I read this week of even more cheating scandals regarding online poker but to me this is getting pretty boring. It’s a bit like hearing about celebrities in the newspapers and who they are going out with and who they are having affairs with……pretty mind numbing at the start and never mind after a while. Online poker cheating scandals may have been interesting at the start but not anymore.
So accept it and get over it and move on. Cheats always flock to poker simply because there is money in it. But let me tell you this, if anyone needs to cheat to beat low-stakes poker then they must be pretty crap at poker because it isn’t hard to beat this games. So what has been happening with my poker challenge?
Well I am still spewing money like I have done from the start but my bankroll now stands at $293 from the original $100 so I am making steady progress. I reckon if only I could start to show more discipline then I could really start to pull away but I reckon that this isn’t going to start until I hit the NL50-NL100 levels. Still feels weird without the Poker Office HUD turned on but it’s just a case of adapting. The games are easy to beat if you can just stay disciplined.
The road testing is almost at an end with The Vulture and everything has been going very well and the Jackal has also got away to a very good start. But this basically mirrors what financial traders do. If you can select good entry and exit points and then exercise sound bankroll management and risk control and with discipline thrown in then you are going to make money in poker and it isn’t rocket science. This is why the players who cheat at low-stakes levels simply do not need to.
I will try and keep the reports coming regarding the challenge and the road testing of my poker systems but with the WSOP being in full-flow and the World Cup just around the corner then life is going to be tough.
Carl “The Dean” Sampson can be contacted regarding his poker coaching and poker systems at Carl@pokerquest.f9.co.uk
