Motivated motivated, hell yeah im motivated

Or i was this weekend anyways. As i said here in another post, i bought a pimp laptop, but for some reason it doesnt pick up the internet at my house. So instead of figuring that out im staying lazy and using my old one until i move in another month or so. This combined with some other bs made me not motivated to play. Then i donated 2k to the live community, 400 for adult entertainment, a few more hundred that i didnt like having, and i came to the realization that i needed to get motivated.

So i had bought and installed HEM for my new laptop but gave in and put it on this old one too, hoping that would motivate me. Boy did it! Right off the bat i saw that i wasn't running as bad as i thought, but that my lower win rate was due to a major hole i had been falling back into. This leak is something that seems to work live, but just gets exploited to shit in the online arena. A friend of mine pointed it out, and i took a night to request most of my HH's from ftp and import them into HEM and sure enough, this number had dropped off and so had my win-rate. A weekend of focusing on plugging this leak and the results are already shining thru. 

I'm still not using a hud for a couple reasons. 1) this computer is dated and it goes slow enough when 12 tabling and browsing the internet. 2) i dont want to mess with my game until i have a good sample of hands in from stars and putting a hud up may mess me up. 

Overall, being accountable has really re-motivated me to put in some volume. And finding that leak as quick as i did has already paid dividends on the HEM investment. I honestly cant believe its taken me this long to start using a tracking software, and i will proly think the same thing when i start using the hud. 

For the serious poker player, it is essential to embrace something like this and recognize that we all have areas in our game we need to work on, and not to be scared or ashamed to recognize these areas. The numbers dont lie, and accountability will lead to victory at the tables

also just cuz its been to long......enjoy