Fixing some leaks.

I think one of my main weaknesses as a poker player and as a person in general is my over-confidence/arrogance. I'm certainly not a modest person and i also think i am realistic about my skills across the board; i am however a very gifted poker player or to be more exact a great NLH tournament player. The problem with this attitude is that sometimes it makes it hard to look at my game and analyse the weak elements of it, especially when running good and making plenty of cash.
Carrying on from my last blog things haven't been going great but i do feel that i've been able to make a few adjustments to my play that have already swung me in the right direction (cashed in 4 from the last 6 comps). The main problem was that i was simply busting to early in a lot of tournies and really not giving myself a shot. The main skill element comes deep in the tournies when applying a lot of pressure and essentially knowing when to gamble and obviously start 3 betting all in with utter filth etc. To be able to do this however you have to get there first and i certainly recognised that i was making a few to many plays early and maybe hitting the gamble button to soon. Obviously i was running quite bad which sometimes makes me want to gamble but i really should be trying to avoid getting it all in pre in the first few levels in a coin flip situation when there are so many easy double ups out there. The truth is that anyone who plays a lot of MTT's will agree that there is simply no point playing fast early on because there are so many morons out there just waiting to give it all away.
I also found that to a large extent my concentration levels were at an all time low, either i was bored, simply not paying any attention or watching tv and although playing an auto pilot stratergy is easy its certainly not the most profitable, especially when you get deep.
So anyway i'm trying to improve and am sure that a $5K payday will pop up soon. Until then i'm happy in my own head trying to make as many good decisions as i can and trying to ignore the results (some of the beats have just been disgusting).
In other non poker related shit; first i've been a lazy fucker recently very little gym or pool action and i did 100 lengths today which is standard and nearly drowned!! Sports betting is going as well as ever, lol, had $50 on Murray to win the US open at 15/1 gg me. I also put a massive $600 bet on the womens semi-finals, woooooooooops!! never betting on that retard dementieva again! Also my cheeky bet on spurs to make the top 4 is looking fantastic, the usual strong start to the season as we'll no doubt float around in the relegation zone for 3 months and then start playing sometime in 2009, the pain of being a spurs fan is just sick!
I'm half way through Harry Potter 5 which so far is quite slow but i'm still enjoying it and am proud to say that for once in my life i'm going to achieve something that i set out to do. On the music front i'm getting more and more into kings of leon, i've always liked them but they just have so many great songs and the songs i've heard from the new album are quality. On the golf front i'm shitting myself. Looks like i might not get a game in before oakhampton and despite showing signs of promise last time i played i'm nowhere near ready to compete with some of the guys and would be more than happy to go down there play ok and not finish last.
Finally i saw the full line up for the wsop final table and i hadn't realised that i played a lot of poker with 3 of the guys on the final. The American chess prodigy with the jewish name is actually the guy i ran the huge bluff on on a J J 7 flop for all the tea in china, glad to see he put my chips to good use. I'm not sure he has the game to win it but he will certainly be a threat and he was a fan of the pinkheadband so i'm behind him 100%. Its now 5am so better go to sleep £180 sat to the WSOPE event 1 tomo at gutshot which would be nice to win, gotta start running good again soon.