For A Better Tomorrow

I read a book recently that was very interesting and I sorta want to steal their idea.  In the book, they called Project H and I’m going to call it Project Poker.  I find it very interesting and I’m going to sorta use the same concepts in the book.  Who knows, maybe it’ll come out good in the end.

It’s been an interesting week but tonight I had one too many wine glasses.  Currently I am writing in this blog tipsy.  That’s the truth.  So excuse me for the typos please… 

I’ve been a little undisciplined lately in poker by not playing enough hours.  Tonight I partied enough to the point where I am willing to shut myself from the world to stay in my room and do nothing but play poker.  Yes, I am going to avoid answering my phone calls.  I hope to be able to complete 12 hours of poker a day from Friday to Sunday.  That’s the goal I’m going for, but I am happy with 8-10 hours…but ya know…we’ll see.

Project Robert:

My brother was the person who taught me all the strategies that he learned to play tournament poker and because of that, I became a sit N go and tournament specialist for an entire year.  I played nothing excepts SNGS and tournaments in 2005.  I took a few victories that year including the 10k buyin WSOP main event and $1,500 buyin smaller event.  I was proud back then and was happy to be able to attend those events.  Shortly after, I branched off on my own to study cash gaming while my brother insisted on trying to succeed in SNGS & Tournaments.  It was his choice and he has his reasoning to attack tournaments and avoid cash games.  I, however, felt that cash games is “where the money is”.  I honestly got sick and tired of gettin bad beat out of a tournament when I did nothing but played perfectly.  I got so fed up that I forced myself to play the cash game and “relearn the game”.  I was willing to relearn  the game and for that, I ended up succeeding.

Recently, I have decided to take up a student and do what ever it takes to make him succeed.   And that guy is my brother - the man who originally brought me into the tournament world, the man who showed me the ropes to take down a tournament.  He has only one weakness, and that is cash games…..Now that I have found the secret to taking down these middle stakes NL holdem games, I am now going to sit there and watch my brother as he tries to succeed in NL holdem middle stakes cash games.  I am going to try to make him a professional middle stakes player.

I can’t consider myself successful as everybody in the world considers success as happiness and not needing to work anymore.  Successs supposedly, is when you can retire completely rich.  Obviously I am not in a state where I can retire nor am I incredibly rich.  However, I find myself in the direction and am confident that this game can be taken down.  I only pray that the government does not take that right away from me and ban gambling on the internet in the United States.  I have studied way too much to finally I see results, I will be sadden if it gets taken away from me. 

Many of you may not understand the difficulties that I will be going through in order to train my brother.  I am going to be honest about something in my poker career.  I was taught to play poker by a man who is successful in tournaments, but was a complete failure in cash games.  Last year, I avoided cash games only because my brother told me he failed so many times and that he literally thought that there was no money in it.  I forced myself to betray that advice as I researched more in the poker world only to find that ALL PROFESSIONAL POKER PLAYERS succeeded in poker because of cash games.  Therefore, I went on my own only to attack the cash games on the internet.  My brother was iffy at first but he was still on my side, if I were to fail, he’d know that I learned my lesson just as he did.  Instead, I succeeded, and I now convinced him that there is possible success in the cash game world.  You can be a professional NL middle stakes poker player and still make more than any other job out there.  That Idea, caught his interest.  I told him, that if he wants to succeed, he must want it badly.  He must do what ever it takes to retrain himself to succeed.  He must do nothing except become one thing…disciplined.  In the end, he will realized that that is the way of life.

My brother was a gambler and a fish in the cash game world.  Many of you who read this may not understand the difference between cash games and tournaments.  Many professionals call people like my brother “tournament donkies”, and that they are capable of winning tournaments only to lose their winnnings to cash games successors.  I am going go turn that bullshit around and make my brother a tournament successor and a cash game winner.  That is my goal on top of my other goals in making more money in cash games.  It’s going to be very difficult, but I will remain as patient as possible to try to teach him how to succeed.  And trust my words, if I can teach him to succeed, I think I can teach anyone to succeed.  He will start playing in September 2006, and I will update in my blog his results on top of my results in the Poker word.

Project Poker:  I thought about something interesting especially since I have my own house.  I hope to be able to get new roommates that ONLY WANT TO STUDY POKER.  We will do nothing except talk about poker and it’s philosophy.  To be honest, I have many people in my mind that I wish to live here so we can discuss our only goal , and that is to succeed in one of the most difficult lifestyles existed on this planet.  I honestly want roommates that are only passionate about poker.  I will share my teachings with them and hope they will do the same with me.  I have two rooms opened after September, and if any of you wish to join in on this lifestyle, please feel free to contact me, and I will decide whether or not you will be capable of understanding the concept of game theory.  Don’t get smart with me as I can spot a lamer from a distance.  I will obviously get regular roommmates but I will be more favorable to roommates who wishes to succeed in poker.  Trust me, you will learn a lot by being in this house.