BTW: Good work with the blog; I've read all your updates.

Jesse,

wtb

Thanks for the blog, I've enjoyed it.

You're in your second week in a planned 6. It looks like you're doing OK for $. How has the being your job changed how you look at playing? Your blog sounds upbeat; are you having some days where you say, "OMG, I have to go hang out with the degenerate losers, again?"

Also, your blog sounds like you're having some emotional highs and lows along the way. Do ou think you're close to the point where dropping 4 racks or making four racks will take a back seat to some internal metric about "I made zero mistakes, today?" It having some emotional skin in the game a requirement for enjoying it, versus being some mid-stakes poker zombie?

Do you have any thoughts about extending or curtailing your trial period at this point, or are you going to wait the full six weeks before making future plans?

Continued good luck,

Doug

If you factor in the time it takes to get a waitress to serve you, Bay and it's not close. Plus Bay has the $2.25 deli tacos that are excellent.

I've basically broke even this week, turning a small profit of about 400 bucks. Now honestly my life only costs about 600 dollars a week, so that's not really close to problem.

In general I've still been upbeat, although the past 3 days have been a bit of a drag. Garden City is doing flooring work and is therefore a Giant cluster, so I've had to play at Bay 101 every day. Variety is important, and I think Bay 101 is starting to wear on me.

I've also taken shots at 40/80 the past 2 days and lost 1900 dollars in about 4 hours of play. That was crappy....were it not for that shot, or even if those hands had happened at 20/40, I'd be in much better shape.

Making mistakes tilts me more than losing hands actually. I'm very close to the point where I can take a bet completely in stride, so long as I'm confident I played the hand perfectly. Unfortunately I still make lots of mistakes and therefore I often end up emotionally out of whack because of them.

I'm still planning to play out the full 6 weeks, although I have a pair of 5 day vacations I plan to take during the next month (I'll be in Reno the next 5 days, playing a lot of poker, and I'm also going water skiiing later this month). At this point, it's pretty hard to believe I'll be looking for a job at the end of this.

I think you have to have fun in the game. You cannot just sit there and watch every hand silently and, as you say, be a zombie. You've got to chat up the dealer, the tables, and get involved emotionally at least a little bit. If you don't it'll just turn into a job and you'll never enjoy it.

Lovin the blog!

Thanks and best of luck!

bump.

Hey Jesse, enjoying the blog as well, very entertaining.
Glad to hear that you're running so well, I hope it continues but as James warns, keep those eyes wide open.
Give'm hell bo-oy!

Jesse, a few Q's for you:

What differences have you found in playing in the daytime vs night time and which do you prefer?

Do you find that you have been enjoying the game overall?

Have you found a session length that you feel is optimum for you?

Move to Asia and play online, Jesse! That's to manage the time difference. 12-15 hrs difference to players in US, and about 7-8 hrs difference to players in Europe. So when you wake up on Sat morning to play, it's fishy Friday night in US.

Hope you remember me, we did a session review in the micros together. Good Luck!

The daytime games I have been playing in have been almost as good as the evening games. It's all about table selection at Bay 101, and if you know the lineups you can find the good game any time of day. I enjoy playing during the day MUCH more than playing at night.

Overall I have been enjoying playing quite a bit, still.

My optimal session length would be about 4 hours. However, this isn't really practical and i tend to play much longer than that.

haha yes we did

And no, I'm not moving to Asia....

Jesse, do you table change a lot? Seat change?

Also, are you supposed to tip brush or floor?

Interesting cause I feel the same. During the school year I often drop my daughter off at school ,get to the cardroom around 10 AM and play for about 4 hours. I feel like I am more focused on the game during the day. I get up around 7 am or so and maybe this is why. I dont really care to play really late into the wee hours but I am sure I will at some point.

Played yesterday morning and I actually got there at 9:30 AM and there were already 3 full 8/16 tables running. Around 11 they really start to fill up and you can Table select a lot better at this time which is important.

I do the same thing.Drop off the kids and get in a morning session while I'm fresh. There's plenty of degenerate gamblers like myself there at that time, but not too much trouble to get on a table.

can I ask, what is Bay 101? where issit?

It varies greatly. Today I played for 7 hours, table changed twice, and seat changed maybe 5 times. So I guess, yes....but I don't do it a lot "by local standards"

Yes I feel that I should. And no, I don't really that much.

i couldn't sleep once like 2 weeks ago and got to bay 101 at 6:30am. The game was sick good.

honestly man....

http://www.bay101.com/

Amen to dat brutha!

thanks. honestly man... I'm half way round the globe.

they don't have google in that half?

less strat posting and more blogging, imo

Yea Jesse, don't you know that most of the forum is living vicariuoslythrough your blog?

Fine. blog time.

Is this a daily thing or a weekly thing?

Was there a RSS feed button on the site?

What in the world has happened to our favorite pro?