How good am I????

How good am I? I think that’s something every poker player in the world wants to know. Let’s analyze the data and see… I have read all the major and well respected poker books ( several times for some of them ). I might have missed a few..but the total is probably 15 books or so. I have watched and still continue to watch the high stakes table play and try to learn from their play. When I plan to move up a level I scope out the tables at the new level and watch the play for a few days and take notes on some of the notable players (both good and bad players) so I don’t go in completely cold. I have analyzed some of my hand histories to try and figure out if I made a huge blunder that caused a loss (or a lucky win). I practice good bankroll management and stay away from games above my BR level and I quit playing when I am tired or tilting. It’s pretty easy to stand here and puff out my chest and say I am a good poker player. Heck my literary resume looks pretty good and I can talk a good game. Well I am old enough now that I don’t play the dick measuring ego game anymore… I suck… I do really well at Double or nothing SNG’s and that is where almost all my profits come from. I am a total cash game donkey.. my ONLY chance to book is win is to quit immediately once I make a nice score. The longer I play a cash game the more certain it is that I am going to dump my buy-in right back. I do o.k. at MTT tourneys as far as cashing. My problem is that I ALWAYS want to cash and I never accumulate a ton of chips unless I happen to go on a heater. In MTT’s I tend to be an average or less than average stack most of the tourney and end up with a minor cash after several hours of play. I just don’t like to gamble enough to build a nice stack in a tourney. I only play NL holdem. I have dabbled in Badugi in the past very little but other than freerolls and have never played anything for money other than NL holdem. I can’t multitable for shit either.. I have tried.. 2 tables no sweat…3 tables not a problem.. 4 tables..if I start all 4 about the same time then I have issues in the endgame of a SNG. More than 4 and forget it…I start making too many mistakes at that point. Lets face it.. I suck at poker overall. It took some time to figure out I suck and some of the reasoning as to why. My only saving grace is that I am getting better at staying away from the things I bleed in for now so I can continue to build a new bankroll. I know I can get better at the cash games, MTT & other variations of poker, but it’s going to take some time and effort.. Right now I don’t have either the time or the bankroll to do that so it looks like I am going to be mainly a DoN player for the time being. Maybe some day in the distant future I can honestly say I am a good poker player, but for now… I suck! LOL

How good are you?

Until next time..
Dave

BR $66