Just A Post

It’s been a little while since I updated. There hasn’t been anything to spectacular regarding monetary advancements in my poker career since before August. As you can see from my other post I have been running bad and continue to run bad. Being a poker player you get used to these things. It’s part of the game. Think of it like the stock market. If you pay attention to the short term or day to day ups and downs you will go crazy. Instead you have to look at the big picture. Most people think playing poker is just about playing your cards right, but being in control of your emotions during rough times is also a big part if not half the game. And by this I mean, not going on tilt and spewing off your bankroll or stacks chasing money because you are stuck. Instead you have to be in control, take breaks, play smaller stakes, continuing to study and improve and not let it affect you etc etc. Be the professional. No big deal.

In other news, for a while now I’ve been interested in getting into coaching. I enjoy helping people improve their game and seeing them succeed. It’s rewarding and in turn my reward is that I continue to improve my game by doing so. I think to be able to master something; you have to be able to teach it. Some cool situations have presented themselves recently to help me get experience coaching. My coach along with another coach run a poker course at DeucesCracked and about a month ago they asked if I would like to be a teaching assistant to their students in the class forum. I took the offer and I’ve been helping out in that. From there, I was given an opportunity to take on a student of my own.

I don’t want to give away too much, but since she is my first real student I have to at least talk about it. I hope you don’t mind :). She is an older woman who has worked a strenuous job for a while and came across an opportunity to take some time off work and took an interest in poker. I don’t blame her :). She is new to poker so I will have to take her from the ground up. I think it should be a great opportunity for her and I know it will be a great opportunity for me to work on developing a system of my own and most importantly get experience coaching.

Other than that, I’ve been enjoying some time off of work lately. Using my vacation days strategically lol. Speaking of that I’m so glad The Office starts back up. Like a few other shows it’s great because I didn’t get into The Office when it first came on so a lot of the reruns are new to me. Sunday is going to be great on HBO because Curb Your Enthusiasm is starting back up and of course Entourage. There is another show in between that is going to premier this Sunday that may be cool. Also 2months2million on G4 has been kickass. Can’t forget football season and some good movies will be coming out on blue ray from the summer etc too. I typically haven’t watched much TV, but now I guess I have good reason.

I guess that’s about it. I’d post a graph of last month, but I’m on my laptop and not on my poker computer so I don’t have the data, maybe later. I ended down 6 buy ins so nothing pretty lol.