I Am A Work In Progress

Been playing a LOT of hands the past few days. I'm doing ok (results wise) but that's kind of a secondary concern right at the moment. What I'm more focused on is learning and improving and tightening up my game. If I can make some money while I do it, that's great, but I'm trying to build a base of solid play to work from long term.

TwoPlusTwo has a great thread that someone has compiled in their micro stakes no limit forum (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=98125) for people like me, trying to learn the fundamentals of the game.

I've also been getting a lot of help from more experienced players (specifically Simo8Ball from FCP). I can't say enough about how much these resources have been and will continue to be helpful to my game.

As much as sometimes we might think that we have things figure out - in poker, I don't think that's ever the case. I read a good passage somewhere yesterday that said (and I'm only paraphrasing here)"Poker as a game isn't played inside a box. The sooner you realize that and begin to think outside of that box, the better off you'll be).

In the past couple days working with Simo, and reading a ton, I think we've identified a few areas that I need to work on. I greatly improved my preflop play today - I was limping too much the past little bit - today I played 18/16. Much better than 21/5 imo.

Simo and I talked a bit today about bet sizing on the later streets. I've pretty much just been mashing the pot button on my bets post flop (Pot Limit Omaha experience probably to blame for that tendancy). The more ideal line seems to be to bet between 70-85% of the pot size. We'll give that a try tonight and see how things go from there. (then I'm sure Mark will find some other flaw in the game to work on, and we'll tweak that too...and on, and on...)