[Doctavian]

Dear Vipon,

I am writing this post as a friend. First I should say that I maticulously monitor my game. But even that being the case, what in the world is it, with you and all of these stats!

Here are the stats that I keep.(I have been playing on a fairly regular basis for a decade)

1. Am I playing each day, at what is probaly the most productive game in the casino? I personaly prefer tables with lots of callers and few pre flop raisers. We all know this. But do we periodicaly get up and watch the other tables from afar to see if we should switch tables? If the action at our table slows, or the betting or raising tendencies (of the table that we are at changes) are we ready to switch tables. I have found that the table I play at is the most important factor in determening how much money I average making each day. BAR NONE!

2,. Question number two.

Have my calling requirements slipped. The biggest mistake, that most all players make, is to slip and play marginal hands out of position. My motto is that: It is easy to loose a rack of chips at holdem, but hard work to win one.
Two loose hands, played out of position (that end up getting dominated) can end up costing you 6 hours of work!


3. Am I putting in the extra hours of preperation needed, to keep myself competative?


Try this experiment. Get Sklansky and Millers book "Low limit holdem". Then get a tape recorder. (Soney has a nice one for $20.) Read the book outloud, and simultaniously tape it onto a set of casset tapes. When you are in your car, or when you work out, or what ever listen to that book on your recorder or Walkman. Listen to the entire audio book 7 times.

4. Then buy one of the computer simulated holdem games. And in your spare time play and hour or so each day against cyber opponents.

5. After doing each of the above mentioned exercises, set up a seperate Poker bank account. And keep a poker wallet in your car, to only store your poker money in. Each time you reach $1000 dollars in profits in your wallet, transfer half of the money into a seperate poker bank account.

6. Plan on going with a friend to Hawaii a year from now paid for with the money you won at Poker. DO NOT go to Aruba.

If you continue to generate less money than you feel that you deserve,continue to return to this forum. Bring all of the stats you want. There are many excellent poker minds here many much more giftyed than mine. And one way or another they WILL solve your problem for you.

May all of your flushes be straight, and may all of your houses be full!




Good luck and God bless,

Doctavian

PS. Another thing that I monitor is opponents game stratagies. When I leave the casino I pull out my tape recorder and dictate the weaknesses and strengths of one or more of the opponents that I competed against that day.

I would appreciate learning from some of the other forum members just what, are some of the different things are that they monitor about their games.