Close call and January review
The official month end is tonite at 9 pm so I figure I will blog before I get started for the evening.
Before I do the review I have to write about a really close call I had this morning on my way home from work. Before I had left my relief had warned me that the side roads in town were very icy. But by the time I had gotten to my turnoff south of town I was in my own little world. Ironically, I was recounting some of the timeline of events in my life over the past 20 years or so from my early 20's on and thinking about how I had gotten to where I was today. I was in a good mood just kinda zoning out thinking about this stuff and in autopilot driving along when i came to my exit. As I was making what is usually a pretty standard merge onto the side road from the highway at about 35-40mph I hit a major ice patch and lost complete control of the truck. It's amazing how fast the adreniline kicks in because I was instantly aware of the total lack of control I had as I slid across into the oncoming lanes. I was also instantly aware that by the grace of God there was not any traffic coming my way even at this early part of rush hour. I fishtailed a couple wags going in the wrong direction but was able to regain control, basically by letting go of everything and letting the truck find itself. That is pretty much the only way on ice. Feet and hands off everything for a second and then hopefully straight. At least I think thats how I managed. Instincts take over there and thankfully I have quite a bit of experience in the snow and ice. But in that truck it is definately scary. Once I regained control I realized how fortunate I had been. At that speed a head-on collision is extremely serious if not deadly. I am very lucky!! I had been thinking about alot of things in the past last night including the possibility of our ancestors watching us as we live our lives. I wonder what they thought there or if they had any hand in the outcome? A message perhaps? I try to keep the metaphysical musings to a minimum as I live my life but sometimes I cannot help but wonder...
Pokerwise, January was a watershed month for me. If what has happened since the 2nd of January when I lost $600 continues then I will have truly taken that next step forward. Since the 2nd including the value of fpps and cash won directly I was up over $3000. January was far and away my most successful month ever on many levels. Taking just cash won on the month as a whole including the 2nd I was still up over $1700. Going forward I am looking to have another strong month in February and a consolidation of my progress as I continue to tinker with my game. I continue to open up my preflop play and it is my hope that this will lead to further gains going forward. As I have studied some of the data collected on Pokertracker, I have come to realize that to become a bigger winner I need to utilize my very aggressive postflop play by mixing up my preflop play more. I have been among the most tight and passive preflop regulars on Stars 100nl. I will be continuing to work on that in the future.
Earlier in the month I had finally made my Dec first cashout 40 days late. I had stated that I had a shot at making my Feb 1st deadline ontime if I continued to run well. As of tonite I am just short of making it with a br of about $2370. Because I am late anyway I plan on waiting now to cashout until probably at least $2600. Which still leaves me a bit short. We shall see. Last time I got close I hit a bit of a mental wall near the cashout amount before blowing thru it during this January runup.
Before I do the review I have to write about a really close call I had this morning on my way home from work. Before I had left my relief had warned me that the side roads in town were very icy. But by the time I had gotten to my turnoff south of town I was in my own little world. Ironically, I was recounting some of the timeline of events in my life over the past 20 years or so from my early 20's on and thinking about how I had gotten to where I was today. I was in a good mood just kinda zoning out thinking about this stuff and in autopilot driving along when i came to my exit. As I was making what is usually a pretty standard merge onto the side road from the highway at about 35-40mph I hit a major ice patch and lost complete control of the truck. It's amazing how fast the adreniline kicks in because I was instantly aware of the total lack of control I had as I slid across into the oncoming lanes. I was also instantly aware that by the grace of God there was not any traffic coming my way even at this early part of rush hour. I fishtailed a couple wags going in the wrong direction but was able to regain control, basically by letting go of everything and letting the truck find itself. That is pretty much the only way on ice. Feet and hands off everything for a second and then hopefully straight. At least I think thats how I managed. Instincts take over there and thankfully I have quite a bit of experience in the snow and ice. But in that truck it is definately scary. Once I regained control I realized how fortunate I had been. At that speed a head-on collision is extremely serious if not deadly. I am very lucky!! I had been thinking about alot of things in the past last night including the possibility of our ancestors watching us as we live our lives. I wonder what they thought there or if they had any hand in the outcome? A message perhaps? I try to keep the metaphysical musings to a minimum as I live my life but sometimes I cannot help but wonder...
Pokerwise, January was a watershed month for me. If what has happened since the 2nd of January when I lost $600 continues then I will have truly taken that next step forward. Since the 2nd including the value of fpps and cash won directly I was up over $3000. January was far and away my most successful month ever on many levels. Taking just cash won on the month as a whole including the 2nd I was still up over $1700. Going forward I am looking to have another strong month in February and a consolidation of my progress as I continue to tinker with my game. I continue to open up my preflop play and it is my hope that this will lead to further gains going forward. As I have studied some of the data collected on Pokertracker, I have come to realize that to become a bigger winner I need to utilize my very aggressive postflop play by mixing up my preflop play more. I have been among the most tight and passive preflop regulars on Stars 100nl. I will be continuing to work on that in the future.
Earlier in the month I had finally made my Dec first cashout 40 days late. I had stated that I had a shot at making my Feb 1st deadline ontime if I continued to run well. As of tonite I am just short of making it with a br of about $2370. Because I am late anyway I plan on waiting now to cashout until probably at least $2600. Which still leaves me a bit short. We shall see. Last time I got close I hit a bit of a mental wall near the cashout amount before blowing thru it during this January runup.
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