I’ve been kind of adrift for the last few days. I haven’t really been doing much of anything, and I didn’t even bother to play on Sunday for the FTOPS ME. In total, I played a single FTOPS event. I couldn’t even tell you what I’ve done since my last blog entry outside seen some funny movies, had some good meals, and killed time at the beach. The last couple of days I’ve developed a minor cold, but it’s nothing serious.

One strange aspect of going through a major break up is you wind up thinking to yourself “Well, now what?” It tends to sap your motivation and in many cases leaves people hiding inside for weeks or months at a time with junk food in one hand and a computer full of recently downloaded pornography in the other, alternating between gorging, jerking, and crying (bonus points if you accomplish all three at once.) I don’t have that kind of capacity for drama or misery, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was feeling unmotivated and confused as to what to do with myself.

For the first time in a long time the world is truly my oyster. I have my youth and health. I have enough money that I can create a life wherever I want. I have a job that let’s me live wherever I want. I have some degree of talent in poker and in writing (not trying to be an ego maniac here, but I’m pretty sure I don’t suck at poker.) Thanks to online message boards I know people in cities around the world, even if informally. I have absolutely zero responsibility or limitations. Most of all I feel I have the opportunity to make some kind of impact in my profession, to do something respectful.

So with that I’ve decided I want to write a book on poker tournament strategy. It’ll be based on the ‘Things it took me a while to learn articles’ (which I now feel a new commitment towards continuing.) But because it’s me and I can’t possibly do anything in a normal or straight forward manner, I want it to be a strategy book filled with various anecdotes and humor where appropriate. The challenge for me (outside of having to put in a shit ton of work) is trying to prevent the book from being too esoteric and incomprehensible to the casual reader, so I imagine I’ll have to submit it to a few people less experienced in the online world first.

I’ll also need to go back and ask my various contributors through the articles if they're okay with their words being used in the book. Considering the guys I’ve had work with me I doubt there will be any issues since they are all so awesome and easy going, but it seems respectful and honest to check with them first.

My plan going forward is to use the articles as a blue print for the book but it’ll need better organization. I’ll also need to add a ton more content in order for it to be worth purchasing the book instead of just reading the articles. In some cases it’s difficult to explore a topic more thoroughly than some of the guide lines I wrote, so in those cases I’ll be coming up with a shit ton of examples in order to illustrate them. Take the stack sizes article for example, outside of clarifying a few things there I don’t think the basics of what’s been written in the article have changed much or can be further clarified. However, adding a bunch of examples there would help to fill out the ideas and would add value to the section.

I might put examples of chapters up on the blog or forums to ask people for feedback and find out what they’d like to see more of or how they’d like things further clarified. I hope this will result in creating a book that people will feel actually addresses their questions. I also feel it’s very important that I stay true to my style in the book; otherwise nothing separates this from any number of the other quality texts out there which are high on technical and mathematical information pertaining to tournaments. I imagine having the book laden with sarcasm and occasional insults might reduce its overall professionalism, but I’m not writing this thing because I think I’m some professional author. I’m writing this shit because I want to and because I finally feel driven again.

So if there are any suggestions, comments, ideas, topics, or issues you want to seen addressed in this book, please let me know about it here. I’ll do my best to accommodate.

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