.....is not good for the bankroll. Im not sure why its taken me 7 years to realise this. but heres the news. i dont play pissed anymore. im 2 months poker+alcohol free now. This is one of the ways im finding more consistancy in my poker.
I suppose this is a bit like saying you have to play with your eyes open but maybe im a bit slow to pick these things up. This was confirmed in the small hours of sunday morning following a Leo Sayer with Ed , doublebubbles and Jase "the nut peddler kely". I woke up bollock naked at 10am with the laptop strewn across my knackers, the full tilt poker client open, and the remains of a mexican quarter pounder from burger dome smudged across my hands, the laptop and half my face. Classy
I immediately opened HEM expecting a massacre of epic proprtions but found i played only 2 hands. What a result. I feel cured, my sober serious subconcious reaching out and giving an almighty Bollocking to the dumb pissed up ninja at the helm. " dont be such a wanker and turn this shit off you muppet". Surely this is significant progress
It was the end result of a day that started with a team of us playing the monthly 100 at the G. This is a great tourney and a great excuse for a booze up. Our second time we've played it and none of us have cashed yet. lol. I suppose it doesnt help having a shot of tequila with every pint starting at 2pm. By 4pm i was rat arsed, had built up my stack to about 30k. blinds are 400/800, and i have 89 clubs in MP, i make it 2400 to go, or at least i thought i did until the dealer announced my raise was 17k!!!!!!!! i stuck 3 black 5k chips in the middle in pure ninja mode. lol .Anyways it was a quality day. I will be definately playing it next month as a prelude to wsop the week after.
Not good signs of form going into the biggest tourney of my life next month in vegas but hey what can you do.
Enough messing about and onto real poker........on tinternet. These days, the line up of my average 6 max table consists of 2 slightly better players than me, 2 slightly worse players than me, and 1 fish who more often than not is playing less than a full stack. This leaves little room for error
Ive mentioned b4 my problems dealing with tilt, and thats something ive been working on hard to minimise. I basically cant afford to do it, the games are too unforgiving these days. Finding consistancy is the key.
Consistantly, robotically making the right decisions. In the end game, its the players that achieve this consistancy that will ultimately take home the bacon. Thats where im aiming to be
For me, my results have improved in the last couple of months for this reason. Im finding more professionalism in my game. I never played pissed anymore. period. thats what kicked off my 30k december downswing. Friday night, 9 pints of stella, lappers, kebab, home at 2am, play 9 tables of 5/10 . wake up the morning with that sick "zomg" feeling knowing ive donked off a wallop online. shorter sessions have also helped tremendously. and a 5 buy in stop loss. no more than 12 tables either. Ive also decided to spend less time on sections of poker forums that dont aid my progress as a player. That means less NVG BBV AWOP etc and more time viewing msnl/hsnl strategy sections, which i have neglected too much in the last few months
Strategy
Well it seems im now a 23/17 player. Im sticking with my plan to open more cut offs/buttons and tighten up the blinds. Im really pleased with myself on this for spotting the positional leak and actually fixing it ( hats off to 2p2) It has made me more laggy as traditionally i play 20/16 ish but i honestly cant see me reverting back to those figures
figures.................
