"Treat Your Poker Like a Business"

Hopefully my book shipped today! It is written by Dusty Schmidt (Leatherass) from Stox Poker and it should be very good. And to make it more exciting he is doing a well thread at Cardschat. It is going great so far!

Here is the link for the well thread:

http://www.cardschat.com/f13/ask-me-anything-dusty-schmidt-aka-166743/

and here is the link to buy his book:

http://www.dustyschmidt.net

Variance sucks

Well December decided to show me what variance is all about - ouch. I am not doing well at anything -playing mostly sng's. But reviewing my games on my own and with my coach is not turning up a lot if mistakes so I guess I will be patient and ride it out. I will try to devote a day each week for studying and see if that helps to keep me focused.

November was a good month

November was my best month for poker since June - not a huge profit but a decent one nonetheless. I have continued with my sng coaching and that is helping a lot.

I also did well with some low-medium cashes in MTT's including some of the Cardschat private games.

Here's to December!

Sng and Tournament Update

November has been a good month overall for me. I have had 2 more sng coaching sessions and have another one scheduled for next week. I have learned a lot and it is reflected in my games. I am particularly more confident with my high blind and heads up game.

I think the sng coaching is also helping with my MTT game. I am having my best month since June.

There is still half the month to go - but I am happy so far.

I need to work some time in my schedule for watching videos - I paid for a year's membership at Stoxpoker and need to make sure I get my money's worth there.

I did an interview with Collin Moshman for Cardschat. It was fun to do and turned out well. He is very nice and the forum members have enjoyed it.

http://www.cardschat.com/f13/collin-moshman-interview-164121/

Poker in November

I have high hopes for November - I hope I don't let myself down lol. I should have a lot more time to play now. I finished Collin's book and it was very good. I need to get his HU book now. I am going to interview him for Cardschat within the next couple of days and that should be good.

I have another sng coaching session scheduled this week.

We just got back from San Francisco and it was fantastic!

Las Vegas again!

I arrived in Las Vegas last night. Flight was nice and I was able to read quite a bit of Collin Moshman's "Sit "n Go Strategy." (More on that next week!)

I was very tired last night so decided it was not a good time for poker. I played slot machines and Caribbean Stud a bit before heading to bed.

I played a little bit of poker this morning. I was totally card dead - only played 3 hands the whole time lol. I limped in with 22 in one hand and there was a large re-raise so I folded. Next hand I played was ages later when I got ATos and limped in with several others. Flop came AT2 and I bet and was called by a couple. Turn was an 8 and I bet - got 1 caller. River was something I don't even remember bet again and the guy re-raised all in. It was only $22 more dollars to call into a pot somewhere over $200 so I called. He had 22. Then right before I left I got QQ and won a small pot.

Will try again later!

SNG Coaching

I had my first sng coaching last night. It went very well and I am very optimistic about improving my game. I plan on doing more sessions. My coach was very thorough and I feel certain it will be money very well spent.

We had a sweat session and I played 4 $6.50 turbos. He gave me some great feedback. We installed SngWizard after that and he showed me some basics - I love it.

Hopefully I will have another session next week. For now I need to go workout and then shower so I can play some poker today!!