Yes, another poker blog. Although, I'm doing this for me since I don't expect many people to read it. I've been spinning my wheels playing poker for 5 years now and I figured I would give it one last shot. I plan on using this blog to keep me on track.

Through the years I've been basically a break even to slightly losing player. The main reason for this is tilt and laziness. I'm hoping by tracking my play and progress in a more public setting I can remove both of those from my game.

I've played as high as NL400 but I'm going back to the beginning and playing NL50. My game was/is very ABC'ish. I plan on retooling my whole game with the hope of being the aggressive regular everyone hates to play. I will stay at NL50 until I'm a proven winner and, even more importantly, until my red line is hovering around the even mark. Everyone may roll their eyes at the "red line" statement but it's something I need/must improve. Up until now I would win when I ran good and lose when I ran bad. That seems obvious but my big problem is I didn't win enough when I ran good and I lost too much when I ran bad. I attribute most of this to non-showdown pots.

I started making some big changes on 2/4/2010. Through 3000 hands I've made 120BB's in non-showdown pots. I know that's an extremely small sample size but for me that's huge. I don't think I've ever had a positive red line for more than a few hundred hands. My blue line has definitely slowed down but I think that's fine. As long as I don't call river bets just to keep my red line up it should be ok.

Blogs come and go... we'll see how long this one lasts.