Damn Ringer's Poker Blog

So I’ve been kinda all over the board with poker recently. The running bad hasn’t stopped and has led to the inevitable playing bad. I’m treading water but that’s kinda boring so on the poker front. Just know that I’m not doing well this month. There have been a ton of new amazing updates in the poker world though. Rush poker is amazing. Alot of people have been bitching that it will ruin poker, and its perfectly possible. But anything that allows me to play 2000 hands of poker in an hour is absolutely amazing. I don’t know if I’m good at it yet either. I have been pretty much breaking even mostly due to the fact that I like to play like an idiot alot. The regular games look good too without shortstackers. Most people are very anti-shortstacker and I’m certainly no different. I wanted them gone because i just couldn’t beat them and had to play around them. It was very annoying. Thankfully, we’ll be seeing ya shorties. Start full stacking.

I made a new year’s resolution that I wouldn’t eat anything with a drive thru in 2010. I’ve done fine on that resolution so far, but I managed to fall into a new one as well. I started doing p90x (a set of workout DVD’s). It’s a pretty intense workout program that requires you to work hard for 90 days to see results. So far, I’ve really enjoyed it. I look forward to the workout time every day. The best part is that it has me doing exercises I would never do on my own and working me way harder than I ever would work myself. Its like my own personal trainer. I’m by no means a fat guy but i’m certainly not in shape. I have been just constantly putting on weight over the last 2 years and i guess its time to stop. I weigh 195 and am 6′1 at the moment which I think makes me fat. I’m 2 weeks in and have no desire to quit. I will try to update the blog a little more regularly with results and developments about the workout plan.

That’s about all i got.

Well Happy New Year Guys! I have been kinda all over the place between spending a week at the beach. I had a terrible end to the year and its really been messing with me mentally. The mid-stakes kinda did a number on me… and i’m trying to recover mentally. Here’s my graph from December…

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I’ve been trying to step down to 200nl to recover and just get my groove back. That graph doesn’t include about 1.5k worth of losses from my laptop. I ended down on the year and down on mid-stakes.

The new year so far has been less than lovely, but that’s mostly from the confidence I lost in my play and making bad decisions on the tables. I also keep making decisions to play on my laptop and that’s really been ugly. I finally looked at my laptop database and my non-sd winnings are going straight down and i’m playing something like a 14/10. I am going to stop grinding on my laptop for the time being until I can learn to cascade profitably.

One side note, I joined twitter and will be updating quite regularly. Alot of it will just be gibbish about my life and daily happenings but feel free to follow me. My screen name is damnringer on there.

I’ll try to update the blog again soon with a life update as there’s been quite alot happening. I just figured I need to update something here, cause you guys are getting restless! Later.