Honestly I was not sure where to start this thread.  I could have easily placed it in the goals section, but I think this will be fine.

A quick bit about me.  I have just come back from a long break, my mum played playmoney poker online.  When she passed it was pretty hard to carry on with my hobby.  But eventually I stopped caring that she had died and was able to play again.  I know that might sound very harsh, she was my best friend for 50 years, so maybe compared to a lot of people I still care. But everything is relative, and compared to how I was a year or so ago… I do not care… as much

Tip number 1. 

If something is stopping you from enjoying playing, wait until you do not care.

I have restarted by playing freerolls mostly.  They are fun, and as I write this I have just woke up after being knocked out of the $33 ($300k guaranteed) WPT 3 day event… at pretty much the end of day one.  I freerolled the ticket through sattys.  I got knocked out because AJo called my AKs.  The best player won.  His stack was about 100bb, mine was closer to 10bb.  I just did my own thing, made a ton of errors, and as such I pretty much maintained my stack for about 5 hours or so.  Now I can not say for certain the other guy was better than me, but it is my first week back and he would have had to be the luckiest player in the world to be worse than me with that stack.

Tip number 2.

If you lose a tournament to a worse hand, you need to get better at poker.

In the meantime I will continue bashing the freerolls and micros.  The micros are of course being played with their money, not mine.  I like to focus my time on what my strengths are.  I am a bankroll nit that likes learning, so I should be a great bankroll nit that learns a lot.  I am not really into stats any more, I know that a lot of players are and I know some players will spend all day and night looking at stats of their own game.  I have done that, I did not enjoy that, I just enjoy learning in my own way.  When I think back all those decades to when I was in school I am sure I learned more from the teachers that I enjoyed being in class with… mainly because I didn’t even go to classes I did not like.

Tip number 3.

Learn in a way you enjoy, there is truly no other way.

I suppose I should add how much I have earned in this first week back, I am not totally sure… I am a bankroll nit but not possessed by decimal points.  I guess it is around $20 in cash and around the same again in tickets still to be used.  I intend to update this thread with more of my mental thoughts as time goes on. 

Total profits this week, I dunno, about $40 in cash and tickets is a rough guess.