What a hectic time... -- Bill Vosti

Hey guys,

The last couple weeks have been pretty crazy.   I’ve moved out of my apartment in Los Angeles, and am currently at my Mom’s house until I leave for Australia on March 1st for three months.

The release of the book went very well.   There’s been some very positive feedback from the early readers and I couldn’t be more happy about it.   Regardless of how many times my friends and family told me how good the book was, I was still very anxious to see how the actual customers would like it, and so far I think many of them are getting a lot out of the book.

I’m happy my approach to the book worked; I wanted to write down every fundamental concept I felt was needed to beat the NLHE 6-max games, and present it in a matter-of-fact conversational tone that even my Mom could understand.   I really felt when writing that if someone understood all these concepts, they’d be able to beat pretty much any limit online.   And I think I accomplished that.

It’s still tough though – people look at an e-book a little skeptically and many aren’t willing to give it a try.   Also, Harrington is releasing two cash game books these next couple weeks – they will be good for sure, but in no way can educate someone more on how to beat the online games then my book.   No book really is aimed at online, and it’s a very different game.

I think in the next few years you will see more and more poker books/e-books from young players breeded online.   There are so many sick good online players who are very intelligent and have such an amazing fundamental understanding of the game since they have played millions of hands and studied the game immensely with the software available to us.  

Without books from the old live pro’s like David Sklansky that presented these theoretical concepts, us young online players wouldn’t be here.   However, I think many of us are mastering these concepts more than was previously possible and a new understanding of correct poker will be coming.

I’ve had a fairly crazy month of poker as well.    I just closed down my desktop and got on a new laptop, and since my old Poker Tracker database was 2 gigs big, it got left in the dust.   No graphs of the month for you guys, but I made about 14 to 15k in online cash in about 30k hands (with two -8k swings.)   I dropped 2k at Commerce one night, and was about -3 or 4k in tournaments, so an OK month considering all the moving and book stuff I was doing.  

I just need to stick with online cash games.   They’ve treated me so much better than any other form of poker.

By this time next week I’ll be by the beach in Australia.   Me and three other poker buddies are going to be moving to a beach town called Surfers Paradise for three months to enjoy the sun, surf, aussie babes and the kangaroos with a little bit of poker grinding mixed in.

Our original plan was to move to Sydney and really experience the culture, but a serious rental crunch in any desirable location led us to look at alternatives.   I’m even happier going to Surfers because it is a sub-tropical region, with warm weather and warm oceans even despite the fact we’re going from their fall to early winter.

I will be surfing five days a week and partying a few days a week.   It should be a lot of fun.

Obviously it will be tough to get as much poker time in as I’d like – I still want to play 90k hands while I’m there.   We’ll see.   My goal for March is only 20k hands since it will be the warmest and we’ll be fresh and not tired out from partying too much.

I know how much fun pictures in a blog can be so I will be sure to get some up for you guys.

Living the hard knock life,

Bill Vosti