First off I'd like to say thanks to everyone for support. At times you feel like hardly anyone reads your blog then suddenly a whole bunch of people jump in when you're feeling down, so I really appreciate that.

As mentioned, I'm changing some of my approach. I'm going back to my earlier approach of setting out. I'm not focused on the money, beyond a means to keep score for now. I probably got a bit ahead of myself for a while there, and in reality I think it hurt my game because it messed with my emotions.

I'm also going to change how I play for a bit. Drop back to 4-5 tables and focus on my spots more. Think about ranges properly. Maybe even record most sessions so I can review them, and discussing them while recording kind of forces me to think about spots and then I can see how I did with that.

I could go somewhere more private to play (in my study). At the moment I play in my lounge. Probably about half the time alone and half the time my wife and sometimes son in the room at the same time (never only my son after one bad attempt at that). I guess thats a compromise I chose to make. Theres only so much time each day we're all together with noone working, so I prefer to stay in the same room, even if I'm focused on something else.

I'll probably throw in a few more tourneys and SNGs as well when I feel like it. I enjoy them and tend to run fairly well. I'm also thinking about getting a bluefire poker sub. A six month sub works out at about $40 per month which seems kind of steep, but then again if its not worth 1 buyin per month of improvement then somethings probably wrong.

Nothing really to report pokerwise since last update. Booked two small wins in the last couple times I played. Kind of happy about this morning really. Son was up around 5am but back down at 6 and slept in till 8. Perfect time to play some poker (I get up a little before 7). I was pretty tired though after the early wakeup and also got up to him around midnight, so rather than play just because I could, I took the morning off. After dropping him off at childcare I thought I might play a quick session before starting work, but tables were limited and bad, and Griffey was on msn and asked if I wanted to sweat him (or him me, but like I say tables were bad) so I did that instead. Felt kinda good to just do what I wanted instead of forcing myself to play.

Had a really good talk with Griffey about the hands in this thread: http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ds-t84002.html and from there onto ranges and stuff in general. Really useful stuff. I'm starting to keep a notebook with all this stuff so I dont just forget about it later. I can go back and review hands/explanations afterwards to reinforce them. If I get back into training videos I'll do the same thing.