900 posts and a look back at my poker life

I have now hit 900 posts in 16 months since joining CC. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the info and laughs in that short time. I just wanted to reflect on the past and where I am now. These are some of the many thing I have learned...

I have definitely improved,without a doubt, but still have so much more to learn.

I tanked my FT stats,having absolutely no clue about BRM, in the first couple years and might never recover. I can only look to the future. My play has somewhat leveled off and now I need to turn that graph up.

I can now let hands like QQ and AK go without thinking I have to shove.

I am finally getting over my case of FUYAGS(search it in CC if you haven't yet).

Patience pays off. I made 4 FT in CC freerolls out of about 20 or so, reaching my highest finish 2 weeks ago at 3rd.

I can now be happy with the way I played, even if I don't TID. I have a habit, in life as well as poker, to expect the best out of myself and beat myself up if I'm not on top.

People call WAAY more than they should.

I used to chase too much.

I can fold my SB-it's not an automatic call.

I've tightened up in my cash game and can grind out a winning session.

My wife is awesome. I can play in pretty much any big tourney as long as I give her free time and take my son out to the park or somewhere fun. Not many guys have it as good as I do.


As far as my goals for the next year...

Learn Murray's Rush tourney strategy.

Read Dusty's book as soon as I can part with the cash. Work's slow now and I just don't have it to buy books.

Go deep in the Daily Dollar-final table would be nice.

Dig deep in the CC archives-there's still so much I haven't seen yet.

Set myself a challenge-maybe FT tourneys.

Quit chewing. I was almost off the stuff, but my mom had a stroke 2 months ago and got right back on it.

Enter a tourney at Bay 101- I'm only 5 minutes from it.

Thanks for letting me ramble. I'm sure I could fill pages of space but I'll save some for my 1k post...

Good stuff..

With such a good poker room so close, it seems like most of your attention is geared towards online play? Why so?

Not a bad post but why not just wait till 1000?

Honestly, I could read much, much more of this. Thanks for the great post.

Clearly a lot of these things couldn't wait.

Money. I am now more comfortable walking into a casino, but with a wife and kid and not working much the past 2 years I don't have the cash to go.

Great post, I liked reading it. Congrats on 900 posts, good luck on achieving all or some of goals, and great to hear about how much you've learned here.

Congo-Rats on your 900 posts, Lektrik!

Congrats on your 900.

This:-

is a good tip and bears repeating. It`s surprising how many otherwise passable players will call from the SB with any old rubbish, catch a piece of the flop, and then get into a right old mess trying to play second pair out of position.

Congrats, it sounds like you're on a solid path GL and let the future bring you nothing but riches.

Congradulations on 900 posts! I hope you had a great time on cardschat! Good luck at the poker tables!

Congrats on 900 posts - nice way to recognize it!

Congrats with your 900th post and good luck with your poker goals!

i think im gonna make a post about this when i hit 250 posts and list my progress and goals for the future. thank you for the reminder about the CC FR's i have to put in my application for the club i think im close to 80 posts and forgot about siginin up for it. i too in the even shorter time than you have, learned a ton about my game on this site! thank you for the post i hope that this inspires more to make posts like it.

Grats on 900, I saw alot of myself in your post, kind of funny too because I also have been trying to kick the nasty habit of chewing. Its just so accessible especially when your sitting for hours in front of the computer...anyways good luck with all your endeavors, on and off the felt.

U r fun to have around congrats. Get that graph pointing north!!

Good post and congrats on 900. I concur about all the invaluable info gained by being a member here. keep up the good work and see you at the tables. Take your time before going into Bay 101 as there are people there just waiting to "take" your money.