Thursday, July 24, 2008
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
A better day, but did I bottle it?
Just 2 1/4 hrs today (that's more like it)... only 458 hands... only about $11 rakeback... however, I did win $480.
I had a cracking 72 min session this morning, picking up a little over $300... coming, primarily, from two hands where my sets held up against aggressively played flush draws. I then started another session this evening, with the intention of putting in 2 or 3 hours of 4-tabling. When I quickly went $180 up and the prospect of winning over $500 in the day became likely, I started to think to myself that it might be better to bank a good win rather than chase the rakeback. This unconciously caused me to tighten up quite considerably and after an hour or so I realised that I was actually playing not to lose rather than to win. Definitely time to stop for the day anyway.
This is something I obviously have to deal with and get straight in my head before I start a session... playing scared is playing scared, no matter what the reason and playing scared is always bad.
I had a cracking 72 min session this morning, picking up a little over $300... coming, primarily, from two hands where my sets held up against aggressively played flush draws. I then started another session this evening, with the intention of putting in 2 or 3 hours of 4-tabling. When I quickly went $180 up and the prospect of winning over $500 in the day became likely, I started to think to myself that it might be better to bank a good win rather than chase the rakeback. This unconciously caused me to tighten up quite considerably and after an hour or so I realised that I was actually playing not to lose rather than to win. Definitely time to stop for the day anyway.
This is something I obviously have to deal with and get straight in my head before I start a session... playing scared is playing scared, no matter what the reason and playing scared is always bad.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
The first day of the rest of my life...
How times have changed.
When I started my last (1st/only previous) job my first pay-cheque was for the princely sum of £10.73... it was September 1972. Now, 36 years later, I have just finished my first day at my new 'job' and I've got about £45 less than what I started with... wtf!!! No one told me it would be like this.
I guess it's not too bad, you have to have losing days... it's not the first one and I don't suppose it will be the last. At least it was less than one buy-in.
I put a total of 5 1/2 hrs in two sessions (5 1/2 hrs!!! In one day!!! ffs, I wonder if BT will have me back?) and played 1105 hands of 50c/$1 NL. This marathon (for me) netted about 30 bucks in rakeback. Do this for 20 days a month and I have appx £300... just what the doctor ordered. All I have to do now is crack the 'be a break even or winning player' part of the equation! :-)
Like they say, "It's a hard way to make an easy living."
When I started my last (1st/only previous) job my first pay-cheque was for the princely sum of £10.73... it was September 1972. Now, 36 years later, I have just finished my first day at my new 'job' and I've got about £45 less than what I started with... wtf!!! No one told me it would be like this.
I guess it's not too bad, you have to have losing days... it's not the first one and I don't suppose it will be the last. At least it was less than one buy-in.
I put a total of 5 1/2 hrs in two sessions (5 1/2 hrs!!! In one day!!! ffs, I wonder if BT will have me back?) and played 1105 hands of 50c/$1 NL. This marathon (for me) netted about 30 bucks in rakeback. Do this for 20 days a month and I have appx £300... just what the doctor ordered. All I have to do now is crack the 'be a break even or winning player' part of the equation! :-)
Like they say, "It's a hard way to make an easy living."
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