CARDRUNNERS

What's Your Edge

SixPeppers Sanctuary

December 30, 2007

Someone asked me what my new years resolution was, and I realized I haven't put much thought into it. My goals are certaintly changing quickly. After finding a few months of rapid success, I thought my goals would be to work my ass of to be the best and wealthiest poker player that I can be. Now, I just want to be financially secure, and have fun while travelling around and playing poker, and of course working for CardRunners. I am looking to move up in the stakes, but for now, I plan to stay in the midstakes for a long while, and eventually work hard to become better. I am quite happy with $200/hr, and I want to work the low variance route until I have my "back-up plans" in tact.

My back up plan's mean: money in the stock market, starting a retirement fund, 10k in cash in my safe, and 10k in my bank account. I think I can accomplish this pretty fast now that I am out of college. Financially I am shooting for 300k, which I think is a bit low, but with the variance I seem to always hit, who knows. A car and boat are absolute goals of mine. I wish I could believe I could own both by June, in time for wakeboarding, but I'm really not sure about that. I should have both by December no problem. Owning a boat while being in Vegas would be off the hook, but obviously I need a car first, to tow it.

Lately my blog posts have been subpar, my most important resolution is to improve my blog quality. I could easily do a daily or bidaily update, with hand histories, pics, and more exciting personal life stuff, but I have just been less motivated in posting here, and more motivated in playing (because I am in a tense downswing). Once I am back on top I will certainly post frequently.

For CR, my work goals are: Getting in touch with marketing people from casino's. Making a CR pamphlet, which will sit on the magazine rack next to CardPlayer in local casino's, help host CR get togethers in LA and Vegas, and most importantly, to truly become one of the team and be excepted as a coworker by "the greats" (Taylor Andrew Ezra Brian Brian CTS and Mike).

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Dec 31, 07 03:20:36

I always wondered that if you guys make CR very popular, then every1 will improve so much that only few top players will rake in the profit. But I guess there always be people who will play poker for fun and just to gamble. What do you think?

maslalo

Dec 31, 07 12:07:15

Yes, that is the debate, but there are just too many people with regular jobs that can't dedicate endless hours to the study like me and many others, thats where our edge will always be. Frequent play and updating strategies is necessary for continued success and there will always be at least 55% of people not doing that. However, the games will likely always continue to get tougher (except when the US allows online gaming, there will be huge \$\$\$\$ and I will be rich and celebrate with lavish parties)

SixPeppers