January never seems to be a good month for me in Poker. So far, I've had one abysmal live session where I lost about $240, and I'm down another $50 online from doing stupid stuff. On top of that, I'm wondering if maybe I've hit a plateau in my game and I'm at a level where maybe I was good enough to win a year ago, but that the game has intensified enough that I'm maybe only around break even now in some of the games (not live, but online).

So, I'm thinking of breaking down and doing two things I had previously said I wouldn't: join a training site, and get PokerTracker. Now, overall, I think the Poker world would be better for intelligent people if there were no training sites and no PokerTracker, but the fact is that all the really good players are using these tools, and many of the games are such now that I am at a disadvantage by abstaining from these things. Something to think about anyway.

I have a new computer now, and I'm happy to say it works well, and I preserved all the important things from my old machine. But now I have hardware that works a lot faster, and will hopefully help out a lot. Maybe it will even improve my Poker results.

So, the secret now is to balance my play. Online, I'm going to try and stick to $0.10/$0.25 PLO and cheap ($3 and $5 rebuys) NL tournies and satellites to hopefully run up a little money online. Live, I'm going to probably play more limit than I have previously, just to reduce variance. Last August, I was thinking of going for Supernova in 2009, but I don't think that volume is feasible given my school schedule for this year. But I'm hoping to find a little time to play this year, and who knows, maybe I'll finally win a donkament. I mean, if Ciso and ScanX can do it, how hard can it be? :P

get Holdem manager instead

its way way better tool atm

although if u gonna play PLO online u prolly need Pokertracker omaha