I'm in

Hey all,

I've put this off too long. Basically I need a space to vent and post my goals, thoughts, epiphanies, and extremely long winded and boring analyses of common spots.

I don't really expect anyone to read this, it's more for my benefit to help keep my thoughts organized and track the progression of my own thought process. A lot of the shit I post here will probably be way TLDR for most people.

I read a book called "Treat your Poker like a Business" by Dusty Schmidt I think his name is, probably more well known as Leatherass, a pretty legendary grinder. In one of the first chapters he quotes the movie Ocean's Eleven where Danny tells Matt Damon's character, "You're either in or you're out. Right now." ... Or something along those lines anyways, and he says it should be that way with poker, too. Well, I've decided I'm in.

I played poker semi-seriously about 2 years ago for a year, stopped about a year ago after getting super burnt out from playing too much etc. I made it up to 25NL, played roughly 200k hands to get there... lol. Something I learnt from that experience and that I'm going to try and implement into this time around is that my relationship to the game while moving up needs to be about learning, not hand volume or earning enough VPPs to hit gold star or having a good bb/100 win rate or dollar/hour rate... just about learning.

I'm currently playing 5NL, using a somewhat aggressive BR management strategy for the micros,

25BI for 5NL-25NL and 30 for 50NL, with a -5BI stop loss.

It's my policy to not look at any results until the end of the week unless I legitimately fear hitting my stop loss, and I've been somewhat successful in this so far.