Feels Good to be Home - Poker4ever Home

It's been said so many times "the grass isn't always greener on the other side". Like an adolescent teenager (which I'm not, well a teenager anyway) I decided that I knew best and it was time to leave home.

When I say leave home, I mean leaving Poker4ever. I've been playing poker at this site for most of the year and with great results. I knew nearly every player, they knew me and I felt that none of them were particularly hard to play against. I went from NL50 (25c/50c games) right through to NL400 ($2/$4 games) in just a few months. I grew my bankroll from hundreds to five figures again within just a few short months.

So why leave? Well like most men throughout history with any sort of ego to take care of, I just wanted more. More games to choose from, more opponents to work out, more recognition by getting to the top of table ratings (table ratings ranks the top players at any level on a few of the biggest networks online which Poker4ever is not one of), more money, just more god damn it!

Well more is exactly what I got but not for the good. I ended up with more variance, more frustration, more learning curves, more tilting and less, much less money. You see the truth is that I wasn't as good as I thought I was, which has become a pattern if you've been following this blog. Like a whipped dog, I retreated, bruised and beaten, humbled to say the least. My poker game was clearly far from great and I realised what had been carrying me for so long is the fact that on Poker4ever, the opposition is simply worse.

After managing to only churn out a tiny profit I decided to in list the help of some professionals. I was coached, trained, mentored and chiseled into a one man killing machine (OK killing machine may sound a little extreme but it's my story!). I look at the game through new eyes, think about the game on another level and feel as if I have an all new edge. Armed to the teeth with an array of new plays and lethal moves, I've decided to go back home where I fully intend to unleash hell .

The graph above shows my first 6500 hands played and the smooth accumulation of money (except for the first 1500 hands where I experimented with a little head up play) since being back at Poker4 ever. There is far less variance in these games mainly due to the lack of skill from my opposition, once again inflating my ego to rock star status.

In conclusion I find myself asking one simple question "Is it better to be the Great White in a small pond or a Dog Fish in the Ocean?"

As always

Good luck at the tables.

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