Female poker geek anonymous

2011 has been a great year in poker for me so far. The fact that I had tilted away a lot of money away at FTP, meant that it was a rebuilding period again at FTP, so I dropped down to 1/2 and just grinded. It has been going phenomenal and I'm back at 2/4 thanks to the Ironman Year End bonus that brought me back to 2/4 bankroll easily, so I'll be slowly transitioning to that during this week. As the other producers at DC would say: "Games are good!"

But above all, it was so relaxing. I did work a lot in January. Along the way my daughter had her birthday (with all the related festivities), I traveled and I started working on DC related stuff (coaching, videos, etc.). Yet somehow I managed to grind 10k hands. While winning, of course you have a great time. But it was also the sort of serious approach I took to the whole thing. No more waffling/playing on the Mac side of the computer without the HUD. My Windows side is also entirely bare-bones with nothing open during the poker sessions except the poker client and my browser.

This also has allowed me to just relax, listen to trance music and grind. I can definitely recommend trance, almost like ambient music. I unfortunately can't listen to music with lyrics on them, as they distract me and a lot of instrumental music is just too slow for me when playing poker. But the fast beats of trance keep me focused, the sort of pace where you are chilled out, but still in rhythm with everything. Was really glad I took it up again in 2011. I sort of had neglecting that the last few months with my frantic "squeezing in a few hands in between" attitude on my Mac.

Also, you might be wondering why I had been playing on FTP a lot, a lot of my 3/6 bankroll is at Stars, after all. Well, first it's nice to build it up and work off the bonus and all. But also I decided to "boycott" - nah, that's probably not the right word - Pokerstars for the first two weeks in February. Let's face it, I can't boycott forever, the games are just too frequent and good to let the biggest room just go. But it is my own little protest for the fact that they decided against having Jared Huggins on the Big Game. The decision is being revised, but hasn't been overturned. And it's not like I'm itching to play in the Women's League :P (10c tourneys, here I come!)... I am very happy with Pokerstars software and especially the customer service, I understand that the industry is fluid and everything, but it still makes me a bit sad when good people like Gavin Griffin or Greg Raymer are no longer part of the team. Anyway, the whole thing is like 300-400$ in MGR which go to FTP instead of PS, so no huge deal, but it's my own little protest, hehe.