Just wanted to post some results I have had as of late. First, here is how I have been doing since playing without my Heads Up Display. I think this has been a really valuable experience and has made me a much better poker player in general. I think I will play on the weekends with just basic VPIP and PFR stats and play 3 or 4 tables at a time. During the middle of the week, though, I think I will continue to play without a HUD and devote a lot more time to studying and improving my game. Here is the HUDless graph:



The other graph I wanted to post is since I really started to change how I thought about my work habits and attitude. I took a realistic look at the difference between my expectations of results at the tables and my actual results and tried to see how my attitude and work habits were affecting my play. (I think this was one of my first blogs that I ever posted on Leggo.) The catalyst was when, to my surprise, I was sat down by management at my restaurant job and told that I had been getting a lot of complaints from co-workers. It was a real wake-up call, and I realized how my attitude at work towards my co-workers had slid in the wrong direction (due to a variety of reasons that I won't go into now). I looked at that and wondered how it was reflected in my poker performance (I had been breaking even) and realized I had been making the same mistakes at poker that I had made at work. Since that revelation, here are my results:



I keep looking at these two graphs in my HEM, and now I think I am finally ready to put them to rest. I really feel like I have turned a corner in my play and plan on staying humble and continuing to work hard. I just hashed out my weekly schedule with my wife, and I will be putting in 28 hours per week of studying and playing. I am currently at 50nl and just started relying on poker as a monthly source of income in addition to my primary job as a bartender. I think 100nl is entirely attainable by the end of the year, but I really hate to create expectations like that for myself. I just tilt when things don't go as planned. Here is to a great November. I plan on 30 consecutive days of yoga and meditation along with 4 days a week of some sort of aerobic exercise. When I am doing those things, I play my best and learn the most.

Play well. Do good work. Keep in touch.

PFJ