I started school on Monday and I can honestly say i've read more in the first 2 days then I did in my previous 4 years of college. In fact I don't think I opened up a text book the first go around. I'm excited about absorbing as much information on a daily basis as possible and staying ahead in every class and just absolutely crushing this time. I had a 1.8 gpa at my last university attended and I honestly believe I will get a 4.0 this semester. I am going to do everything in my power to do my absolute best. I am just trying to be a sponge in every class, and soaking up everything possible to better myself for the future. I think the same needs to be done with poker. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or seasoned pro.. you need to be a sponge and just walk around and soak up as much information as possible. Whether its forums, friends, coaching, videos, or just playing the game.. try to learn a few things each day and implement them into your game. This past Sunday session of mine was horrible. I honestly believed that I ran horrible and played to the best of my ability. The only thing is that I wrote down alot of my bustout hands so I could go back later and look at them when I wasnt playing multiple tables, or tilted , or win-tilted. After looking back at the hands later and thinking about the hands critically, I played them downright awful. I didn't run horrible after all, my mind was trying to tell me that I was to make me feel better but once you look at things later on you realize they aren't as they seem. I can't go back and change the mistake I made that cost me the tourney and potentially thousands of dollars, but I can correct that mistake and learn from it and hopefully advance as a player. I had a good week last week, I final tabled a bunch of tourneys and each tourney that I final tabled I went back in the next day and looked at everything and saw where I could have done something different/ better, I sent the hand history off to a few friends to critique and then started up my session. I highly recommend looking over previous hands before you start your next days session as opposed to after a session. Usually by the end of a session i'm too tilted/ high from the rush of going deep/ winning a tourney to really think clear and concise. The next day your mind has had a chance to reload and replenish that desire to get better. Thats all for now, I have school in 8 hours.

Also, I am taking Eng Comp this semester so expect my blogs to get exponentially better in the next few months.

- Doubles00ted