poker session recaps

5 posts

• October 13, 2011 Day 11: First tournament experience: 8th place

  Today, I had my first tournament experience. I participated in a “super satellite”: think of it as the quarterfinals of a playoff bracket. It cost me ...

• October 11, 2011 Day 9: The Simple System

  9:30p.m., October 10 th , 2011 I’m not intimidated anymore. My complete wipeout lasttime taught me a valuable lesson: leave when I'm on tilt. That's i...

• October 7, 2011 Day 5: The unbearable lightness of being

  Day 5, October 6 th 2011 Alan, who is my poker sensei at this point, sent me an email in all caps telling me I SHOULD EXPECT TO LOSE MONEY. Even the b...

• October 6, 2011 Day 3: Re-centering

  Tuesday, October 4 th , 2011 12:47 a.m. (Day 2 was reading Phil Gordon's poker book.) My first thought when I sat down on the green-and-brown lacquere...

• October 5, 2011 90-Day Poker Challenge: Day 1. Rotten teeth and mental beats

  Day 1: Sunday, 3pm – 1am, October 2nd, 2011 *Note: if you don’t know poker terminology, this post does it’s best to ease you into the scene. But subse...