Been doing some surfing around, watching some poker video’s and reading some blogs as always.  One of my favorite blog reading subjects is the guys that undertake Ferguson like Bankroll challenges.  I have tried two or three times in the past to undertake these things and the bottom eventually falls out.  I "know" that these things make sense by design, and I know I should follow the process but I just always end up bailing on them.  Sigh.

I watched the last event of the 2008 WSOP that will be televised before the main event this morning.  They were following the Grinders table as well as Hellmuth at the smaller horse tourney.  Hellmuth was whining as usual and fell short of his bracelet as did the Grinder.  After Lindgren’s win, is he now "the best player without a bracelet".  Hard to say.

Still not playing a whole lot accept for a few tourney’s.  Been playing some sat’s lately and doing well in them.  I am starting to wonder should I start focusing more on tourney’s and SNG’s?  I know the variance is crazy.  It’s just that the cash games have not been working for me so I dunno what to do.  Haven’t been playing live, but the LPT is only 2 weeks from today away….wooooo.

Been watching alot of youtube poker the past few days. Take a peek of this clip.

More bad luck for Negreneau early in the HSP shows.  The third or fourth time he flopped the nuts and loses.

Take a peak

Not his finest moment…..

I will spare the details of my poker night and instead post for about the 5 th time on 3 different blogs, some words from rocky that i need to take to heart.

Enjoy..

but once again I am going to be taking a shot at applying proper bankroll management.   After a rough up and down, up and down couple of days I am going to step back from the limit i play most often which is 2/4 limit holdem, and step back to 50/1 for a few thousand hands.  I have just under 600 bb for this level but as I have been saying for years I need to instill patience, discipline, and bankroll management in my game.

I know I can beat 2/4 on stars.  I need the proper roll to do it though.  Playing within your roll just makes so much more sense then taking shots especially when playing mostly limit holdem in my opinion.  In my experience there’s going to be a lot more  beats when you play snug because they will always feel priced in to call (even if they don’t understand what priced in means).   I’ll save the details of the beats I have taken, because I want to get away from that, and also of course, I have layed a few of my own.  So I will hang out down at 50/1 for a few thousand hands, and play overrolled for a while and try and get some real good habits ingrained in this thick skull of mine.

I am going to continue to read the Limit Holdem digests on 2 plus 2 and keep working on my game away from the table, both virtual and live.  I want to find out where the most glaring holes in my game are and work to plug em.  Without proper bankroll management I will never ever get anywhere in this game.  Today, once again, I start a serious effort to instill it in my game.

Well what an up and down, and up and down day today has been.  I ended up just about even for the day online, but i was up big, and then down big and had to scrape and claw and dig my way back. 

I want so badly to be good at this game.  I want to be a winning player, and I want to win for the sheer competitiveness of the game.  I sometimes wonder am I tough enough to play this game at any serious level?  Am i tough enough to take the beats, the highs and lows and to keep coming back?  Am I disciplined enough to do what you need to do to succeed at this game? I have my doubts.  I will continue to plug on though.  I know inside of me, if I get out of my own way, take my ego out of it, I can be a good player, a winning player.  Now its time to prove it

Well after playing in a very unsuccessful (but lots of fun with good friends) I jumped back into the online pool and bought into stars on Saturday morning.  Am doing well thus far, and I hope to be able to keep to some sort of sane bankroll management.

I am looking into a new hand analysis software as I have been having nothing but trouble with PT3 since the release in May.  I am sure its the user and not the software, but regardless, its driving me nuts.  Hold’em manager seems to be crazy powerful.  I am just getting started with it so I will post more as I get used to it.

I wish I could remember some interesting hands from the live cash game from Thursday but due to Alpine beer and Jack Daniels, I am fuzzy, haha.  I know I played horribly thru the first hour and mixed with some bad luck, does not make for a good night.  But again, had a lot of fun, so you win some you lose some.

I’ll be back in the morning with more.

Well I am slowly but surely adding some links to my blogroll there to the right, and adding in some stuff. I really like this new template, but you never know it may change again! haha. Not a whole lot else going on, just listening to some poker podcasts, watching some video’s on youtube and pokertube, and just being lazy pretty much.

I am rereading Ace on the River right now. I bought this book in Las Vegas last year, and read it on the flight from Vegas. As I said yesterday, the poker juices are starting to flow again even though I am not playing online right now and haven’t played live in 3 weeks. I may be playing tonight as I have a couple buddies coming over, but it may just end up being a game of Risk or some Wii.

So anyway, back to the book. I am rereading Ace on the River and will probably finish my second go thru today. Next I am not sure what I am going to read. In the next couple weeks I may read Little Green Book by Phil Gorden for the third time. I read this book first a couple years ago, and immidiately my game really took an upturn. I am not sure if its coincidence or not, but it really gave me a different way to look at the game. So I may read that again before my league starts in a couple weeks. I always considered myself a student of the game, and I am really trying to get back to that.

Here’s a great pot between Farha and Hellmuth, craziness