Another chance?
How am I, you ask?
Well, my week started off pretty normal I guess. I ran a poker
tournament on Tuesday(which was my second job). I did this three times a week.
actually two times as I paid someone else to do it for me on Sundays. So
my schedule for most weeks looked like this:
Monday 5:30 AM-4:30 PM work
Tuesday 5:30 AM-4:15 PM work
5:00 PM-10:30/11:00PM Second Job
Wednesday 5:30 AM-4:30 PM work
Thursday 5:30 AM-4:15 PM work
5:00 PM-10:30/11:00PM Second Job
Friday 5:30 AM-4:30 PM work
Needless to say when adding in quality time with my kids, quality time with my beautiful, intelligent, always correct wife, along with household obligations such as mowing the lawn, etc... The amount of time left to devote to poker (either playing
or learning) was minimal. Now the crafty reader will notice I am speaking in the past tense...
The reason for that is I got fired. Actually I quit but it was going to be that or get fired anyway... Why?, you may ask. Well I had a couple customers being idiots and arguing with me over some rules and I lost my cool and told them to sit the f*ck down. Needless to say me dropping the f-bomb on a customer was enough to entice them to comment to the duty manager so instead of waiting for the inevitable call from my main boss at the club I decided to go ahead and quit.
First off I don't think this is a horrible thing. The reason that I don't think so is mainly because I did not enjoy going there anyway. In fact I kind of despised it. The only reason I accepted it in the first place was because someone was going to pay me $700 a month to oversee 12 tournaments a month. I did learn something about myself though. I love playing poker, I don't love watching idiots that don't understand how to play poker. I cant count how many times I heard, "Well I was ahead because his AA only has 2 outs and I had 6 outs with my KJ." or something equally as dumb blurted out.
Secondly my poker game suffered dramatically since I took that job. Which is devastating to me as I really feel I was hitting my stride right before I took it. I have had several conversations with a friend of mine burnleymik over my recent flaws, and I think through his honestly and my brutal research of recent hand histories I have noticed several huge gushing leaks that crept into my game that I am hoping I
will be able to close.
So through the unfortunate/fortunate incident of me losing my second income(depends how you look at it I guess) I am faced with a dilemna of how to attempt to replace it. I have chosen to attempt it through online poker as I feel I am good enough if I devote the effort and it is like anything else- you get out of it what you put into it. That being said, those I know of what are successful play at certain times. Thus
leaving the time not devoted to playing for non-poker relatedactivities. I have decided to do the same thing. I am going to dedicate certain times for online poker and also certain times for studying it as well. I hope to have my bankroll back to legitimate status real soon. Probably 1 or 2 months.
On to the decision of what type of schedule to keep. I have to work that out with the wife, so I will address that in the next post. I do plan on concentrating on micro MTT's for now so I will probably base my schedule around playing a set of mTT's at a time.
My first order of business will be to play 100 of the $3.30 90 Man KO games on Full Tilt Poker. These are within my bankroll and I feel that 100 of them will either give my bankroll a boost or at least show me where I am at as a player. I have not yet decided whether or not to take my entire roll out of Stars. However, I have decided I will play most of my poker on Full Tilt for now. I would like to try UB again shortly
but there would have to be a strict NO black Jack rule if I did that.
I guess that's enough insight for now and I will pop back in tomorrow and probably post my playing schedule. I should finish my first 10 90 manners tonight so should have some decent info on those to post as well.
Well, my week started off pretty normal I guess. I ran a poker
tournament on Tuesday(which was my second job). I did this three times a week.
actually two times as I paid someone else to do it for me on Sundays. So
my schedule for most weeks looked like this:
Monday 5:30 AM-4:30 PM work
Tuesday 5:30 AM-4:15 PM work
5:00 PM-10:30/11:00PM Second Job
Wednesday 5:30 AM-4:30 PM work
Thursday 5:30 AM-4:15 PM work
5:00 PM-10:30/11:00PM Second Job
Friday 5:30 AM-4:30 PM work
Needless to say when adding in quality time with my kids, quality time with my beautiful, intelligent, always correct wife, along with household obligations such as mowing the lawn, etc... The amount of time left to devote to poker (either playing
or learning) was minimal. Now the crafty reader will notice I am speaking in the past tense...
The reason for that is I got fired. Actually I quit but it was going to be that or get fired anyway... Why?, you may ask. Well I had a couple customers being idiots and arguing with me over some rules and I lost my cool and told them to sit the f*ck down. Needless to say me dropping the f-bomb on a customer was enough to entice them to comment to the duty manager so instead of waiting for the inevitable call from my main boss at the club I decided to go ahead and quit.
First off I don't think this is a horrible thing. The reason that I don't think so is mainly because I did not enjoy going there anyway. In fact I kind of despised it. The only reason I accepted it in the first place was because someone was going to pay me $700 a month to oversee 12 tournaments a month. I did learn something about myself though. I love playing poker, I don't love watching idiots that don't understand how to play poker. I cant count how many times I heard, "Well I was ahead because his AA only has 2 outs and I had 6 outs with my KJ." or something equally as dumb blurted out.
Secondly my poker game suffered dramatically since I took that job. Which is devastating to me as I really feel I was hitting my stride right before I took it. I have had several conversations with a friend of mine burnleymik over my recent flaws, and I think through his honestly and my brutal research of recent hand histories I have noticed several huge gushing leaks that crept into my game that I am hoping I
will be able to close.
So through the unfortunate/fortunate incident of me losing my second income(depends how you look at it I guess) I am faced with a dilemna of how to attempt to replace it. I have chosen to attempt it through online poker as I feel I am good enough if I devote the effort and it is like anything else- you get out of it what you put into it. That being said, those I know of what are successful play at certain times. Thus
leaving the time not devoted to playing for non-poker relatedactivities. I have decided to do the same thing. I am going to dedicate certain times for online poker and also certain times for studying it as well. I hope to have my bankroll back to legitimate status real soon. Probably 1 or 2 months.
On to the decision of what type of schedule to keep. I have to work that out with the wife, so I will address that in the next post. I do plan on concentrating on micro MTT's for now so I will probably base my schedule around playing a set of mTT's at a time.
My first order of business will be to play 100 of the $3.30 90 Man KO games on Full Tilt Poker. These are within my bankroll and I feel that 100 of them will either give my bankroll a boost or at least show me where I am at as a player. I have not yet decided whether or not to take my entire roll out of Stars. However, I have decided I will play most of my poker on Full Tilt for now. I would like to try UB again shortly
but there would have to be a strict NO black Jack rule if I did that.
I guess that's enough insight for now and I will pop back in tomorrow and probably post my playing schedule. I should finish my first 10 90 manners tonight so should have some decent info on those to post as well.
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