
Because of the downswing its re-ignited my desire to improve my game. I recently thought it was mainly post flop but I found some leaks in my preflop game in the last week which I want to get sorted too. I can accept now that I only know the very basics of NL holdem. Things like pre-flop raising ranges, 3betting ranges, value betting ranges, id be lying if I said I fully understood implied odds, reverse implied odds, and even pot odds to a certain extent. That said I have a decent grounding in a lot of stuff and I know instinctively the right thing to do just from reading so many theory posts on forums and websites. The problem is that I have never really sat back and thought why am I doing this? What does it achieve? I just know its the right thing to do and up until now I was happy enough with that. Well not anymore, its wrong that I am just playing like I play cause someone says that's what I should do. I should think about what they are saying and try to understand why they are saying it. No more playing on auto pilot. I'm gonna start reading again and watching training videos, review my play and post up some hands. Also im only going to play two tables at 50NL and think through every decision I am making until I can see an marked improvement in my though process when im playing. Its time to start taking poker a bit more seriously as I invest a lot of time into it. This thread
"http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/poker-beats-brags-variance/brag-really-beating-6-max-1000-nl-games-655028/"
made me realise a lot of things and showed me what can be achieved when someone puts their mind to something.
So here's the plan. Watch training videos and get coaching, read theory posts and actually think about them. Think about my decisions more. Will most likely be a losing month but i wont be bothered if i can implement all of this instead.

