Systematic Monkey Squashing

The reason I started this blog to begin with was to commit my thoughts to hard medium because that process helped me better understand, evaluate and improve my poker game. That's no long a useful thing for me to do.

For a variety of reasons, what's far more interesting to me now is systemizing the process of my developed strategy. After years of playing, talking, exercising and thinking about poker it's pretty easy to fall into a rhythm of using Poker-Speak to express a mixture of experience/feelings.

You see this if you read any poker forum -- even the good, helpful and serious ones. People use terms like LAG, min-raise, cold-call, over-call, squeeze play, second-hand-low, slow-play, block-bet, WA/WB. Each of these terms is part hard-definition and part connotation. I want to escape this. I want to unlearn these words, and come up with harder, numerical analysis of the experiences I'm drawing upon to make my decisions.

That's the new focus. It's time to be more systematic and analytical about our monkey squashing.