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End of year beckons
Oct. 31st, 2010 03:39 pmIt's all quite eventful at the moment. My shift to 10+ tabling with cascaded rather than tiled tables has run well so far, with some mistakes that I have spotted which I would not have made otherwise apparently being counterbalanced by mistakes that I didn't make which I would have made if the tables had been tiled (these are normally of the "I'm bored, let's play a bit looser" variety.
Standard deviation per hour has risen dramatically - probably 1.5 buy-ins to 1.0 buyins. I've also stopped playing on Party for a while. The software is less suited to cascaded tables, and the bonuses/effective rakeback on the site has fallen through the floor. While things continue to go ok on Stars, that's where I will spend most of my time.
There's no hope of matching last year's total, but I'm slightly more optimistic than I was of reaching the $17k that I managed in 2008. More pleasing is my increased confidence on Stars. There are still three or four multi-tablers who are clearly a class above me (e306, Helen_Gamble and Ljuti-Gusar spring to mind as players I find it difficult to get a handle on), but the "grinders of the month" on PokerTracker aren't much of a problem.
Indeed, I'd quite like to have a crack at that for December, given that I'm only producing a newsletter on about seven days that month. The mental preparation is the toughest part -- continuing to play a B+ game for hour after hour, without the brain burning out or following the easy paths of too much weak-tightness, loose-passiveness or loose-aggressiveness. The technical side of it is, by comparison, not difficult at all. The trick is to reduce to an absolute minimum the number of hands where, afterward, you ask yourself, "why on earth did I do that?"
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At work there appears to be a bit of a change-round, and although it's mainly good for me, it does involve a bit of extra commitment with the change in my role. We'll see how this pans out, but at the moment it's quite exciting, to say the least. I've no objection to the greater involvement, but it does necessitate greater skills in time allocation.
I'm already getting the 6.09am rather than the 6.20am train in the morning (two years ago it was the 6.34am!) and I've found that I'm performing better on Stars if I play for 90 minutes before having a nap rather than afterward. All of that has jigged up the day a bit -- especially with my sterling efforts to get to the gym at least three times a week. Essentially the entire week seems filled up, which makes the approaching break in December rather appealing! I just need a rest. I think that I will enjoy retirement when it comes.
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No MidCon for me this year either. I'm just not a gamesplayer any more, although it's always enjoyable to meet up with old friends. But there are fewer and fewer of those "old friends" there each year. A quick couple of million quid in the bank would make life considerably easier in the "I need more time" bank.
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Standard deviation per hour has risen dramatically - probably 1.5 buy-ins to 1.0 buyins. I've also stopped playing on Party for a while. The software is less suited to cascaded tables, and the bonuses/effective rakeback on the site has fallen through the floor. While things continue to go ok on Stars, that's where I will spend most of my time.
There's no hope of matching last year's total, but I'm slightly more optimistic than I was of reaching the $17k that I managed in 2008. More pleasing is my increased confidence on Stars. There are still three or four multi-tablers who are clearly a class above me (e306, Helen_Gamble and Ljuti-Gusar spring to mind as players I find it difficult to get a handle on), but the "grinders of the month" on PokerTracker aren't much of a problem.
Indeed, I'd quite like to have a crack at that for December, given that I'm only producing a newsletter on about seven days that month. The mental preparation is the toughest part -- continuing to play a B+ game for hour after hour, without the brain burning out or following the easy paths of too much weak-tightness, loose-passiveness or loose-aggressiveness. The technical side of it is, by comparison, not difficult at all. The trick is to reduce to an absolute minimum the number of hands where, afterward, you ask yourself, "why on earth did I do that?"
+++++++
At work there appears to be a bit of a change-round, and although it's mainly good for me, it does involve a bit of extra commitment with the change in my role. We'll see how this pans out, but at the moment it's quite exciting, to say the least. I've no objection to the greater involvement, but it does necessitate greater skills in time allocation.
I'm already getting the 6.09am rather than the 6.20am train in the morning (two years ago it was the 6.34am!) and I've found that I'm performing better on Stars if I play for 90 minutes before having a nap rather than afterward. All of that has jigged up the day a bit -- especially with my sterling efforts to get to the gym at least three times a week. Essentially the entire week seems filled up, which makes the approaching break in December rather appealing! I just need a rest. I think that I will enjoy retirement when it comes.
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No MidCon for me this year either. I'm just not a gamesplayer any more, although it's always enjoyable to meet up with old friends. But there are fewer and fewer of those "old friends" there each year. A quick couple of million quid in the bank would make life considerably easier in the "I need more time" bank.
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