As per my New Year’s Resolutions, I was not to succumb to my nicotine addiction, I was supposed to go to the gym twice a week, and I was supposed to build a bankroll suitable for playing $5/$10 by the end of the year.

So far, I’m a miserable failure. I haven’t actually been to the gym twice a week (I have been there once a week, so give me some credit for that). I’ve stayed off tobacco mostly, but not entirely. Although I suppose “entirely” is more of a principle than anything to do with health or finances, so it may not matter in the larger picture.

But oh my poor bankroll. I’ve played a lot lately, and I’ve done awfully. It’s a combination of running bad with cards and playing the cards I’m dealt poorly. So I’m going to rework my game a little bit, and spend time studying where I screw up. My gameplan is this:

For every session that I play, I will go back the day after and, using Pokertracker, look up all the hands where I put money in (VP$IP). Then I’ll look at the situations I ended up in, say to myself how I should play it, and compare it to how I actually played it; then I will attempt to identify what made me play it differently at the time. Another thing I’m doing is moving to a single table for the time being. The whole point is to focus on making the best decisions, not making the most money, so b’bye multitabling!

Yeah, that’s my plan. Knowing myself all too well, however, I’ll probably be back in the saddle multitabling, chatting and posting all at once and going back to playing on autopilot. But you have to at least give me credit for being serious about my game, albeit just not at the times I’m actually playing it.

In a closing note, don’t miss tomorrow’s PokerStars $25 buy-in!

/FP