Solid Month

April was much better to me than February or March. I managed to get back into my winning ways, booking a five figure month. Granted, months are just arbitrary measures of time so poker results over that arbitrary amount of time shouldn't be extremely important. However, we have to keep track somehow and I like to keep track monthly. It gives me a clean slate to look forward to at the beginning of each month.

I have a lot of motivation moving forward. I outlined a few short-term goals in my last blog post and I really want to achieve those goals. It's not going to be a cakewalk either, as I'm going to have to play some pretty darn good poker in May.

I need to make sure that I continue to try and avoid lamenting about daily results. Being results orientated over such an extremely short term time frame is very destructive to my overall results. I will do my best to not even peek at the cashier or HEM $ won or lost stat until the end of the month. This is probably one of the worst habits an online poker player can get in to... if you are just starting out, do yourself a favor and don't look at the damn Cashier! lol

In other news, I have a lot of little things to take care of in my non-poker life over the next couple of days. I have to send in a big check to the IRS sometime before the 15th. Our county got a one month automatic extension on filing taxes due to the area being busy preventing flooding. So I'm going to go over to my accountant tomorrow and painfully write the check out. That's one thing that sucks about being a professional poker player... taxes are not automatically deducted from your paycheck like in normal jobs so you end up paying it out of your pocket in big chunks.

I also have to find another roommate for my house. It's a four bedroom house and only three of the bedrooms are being used right now. I don't really mind having only two roommates but a third roommate would be nice as far as splitting up bills. I took some pictures of the house today and I'll probably just post it on Facebook or something and give some of my friends first crack at it. It's a pretty nice house and I'll probably post the pics on here as well for everyone to see what it looks like.

I'm going to do my best to churn out a D2K newsletter tomorrow, as the week has flown by and I forgot to write one up earlier in the week. I'll likely continue with the new *Take a line series*. I'm probably going to outline a new OOP move that I was pleased to find one of my students discover by himself today during his lesson!

That's it for now. Everyone have a fun weekend.