My self confidence had returned. I was primed and ready to get my money in the middle. Early on in the evening I noticed a player who had about $600 in front of him. He was playing almost every hand and calling almost every flop and turn bet. If the board got scary or the [...]
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Session 7: The Pucker Factor
May 12th, 2009 No Comments
Session 7 started off pretty well. I was still riding the “self kudos” from the last session and I was hopeful and even expecting to win. Within 2 hours I was up $150 and feeling good. However at this time I think I had lost some focus and I was operating on auto-pilot. Unfortunately this [...]
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Session 6: The Pisces
May 5th, 2009 1 Comment
Despite session 5’s losses, session 4 showed me that if I could be disciplined enough with the proper focus, I could make the correct decisions and stop some major gaps in my game. So I entered the poker room with a calm confidence. within minutes of sitting down at seat 7 I could tell that [...]
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Session 4: The Blog
April 27th, 2009 No Comments
I knew before I went back to the casino that I was going to have to rethink what I was doing. My father, who passed away two years ago, used to say something to me as a child that I thought was inappropriate (and still do), but sometimes it can be a motivating mental picture. [...]
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Session 1: The Luckbox
April 17th, 2009 2 Comments
I have a poker companion that calls me a luckbox. He claims that if he “ran like me” he would go pro. He has gone so far as to say variance is a bitch (for him) and she is all mine (as in, she does my bidding). Well, despite my overall disagreement with him that [...]
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