Dydens Limit
Introduction:
First, a little about me, I'm 32, from Gent, Belgium.
My current job is as a scaffolder, which is sometimes an awesome job, sometimes a shitty one. 
I'm usually home by 16:30'ish, giving me lots of free time to spend on poker and other hobbies.
The hobbies I spend the most time at lately, are gaming and poker. 
In the past, I used to play lots of sports, baseball I played the longest, for about 19 years. In between I also
played softball, squash and tabletennis. A knee injury that I really need get looked at stopped all sporting activities 3 years ago.
Since then I've ballooned, and now I'm a fat bastard. =D
I have always been a gamer, there was a pc at home since I was about 5. It was a tandy of some sort, that had 'games' like space invader.
As I grew up, pc's got stronger and the internet became more widely available.
The internet got bigger, one of the first online games I got hooked on bigtime was called Team Fortress Classic, a capture the flag game.
I played that game for a couple of years, steadily improving, and ended up as a good, but not great player.
After that came MMO's, I started with Everquest 2, and since I've played most of the new mmo's that came out except WoW.
One of my first loves was EVE Online, a game I still pay for, but don't play anymore (for the most part).
The game that got me intrested in EVE was called Planetarion, a webbrowser game that I gave way to much attention too.
I don't play online shooters anymore, but I still play the singleplayers campaigns for the most part.
Currently the game I play most often is called Navyfield, which is an online naval warfare game.
One of the forums I used to frequent, had a poker subforum. Poker was always something that intrigued me, but I didn't know the rules at all.
On the other hand, poker scared me, as it's labelled as gambling, fortunately, I was soon to learn differently.
Being bored one day, I was reading through that poker forum, and someone mentioned ps.com and free money. ♦
I came for a visit, read some basic articles on fixed limit, passed the quiz, created a new account on Titan and got the 50$.
This all happened late august '08.
Poker so far:
Played on the lowest limit available on Titan (I stuck to the basic SHC religiously), and started having my first little successes.
In september, I made 17$, playing .02/.04, but I noticed I got titled quite easily. In october, I tried my first steps on .05/.1 and did okay.
However, after a while, I was on permatilt pretty much and lost intrest. The reason I was tilting I was playing with scared money the whole time,
having a losing session was very hard to take. Also playing to many tables early on ment I couldn't think about decisions and felt I was making mistakes.
Early february, I was going over bookmarks, noticed ps.com and started reading the bronze articles, which lit a small fire under my willingness
to play poker again. Fired up Titan, and having read the articles (again), I joined a .10/.20 tables. Played 1 hand, won 9 cents and left while I was ahead.
Since that day, I've started playing poker again on a semi daily basis.
This is how I've been doing since I started playing, back in August.
This is across all limits (0.02/0.04;0.05/0.10 and 0.10/0.20)
February was kind to me, as you can see here, along with my stats on 0.10/0.20.
In march, I havn't played much. Partly due to work, partly due to Titan being retards.
When I chose Titan, one of the reasons for joining was that there was no time limit on clearing the 100$ bonus with the starting capital. Unfortunately, Titan changed their minds and decided that there was a 3 month time limit, meaning I won't clear any of the bonus.
With the new Titan Club thing, you can get some money, but you need to be a gold VIP member to have access to that. With the limited amount of hands I play, that's not going to happen. So the only option I have left is to get the necessary Titanpoints so I can withdraw my bankroll from Titan and move somewhere else.
Goals of this blog
I have noticed that things become more clear as I put my thoughts down on paper. Having other people read it (hopefully! ;)), will give other points of view as well, which is always helpful.
Pokergoals
* Mental:
- Never Tilting, no matter what happens.
- Understand the why's and how's of poker.
- Learn how to deal with the different player types in poker.
- Not playing scared, coming to grips with the ups and downs.
- Caring less about the $$, more about the process. The money will come if the process is good.
- Avoid playing tired, being aware that I'm losing concentration and quitting when it happens.
- Get rid of the 'wtf am I supposed to do now' feeling I get sometimes when there's a situation I'm not familiar with.
- Become better and guessing other players handranges.
* Practical
- Earn the necessary Titanpoints so I can remove my BR from Titan.
- Move up to $.25/$.50 when my BR hits 150$ (it's the next available limit on Titan).
- Keep posting hands in the handevaluation forum, replying to other peoples posts in that forum as well.
- Attend my first FL coaching. ♦
- Keep this blog up to date.
Leaks
- Folding hands in HU play: There are times when I know I'm beat, but I still call to see the showdown. Partly out of curiosity, partly because I don't want to admit defeat.
- Folding decent starting hands like QQ, JJ, AQ, AJ on a crappy flop.
- Not raising enough post-flop. If someone raises me postflop, and I have a good hand, but not the nuts, I'm quite shy about re-raising.
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I have, ofcourse, more leaks then this, but I don't know them yet. 
Current Bankroll
91.36$
Thanks for reading!
-Tom
