Finally finished SSHE

Well I’ve finished reading through SSHE for the first many (many, many, many) times today. An WOW was it great. Is so good I can’t even begin to explain. Everything is explained so deeply. I noticed allot of times I would read something and understand the concept (well, understand as much as I am able at my level) but then I would notice something more subtle about it, like a word or two that can throw the concept I just learned out the window. It is kind of hard to explain what I'm trying to get at but, I'm sure if you have read the book you know what I'm talking about. I think this is part of the reason why the book is so deep though. I'm glad I read the way I do… very slooooow and deliberate, but even with this being the case I'm sure I will go out there and play like a donkey and then wonder why SSHE gives such horrible advice! It was funny I told wade that I was almost done the other day and he was like “great!, you don’t understand anything your read though!” I nodded my head and agreed with him oddly enough. It was kind of a weird thing for me to do actually. Humility is something I have always had an issue with and I know (I’ve heard it over and over again) that I WILL NOT succeed as a poker player unless I can become humble. I have to admit that this subject has been the hardest thing for me since wade told me this for the very first time. I have to give him a lot of credit. My life has changed for the better since I’ve started playing poker and a lot of it is me taking a more humble and open minded perspective on things. Now, I don’t want to tell you that I'm still not closed minded about lots of things but I'm taking baby steps here and others in my life have noticed. My girl friend for instance told me the other day that she is enjoying the time we spend together more. I don’t mean to get off subject but I think I owe a lot of that to poker, and the people who have helped me change my attitude.

Anyway, the main reason why I was able finish SSHE was because my family and I went up into nowheresville Wisconsin to meet up with my mom’s family. Needless to say, ( I hate when people use that phrase) I had quite a bit of free time. My brother asked me the questions in the back of the book and he was so funny. He is ten by the way. He’s like “what hands are the little suited broadway’s?” I would answer him and he would be like “well not exactly, you didn’t say it in the right order” I couldn’t help but laugh.

I’ve played my fist 100 hands (well 98 actually) and have made a total profit of -.02 cents! (damn rake!) lol. The link I gave in that post wasn’t kidding though. There is soooo much stuff to look at in only 100 hands. For example, I’ve hit bottom set on a 3 suited flop, Hit and ace with AK and then proceeded to lose to A3 when the turn came, I even had a hand (that I have yet to analyze) that the villain was a nutcase and I would have called him on the river with ace high but instead had to fold (I hope??) because of one other player that was behind me. I still need to do the math on the 3 suited flop hand and the A high hand. Most likely I played the latter hand wrong but I'm learning (I probably played a lot more than that wrong). I was talking to wade on AIM as I play that hand. I was like “AWW CRAP, I just read the over call section but don’t know what I'm supposed to do”. He just laughed. Anyway I don’t mean to ramble but I'm sticking to my word. I'm going to review all these hands to the best of my ability and not play anymore until then. I have yet to go reading/posting on 2+2 for an hour but that’s ok. I will also do that before I play again. I may have said this already but I'm not going to require myself to do a certain amount of work in a certain amount of time, as long as I stick to doing the work before I play again. I'm LEARNING SOOO MUCH RIGHT NOW. I absolutely love it.

P.S. TOP, here i come!

-David