March 07, 2010
Lazy Sunday
It is absolutely wonderful out today, so it’s so hard to be inside. I wanted to get some hands in early today as Karen and I are going to the rock gym tonight and after that I have to study for my exam on Monday (topics are rings, fields and extension fields). Test shouldn’t be that bad. I know my stuff.
Poker: I was able to log 1,139 hands in 3 hrs (+$104.20, 18.3BB/100) playing on my laptop. When I use the laptop, i cut my tables down to 4 instead of 6. It looks like this is a positive for my winrate (go figure). Today went pretty well. Got QQ up against A6 on a 66x flop that sucked, but my KK cracked someones AA for 125 BBs so that was a nice redemption! I think I was mostly running good, but i really feel like I was able to focus more on player ranges and extracting value post flop. I think I might stick with 4 tables for a little to see if I can keep a solid winrate (targeting 4-5BB/100 over like 75-100K hands or so).
Climbing: So my finger is pretty cut up and I am feeling like climbing is going to be a little bit of a bitch tonight, but I just got new shoes and am dying to try them out. There’s this tricky 5.8 at the gym that has been giving me some trouble, so hopefully with my new shoes it will be no problem (i’d been using rentals for the past month). Karen and I are at about the same level, which is nuts because my upper body is so much stronger than hers. I call climbing the “Great Equalizer,†because it seems like whatever helps you also hurts you equally. My size and strength is good for pulling but terrible for hanging. I’ve started running again to slim down to make climbing a little easier. We’ll see how that goes.
Other: As I said, I’ve got a midterm coming up tomorrow in Abstract Algebra. I’m not that worried about it, but will probably put in a good 4 or 5 hours of studying tonight for it just to be sure.
Until next time!
Erby
March
11,740 hands
+$256.35 profit
4.4BB/100
2 Comments:
DJ Sensei posted on March 08, 2010 at 00:18 AM
re: climbing: Your legs are much stronger than your upper body and won't get tired nearly as fast, so try to focus on your footwork more. Use your legs to do the work and your hands/arms simply to hold on and maintain balance. One of the reasons that women are often naturally better climbers is that they do this intuitively; their center of gravity is lower.
erby posted on March 08, 2010 at 15:19 PM
Yeah DJ. It's definitely something I need to work on. A lot of times I'll get stuck either top roping or on bouldering problems because I haven't been very mindful of where my feet are. How long have you been climbing?
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