It's important to become aware of what caused your poor play so that you can notice the pattern next time and prevent it.This morning there were some good games but it turned out to be one of those sessions where I won next to nothing at showdown (running bad). I felt like I played ok but was definately a little tired and made a few notable mistakes, not firing 2nd barrells when I should have (but only costing me ~$300). Anyways, I dropped $2k in the 45min session. Pretty frustrating as I made $2k yesterday so I felt like I'd undone yesterdays 2.5k hand grind with one shitty morning session.
The mistake I made was to then try to grind the money back. I decided to 8-table $1/2 to knock out a lot of hands, but I spotted a bunch of soft $2/4 4-handed games and 5/10 10/20 games too. I can beat $1/2 well on auto-pilot but that's not the case with higher games. So despite putting in almost 4k hands today I'd have been better off putting in either 3k 6-tabling, or just sticking to $1/2 tables.
So the things I want to avoid doing in future are:
- No 8+ tabling with 3-4 handed games and high-stakes games. 8 tabling $1/2 6m is ok, 6 tables max if I'm playing higher stakes.
- No $2/4+ when tired. Auto-piloting $1/2 is fine, but as soon as I go higher on auto-pilot I'm probably only break-even anyway.
Here's to playing as best as I possibly can in every session for the rest of the month.
Cool track by The Whitest Boy Alive...
5 comments:
I know you said you aren't looking for cures that cause the C game at the moment, just yet, but I am offering one anyways. Play one-hour sessions. Stick to it. You don't need a long break between sessions, but a 5-10 minute break is phenomenal to refresh yourself and maintain your focus. That is what I do when I want to keep playing after an hour, I usually like to take 10 minutes to jam on the guitar (can I even call it jamming yet??? lol).
I think your tilt is easily pin pointed. Result checking seems to have the same effect on you as it does me. Look at your post it screams result oriented tilt.
I like your rules, definitely good.
Question that I'd like to ask that you cover sometime in the future: when can / should we start 8+ tabling?
I feel like I'm at the point now where I can play 6 tables profitably at $200NL, but it's still really not autopilot to me. I have to be thinking about a lot of my decisions and how to maximize. $100NL is a different story. But should I be doing so? I feel like autopiloting hinders my progress long term and I should be more focused on moving up. Therefore, longer hours, less tables? I know that is BalugaWhale's theory and MYNAMEIZGREG always said that in our SSNL group class. Anyway, figured I'd ask someone who's been there. How did you get up through the ranks table # wise? And would you do it differently now that you've done it?
Very synthy beginning, but decent remix to that track by Mr. Falke - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vak7nAu-Ck&feature=related
Aaaand I'm writing again because I wanna know if you comment back :)
Cheers for the comments dudes.
Brian: Good advice imo. I always make sure I stay below 2hours on my sessions, even if the tables are fantastic. After 2 hours my game just dies and auto-pilot kicks in for sure. 1 hour would be ideal, but it's not usually possible as if the games are good I often don't want to lose the tables. I completely agree that breaks are +ev.
Noel: I agree, I often get result-oriented tilt. But as of yet I've not found a solution to it. Checking results or not losing a bunch of buy-ins still makes me play worse than normal. So it's not really down to result checking imo so there's no easy way for me to prevent the tilt caused by losing a lot of money. Will likely be posting more on this at some later date.
Mark: Cheers for the synthtastic track! I'll post a blog reply to the questions.
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