July 16, 2010
Intro
About me- I'm a 30 year old professional poker player/coach, although I don't coach much these days. I'm currently homeless, but (hopefully) not the type of homeless that ends up giving handjobs in a Burger King bathroom for pocket change. At the end of the summer I'll be moving to either Austin or back to Pittsburgh, depending on how miserable I want to be over the winter.
I'm wrapping up the worst summer of my poker career, at least financially. Aside from a small 4k score at the start of the summer, I bricked everything I played including cash games where I played/ran pretty terribly in some big spots. It's pretty demoralizing since I had a good few months coming into the series and had high hopes. I ended up semi-bubbling the main event about 80 spots before the money, which was super disappointing but made me realize a few things. First,there were so many cool, tricky spots that came up, which really rekindled my interest in tournaments and desire to play them. Second, I realized that I take wayyyy too many hands off, both live and online, and lose focus far too frequently. That needs to change if I'm ever going to have a better summer and be where I want to be, both financially and as a player.
This blog is my attempt to chronicle my development as a poker player, both technically and psychologically, over the next year and beyond. I generally think posting a public personal blog is one of the more narcissistic things one can do online, but that's probably fine since I wouldn't argue if someone called me a narcissist to begin with. Hopefully someone out there can learn through my posts or at least know that someone else is out there on a similar path.Â
Casey
8 Comments:
xix posted on July 16, 2010 at 13:03 PM
Definitely subscribing to this blog. Tho I'm not at the same stage you are on my poker "career", I feel I'm half-assing it too. I don't have any doubts that I'll be able to learn lots through your posts.
GLGL!
diab0lic posted on July 16, 2010 at 13:53 PM
Subscribing as well, forget the feeling that its narcissistic because people will learn from what you write.
Thisbetom posted on July 16, 2010 at 20:17 PM
Subscribed as well. Round on me in Austin if you make it down here.
bellatrix posted on July 16, 2010 at 22:41 PM
Were you staked for the main event? How about other events? Otherwise it seems quite strange to be homeless and playing stuff that costs thousands of $.
I remember your podcast on Deuce Plays, it was very interesting. Sad it didn't work out for you. Gogogo rebuilding
yeahthatsme posted on July 16, 2010 at 22:55 PM
Good luck with the turnaround.
And bellatrix, i think it's homeless in the balugawhale sense, not the hobo sense.
AMT posted on July 17, 2010 at 02:41 AM
Good luck dude, keep the grind alive.
bones posted on July 17, 2010 at 02:43 AM
Bella,
I sold action in the main, but nothing else. And yeah, I'm only homeless in the sense that I'm not currently settled.
thisfool posted on July 17, 2010 at 20:03 PM
Sounds like a good plan bones. I'm blogging for similar reasons, but I'm much younger on my poker path. Subscribing and looking forward to the year's journey. Cheers!
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