I guess I will
post in here since this is the reason for my thread. I need to spend far more time working on pker and less time playing. My biggest problem has never been playing hands, in fact I am willing to bet I have played more hands of poker than most FTR members over the last 6yrs. Playing hands has never got me success. I love to play poker but hardly take enough time to really
improve. I have list of who's who in FTR's higher stakes members list that have worked with me over the years and every one of them made me much better but playing 100's of thousands of hands a year and failing to continue with improving makes me regress horribly.
Goals:
1)
Study,
study,
study. I will spend at least 3 hours a week on poker related material, that isn't FTR. Books, videos and connversations either through skype, rails or on some chat medium.
2) Really start to focus on BRM and
tilt. The other reason I know I fail to maintain any progress in poker is I play out of my
roll at the lower stakes. I have gone up and down between
uNL and
SSNL for the last few years becasue I barely have 10 BI's sometimes before
moving up. It's hard to give a shit about a $150 BR when you spend that on dinner some nights. But I also refuse to ever deposit again. As fro
tilt, I need to stop watching my BR. Stop looking at the
cashier and stop caring what my BR is. It's all tied together. My
tilt, BRM, looking at the
cashier (sometimes 10-20 times during a long
session) has been my failures to play better poker. I regress because I
don't look after the things I do have control of.
3) Lastly, I need to pay of a poker debt. He's been good about it. I know it's there and needs to be paid. It will be paid off before June 1.