Or.... fingers to keyboard.

On a sidenote, this keyboard has cost me untold hundreds in misclicks and mistypes. I did accidentally raise to $144 with AK at 400nl the other day though and some reg shipped in KQ for 200bbs. Sooooo sweet. *US hardman voice* "How'd you like them apples punk?"

Anyway, this blog is literally just me thinking out loud. I've had a somewhat chore-ridden day with a lot of thinking time. (My rabbit got sick, took her to the vets, she's fine. Also cleaned, and shopped, and shopped again, and drove around Hull doing random errands). Now unless I commit my thoughts somewhere, it's almost like they didn't happen, as tomorrow I'll have new ones that will probably overwrite the previous.

Anyway, stuff-wot-I-was-thinking. Well, I was reading AEJones 'Evolution of a poker player' a short while ago. I felt like I could add two things to the list once you become a semi-successful midstakes guy.

1) You start to feel it 'beneath' you to post in NVG on 2p2. Like, by doing so would take you down to their level of something. (As another aside, maybe Patonius, with absolutely nothing to prove and many $100,000s in poker winnings, could've said it more effectively with a 'lol').

2) You stop writing about poker in your blog. Like, if you look at all the Leggo members, everyone is super excited to be moving up through the stakes, sharing poker thoughts and results and HHs etc. I think most would say they like to read poker-related stuff in other people's blogs as well. So, I'm going to make more of an effort to post hands, thoughts, results etc.... strictly on the basis that even though I find what I cooked for my dog extremely interesting (you should've SEEN the crunchy-nutcornflake scrambled-egg ketchup Quorn sausage soufflé I rustled up yesterday) maybe some other people don't. Who knows.

I'm thinking that I might undertake some sort of results oriented challenge to help with posting results. Nothing too major... just, all the talk in Boywonder's blogs of results and winrates and sample sizes etc got me thinking.... like, how would I suddenly know if my theoretical winrate at 2-4 6max had dropped at any time in the recent period. Given the way 6max has changed so much even in the last 6 months, I kind of want to prove it again to myself that I win at > 5BB/100. So, overall goal of ~$500k for the year aside, that's my strict goal for the next 100k hands.

In between writing the above, and writing this, I've started a new HEM database with a view to recording these 100k hands. I'll be doing it on UB where I feel comfortable, probably no more than 4 tables at a time, and inspired by Boywonder I'll keep a tab on playing only when I'm relaxed, awake, confident and concentrated. All-In EV notwithstanding, (let's not get into a bogged down argument over this, but it's the only true, objective, rational adjustment you can make to your actual winnings total, anything else is practically impossible to calculate), I should make a lot of money at a very good winrate. If not, and I've been playing 4 tables with all the mental boxes ticked for each session, then I'm going to admit utter abject failure. Nothing more, no more goal to it than that, but admitting failure IS pretty big. After that, I'm done proving myself at midstakes for the year and plan to retreat to a quiet corner of the internet kingdom (Party?) to take repeated and maybe unsuccessful 10-20 and 25-50shots.

I'll post results every...... 7500k hands or so?

On a final note, I've been coaching a few people.... I come cheaper than most: $150 per session. I do insist that the first session be a video review of the student playing his own game with no intereference from me. The reason simply being that with some of my coaches back in the day (not Bobbo, he's a legend), I simply found that we'd load up tables, he'd be like 'oh cbet that, raise that flop' etc. And then, by the end, I'd ask about my own specific leaks and how to address them. Obviously he'd have no clue..... So, anyone who doesn't want to be a total nit (I can't teach you to fold AJo UTG, I just can't), then get in touch.

Dan