ideas. If anybody is interested in chatting with me, my name on AIM is dafalenangel, my name on gmail is dafalenangel@gmail.com, my name on yahoo is Lindsay Butcher, my name on Windows live is not yet created I will come back and edit tomorrow after they let me complete the sign in, my name on Skype is dafalenangel.
I type this with the thought that the select few, and my dead cat says you know who you are, will chose to take this as an opportunity to also grow a life long friendship with a man who may, as well as you the select few, some day become a poker professional... and is genuinely a really nice and caring guy. I am a teacher after all... at least for now.
I also came to a realization about the Opportunity of a Lifetime... It is this... Nick is providing all us members with a chance to really expand our game through extra tasks and interacting with us more than 1 time a week to get us engaged in poker discussion... etc. In turn this is simply strengthening our game as a player expanding how we all look at the game. Wether or not I am chosen as an apprentice does not mean I will not become a professional it just might mean it will take a little longer at my own pace as I increase in levels. But I do appreciate to the highest degree the extra effort that Nick has put forth for all us members so much more now that I realize it doesn't matter if I get picked because I know I will succeed in this journey... it is just a matter of time.
On that same note, I am doing fine at the poker tables and If I continue at the rate I am on I will satisfy all of my bankroll goals that I created for myself in poker for this year by the 6 month mark. If that happens I get to make a new set of goals for the next entire year starting then! Don't worry I won't get ahead of myself... the thing is... I don't think I have been playing all that well lately, yet I am still turning a profit. I can account for many times when I self exploded or made a horrible play that cost me money and as long as I can identify that and prevent it in the future I am halfway thier. Let alone when I start playing to what I or my cat would consider "well".

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