Boooooooooo.Most of the brutality in the graph is due to variance at $3/6. Definately the most crazy half of a month I've ever had. Felt like I was cruising up $2.2k early on then getting slammed back down really hurt.
Last night I played a 1000 hand breakeven session, felt like I ran pretty bad, didn't make too many mistakes. Tonight I played another 1000+ hand session finishing down about $400. Towards the end of the session I lost a couple of big $3/6 pots where it's possible I made poor decisions, although they certainly weren't terrible.
I don't want to overthink things because it could just be that I'm not running too well at the moment it's only 5k hands. However I kind of feel like variance has fucked me up a bit. Since the -$1.5k day I've been pushing my play a little too much. Maybe subconciously trying to "win back" the money and get back up to where I was. I do feel irritated that I was $2.2k up for the month, and I'm now breakeven and I don't think that's a good attitude to take into sessions.
Another thing I feel at the moment is that I've kind of set a target in my head that I'd like to get my bankroll to $20k before leaving for Vegas. Giving me $10k cash, and $10k online. This is a nice idea, however I'm basically setting myself a monetary goal, and a tough one at that. I'm completely against $$$ goals, they've got no benefits and they fuck with your game a ton, adding anxiety, stress, etc.
So... before I move on to play my next session I need to do a few things
- Clear my head of any monetary goals.
- Do a PT review of the month so far, find out where any issues in play are.
- Lose any thoughts of trying to "win back" the money that I had earlier in the month.
- Assess if I should continue to play $3/6 or if the swings are a bit too much at the moment.
- Fully review all hands from the previous few sessions.
3 comments:
Does seem very swingy but atleast your not in the red and if your getting rakeback id say it builds up quick because it would be max every pot?
Your goals seems like good thinking but with wanting to bring 10 to vages it will always be in your mind i think. Try thinking ill keep 10 in my balance and whatever else is over ill bring with me might work.
Anyway goodluck with the rest of the month.
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Alright mate, you've hit the nail on the head re monetary goals. I'm planning to quit work at some point soon to give it a shot and have a trigger point for my bankroll (due to a plan i have written, etc) and recently due to being desperate to give it a go - i've just chased this goal far to much.
Queue 25-30 buy in downswing at NL200 (after beating it for 4ptbb/100over 120k hands) and the bankroll dipping below $10k (trigger point is around $25k!) for the first time in about 9 months.
After some severe honesty with myself, i've still got in place the desire to give it a shot but i'm in no way rushing to the magic number. Just going to play some MTTs for fun and ease back into NL200 slowly but surely. Fingers crossed for later in the year but who knows!!
Good luck
Adam.
ps if you ever fancy chatting cards, e-mail us at a_a_mcintosh@hotmail.com. Can also get a squash game going after i didn't take you up on the offer months ago!!
Yeah, definitely a brutal swing downwards. You're so right about how getting in a DS affects your play/outlook in lots of different ways -- some subtle, some not.
Sounds like your head is in the right place now, anyway...g/l with the rest of the month.
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