Archive for December, 2008
Bellatrix’ 2008 poker
So the year is ending… I should be working, but can’t come up with the motivation of running a single simulation or analysis, so I’ll write about the year that was 2008 instead for me in poker.
It was a good year. I gotta remind myself of that. I dropped over 2000$ in just the last 3 days of playing online (mostly tilt issues, which bugs me even more). I learned what it takes to win. I learned to be patient. I had fun again. I felt my heart racing again while learning new games, whereas 6max LHE has become robotic. I learned to approach the whole thing very professionally.
1 Year Later and 2009 Goals
My first post to this blog was December 22nd 2007. So much has happened since then. I was living 3000 miles from where I am now. When I was playing poker in Florida I had become accustom to the players and games in the Tampa Bay Area. I had some struggles at first but then began beating the games I was playing. I grew a lot as a player in 2007.
Older wiser and less experienced
Hope all is well with the regular readers here on Pokersift. Its been a while, I drop in from time to time to check the regulars…some still here….some long gone. I guess blogging is a momentum and timing issue – as it is for me. Hope everyone is enjoying the best the holidays has to offer and surviving. Here in mightly Coldwater, Ontario we are getting pounded by the Apolcalypse in terms of snow fall…mighty hard winter.
First, an update. The poker career certainily has taken an interesting twist. With a second child, a real demanding job, and responsiblity to go with fatherhood, poker has fallen deep off the map.
60 Minutes
60 Minutes finally ran the story about cheating in online poker. It seems like people having been talking about this for such a long time. I actually thought it must have already ran, but I guess not.
Watch the 60 Minutes story Online
I thought they did a good job explaining what happened. It was interesting though to see the buildings where the servers are held and to here some of the players talk about what happened.The only thing I didn’t like was that they over simplified the legality of playing online
