The Grinding Dragon

Wow! Hectic!

That’s the only way I can describe my life over the best part of the last 4-5 months. I work for the one of the major Energy networks here in Oz and we were told by the government that over the next 5 years we have to spend $8.5 billion. This effectivly means we have to double if not triple our work load, oh and by the way we aren’t gonna let you hire any more engineers. Ahh you gotta love those 60-70 hour weeks sigh.

Anyway, now that things have settled down a fair bit and I am working a more ‘kinder’ 50hr week I have finally got a few hours to myself that I can dedicate to poker. So here we go again, fingers crossed this time nothing gets in my way.

I am going to be starting my HEM reports from the 1/11/2009, because I am playing so much better and different to what I was prior to this time. While I wasn’t able to play any poker other than the odd home game during the last few months, I was able to read forums on my iPhone during meetings, read ebooks, listen to pod casts and read the occasion page from books. I have also spent A LOT of time just thinking of hands, thinking of lines in particualar positions etc. And it has also given me a well earned break to be able to step back and have a good look at how I was playing, how I was thinking about and approaching the game. Since starting to play again (albeit only single tabling 1 or 2 nights a week)I have found my approach to the game has changed A LOT. I am much more confident in my reads and I have found that I am taking lines more confidently and knowing where I stand in a hand much more often and most importantly, I am correct in these reads more often.

I have found that a lot of the stuff I had previously talked to PygmyHero about during our sessions was coming back to me, and was a lot clearer and made so much more sense. I really feel good about my game at the moment and can see 2010 is gonna be a big year. I have a few goals that I wish to achieve over the next 6 months and once I have sorted them out in realistic terms I will post them up here hopefully in the next few days.

Keep tuned cause 2010 is gonna be a big year for me, and I would love you all along for the ride.

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