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Quick update. Back to around $690 atm, time to hit the $22s again. Had a few hickups where I'd get to $600+ then play some cash and drop back again. I really need to work on my problems with cash, I just dont think its poker ability, its mental. I just dont have the read mindset. A few things:
1) I get bored. The starts of STTs may be boring fold-fests, but theres a rush to the p/f nature of the end of them, and I get that every session. Nut-hunting in FR just doesnt cut it. Spending 20 mins folding, only to hit a strong hand but need to (read should) fold to an obvious stronger hand blows. I go through my sessions, and my losing ones are almost always dumb plays that I should know better about, but tilted due to boredom. That and the occassional cooler.
2) I react badly to variance in cash. For some reason I've conditioned myself to being knocked out of entire tournies with major coolers and just grin, but take one for half a stack in cash and it pisses me off. Played some $10NL 6-max the other day, and lost half a stack with KK v's an obv FD that backdoored a straight on the river (v's my set on the turn), and then a few hands later my KK ran into a semi-bluff push on the turn for half a stack v's a FD+gutshot (picked up on turn) and off course the gutshot came in. Overall I only dropped 1 buyin, but it was enough to make me close all my tables and stop playing poker it pissed me off so much.
Anyway, onto the STTs. I think I'm running about 30% ROI in the $11s since I moved down. Been killing them lately. Really tightened up and its payed off. I was just making bad adjustments to playing at FullTilt which worked fine early, but screwed me when things turned bad. Sharkscope atm has me at a +ve ROI, but -ve return due to the bad run at the $22s. Hopefully I'll run good when I move up and stay there this time.
I also need to start setting some more time aside for poker. I'm just not playing anywhere near enough. I'm back in the gym now, so I think I need to do some real time management and actually schedule my days, etc. Getting my lounge connected to my network properly will help, then I could play there in the evening, rather than being stuck with the choice of ignoring my wife and playing in the study, or spending time with her, but not getting any poker done.
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