Meh

Still on a bit of a bad run, certainly not the worst I've ever been on, but it's up there. Again, it's always hard to know, even with stat indicators, whether I am playing well, especially since I have started slow playing my top pairs more on the flop (due to so much c-betting and double barreling) and thus my flop aggression is down. I feel like I'm playing well, and I'm also more focused on what to do to make more money as opposed to just rote # of hands. I might play in some cap NL games more this week and I might play some different limits, I don't know for sure.

I have still been eating less, although I've been less concerned with it over the past week. I have not focused on a lot of my other goals and I still feel unambitious and lethargic. I have been told by a few people lately that I should either start exercising or at go get anti-depression pills from the doctor--just do something to get myself out of the funk, and I know that's good advice although I haven't taken it.

I watched a CardRunners video about exploiting loose late position steal-raisers who c-bet most flops HU but are otherwise straightforward and it was certainly useful but nothing too mind blowing. I have also had numerous friends contact me about getting me a good deal on a new comptuer once all my refunds get in, so I am somewhat excited about the prospect about a faster computer; however, the main reason for getting it is now fixed, so I might save that money for now.

That's right, Poker Tracker 3 finally works! It was not the new update, which is still not out. It was the realization by a friend that the source of the problems was too many panels, or stat groups, which I had in my HUD. When I combined that stats together into only 4 stat groups, the hud now covers all my tables without much lag and without crashing. I can now finally use PT3, and I am certainly happy about that.

Here's my stats from the past week. Rakeback and discipline have been my major saviors over the past few weeks. A little win is still a win, and being able to be up about $350 for the month even on a bad run makes things feel a little better.

I have been trying to tighten up the past few weeks too in order to get more disciplined and also to practice 8 tabling, but I think I'm ready to open back up a little, so I am going to try to LAG it up a little more this week and be more active at the table... we'll see what happens.

Also, I found out about a new computer video game coming out called Spore which looks very interesting and I encourage whoever the hell reads this thing to check out the demo of it recorded here at the 2005 Game Developer's Conference. It has been in developement for years as they worked more aand more on it and should be fascinating. The full video (from which the previously mentioned clip is taken) where the creator talks about the conception and development of the game and the conception of the algorithmic models is here.

-Max