January 22, 2012
Quiting and playing semi pro now
I have issues with quiting (poker sessions not poker as a whole) and i have been casually listening to Tommy Angelo's Eightfold path to poker enlightenment when just as i have had my biggest downswing to date they bring up the important issue of quitting when your not ready to stop playing.
Im going to practice quiting, by taking scheduled breaks, even if the games are great. My issue is i cant let a table go if theres a mega fish, i tend to play to long, struggle to stop and play too many tables hoping to be the one who cracks the fish. I need to realise that the games are actually good often enough at 100nl to let that fish stay in the sea (or get whaled by the Japanese) and i will play and focus when i am entirely ready and playing optimally, not just because a fish is on my right.
I plan on taking breaks whether i like it or not at 1hr intervals. I will stand up take a piss and do 10 push ups and 30 sit ups to get the blood flowing. It shouldn't be long enough for me to get booted, just long enough to get my shit back together.
On a side not ive been playing pretty shithouse and i think subtally tilting, this comes at a pretty shit time as i have just halved my hours at work to allow me to focus more on poker and snowboard more. But now i am relying entirely on poker for my travel savings.. Ive always wanted to turn poker into my main income and now i have the oppurtinity so there is no fucking way i'll allow bad play and not enough hard work to stop me travelling.
Merry weekend
5 Comments:
MayContainNuts posted on January 22, 2012 at 02:08 AM
http://tomatoi.st/aahm
25 mins, sit out a couple of orbits, close eyes, breath deeply five times (through nose), assess emotional state, assess game state - sit in.
http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
saying that, you appear to be crushing so keep doing what you're doing. Don't play hung-over.
When you stop handreading, your edge is gone.
kerwinty posted on January 22, 2012 at 02:09 AM
good stuff. How long ago where you playing 10nl or 20nl if I may ask?
cheapskate8 posted on January 22, 2012 at 20:11 PM
i cheated a bit, have been playing poker for 3+years worked my way from 10nl to 50 and 100nl on absolute then cashed out and went to canada end of 2010. I started again in september 2011 and spent about 2-3 weeks at 10.. Its documented in my blogs if your interested. But its not about the time spent or the hands logged, its about focused learning and feeling like you are ready to move up from skill advantage and satisfying your bankroll requirements
cheapskate8 posted on January 22, 2012 at 20:12 PM
Maycontainnuts - i like the last one it kinda hit home, once you stop hand reading your edge is gone. How true.
MayContainNuts posted on January 22, 2012 at 21:36 PM
Yes, not mine but really useful - especially when you're deep into a session. It's a really good question to ask yourself, 'have I stopped handreading?'
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