Blog Dog In The House

I have noticed recently that blog's and poker go hand in hand. In order to be added to someone's buddy list on their poker blog you must first have a blog... go figure. Although that is not my primary reason for starting a blog, I also have noticed that once you begin winning some cash at the tables you get this feeling from deep inside yourself that begins to want to push this blog idea out into the open, again not my main reason for starting a blog. There is a chance that once you start winning there could very well be something someone would like to hear you talk about, but not my primary reason for starting a blog.

My main reason for starting a blog is because all of the great players along with every other tom dick and hairy have their own blog's and besides I wanted to look really cool for my wife and daughter....lol.

Throughout the last year and a half since starting my poker hobby (yes hobby cause you got to win to be in) I have hung out at a few forums and forced my long winded posts on more then just a few undeserving souls. I have this problem with getting way deeper into a subject then most would ever allow themselves to do. Even the smallest of points tend to run well over a page in length. However, I have had a tremendous amount of positive feedback regarding the style in which I write.

So for some time now I have thought of starting a blog just to see what kind of draw it would actually bring. I just didn't have a subject in which to use to start the dam thing, but now In the last couple of days I have finally found a subject to write about, that being me and the unbelievable change that my BR has experience.

I have played hold-em for going on 15 months now. My play has never once had a lick of confidence at the tables. I haven't lost a lot of money in comparison to most peoples standards other then my lovely wife Suzanne's, but all in all I have remained a losing player for this entire time. I have placed high in a few mtt's, remained constant at sng's for months on end working a window of about twenty to thirty dollar plus and minus, but never found a level in which I could consistently over time increase my BR on a gradual basis.

That was not until this last Friday. I should mention that my two closest poker buddy's are Dealace1 or Dealisup and Freddy James. Deal is my primary mentor of whom works with me on a daily basis to improve my skills at the tables. Freddy is a very close and dear friend of whom I feel like I have known all my life. Anyway, in watching deal over the last couple of months just killing the Stars Satty's there, where as once you win a satty you are automatically entered into a larger weekly tournement of which exclusive to stars online poker site you can unregister from the bigger tourney you just qualified for and the buyin is place into your poker account in the form of Tournement Dollars. Tournement Dollars cannot be withdrawn the same as cash but do however pay for any and all buyins before using the actual cash balance from your real money poker account. This restriction does require you to convert T$ into cash should you wish to make a withdraw and that is done by entering and placing in the money in sng's or mtt's.

At anyrate, Deal got me to understand that if I were to qualify two satty's out of every five I played in I would begin to see an increase in my BR. The cost of the Satty is only a dollar more then the buck twenty sng's I have been playing for months of which I continue to swing up and down the same $30 month after month. I took his advice and lost the first two I tried. The change occured on Friday when my lovely wife recommended that I go in and make her some money. She never invites me to play guilt free poker so she never saw me the rest of the day. I entered satty after satty, on Friday and finished 4 out of 6 matches ftw. This was followed by a Saturday Afternoon session of 7 matches, winning 5 of those. So the only way that I could get the excitement out of my head was to distract myself and start this blog, which has already gone long enough for the first post, thus the reason for the change in gears here.

If anything this will be my place to come and log things of importance, clear my mind, and rant like hell when I start losing all of the momentun I have recently gathered. As of this moment I am not even sure whether I will even tell many that it exists. Deal will be the only poor sap that I am sure will stop by to see what the hell I said about him, which once you get to this line buddy, please know that I have appreciated and will continue to appreciate every minute of time you invest in me. I may be slow at times but I have started placing the yellow sticky notes on my monitor as suggested. Eventually I will get it and you will begin to feel the satisfaction of bringing a donkey to the rodeo.

That is all, check back in a year or two because I have learned from all my buddys blogs that it takes some time for this to catch on and receive the updates on a regular basis. I will do my best but then again my Beautiful Wife comes first, followed by my friends and then poker. My wife has suggested that a Job should begin following immdiately after her but I haven't bought into that yet.

Thx for stopping by and hope to see you again.....jd