With the DOJ shutting down online poker, my poker activities have halted completely. I went to the WSOP again last June, but it was an unspectacular, card-dead bit of drudgery and nothing even vaguely encouraging came of it. So there is really no poker to speak of coming from me. I’ve had [...]

In theory this should post to Twitter and Facebook.

I set a goal of analyzing at least one hand every off day.  It’s getting late and I am tired, but in order to not fail on the first possible day, we are going to look over this hand that I played.  I won the hand, but I think I played it rather poorly.  I [...]

One of my biggest problems in poker (and life in general), is my lack of discipline.  I think this is true for the vast majority of poker players and in the current state of the game, the amount of discipline one has is what separates the break-even players from the highly profitable ones.  Let’s take [...]

I have been looking long and hard at my game and I have reached some conclusions about my current state of play.  I was reading the latest issue of CardPlayer and they had a section on CardPlayer Classics.  These were some older articles that had been published previously.  One that really caught my attention was [...]

Wow.  I mean, wow.  I took a beating and a half yesterday.  I lost 60% of my bankroll in one day which tells me something very significant.  I’m either under-rolled (under rolled, underrolled, what is the correct way to write that?) for the stakes I’m trying to play or I’m playing at stakes that are too [...]

Last night about midnight I was excitedly telling my wife about how great everything was going at the poker tables.  I texted my brother about it and was basically bouncing off the walls.  Just a few days ago I had a mere $100 in my Full Tilt account and was trying to bring it up [...]

I’m about to reset my Sharkscope.com stats but I wanted to write them down for posterity’s sake.
JASlusher (FullTilt):

Username
Games Played
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Av. Stake
Av. ROI
Total Profit
Form
Ability /100
Network
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JASlusher         
2,627
$0  
$6  
-3%
-$910  
-
57
FullTilt
 
x

 KunoHofman (Cereus):

Username
Games Played
Av. Profit
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Av. ROI
Total Profit
Form
Ability /100
Network
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KUNOHOFMAN         
58
$3  
$11  
54%
$151  
-
75
Cereus

 IPlayYou (Cake):

Username
Games Played
Av. Profit
Av. Stake
Av. ROI
Total Profit
Form
Ability /100
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IPlayYou         
49
$1  
$5  
12%
$54  
-
66
Cake

KunoHofman (PokerStars):

Username
Games Played
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Av. ROI
Total Profit
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KunoHofman         
29
-$1  
$1  
-28%
-$31  
-
50
PokerStars
SNG Only

So according to Sharkscope I’m down about $736.  I don’t [...]

I had forgotten that you have to have a subscription on sharkscope to reset your stats, so tomorrow I will re-up with them and reset everything.  I have had a good couple of days at the tables on FTP, so even though I still have a small bankroll, it’s gone from “nano” to “micro”.  I [...]

One of the skills that I have been sorely lacking in developing as a poker player is an honest assessment of my play.  When I play well (or at least do well) I feel like shouting from the rooftops and want to talk to everybody about how good things are going.  When I do poorly, I [...]