Winning money? At poker?!

Made a return to the tables this weekend… I’m determined to earn enough Full Tilt points for the ridiculously pimp velour bathrobe before I move back over to playing at iPoker next month. It should only take a few thousand more hands.

I've played around 6-7 hours of $200nl since returning from Vegas. I'm up around $2.5k... which is nice.

Been doing a lot of thinking about my game recently and realised a couple of things:

I play badly away from my desk
When I was in Vegas there were a lot of distractions for me to play badly... beer, people around, playing from the swimming pool lol. I've also got to try to 4-6 table on the laptop screen rather than the 24", which sucks. Another factor might be the pressure to perform in a short period of time, could cause me to force more hands than I should, removing myself from the flow of the table.

So for whatever reason when away from home I don't play all that well. It definately affects my game, now I'm back I feel a lot more calm and comfortable with my play.

I'm not too hot postflop
I've been opening or playing too many spots preflop where I don't have the postflop skills to be +EV. I wanted to open up my game and get looser but now I have I really don't think it's neccesary to crush MSNL. I'm going to tighten my game back up a bit to a 21/17 kind of style and focus all of my efforts on postflop play.

To quote BTimm...
"The better we get postflop, the looser we can get preflop, as postflop skills is what allows the aejones of the world to be so loose preflop."

GL at the tables