Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Anybody Home ?
I decided to check my blog today and saw that its been more than a month from my last post and even last January, I actually only made 1 tiny entry about the blogger tourney which I never got to play by the way.
Some of my friends who read my blog regularly (all 4 of them) have bugged me about this. But what can I say, its the same answer. No poker, no post.
Actually, to be honest, I have been playing some poker lately. More than the previous months, but still not back to original levels.
Am I winning ? Errr ..... I would probably say break even. Not winning much, not losing much either. As I've indicated before, playing only low buy in SNGs and MTTs doesn't really result in big swings in my bankroll. A two hundred dollar swing in one day is already quite big.
At this point in my poker playing, my ROI in SNGs would usually be in the plus 8% to 12% range. A little bit more if I play less tables and a little bit less if I play more tables in one go. This is then balanced by my MTT playing which of course eats up any small winnings from the SNGs. The only time that my bankroll really moves is if I score in the top 3 in the MTTs that I play. This would usually happen once or twice every few months.
And that in a nutshell is how my poker goes. Kind of boring, but almost zero risk at this point with slow positive returns. And I think that is the reason why my poker playing has waned lately. The excitement has been replaced by a kind of bored indifference. I play because I know I will earn a little bit if I just keep at it. But the dream of a big score is way back somewhere in the depths of my consciousness.
I know that I should be working on my game. But now, I'm so lazy to read a poker book or go to the forums. So I pretty much just rely on my current knowledge and experience which is acceptable but nothing great. In short, I haven't really made the next leap to advance my skills.
I keep telling myself to snap out of this funk and get my ass moving. And sometimes I feel the old excitement coming back. But real life then interferes in so many ways. Company needs you to go to China, daughter needs homework help, etc. Just recently, my brother in law was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He's only in his early thirties and it came as a big shock to everyone. With all these things going on, poker just sort of fades in the background.
The good thing about poker is its always there waiting for you. Unlike other sports, age is not really an issue. As long as you keep your mind active and you don't get any weird disease like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, then you're pretty much good to go even up to your fifties or even sixties.
Some people say that it's become a young man's game. But just when you're about to believe the bullshit. You still see old geezers like Cloutier make final tables and what about that 96 year old guy (Jack Ury) who played in the WSOP. He has bad eyesight and hearing but still plays year after year. Never cashed but that didn't stop him from playing the game that he loves.
Poker will always be there. We just have to find the time to play.
Some of my friends who read my blog regularly (all 4 of them) have bugged me about this. But what can I say, its the same answer. No poker, no post.
Actually, to be honest, I have been playing some poker lately. More than the previous months, but still not back to original levels.
Am I winning ? Errr ..... I would probably say break even. Not winning much, not losing much either. As I've indicated before, playing only low buy in SNGs and MTTs doesn't really result in big swings in my bankroll. A two hundred dollar swing in one day is already quite big.
At this point in my poker playing, my ROI in SNGs would usually be in the plus 8% to 12% range. A little bit more if I play less tables and a little bit less if I play more tables in one go. This is then balanced by my MTT playing which of course eats up any small winnings from the SNGs. The only time that my bankroll really moves is if I score in the top 3 in the MTTs that I play. This would usually happen once or twice every few months.
And that in a nutshell is how my poker goes. Kind of boring, but almost zero risk at this point with slow positive returns. And I think that is the reason why my poker playing has waned lately. The excitement has been replaced by a kind of bored indifference. I play because I know I will earn a little bit if I just keep at it. But the dream of a big score is way back somewhere in the depths of my consciousness.
I know that I should be working on my game. But now, I'm so lazy to read a poker book or go to the forums. So I pretty much just rely on my current knowledge and experience which is acceptable but nothing great. In short, I haven't really made the next leap to advance my skills.
I keep telling myself to snap out of this funk and get my ass moving. And sometimes I feel the old excitement coming back. But real life then interferes in so many ways. Company needs you to go to China, daughter needs homework help, etc. Just recently, my brother in law was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He's only in his early thirties and it came as a big shock to everyone. With all these things going on, poker just sort of fades in the background.
The good thing about poker is its always there waiting for you. Unlike other sports, age is not really an issue. As long as you keep your mind active and you don't get any weird disease like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, then you're pretty much good to go even up to your fifties or even sixties.
Some people say that it's become a young man's game. But just when you're about to believe the bullshit. You still see old geezers like Cloutier make final tables and what about that 96 year old guy (Jack Ury) who played in the WSOP. He has bad eyesight and hearing but still plays year after year. Never cashed but that didn't stop him from playing the game that he loves.
Poker will always be there. We just have to find the time to play.
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