Poker is a love-hate relationship. I just lost over $700 playing 5 card draw. Yes, I made a couple of bad plays here and there. But 95% of the time I put money in the pot, there was nothing I could do. The cards just weren’t cooperating. When I was ahead, I got drawn out on. When I had a huge hand, someone had a bigger hand….and so on.

I really hate playing when it seems nothing at all goes right. So I am done for the next few hours, until I can get my head straight again.

I am still up $300 for the month of October. Honestly though, I don’t know how the way I have been running the past week.

I am looking forward to when the tables are turned and everything goes right. Those are the most fun days playing poker. You feel invincible and the bankroll grows at a fast pace.

Well, I changed up some things with the website. Now I don’t have to worry about having to put an image for each post. I don’t have to worry about writing a stupid summary for each post. A ton of time wasted is no longer.

Hopefully what I did change will make it easier for me to update the site. If so, you can expect that I will update more often.

I also think it will be better for the readers as well. Now you don’t have to click on each entry to read the past couple of blog posts. It will all be right there on the first page.

I was trying too hard in the past to make it look more like a “professional” magazine style website. This is not a professional website though, it is my blog. After using a wordpress theme as a base, pretty much everything you see I created in some way or another. For someone who doesn’t really know what he is doing, I think it looks pretty good.

Until next time….

It has been a long time since my last post.  Sorry for those that were coming here on a regular basis.

I don’t really have much of an excuse.  I plan on updating more often, but I realized that i just don’t like to update this website all that much.  It really is a pain with all the stuff I have to do.

For instance, I have to have a main article pic.  A summary of the post….and a bunch more stuff that the reader really never sees.  Its a real pain in the ass.

I am really thinking about changing some things about this site, just to make it more author-friendly.  After all, if I don’t want to update this website, there might as well be no website.

Outside of that, I have been playing tons of poker.  Over the past couple of months I am up ……..drumroll…….$0!  That is zero dollars.  I have been killing it in some games only to lose it all back in other games.  Ive been as high as 16k and as low as 8k.  Its a long story that I might share at some point, just not right now.

This week I also changed my avatar on PokerStars.  If you have ever seen the movie “Major League,” you can show some appreciation for my new pic.

Yeah, Jobu has been good to me thus far as I am up over 1k in the past 24 hours that he has been my avatar.

I just fired up a $20 180 man SNG and managed to take it down for a cool $1080. It definitely helped as I have been losing a little more than I would have liked as my BR had gotten back down to the $1500 mark. (was at $2200)

I am definitely happy with my play. I have also decided to play more satellites with the hopes of making a really big score. It seems that almost every satty I play, I win. So, I have played in a few $100-$150 MTTs. I haven’t cashed, but reviewing my play I am pleased with some of the decisions I have made. I am confident I will eventually get a big (5 figure) win.

Also, I have been playing more cash games and been doing pretty well on that front too. 5 card draw has been good to me recently as well as .25/.50 NL Holdem.

One last thing that I have been doing more of is playing more steps. I have played a total 82 step 1s and I have 26 step 2′s ready to go. I have gotten first or second 32% of the time, and nothing at all only 43%. That is pretty close to the numbers I expected and achieved last year. Again, I hoping to get a number of step 6′s saved up to play when the WSOP steps start. If you would like more info on the steps system check out www.pokerstars.com.

Outside of that, the baby date is getting closer and closer, and I can really feel her kicking when holding my wife’s stomach. It’s crazy.

Well, just a quick update since I haven’t written here in a while.

More of an update about my New Year’s Resolutions.

I have worked out EVERY day in ’09 for at least 30 minutes and I have managed to drop 0 pounds. But not really that big of a deal, I am happy that I have yet to break this good habit. I feel better about myself and feel healthier in general.

I think one reason that I haven’t lost any pounds is due to my poor eating habits. When I am on the road for work, I am constantly stuffing my face with fast food. They say that a person that eats at a fast food joint just twice a week for a year can expect to gain about 10 pounds. Well, this is one habit I need to break. It is one of my resolutions (eat healthier) that I have yet to tackle.

I have played absolutely no poker over the last month until this week. I just haven’t really had much time. Since I have been trying to read up more about starting an online business and brainstorming. Not to mention that the “honey do” list is continuing to grow since the baby on the way is getting closer and closer to being here.

I still plan to reach my goal to 10k in poker though.

Better sleep schedule: yeah, I am doing a better I think. But not quite where I want to be. I am sure when the baby gets it won’t matter anyway.

That’s all for now……..Also, just thinking about doing websites, I am thinking about moving this blog to another site, but we will see.

For a review of my ’09 resolutions: click here.

I just lost 3 big hands in a matter of 10 minutes. These hands started as I joined the final table of the $10 one rebuy/addon tourney on Stars. The most frustrating part about it is that when getting to the final table I was in first place thanks to stealing my way up the leaderboard.

But I left in 7th place. It is the most bittersweet $635. I was just eyeing down the 3.5k up for first. Then I ran into AA in a SB vs BB hand. A missed bluff hand, and a lost coinflip in which I had AK vs 99.

The flop brought an A and a K, unfortunately I had to get runner runner flushed out of the tourney. Sigh, nice way to go!

I’m tired, time to hit the sack.