I played full schedule MTT's (10-18 games, 10-300 buy in, average about 1000 of tournaments a day) for the last 12 days straight...felt like I ran really bad at the crucial stages of the tournament, had so many near misses. Ran really good last month (made 14k in 1 weeks play) so just variance I guess, I spent a lot of time on mikogo/teamviewer with other good players and discussing hands - everyone seems to be happy with my play which is good.
Stats from last 12 day:
- Played 162 games
- 2000 down
- Average stake 66
Some particular results (taken from sharkscope):
- I-Poker
- 13th 100 rebuy
- 12th 30 rebuy
- 13th 30 rebuy
- 20th 100e freezeout
- 15th 30 rebuy
- 4th 30 rebuy
- 12th 30 rebuy
- 4th 25 rebuy
Microgaming
- 4th 20e rebuy
- 19th 20e rebuy
- 11th weekday (20e rebuy)
- 4th 10e rebuy
- 1st 20e rebuy
- 15th 20e rebuy
Ongame
- 20th 100 freezeout
- 16th 100 freezeout
So many deep runs but just was not winning the showdowns last two tables...so fustrating - will change soon hopefully.
Just noticed I've dropped about 5k on Ongame in these 12 days...not running good on that site (up on the other 2)
On 2 day break now, I definately need the break as the last 12 days have been a real test of my mentallity - the 1 win I had was on the second last day for 3ke, before that I was getting real down and stressed about poker, I think because I was getting so close to FT's in big games that have 6-8-9-10k for first and just not getting any luck last two tables.
Will be back on the tables refreshed later in the week:) need to make some money for Vegas in the summer and I also got a £300 bet with the Chattaways and Ch1pjam on who can get to 50k first on I-Poker (no chance vs the god-runners + they are fantastic players lol...)
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Lessons learnt:
Regular breaks and days off are a must brain overload + very stressful)
Max games should be 8 at any one time (made some mistakes when I had too many games, couldn't focus properly - probably missed opportunities as well)
Aspire to play A game, every hand of every game, despite what else is going on (only takes 1).
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ReplyDeleteinteresting update.
ReplyDeleteSo 8 games huh, makes sense. Means you've mastered to the level to do highly effective chunking for the state of each game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)
nice! Never heard of chunking before expect after a few drinks...hehe
ReplyDeleteI'm really into reading books about the human brain, how it works and how to improve it's efficiency - it is amazing what every brain is capable of...do you think this helps?