Introduction to the one, the only, whiteyslacks.

   Before I begin chronicling my mostly vertical journey through the micro and small stakes, I feel like I should tell everyone about myself and explain the reasons I have for making this blog.
   For the time being I'm going to refrain from using my name but my screen name on most  poker sites is whiteyslacks. Until recently I was grinding out a modest living playing $4/$11/$22 180 man, non turbo tournaments on PokerStars. I also played large field, mostly small buy-in mtts (multi-table tournaments) with the occasional Sunday majors thrown in. This has all changed recently since I was forced to switch backers due to liquidity issues on certain sites. The change has been great but the transition hurt the real life bankroll considerably. For this reason I have been playing 50NL cash and am in the process of moving to 100NL. I miss the tournies but my cash game is strong and the variance is not quite as soul-crushing.  The fact that non-turbos are filling very slowly these days due to the mass migration to turbos has also kept me on the 6m cash tables most days. I'll be talking about my progression through the various games in future posts but at this juncture I think it would be good to explain my motivations for writing about my personal grind.
   Mine is an essentially selfish desire for this blog: I want to get much, much better. By writing everyday about how I am struggling in certain areas (this does not mean bad beat stories) I believe I can inoculate myself against my own biases. It's my belief that these biases are what most frequently keep good players from becoming great players. Too often poker players convince themselves that they are much better than they are and thus lose the ability and/or desire to work on their games as diligently as they should. Poker, now more then ever, is constantly evolving. Any player with a static, or worse yet, absent approach to development, will be left telling bad beat stories to those who will listen as they look for real jobs.
   Secondly, I simply want to provide an accurate portrayal of a small stakes grind. PAD and HSP have introduced the world to the tiny segment of poker players which are the super high-stakes grinders. I'll be joining those guys in the nose-bleeds soon enough but, in the mean time, I'm going to show the world what a real grind is all about....
  
   In the next few days I'll be talking about the very interesting trip to Turning Stone for the PokerStars Empire State events and hopefully have some interesting spots in 100NL to throw out there. Good luck.


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