Poker, Life and the World

"Next time, there will be no next time”, Eminem sings in one of his songs “Love the way your lie”, ft Rihanna.“  It's like in poker when you are playing a hand wrong. You can never take it back. The good news though is that you can learn from it... Well you can, its another question if you really will... mmm. 

The previous weekend I had online at the poker tables was really a warning bell for me to not play poker when sleepy and irritated. I know that I've been saying this before to myself, but it feels so waste to sleep away prime time. So I sit at the tables and gets even more frustrated and tired when the hours run by. Clicking wrong, thinking wrong and playing wrong. Ghaa!

But on Monday I decided to take a power nap before I sat down playing. It's like re-booting a computer and take away all that unwanted cached memory that have been packing up the whole day in my brain. Suddenly I feel more relaxed, in the zone and happy to play. Oh yeah and winning hands making better decisions.

So I cant take back the poorly decisions I made during the weekend. But I can at least learn from my mistake to not to play tired and try to at least have a power nap before poker sessions.

Time will tell..

 

So the late summer here in Sweden haven't been that much to cheer for. Usually the later parts of the summer is warm and bright, but I think it was the opposite this year. And now autumn is here to stay for sure, leafs has already turned yellow and red. But hey, more excuses to stay in to play and study poker, right?

I'm following a new episode that was released recently “Tolerance”, which seems pretty good. One of my weak spots is doing the math, but with these kinds of layups it's much more easier to digest. Another weak spot for me is doing homework like the “To-do-list”, like Travis is giving out in "Shuffle and Flow", I'm trying to make one everyday, but hard to stick to it.

Otherwise poker has been a little hard on me this weekend, which is usually quite the opposite during the last days of the month when people tend to spew a little more then ordinary. I have to blame myself playing out of focused and tired. Well, well. Just take some deep breaths and load the tables again.

GL at the tables!

Hi guys,

So this is my first blog post here on Deuces Cracked. I've been a member here for about a month and been really trying to soak up as much as possible in that short time span. I've been playing poker awhile actually and doing (I think) pretty good. I recently started playing shorthanded 5-max after just playing fullring over the years .And I had a longer break from poker since work was taking it share of time, thus I thought DC would be good resource helping me in my game. Since I started to check out the videos here on DC my poker game has improved pretty good (and so have my results) and I'm looking forward to improve them additionally.

What I really enjoy with DC is the combination of technical aspect of the game and also body and mind approach. It gives poker another dimension and really motivates me to improve my game further and also other aspects of my life.

I will use this blog corner of DC life a training log and hopefully report in some progress along the way. And I'm hoping that this will be another corner stone to optimize my education here on DC.