Low Buy In Poker - Learning to Win

So for those who have been paying attention, here is my progress on my goals for the week…
 Didn’t play 18 holes of golf, so no progress on breaking 90.  Playing in the morning though barring thunderstorms.
Bankroll has taken a dive, down to mid $160 range… may not get any time tonight to play as the [continue]

I haven’t updated this blog in quite a while.  Have gone through a major downswing down to almost my initial bankroll and slowly built myself back to where I was about a month ago.  ChrisBCritter has been a substantial and big influence in this process.  Deuce Blue got me to the initial level but then [continue]

As I try to recover my sense of play, my skill set, my general poker wits… it has occurred to me there is a concept out there that is just foggy, just beyond my mental grasp… there has to be…
 I’ve been working on understanding pot odds, trying to ‘get it’.  I think I understand the [continue]

I’ve seriously lost my game now.
 Haven’t been ITM in a while.  Moved to $5.50 and am getting clobbered.  Apparently I’m more donkish than I thought.
 Here are some of the last few days tourneys… for what they are worth.  Comments and coaching suggestions appreciated here or in private mail or in the forums, feel free to [continue]

Ah, the islands… After a week away in Antigua I came back to poker last night… played in 5 different $5.50 SNGs at FTP… well let me tell you, rum makes you rusty.
 First tourney I just played poorly.  No excuses.
 Second tourney (which was simultaneous to the first), I played bad but a little better.  5th [continue]

Ok, yes the title was to entice you to read on…
Played in my first church basement style one time buy in tourney this weekend.  This was weird but I did ok. 
I arrived 1/2 hour before start time, got in line and made it to the registration table.  You signed your name, then paid $50 for [continue]

All right, so this is kind of a brag post… but here goes…
http://www.flopturnriver.com/Online-Poker-Tournament-3241.html
Was down, then up, then down, then up… all over the place.  I think I played heads up fairly well, did ok the rest of the time, sadly had to miss a set of KK hole cards due to bathroom run but worked [continue]

It is a difficult thing about competition, when you feel you are good enough, or when you hear of someone else accomplishing something, you want to compete at their level.
Often this leads to trying something you are not ready to do yet.  When I played darts competitively, I thought I could hang with the big [continue]

I learned a few things this weekend… most of them positive:
 1) When the wife and daughter are out of town, it is Prime Poker time, the house is silent and there are no distractions, 4 tabling is much easier.
2) When you are on the win streak and the confidence is high, somehow the improbable happens [continue]

I’ve spent the last few weeks building my bankroll back to reasonable levels, reasonable by small stakes standards.  At the beginning of the week (I know, it is Wednesday)… I had $91 in the BR.  Not a bad batch, was $9 from total break even in my 4 months of poker.  My sharkscope graph looked [continue]