Swingy 3/6 NL
So this month hasn't exactly gone according to plan. I'm well behind pace for all of my monthly goals.
To recap:
16,388 / 40,000 hands (3612 hands behind pace)
$2,717 / $20,000 (-$7283 behind pace -- LOL ... although I knew this would be a lofty goal, but still... LOL)
0/2 Live sessions played (-1 session behind pace)
0/1000 5/10 hands (-500 hands behind pace)
Despite some very rough nights, spirits are high. I've been playing pretty well I think, but hitting some hard variance. I think my mental state this month is better than any other in which I've hit big downswings. I've already had a -7 buyin downswing, -10buyin downswing, and my latest -6 buyin downswing as you can see per the graph. Over the last 5k hands I'm -12 buyins in total. Brutal.
I'm not going to pretend like there hasn't been any bad play, there certainly has although my most rough night was 2 nights ago when I got coolered and sucked out on left and right. Tonight was pretty bad as well, but it was more of a case of just not hitting the flop and picking poor spots to bluff.
If I get some time this weekend I'm going to pull out some of the big pots I've lost and put my bad plays up here for all to see. Should be entertaining, and hopefully educational. Despite things not going so hot, I'm very happy that my mental state has been superb this month. If you go back to March/April timeframe when I first moved up to 2/4 and got killed, there are some pretty down in the dumps posts. But I'm not facing hardly any of that now, and I think it shows growth as a player. Mental state is so important in poker, if you cannot keep an even keel it's very easy to spew chips. That's not to say I haven't tilted some or been a little off my game at other points, but it's not affecting me personally like it used to. This is so key if I ever expect to move up out of mid stakes.
As far as 'real life' goes... it's been a busy week. Our project at work that I'm pwning is starting to really ramp up, Missy and I have met with a wedding DJ (who sucked), got engagement pictures, went to a nice restaurant called BoneFish (got the Imperial Grouper -- except they forgot to cook it... big bite of raw grouper made my stomach turn), and tomorrow we meet with a realtor for the first time to look at some houses. Next week we meet with a mortgage broker to get pre-approved for a loan. Lots of stuff going on...hopefully I'll add winning at poker to the list next entry... ;-)
Take it easy,
Aaron
posted by WiltOnTilt at 12:16 AM
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