Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Nu Zuland bru
Posts: 939
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Alright I guess I haven't posted since Tuesday.
On Wednesday I tried 3-tabling again, and was really happy with how I played. I disconnected from IRC, but left the application open, and I'm really glad I did it that way. Normally when I'm grinding I hide IRC, and then five or so minutes later I'll realise that I'm reading it again, without noticing I'd even dragged it back into view. That meant that I kept getting mad pattern interrupts every time I'd subconsciously drag the IRC app into view and be confronted by a blank window instead of chat. Then I'd realise I was drifting and start focussing more on poker again.
On Thursday I had my exam, so no poker. Exam went kinda averagely, but time will tell what I end up getting.
A happy consequence of playing three tables is that if I play the same number of hours per day as I used to I get 750 hands instead of 500, which is a big boost to my volume. However, I decided on Friday that a [i]happier[/b] consequence is that I can maintain the same volume of 500 hands with less hours of play. That means that I have now dropped 45 minutes of play from my daily routine, and replaced it with 45 more minutes of study. Which means my study lay ratio is finally more than 1:1, which I feel great about.
I'm struggling to feel confident at 25NL, so hopefully the increased focus on learning will mean I start to get more of a grasp of it and feel comfortable.
Saturday and today were pretty standard, poker-wise, although I think I got my butt handed to me on both days. Onwards and upwards, and all that. I am, however, a bit annoyed with myself today 'cause I failed to get done the study that I wanted to for my Economics exam on Tuesday. So I've decided that I'm gonna skip poker tomorrow (and obviously on Tuesday, since my exam's that day) to give me more time and energy to prepare. A bit of a poor start to the month, but real life obviously has to come first in this case.
My study now consists almost 50/50 of reading T&P and watching videos (and my daily HH analysis), which is a nice combination of theory and watching it being applied. I feel, however, I want to add more thinking about the game to my routine. To that end:
When I do my daily HH analysis I fire up PokerStove, and punch in likely combinations until I hit a percentage that roughly matches the villain's stats. While I think this is great for me, and highly recommend this kind of analysis to anybody starting out, I want to up the thinking a bit, so I feel it will be beneficial if I now first try to put villains on a range without PokerStove and then open it and check how close I was, adjust my range, etc. This should help me develop a feel for how ranges match up to stats much more quickly than my current approach.
Secondly, every week (or some regular time interval, not sure about this, may be subject to change, but it's important to me that it is regular) I'm going to make a blog post which is my musings/thoughts on some poker-related topic. It might be specific like 3-betting light in position, or it might be more general like preflop raising or even bankroll management, but it will be something poker-related. These might end up being phrased as if they're teaching articles or me pretentiously preaching, however I would like to stress now that there will probably be a lot of wrong thinking in them, and they're posted much less to teach others as to give me a space and a format to really think through whatever concept. You guys' feedback/arguments/corrections on those posts would be invaluable, as would your suggestions for topics (although I have a couple already). The point isn't really "take one thing and only think about that thing for a week", it's just that I find once you go to concretely set down what you know about something, you realise holes in your own understanding, or new ideas about it may come to you, and I feel like that combined with the critique I get on whatever comes out will be immensely beneficial.
I think that's all for now. Oh, and I'm shooting for gold star in November. Will proofread tomorrow, hopefully it's vaguely coherent. Oh, another goal I remembered, eat more breakfast. I always seem to run out of steam before lunch (up until poker and aside from germany (wie ich gut gehacktes vermisse) I really haven't eaten breakfast regularly in years). Night.
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