~Half the year gone, Ju...

I actually forgot to do this last month, but I wanted to get a bit of a ‘big picture’ post to keep track of my yearly progress rather than a month to month thing, so here it is a month late… Save for playing a measly 11k hands in April and absolutely nothing in May, this...

June in review...

I guess when you can make more than two grand in a month and play a personal record number of hands still be dissatisfied with your results, you’re following the right path. In my last post I mentioned I was on pace for nearly 60k hands and since then unfortunately I’ve...

March Marginality...

Had you asked me a couple weeks ago how I feel about my progress in March, I’d have said “I’m about break even, but I feel fantastic about it”.  At that point I’d put in almost 40k hands with nearly two weeks left in the month, on pace to smash my previous...

Bittersweet February...

First thing’s first as there’s only a chance at hockey Gold every four years, and in 2006 we came up way short: WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! Sure, we’re proud of all 14 gold medals we won (most ever for our country!), but the only one that really mattered was hockey. ...

January in review...

If my progress for the month were a report card, it’d probably be something like a B+.  But you wouldn’t know it looking at my winnings. My only real goal for the month was to play 33,000 or more hands.  I actually came up short there, surprisingly.  Just as I wrote, I was...

2009 in review, and pla...

A long while ago I talked about how, with respect to poker, time frames are kind of trivial.  The only significance for me is being able to use them to measure how my goals are going.  If you recall from my old blog, I used to do goals/results posts.  I stopped doing monthly reviews,...