So in great form in my new blog, in my first day I played the grand total or zero hands of poker. 
See I don't play poker everyday, I'm not one of those sick grinders playing 16 hours a day getting $456000 rakeback every week.
I'm more of a person that likes to play good poker and improve my game so that one day....
One day Dwan will be folding to my 4-bet bluffs at $2000/$4000. 
But the reason I didn't play today was because I grinded out my university study. Today was linear algebra day. Oh yeah, I go to university, at Sydney, studying Aeronautical Engineering.
So I've got exams coming up, first one is next thursday, then three the week after. So it should be a fun few weeks. 
I'll have to see how much poker I can fit in but I daresay my updates over the next couple of weeks will be more university related than poker related.
BACK to poker now, my view on poker is a little different to many people out there. I feel that so many people have lost sight of the real reason they started playing poker. They didn't start playing so that they could get that rakeback payment at the end of the week. They didn't start playing so that they could food on the table next week. They started playing because they enjoyed it. They played it for fun and relaxation; an escape from the demands of life. And maybe the possibility of a big score.
I just feel that so many people have lost sight of this enjoyment and fun they had when they first started playing poker. And it's a terrible thing to lose, because poker has got to be the most enjoying card game to play. The desire to improve and to beat players that are better than you drive you to succeed.
You see many regulars posting on 2+2 telling people how sick of the grind they are. Why do it then? Everybody dreams of being a professional poker player so that they can live life without the restrictions of a boss and having to work 9-5.
I swear, the way some people talk about their poker career, they would get more value and sense of achievement out of working a 9-5. I just wonder why they are still grinding, when they hate it. And the money isn't great for low stakes grinders either.
This brings me to my next topic. I wonder how people that play 24+ tables enjoy the game. I did it for a period and hated every second of it. So, i stopped. When your playing that many tables you might as well be a computer system programmed to make the same desicion in the same scenario every single time you see it. Is that enjoyable? I say no.
The reason I play poker is for it's creativity and flair. Some of you might say that's lame, but in poker there are so many possibilites, it's endless. There is nothing more fun than when you have a metagame going on with some guy from bulgaria that you will never meet in your life. To me, that is incredible. Our lives are so intertwined but we will never actually have anything to do with eachother. You might flop the nuts against said player and check it down OOP to the river in order to get some payoff. Then next hand you might be able to fire out with the nuts... or maybe this time it will be a bluff. See what I mean, the possibilities are endless.
Poker is a game that will never be solved, for with every strategy a counter strategy can be created and for anyone that begs to differ, I say you have no imagination. There is always a way to beat a player. It's just about finding it.
My theory on progressing as a poker player has always been self learning. I have read a few articles and watched a few videos, but I never had the money to pay for top quaility information. So I would go out and play, and play, and play, and play until I figured out a small piece of information. And from there, I would start to improve. I'd keep playing and then I'd discover another little nugget of information. This is the way poker should be learnt. It can't be taught, it must be learned. Through personal experience we really don't forget, and the sense of personal satisfaction from solving a problem is hugely gratifying.
This is why I don't say I play BSS, because I've only ever read a few basic articles on BSS. While my style may be similar in some ways to BSS, it is completely my own style and I'm very proud of it. Many people don't like my strategy and I'm sure there will be many more people to come. But I believe that the individual style that I have created will be hugely beneficial to my poker career as a I move up through the stakes. I will be able to learn from the players there and adapt a superior strategy to beat their game. Then move up another level and adapt again.
I don't believe that poker is a game about getting better. It's a game of adaptation and being able to think on the fly. To solve a problem before you know what the problem truly is.
Poker is a game.
I could not emphasise this more. If your not enjoying it. Don't play!
It makes no sense to end up doing exactly what you started playing poker, to escape doing, i.e. grinding a job 9-5.
Poker shouldn't be a job, and with me it never will be.
With the hardships and problems in our modern world, we should be grateful for every thing we have. The opportuities we have. It really is a beautiful thing.
I'm not going to provide cliffs because this is one aspect of poker that I'm very passionate about and I wish everyone else would be too. At the very least I hope I have given you something to think about.
Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables
- Laggsy
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