Sloe Times

I used to play a lot of cards as a kid. For all I know, it's how I learned to count and do math. Hanging at the house with nothing better to do? A game or ten of rummy, spades, hearts, may I, etc. The truly fun games though were the penny poker games. I should have seen the warning signs then but lets just say, I've had my gambling demons take me for a spin, fortunately I got past that point in my life with relatively few scrapes and now enjoy the finer aspects of playing poker. I used to only play when I could get to a casino (river boats for where I live) but that amounted to two or three times a year. About two months ago I discovered online poker rooms with the prompting of a friend who had come in from Canada to visit. Now I'm pretty regular on Paradise Poker and enjoy the mini-tournaments the most. Now that I've finally gotten used to not sitting across from my opponent physically where I can look him in the eye I've started to make back some of the money I donated during the first month or so. Anyway, I've started doing more strategy research to refine my game and happened to stumble across this blog, Internet Poker Grinder, that brings a different perspective to the game since I'm not sure I would every consider trying to make it my lively-hood. More power to him though and there's some useful advice and commentary there that got me to thinking.