I am not sure why but today the poker games were just dogshit.  There were so many "reg" type players that I have never even seen infesting the games like mad today.  It was weird because usually there is about 3 regs on at any given time that I think are even remotely decent, but today every table had 6-7 guys playing 17/13 and aggro.  I cant tell you how many times I took a note saying "Called 3B and insta pot raise to 45bbs and fold to bet/shove."  

I really can't remember a time in the past 2 years that I have been this motivated to play poker.  I am not sure what it really is, but even having a damn near break even February, I still am really enjoying poker on some weird level.  Maybe it is because I had a break even February, lol.

I fell short on a my goals last week.  I didn't make $1000 and I was 1k hands or so short of my 25k goal.  I made around $800, and went to the gym 5 times.  I had a personal issue that distracted me, so considering that I'm fine with the result.  Last month I took a 9 day trip, so my month was cut really short.  I ended playing 70k hands and making ~$3400.  I'll take those results with a Hawaii vacation any day. 

I just bought "Treat your poker like a business" by Dusty Schmidt.  I've only read about 1/3 of it, but I like parts of it so far.  One interesting thing I found is that he doesn't look at his resukts or even his cashier window at all until the end of every month.  It's hard to be results oriented when you don't know the results.  I think I am too results oriented, so I'm going to stop looking at my results until the end of a given day.  I may eventually try it for a week and see how it goes.

I played today without looking at all, and I liked it.  I had to do fucking jury duty today, luckily I got dismissed from doing it.  But it still tied me up from 7 am to 1 pm.  Thankfully it wasn't the next 2 days as well.  I jumped right on the tables when I got done and had a nice start to march.  I logged 5k hands and made $340.  People were playing way too aggro today and trying to bluff me non stop.  Most hands turned up were laughable.  That was where the majority of my winnings came from.

Below will be my march goals.  I'm not going to make any goals for winnings.  It's just another way of being results oriented, and thinking too much about results is a big problem I have.  I know I'll be better off just trying to get in hours and staying focused.  If I do that things should work out well for me.

Goals:
-Log 20 hours of studying.  I really need to work on my game more and try to take it to the next level.  I plan to watch videos, do sweats, and analyze my play.  This is something I quit doing a while ago.

-Play 100k hands.  I have no excuse not to play this type of volume.  If I play the hands the results should take care of themself.

-Continue to go to the gym 5 days a week.

Hopefully I make all of these goals,

COUGFAN13

So I am a bit annoyed right now, I "upgraded" to Windows 7 Release Candidate(pretty much a trial version) last summer and its been telling me for about 14 days that I need to upgrade to a real version now that it is released.  This is totally fine as I have a free copy through a school website.  The only thing is until I went to do it today, I didn't realize theres a few problems.  First, you can't just enter the serial code to activate Windows like I thought you could, so what I thought would be a 5 minute process, isn't gonna be all that easy.  Then to complicate things even more, Microsoft doesn't want people upgrading from the trial version, they want you to do a clean installation.  This is a pain for obvious reasons, and I did a clean install in the summer, so I really don't want to do it again right now as you have to reinstall everything, Itunes, favorites, HEM, FTP etc.  Furthermore, the trial version is Windows Ultimate, and I have a copy of Windows Professional, and thats not allowed either as its a downgrade in their product line.

I swear in all the hundreds of thousands of hands of poker I have played online, I must be down money on weekend nights.  I don't know if its me trying to force too much shit vs them or what but its annoying.

I just watched another video and I am not sure how many of my opponents read this, if any, but I dont think writing about what I am doing wrong is gonna give anybody at 50NL any sort of advantage so here goes.

I played 4.1k hands yesterday and it just sucked pretty much all day.  I was back to stacking off in a couple stupid, stupid spots right at the beginning of my session and it just set the tone for the rest of the day.  On the month over 33k hands I am just a few buyins over break even and I know it isn't just running bad.

The last 2 days haven't been great, but I've made money both days so I can't complain.  Today I logged 5.6k hands and a late night session saved my day.  I made $155 including rakeback.  I was down for a lot of the day, so I'll take it.  Yesterday was a crazy roller coaster ride.  I got stuck 4.5 buy ins and grinded back to make a little profit.  I played 4.5k hands and made around $100 including rakeback.  The last two days have felt worse than they've actually been,  My mind has been else where and I've been losing focus, all things considered I'm fine with how things ended up.  

Today was the first day that I have played poker in what must be a couple weeks now that I didn't get in much volume.  I went to a career fair this afternoon, and that took up most of my day until after dinner.  I managed to play a bit under 2k hands though and even though I played really really nitty, and really really tight, I managed to make about $100 including rakeback.  I only went to showdown 13.2% lol, and my turn aggression was higher than my flop aggression, which is also odd. 

As promised I am updating the end of day results.  I ended up playing 3.6k hands today, 10-12 tabling, and after 3.3k of those hands being break-even, I finally put together some hands at the end of the night and ran well to finish up 3 about buyins on the day.  With rakeback included it was an $190 day which is a good bounce back after yesterdays bad results.