I just realized it's been more than three months since I updated here.

Here're the games I can remember:
[Out the mountain +40]
An eighty-three dollar loss.
A one hundred dollar win.
A one hundred forty dollar win (Technically 150, but I tipped 10).
A sixty-seven dollar loss.
A fifty dollar loss.
[Aaron's +175]
A one hundred seventy dollar win.
A ten dollar win.
A five dollar loss.
[Game room +70]
A seventy dollar win.
[Amvets +17]
A seventeen dollar win.
[Monty's -15]
A forty dollar loss.
A twenty-five dollar win.

There may have been a few small games that I forgot, and we'll say I lost a total of twenty dollars at those, just for the sake of argument. [-20]

So that's about a plus 255 for the last three months. It's been fun. It doesn't play as well as real work, but it's also not costing me any money. I've heard concerns from home that I am a gambling addict because I like to play poker, but I am quite sure I have spent less hours on poker in the last three months (about forty hours) than most people have wasted more than me watching television, and I have a good deal more to show for it.

I'd like to post a bit of wisdom here since it's been so long since I've played, but really I've learned very little new. I played for about six hours last night, and lost five dollars, and all I learned uis that it's tough to make much ground with bad cards and I was too drunk to squeeze exra dollars out of the good ones. There was so much money flying around, and I had a -60 swing and a +70 swing, that I was happy to get out with my skin by the time it was over.ay that I thought [out the mountain] was a real honey-hole and it is for at least one guy you know, but fifty dollar tournaments cause some buig swings that I most often just don't have the bank roll for. I can;t go up there three weeks in a row and not win without feeling really bad about myself. What makes it especially tougher, is that despite my best efforts I can't establish a dedicated bankroll, so a couple of thirty or forty or fifty dollar losses strung togther feels a lot tougher than a couple susbtantial wins in a row feels good. Oh well, as I see it most decent poker players have a lot of self-doubt, and most of the bad ones are always confident. That's why I like to keep track. The hard numbers are comforting.