So, I am currently refreshing myself at the game of poker. I haven't been playing nearly as much as I should have been over the past year and a half really. Mainly because of the bankroll management issues I have had, along with the investments in Just Muck Poker, Inc.
This is all about to change though. I am currently writing my own bankroll management program in Excel. I think this will help me a great deal.
To go along with that, there is a very good possibility that Just Muck is about to take the next corner like a drift car. I will definitely have more info on this in the coming weeks.
As of now, I am really trying to nail down pot odds. I am really decent at them, but it is still one of the weaker parts of my game. I don't want to have to think about them, want them to just pop into my head.
Hopefully only a couple more weeks and I will be playing five or six sessions a week.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
My Quest Thus Far
Like many other journeys started, it was 2003 and Chris Moneymaker went from regular "Joe Schmo" to the "Rich Joe Schmo."
It was then that poker popped up in countless basements and millions of computer screens. It was like a pandemic that sucked people in as soon as they got a little taste.
I was one of those people. After my first time playing the game I could not get away. Over the last six years, my life has been engulfed with poker.
I have been truly lucky. Since the day I started, I have been a consistent winner. Though, for the first few months, it was playing random games, including some that we even made up.
Then, everyone went to college and the nightly game deteriorated. I was left with nothing to go on and my second income was now gone.
I turned to the internet, Party Poker to be exact, and did not have near the same success. After losing the first $900 I deposited, it became clear to me that I was in over my head. So I bought books, read forums, and did whatever I could do to gain the knowledge I needed to at least win.
From their on, I became a decent online player. I then turned my attention to live tournaments. I had immediate success, chopping my second ever live tournament.
It was at that point that I was stuck and stuck for good.
For the next two years I would play games just big enough to live while in college. At least that is what I thought I was doing at the time. In reality, I had lacked to learn one major aspect of being successful in poker.
Bankroll management.
Even after college, I overlooked the most important thing. When I won money, I spent it.
It paid for my 52 inch tv, 20 inch tv, 300+ dvd collection, two XBOX 360's and an ungodly amount of alcohol and fun nights at the strip club. Not all was bad. It also paid my rent, car payments, insurance among other bills.
I was successful, but somehow I was always broke.
Now, six years after I wish I had learned, I have finally set myself on a plan. This time, I am not going to waste away a bankroll. I won't be stuck at 1/2 NL or $100 tournaments anymore.
I am dedicated to bankroll management.
I am an aspiring poker pro, and this blog will chronicle the trials and tribulations I go through as my journey as a poker pro progresses.
It was then that poker popped up in countless basements and millions of computer screens. It was like a pandemic that sucked people in as soon as they got a little taste.
I was one of those people. After my first time playing the game I could not get away. Over the last six years, my life has been engulfed with poker.
I have been truly lucky. Since the day I started, I have been a consistent winner. Though, for the first few months, it was playing random games, including some that we even made up.
Then, everyone went to college and the nightly game deteriorated. I was left with nothing to go on and my second income was now gone.
I turned to the internet, Party Poker to be exact, and did not have near the same success. After losing the first $900 I deposited, it became clear to me that I was in over my head. So I bought books, read forums, and did whatever I could do to gain the knowledge I needed to at least win.
From their on, I became a decent online player. I then turned my attention to live tournaments. I had immediate success, chopping my second ever live tournament.
It was at that point that I was stuck and stuck for good.
For the next two years I would play games just big enough to live while in college. At least that is what I thought I was doing at the time. In reality, I had lacked to learn one major aspect of being successful in poker.
Bankroll management.
Even after college, I overlooked the most important thing. When I won money, I spent it.
It paid for my 52 inch tv, 20 inch tv, 300+ dvd collection, two XBOX 360's and an ungodly amount of alcohol and fun nights at the strip club. Not all was bad. It also paid my rent, car payments, insurance among other bills.
I was successful, but somehow I was always broke.
Now, six years after I wish I had learned, I have finally set myself on a plan. This time, I am not going to waste away a bankroll. I won't be stuck at 1/2 NL or $100 tournaments anymore.
I am dedicated to bankroll management.
I am an aspiring poker pro, and this blog will chronicle the trials and tribulations I go through as my journey as a poker pro progresses.
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