After doing loads of writing and staking during the past few months, the amount of poker that I have been playing has dropped through the floor. It seems like yesterday that I was playing $25-$50 NLHE last year and it also seems that the levels that I am playing at are dropping like a stone. I was having a discussion with a psychologist last week (informal) and he was telling me about how risk profiles alter as a person ages and how that affected attitude to risk.
I am starting to think now that I simply don’t have the stomach to play meaningful stakes anymore. However this does not mean that I am done with poker…..far from it. I have too much desire and love for the game. But it has got tougher over the past few years and the last year or so has seen the online middle limit levels become very tough. However I will be looking to start a new project this year and that will be to mass table NL50 (possibly NL100) with The Vulture system.
I started this nearly two years ago and was doing very well making about $25/hour on Cake Poker and this could be a great way to make money playing online poker. At NL50 then there are enough bad players at full-ring for a player to make money if they have a very strong default system in place and that system is conducive to mass tabling. I really don’t see why $100/hour cannot be achieved and this is something that I want to do towards the back end of the year.
I don’t think that I would need to use Poker Office (www.pokeroffice.com) at these levels even though doing so would increase bb/100. I think that there would be too much time lag to do this properly and there has to be a serious trade off somewhere. I am slogging away with my Poker Challenge where I am trying to turn $100 into ten large. I do love my challenges but this is one challenge that I will find very difficult simply due to the low stakes. You can follow my progress on this site so keep your eyes open and I am currently $36 ahead so far.
See you soon
Carl
