slap on the wrist

well tonight was the first night i had a really good one on one with a great poker player about some of my mistakes and missteps. talking with jon gotti is like looking into a time machine and seeing where i should and will be if i just listen to the words coming out of his mouth. jon for those of you who don't know is the first real online player that actually took time to talk with me and point me in the right direction. i have been there for him in return cheering him to victory in some of the toughest tourneys online. i look at jon as a poker mentor who is willing to have open dialog with you and will let you argue if you think your point is the right one. he is also someone who has worked his way up from taking his lumps to get where he is now. in our conversation tonight jon clued me into something that should have been so obvious to me about my game selection. after agreeing with him to only play sng's i took a beating at them and decided to switch back to double or nuthings. jon pointed out the profit margin and expected value is so much lower and u will lose in the long run. i made him a promise which i am sure my poker coach will agree that it is earlier to switch from a sng player to a don player then a don to a sng. sng;s are far easier to beat and control the variance. don's you have to play perfect to be making money at it. i have done well at dons but nothing like wat i could be doing if i focused my energy into perfecting my sit n gos.

so for the next month i will only be playing in sng's and mtt. mtt run close to the same as a sng with alot of the same concepts being worked on. my goal as crazy as it sounds is to break even or make a small profit but i want to be making the right decisions at the right times. i want to be pushing when i should be and folding or aborting a play when it has gone wrong. when i play sng's now i do ok but if i focus the next month to them i am sure i will be doing alot better playing wise and bankroll wise. hell it cant get any worse. i agreed to work with max 6 tables and will stick to the 3.40 and maybe mix in some knock outs as i very much enjoy them and have ran good in the handfull i have played.

with this recalibration or slap on the wrist as i have pegged it has helped me to realize where i am spending my time and what it is giving back to me. it is much easier to make a living playing sng's then it is to make it as a don player. jon is going to be tossing me a name of a top notch coach and i will be looking him up to see what he can bring to my game.

in the coming weeks i am very excited to be playing in the spring championships of online poker or scoop. i will be playing 2 nlhe on consecutive sundays and then 2-7 triple draw and the 5 card draw tourneys all at the small stacks level. i qualified for the 2 nlhe touneys before i started this venture so i will be taking full advantage of this virtual freeroll to add to my bankroll. the 2-7 and draw tourneys are 11 each which i will be adding that money to my bankroll from my tips so that it does not effect my 100k goal.

time to get rolling as i have to be up in 5 hours to attend my first breakfast club should be fun. we will be back tommora