Feeling great about my play

The past few days have gone quite well and I'm gaining a lot more confidence in my play. I'm playing a lot more solid, sticking to 4 tables, and keeping my sessions to precisely two hours in duration. Also, not looking at daily results has allowed me to just relax when playing and focus on making the correct decisions. It's a lot more fun and relaxing playing poker when you aren't constantly obsessing about how much you are up or down on the session. I've known this for a while, but it seems like over time I begin to start peeking at my results during the session and it gradually gets worse and worse. I'll continue to avoid looking at my results until the month's end.

I've been giving a lot of lessons over this past week and I think they all have gone really well. I have picked up a few new students lately and they seem to have a ton of promise. I'm sure they will advance quickly through the ranks with my help. They seem to be very quick learners.

Giving lessons actually helps my game out as well, mainly because it forces me to explain the various reasons I would take a certain line in a hand. Also, the past few lessons were great because I actually ended up learning something from one of my students. He had a particular strategy that he employs vs. shortstackers and apparently he destroys those ratholing bastards. I tried the line he suggested a few times today and it worked every time.

In other news, the weather in North Dakota is FINALLY getting nice. It was 65 degrees F out today. The temperature was perfect, but it was a little bit windy out. I took the opportunity to go hit some golf balls on the driving range, which was a lot of fun