Cain is Abel

After doing some updates and checking over my previous blog posts – I realized that there were more personal than poker-related posts. This wouldn’t be too much of a problem – except for the fact that my poker-related posts are all generally pretty low-content and *shame* whiney.

I’ve made a decision to convert this blog into primarily poker posts. Strategy, hand discussion, Sixth Sense development, etc. will be the subjects of the majority of blog posts from now on.

To compensate, I’ve set up three different blogs for the three different areas of my life that I am currently working on improving.

Life, Love, and Poker
Learning Internet Marketing
Daniel Cain Wallace

The names of these blogs still may change a bit over time, I’m not sure if I’m 100% happy with them.

So look forward to more quality poker-related content – “Hands of the day”, strategy articles, news from the poker world, etc. This site may actually generate some information that will be useful to my fellow poker players.

Come back and check it out soon!

I’ve been able to free up enough time for a decent amount of poker these past few days, here is a graph of my progress since the 14th.

This has been a very big turnaround from the hellish nightmare of Oct/Nov.

Still not the kind of money I’ve been used to, but 1.5k over 1 week is nothing to frown at.

And I am quite happy

There’s the momentum I need! Woo!

Mary kidnapped me and took me to New Harmony, Indiana for our 1-year anniversary. It was a great time.We rented a log cabin out in the middle of their park, and out of 11 cabins, ours was the only occupied.

There was a wood burning stove in the middle of the living room, a giant bar-like kitchen area, a bathroom, and 2 bedrooms (which we did not use).

We blew up our air matress near the wood burning stove, spent a good hour figuring out how to get a fire started, and then just hung out for a good 2 hours before leaving to eat at the Red Geranium. The food was great. I ordered the roasted duck breast, which I’ve decided I like much more than chicken. There were “wasabi mashed potatoes” which taste very much like they sound. Fairly gross . There was also this new vegatable on my plate. I commented to Mary that it looked like “a cross between broccoli and asparagus”. Our waitress must have heard me, and came over to tell me that it is a brand new vegetable, broccoli crossed with asparagus. Neato!

We spent the next day exploring New Harmony. The town looks pretty much like every other run-down town in the midwest except for 1 key difference – The people actually took care of their house and land! The houses, though modest, were very well taken care of and fit perfectly in the quaint little town. There was not even a McDonalds in New Harmony. Their movie theater only had 2 movies, and they both only showed 1 time per day. Despite how ridiculously small the town was, the people still put in enough time to make the place look nice. Other small towns need to follow New Harmony as an example.

We saw the outdoor church, visitors center, and a few other random “old historic” buildings that were lined up as tourist attractions. Much like the cabins, the town was deserted. I suppose December is not their biggest month for tourism. The visitor center (on the right) was the most impressive piece of architecture in the town…and it was out in the middle of nowhere, overlooking

All in all, Mary and I had a great time. We got to spend plenty of time together, without the many distractions of reality. The 1-year anniversary is a big landmark, and really pushes our relationship to a new level. I can only hope the next year is as good as this one was.

‘Til next time -

My live-in girlfriend, Mary, is taking me somewhere for our anniversary. She still has not told me where, but we are leaving within an hour and a half.

We’re both pretty stressed today. She has been planning this thing for a while, and did not have enough time today to do everything she had planned out. I’m stressed about money…like I always am.

I played a few hours of poker yesterday, and about 30minutes today. When I get back from wherever it is we’re going, I will have to start putting in some serious hours.

Learning more and more about IM every day. I wandered on this great site – http://www.stevepavlina.com/. This guy graduated from college in only 3 semesters, and is a master of time management, self motivation, and making money. I will be learning a lot from his website in the months to come.

Now, I am off to continue preparing for wherever it is Mary wants to take me.

Later all!
-Dan

Been busy as hell this past few days – haven’t had any time to blog at all. Haven’t had time for poker…for internet marketing…for anything. I’m really going to have to start sacrificing some of my personal time to get these articles in.

Mary celebrated “Saint Nick’s Day” with me on the 7th, and gave me most of my Christmas presents early. It was an amazing night. I got “Eragon” (the book, not the movie), a whole bunch of candy, a very sweet glass piece, and a few other small gifts . I wanted to give her her present early, but she convinced me not to.

I’ve got to get back into poker head-first for the next month or two. I’ve got one big monthly nut to fill, and am not even close to filling it yet.

Ugh, life is hard

It is becoming more and more clear that Internet Marketing is going to take a while to get established in. It will also be a while before I know everything I need to start making some money – so today I played some poker to try and make that monthly nut.

It went pretty well. Considering I was only playing 50$ NL 6-max, a +300$ day is actually quite good. I plan on sitting at 50$ NL for a while, regaining my confidence, building my bankroll, etc. etc.

The players at this level are ABSOLUTELY HORIBLE. Free money for anybody with some patience and half a clue how to play poker.

Glad I finally had a good day – I really have been due for one for the past couple months.

Yesterday marked the first actual money I’ve earned from my blog! A whopping 3$! I am just getting on my way though. I am posting about 2x daily, making new contacts, writing articles, figuring out new places to advertise and expand my name. This ball is starting to roll!

Today I will be writing more articles, checking out Craigslist, and seeing if I can get those jerks at Paypal to finally release the hold on my account.

All of this weekend, I’m taking a break from poker. Not a single hand will be played.

A little work is still necessary – The Sixth Sense Bodog scanner is still being a pain in the ass, and I really am not sure why. It’l take at least an hour or two of work, and must still be done despite my poker break. Ah well.

My dad and I talked a bit about our new Internet Marketing ideas last night after the game, and I think we’ve got a real winner on our hands. Hopefully I’ll be able to learn what is needed and rise up to make this another good stream of income, because I am pretty depressed about the whole poker situation and could use an alternative means of income.

Updates to follow!
-Dan

Oh, and I know it is old – but I laugh at this picture every time I see it. Enjoy.