I am now playing 3 tables quite comfortably. I have noticed a few trends, though. I tend to drop a BI right away after I start playing, then grind it back up and start pwning fools once my reads are established. I think I either need to tighten up when I first sit down until I have some decent reads or pay more attention earlier on and consciously try and provoke people to see how they react to my aggression. Right now I am not doing either. BR is at 2k, booyah! I should make enough in rakeback and bonuses to make the wife happy at the end of the month at the rate I am going.

I had a session with Probability two days ago and his friend, Pat (Beans on this site), also a poker player, was in town visiting him. Matt correctly pointed out that me being with the two of them made that the most poker players I have ever been around to date. I thought that was funny. It was hard to play with two people watching and I questioned myself a lot and didn't have any fluidity. Beans is super nice and I am happy he spent some time with me as a different perspective adds a lot to the discussion Matt and I have. We went over some hands that I was less than proud of, but I learned a lot and will post some specific hands with our analyses in a few days (cuz the weekends are my days to grind). I know I have made those promises before.

I also watched The_End's 100nl video, and I will most likely watch all of his videos in a row. I really like how he breaks everything down and it is clear to me that I need to strive to go in that direction and just buckle down and do the homework to get to that level of thinking.

I am hoping that my moniker as "ten dollar baller" is soon removed from all my postings. I will leave it to the powers that be to choose something else....

Play well. Do good work. Keep in touch.

PFJ