The Beginning: June 20, 2005

This is the beginning of a new approach to poker. I have played off and on my whole life and started to read a bit and play a lot more in the past two years. Now I have started this blog because (a) everyone else has one, but more importantly (b) I think by writing out my experiences at the tables, it will allow me to become a much better player. Lots of poker players complain about dry spells, bad beats and the idiot player next to them who didn't play the hand right but ended up winning. Well, did you get your money back on the next hand, the next hour, the next day or week or month? If the answer is no, then maybe it wasn't a bad beat at all.

Doyle Brunson, one of the best poker players of all time, writes in Super System about his experiences at the table and how on most occasions when he gets all of his money into the pot and is called he is usually the underdog. So does this make him a bad player? No, it just shows how interesting poker can actually be. My goal for this blog is to identify the pitfalls in my game so I can minimize my mistakes, raise my skill level, raise the limits of the games I play in and ultimately so I can increase my bankroll.

I hope you all enjoy!