Yep, i'm *finally* getting time to play poker. I made a promise to myself to keep honing my poker skills, and finally got to play some $2-4 and $3-6 tonight. My plan is to play 2-4,3-6, and 5-10 until I have a big enough roll for $15-30. Unfortunately, I can't play 40 hours a week and get thousands of hands in, but I will be multi tabling when I can. I really spent alot of time thinking about poker away from the tables, and figured out some key things to truly beat it, and the guy from http://zbasic.com/pokerblog.html kind of reinforced how I've always felt. Game texture is probably the biggest thing to determine if you walk away winner or loser,... I truly believe that. How good you are is relative, what really matters is how bad *they* are.

I play less often now, but I'm definitely more serious about it. Some new "disciplines" i've applied to my game are.

1. Always play in great games, not "ok" games, or tight games.
2. Learn to make better folds where it's kind of obvious i'm beat. Barry Greenstein makes a point in his book that people call too often in spots when it's blatant as day obvious you have a worse hand.

There's a few more I might add later, but for now I have to sleep, my roommates probably don't want to hear my keyboard.