My Return

Sorry about my little "break" from my blog. It seems that when I start losing at poker my whole world crashes and I just stop caring about a lot of things and start focusing on tilting more and more and spiral even further downward.

I have learned from this mistake and do not plan on re-entering that phase. If I stop blogging in the future please just PM me and tell me I'm a moron.

Although losing at poker was not the whole reason it was a part of it. School, life, and LeggoPoker work was bogging me down quite a bit as well. In any case I don't have any legit reason and I don't plan on stopping again.

Poker to Date

My poker game has grown a lot. If you recall from my previous posts I had started a HU Adventure and I failed miserably. I did not do well overall and I was not trying to learn. I was not talking to my poker friends, I was noy watching videos, and I was noy reviewing my game. I just assumed I was awesome and kept playing (and losing) and tilting buyins to regs. Eventually I quit HU, got angry about it, and stopped playing for months.

About 5 weeks ago there was a Party Poker promotion where you could get 80 hours free from rake if you played 240 hours in a 30 day span. I got about 77 hours free from this so it turned out to be a little over 30% rakeback in effect. I would like to thank fellow Leggo member somnius and his blog post to give me the heads up about this promotion and inspire me to do it. It was a long and hard road with many ups and downs but well worth it.

What it did was force me to play a lot more. I would never do this again because it forces you to play even when you shouldn't. I was playing every day for about 8 hours and most of that was 6-8 tabling $100 NL (six max). I started off by losing about 15 buyins over my first 15k hands. I decided if I was going to continue I needed to learn more. I watched a lot of videos on LeggoPoker and reviewed my sessions and in no time I was killing the limit. I am currently one of the best regs at $100 NL and I can say that fairly confidently.

About half way through the promo when I was running hot I opted to jump up to $200 NL where I crushed. I mean I was literally running every reg over and owning the bountiful fish while getting prouder and prouder. Unfortunatly, as we get proud and lazy (while running hot) we tend to focus less on improving and start paying less attention to the tables. In no time I was back down to $100 NL cursing myself. Oh well, such is life.

I cashed out a lot. I had some debt to pay and I paid most of it off. I now have a good bankroll for $100 NL and I plan on continuing my journey to crush Party Poker in the following months. I hope to be playing $200 NL within a month or so but we will see how that works out.

Leggo, etc

Get ready for some big web site changes at LeggoPoker. I can't specify but I am confident you will all be pleased with new features coming. I work hard and long on LeggoPoker web development and I am happy to see that even though we are still working on our new pros and video services (which will improve greatly) my work as a web developer is starting to really take off. Just the other day we released an (imo) awesome new blog home page which should be very useful to all blogers and readers. I will be reporting and asking questions in the following months about the webiste and such as a whole. In any case be prepared to see changes to the website in the following weeks, months and beyond.

That's enough for now. But I have a lot to say and I promise to update more regularly from now on.