February 02, 2010
No Peeking February
Niklius made an excelent post recently regarding his motivations for 2010 which struck a chord with me.
I’ve been far too results oriented in January and I think it was bad for me. This weekend I had another bad run and I made the mistake of looking at my graph which was disheartening.
There was no need to cause that suffering to myself, it changed nothing and offered nothing positive in return.
I already know the hands I lost money on +EV or not, the hands I was uncomfortable with, the hands I missed value with. The graph doesn’t show me that, it teaches me nothing but it can drain confidence drive and motivation.
So this month is No Peeking February. I shall play my typical volume, 2 or 4 tables depending on my mindset and review sessions using HEM set to a daily filter.
Unfortunately as far as I can see HEM has no mechanism to prevent the total $$$ amount for the session from being displayed so I will still know whether I was up or down for the day, but hopefully It will have less of an emotional impact as the graph view.
I am playing 5NL and I have withdrawn $80, so if “variance†smacks me in the face I will know about it and be able to abandon 5NL and move back down to 2NL without naeively playing under-rolled.
If I cheat and peek ( as my wife says I am sure to ) I will post a confession in my blog!
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