Back To The Drawing Board

I have just come back from the regular Tuesday evening local tournament with a revelation.

Over the past month or so I have been completely humbled in just about every game that I have played and it has to go down as more than just being on tilt. I can't seem to get any good cards and if I do, I seem to get beat by weaker starting hands.

I guess this is luck, or the lack of it.

But what i am really starting to worry about is the fact that I am starting to play crap. I back down to re-raises every time, I am not concentrating on other players reactions or betting patterns, and I'm not being aggressive at all unless I happen to flop the nuts.

The fact of the matter is that I need to get back to basics. I need to get back to where I started going wrong and take it from there. I have to go back to the times when I was winning by being the best player at the table.

I have ordered Doyle Brunson's book "Super System" and I am going to read and re-read it before I play one more hand. I'm going to use the next few weeks getting back into my winning ways by learning more than I have done before and I simply must get back to playing smart poker so I can play my way out of this bad patch and continue towards our goal of becoming The Future Poker Star.