Started off continuing a hot streak where I felt I was playing well, running well, and really enjoying poker. But most of the month was a train wreck, results-wise. My play has been so-so. For the most part not atrocious, but certainly not inspired. I guess my B or B- game. Until today, I actually hadn't played much because too many other things were going on, and I was really tired. From that perspective, my discipline was really good.
The layoff didn't do me any good today, though, as I punted another 2+ BI, to cap off the month. Overall, it was a negative 9 BI month, but the downswing I'm on is more like 17 BI (can't see the exact #s right now). A lot of beats and coolers in big pots, some repeated mistakes in medium pots. Mostly getting too passive (or maybe fancy). So, I get one less street of value with winners and pay off one extra street with losers a lot of the time.
Still fairly well rolled for 200NL if I decide to stay, although I do need to pull out of the slump soon or I'll be tempting BR fate. But as usual for me, my confidence at the tables is a bit shot, even if upon review that's not warranted. I guess as long as I can find decent seats, my attitude going in to the session is good, I avoid any overt tilt at the tables, and my post-session reviews don't reveal anything hideous, I'll keep plugging away at 200NL.
Josh was talking about some video swaps. I'd also mentioned it to Brian, but never took action. I'd like to start some video sweats with the Ninjas (and ex-Ninja) periodically. Video sweats work better for me than live sweats because I have more time to do them. I think they work well in small groups, too, because you can pause the action to delve into a point, in a way that you cannot do in a live session.
I'll be out of town/away from the computer for the week after Easter (visiting the in-laws in Palm Springs, playing some golf on great courses, and more fun). But other than that, I should have some time during the day, as we just hit a huge project milestone at work, and things should be pretty quiet for 3-4 weeks until we ramp up again. Not that it will translate into more poker, thanks to little league season! Anyway, let me know if you're interested in some video sweats.
OK, bring on April!
3 comments:
Sorry your month went poorly, but I am sure you will rebound and have improved play in April - it's all we can focus on anyways.
I am definitely up for some video swaps, let me know about this idea.
U know Im down to swap vids whenever.. I'm going to be on skype chat way more now, so when you have a video hit me up there and we can get down to business
No worries on the month -- downswings are small instances in the life of a poker player which can sometimes get us present to the fact that we're simply playing less optimal than we should.
Good is the enemy of great. Strive to be great and to play your best this coming month. Fuck results, just improve.
Also, I definitely liked the fact that you're blowing up hands / situations. Like in our group discussion last night, most of the cool learnings didn't come from the immediate situations present in the hands. Big learnings for me are:
1. How do we like villain's play?
2. What's the bottom of our value range here? What hands would we turn into a bluff?
3. Can we take X action (raise, CR, bet)? If not, why? When would this action be cool (against Tag villain, Lag villain, passive player, weak tight player, on this type of board, in this position, if stacks were bigger/smaller by this much, if we had this much effective behind, etc).
Digging through the monotonous nature of "standard" hands sometimes has yielded immense learnings for me. Having your brain option to other options and being able to flip hands area and simply tinker with them will really help you to improve. That's something I'm trying to focus on for this month myself as I do a poor job of it right now.
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