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dtools22 2 days ago
Looking down the line a little bit there are some great tournaments coming up that I am very excited about. In the online world with the close of FTOPS XXXVVVIIQ the miniature version for lower stakes guys like myself is just on the horizon. Back down at Foxwoods, the next Megastack series is going down starting December 15th. Both of these series are events I am personally looking forward to playing in very much and hopefully will be good opportunities to add some more notches to the belt. The last time the MiniFTOPS came around I actually managed to have a profitable series. Playing in 4 events I was able to win an amazing $.20. While it was nice to be in the black I felt like the events I played in and did well in should have gone a bit better. I am particularly disappointed with myself for my performance in the $55 HORSE last time around. I really had a great chance to make a deep run but the Holdem round, which normally is my best and most profitable round, killed me in a ...
dtools22 6 days ago
First of all I want to thank everyone for all the comments and messages I've been getting over the past week. A bunch of people gave me some really good advice and put things in perspective for me and I really appreciate the time you took to reach out and give your two cents. I've had a lot of time to think over the past week to think about my life and the direction it's going in. I can't say at all that I've come up with any real solutions. For the most part the only thing that makes sense to me was to just reconnect with some friends and work on keeping my spirits up. My time away from the game to think has only made me want to play even more, to get back on the saddle and work on becoming a better player, to push myself towards reaching my dream. My personal life may not be in order yet, but my resolve has returned and for now that's all that matters. Realistically winning $50K is nice but it proves very little about what my realistic earning power is. A one time win is not ...
dtools22 13 days ago
Well, this past week was probably one of the worst for me in a few years. Poker wise just hit some rough spots. I managed to have a few really crappy cash game sessions, dragging myself down around $460. The tournament this weekend didn't go as I was hoping. I made a mistake that cost me about 1/3 of my stack then got it in the next hand JJ v AA and went from an above average stack to out the door. These things happen though and part of playing this game is learning how and when to roll with the punches, but I was smashed in the face by something I just never saw coming. My girlfriend of 5 years, someone who I was openly talking about marrying in the next year or so, called me over the phone and told me she did not want to live with a poker player and ended our relationship. Before you read any further I will warn you, this is going to be a sob story blog and I'm really depressed so levity should not be expected. This has been a conflict for a few years now. I've been ...
dtools22 16 days ago
Poker can be a brutal game sometimes. Variance is not our friend, just a mistress that rips our hearts out with a two outer on the river deep in one of your nightlies. Weeks and weeks of work can produce little more than a few hours pay at the local McDonald's and leave you questioning why exactly it is you enjoy this stupid fucking game. Then when you finally break the streak, the stars align, the doom switch is turned off, you have no idea what to do with yourself. When that score is a massive increase in your BR, it's very easy to get lazy and just not play cards at all. Well, it happened to me, and to break out of my funk I found myself in the audience of the WPT $10K TV FT at Foxwoods. Yes for those of you that forgot during the WSOP ME, there was poker being played on this coast as well. I drove down to Mohegan on Tuesday afternoon to sign myself up for the $400NLHE event this weekend. It was my first time there since about 5 weeks after the room was reopened. I figured ...
dtools22 20 days ago
After planning out my new schedule I realized that I've been very nitty with my BR to date. This is at least partly because I haven't really been paying attention. I've just played MTTs and cash games based on how a I feel and where I think my edge lies. I have no problem taking a few bigger shots now and then, so long as it was in something I felt I had an edge in. The other part has just been sheer laziness. I've been so comfortable with the stakes I've been playing in for so long that I never saw the need to change things up. All that is going to change a little over the next few weeks. This has all been spurred on in the last couple of days. I found myself at Barnes and Noble browsing around and killing some time before my table was ready at the Chili's next door. I went to my usual stomping grounds, the Poker section, to see is anything good was on the shelves. I saw Deal Me In, the new book from Phil's House Publishing detailing how 20 pro poker players got ...
