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I was very focused last month. Is that a good thing? I'm not too sure.
These days, I tend to think of focus as a rather negative thing. For me, it's displacement activity. Something to do "in the absence of anything better, and the presence of a hell of a lot of things worse".
I'm more of a fan of the prioritizing stuff as each day comes along. And, if you can do it in less than an hour, do it now. (At work, that's more of a "if you can do it in less than two minutes, do it now").
Anyhoo, slightly less focused this month, partly because I'm in the middle of the year's worst downswing on Party (official). Since August 26th, EV is minus $260, while actual is minus $1250. Luckily, Stars has come to the rescue, with a plus of $1300 and an EV of plus $780. That's a mark of how volatility can last a long time in this game, because we are talking about 6,000 hands on each of the sites.
Indeed, I did an "all sites, all history" graph for the last 60,000 hands at $200 buy in, and I saw that I ran well for the first 28,000 hands, and have run badly for the 32,000 hands since. Think of that in live terms. You could run badly for a thousand hours. You could be a Sklansky 3BB a hundred winner, and be down four or five buy-ins in reality, over a year's play.
And I'm also less focused because I have more things to do. Went to dinner last night at my friends Philip and Mary (Philip from the old Evandale days) at their house in Bickley. Fantastic garden, with one of their sons' recording studio in "the posh shed", as Philip termed it, at the end of it.
Driving down I got caught up in the Catford one-way system, where the driver of a family of five seemed to have got it into his head that you could drive round it the wrong way on the wrong side of the street, with the inevitable consequence on Brownhill Road, where another driver felt, quite reasonably, that being on the left-hand side of the South Circular Road was a reasonable long-term strategy.
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I was quite envying several of the staffers, who are in Monte Carlo for the next few days for the reinsurance Rendez-vous. Until, that is, I saw that Ruth had 10 press conferences to attend today (mind, Sunday is the worst day!)
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And with that, I'm going to take a few hours off. Sunday Times to read, Oliver Stone movie to watch. And no chocolate biscuits!!!!
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These days, I tend to think of focus as a rather negative thing. For me, it's displacement activity. Something to do "in the absence of anything better, and the presence of a hell of a lot of things worse".
I'm more of a fan of the prioritizing stuff as each day comes along. And, if you can do it in less than an hour, do it now. (At work, that's more of a "if you can do it in less than two minutes, do it now").
Anyhoo, slightly less focused this month, partly because I'm in the middle of the year's worst downswing on Party (official). Since August 26th, EV is minus $260, while actual is minus $1250. Luckily, Stars has come to the rescue, with a plus of $1300 and an EV of plus $780. That's a mark of how volatility can last a long time in this game, because we are talking about 6,000 hands on each of the sites.
Indeed, I did an "all sites, all history" graph for the last 60,000 hands at $200 buy in, and I saw that I ran well for the first 28,000 hands, and have run badly for the 32,000 hands since. Think of that in live terms. You could run badly for a thousand hours. You could be a Sklansky 3BB a hundred winner, and be down four or five buy-ins in reality, over a year's play.
And I'm also less focused because I have more things to do. Went to dinner last night at my friends Philip and Mary (Philip from the old Evandale days) at their house in Bickley. Fantastic garden, with one of their sons' recording studio in "the posh shed", as Philip termed it, at the end of it.
Driving down I got caught up in the Catford one-way system, where the driver of a family of five seemed to have got it into his head that you could drive round it the wrong way on the wrong side of the street, with the inevitable consequence on Brownhill Road, where another driver felt, quite reasonably, that being on the left-hand side of the South Circular Road was a reasonable long-term strategy.
++++++
I was quite envying several of the staffers, who are in Monte Carlo for the next few days for the reinsurance Rendez-vous. Until, that is, I saw that Ruth had 10 press conferences to attend today (mind, Sunday is the worst day!)
++++++
And with that, I'm going to take a few hours off. Sunday Times to read, Oliver Stone movie to watch. And no chocolate biscuits!!!!
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