Hello there, just going to introduce myself again I believe. My names Rob, 33 yrs of age and a family man of 2 girls and of coarse my wife. I've been dabbling between live poker games with the boys and the odd local tournaments here and there and of coarse on-line when I needed to get my "fix." I was part of the "Moneymaker bandwagon" really when online became the 'thing to-do' and it's been a roller coaster of emotions and yes bankroll. LOL
So one day I'm not even sure if I remember exactly but I'm here now but I came across an ad (just like everyone else it seems) wanting to give me a free start-up BR of $50!! $50 FREE!! ARE YOU F'in serious I thought so why not. So Nov 23 2010 was the day that changed the way I thought poker was played on-line. PS changed my train of thought, how to act (still learning) how to adjust (still learning) how to react (still learning) how to control my emotions (still learning) and how to control BRM (of coarse still learning)
I admit I thought after reading the articles, and reading some more. Watching video's from Gerv, AK, Grummeler just to name a few and watching them again that I possessed some sort of knowledge that would launch me to a new level. Well my ego (still learning to control that) got in the way and I found myself broke and gave up after taking beats no matter what I did.
This was probably in the past year if i recall, it wasn't up until May where I started dabbling back on-line. I work shift work 2 weeks days 2 weeks nights and found myself coming home around 3:30am bored out of my mind so I came back on, found I had like 1.20+/- on Pokerstars just enough to get on a .01/.02 using SSS and see where I can go with that. Well, I had it up one point to $10 or so. I was amazed with myself and from there, lets just say old habits are hard to die. I took 888 poker up on their offer for free cash again doing well and again broke. Talk about getting a little discouraged. So what's a guy to do? Here I am, really wanting to pick up poker again as a hobby and something to keep me occupied when I get home from work at nights so I did what most people would or shall i say SHOULD is read, study, read and study till I thought I was blue in the face. I came across a forum topic about people getting a "second life" a second BR of $50 from PokerStrategy! Could this be a chance at redemption? So with a request for another "life at poker" I was granted $50.
At first when I read the instructions how I can release that $50 by increments of $10 and accumulate .50 rake ea. week to unlock the next $10 and so on, man was I a little worried. So... there's the gauntlet, the test if you will and it's up to me and only me to tackle this (with the aid of all the excellent tools and instructional video's, forums, blogs, strategy articles, hand evaluations) I can arm myself and prepare for... "WAR" lol a little hasty it's not how I totally feel but thought it'd fit nicely in my blog.
So according to HEM I've been tracked since July 30, which is the time I got my first $10 of my $50. I did have a good run back in June made silver status but like I stated earlier old habits and I couldn't maintain cause I had no moo'la to play in the month of July.
So I have a Mac and realized that HEM doesn't work without running parrells or something like that, so i decided to clean up the PC I had running before my world became APPLE and made the PC my Poker Tool. It's only used for and by me for poker. I can't believe my wife allowed me to have my own PC! LOL So now I can run my HEM and track everything!!
I think I'm going to end my first entry here. I just scrolled up and realized it's getting long and I really would like someone to follow me and hopefully keep my motivated, give me personal advice and everything that follows with a blog. I really want to share some pics (if i can figure it out) of my graph. I'm pretty stoked about it and the results so if you know how that can be your first reply to my blog.
Thank you for reading or scrolling through it at least and do hope to see some post(s) Cheers!
Rob
