Hi,
After downloading Tiltbreaker (maybe someday more about my thoughts connected with this software) I've realised that sessions longer than 2 hours are bad for my winrate. This is because of losing concentration after a while and/or taking some bad beats/going into tilt mode. That's why my first non-removable option in this program was "session stop after..." it helped a lot even there are some dissadvantages dialed with it. More about it soon.
My even bigger leak was always starting the session. Day after day, with really close correlation my graphs looks pretty same. At the beginning stupid, costly mistakes then returning to my A-game (or going on 100% tilt and losing ever more bb's). I remember that one of my friends was shocked after seeing analise made by Hm's Leakbuster. Starting my session was always super bad. But I haven't done anything about resolving this issue.... till this week.
Pre-session rutine
If you want to be professional in any discipline you need to be focused, because your mistakes will cost you a lot. One spazzy call for 100bb is 2000 hands to play when you have your winrate stable on 5bb/100. Do you have so much time, really? I don't, so my new way of fighting with my own state of mind is to work more before playing.
Of course this is only first try, but I will share with you my "plan".
0. Turning off: Facebook, Skype, Phone.
1. Answer a really tricky questions - "Do I want to play poker right now, is my mood OK, my feelings not too high on emotions?" (cheers Chris de Burgh)
2. Quick warm-up for my brain. Push ups for ex. 15 is enought :)
3. Short game - thx too Robmaf. You can find it here
4. Reading on loud my sheets (with analized hands)
5. PLAY for 1h- 1h:30min
Will be back with results but after 4-5 sessions i like it a lot!
Do you have your own rutine? Share with comment pls.
Poker enthusiast, former PStars/Pstrategy freelancer, artist, community lover, tattoo addicted, Trying to grind out his dreams. Welcome to my world!
12/07/2014
12/01/2014
November - sum up or spazz out?
Today I want to focus on announced
in the first post ending
summary of the month. Unfortunately, despite many positives, I can not recognize
that I am happy with the game, especially mindset.
Although I referred a month
with positive results as bad. I think that's a good omen before the next. But going into details.
I played less than expected by
10,000 hands. I've always had a problem with a typical grind , but the truth is
that by playing 4-6 tables you need a lot more hours spent in front of the
screen. Does not seem that I'll be rakeback machine in the future. And I'm okay
with that!
In addition to the changes introduced at the tables, which surely will describe in future posts, I would like to draw your attention to this aspect:
Result Visualization
Of course, I will not come into the
discussion on the line drawn by HM - EV . Everyone can think about it
what he wants . I do soaked in with my own way in the following manner .
I divided hands into the following
categories:
Variance UP - when I win and
played, both myself and opponent correctly . Here are the stacks AI , for
example AA vs KK , set over set , all of the equity of about 50 %
Variance DOWN - similar , but I lost
Unmarked - nothing special , simple
obvious valuebets , etc spots with less than 30bb's
Spazz OUT - hands that I played
badly aggressively or made too loosely calls
LuckyMe - when you win a hand with
less than 30 % equity , or when I'd a pretty great run out .
BadBeats - when I lose with more
than 70 % or a rival gets an amazing card on the river etc.
For Review - All hands I need to discuss with my coach
What it gives ?
First of all, illustrates just how
variation affects the game at shorter distances. An objective can tell whether
I have " upswing " or not. As I mentioned we usually think that we
are doing worse than expected, not seeking own unforced errors. And everyone
has a lot of those. After a cursory analysis of my November it's comes to me
that I lost on the category of Spazz out more than all my winrate , so despite
the fact that aggregating variation was negative, I have still a lot of doubts
to my own attitude.
Is it hard to do? Maybe now it
looks like hard work, but believe me - already in the game you can determined
hand by hand, and it is enough for an additional 5 minutes after the session to
complete all categories with a little of analise.
Try it yourself!
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