Aug Week #3: Get rich or die tryin'

This week started out pretty bad for me. I had a severe lack of confidence, which was strange. I'd been running pretty well, had +10% ROI & around $80 profit from the games I'd played. But for some reason, I couldn't get my head into the game. Had a bad session Monday, slight winning session Tuesday & Wednesday was an unmitigated disaster! I played 26 games & lost 3 BI's. I was on full auto-pilot, spewing off chips in the wrong spot, calling light & I was getting sucked out on pretty hard in a couple of games which added to the misery.

I was due to have a Skype session with another player last week but his internet was down (seems to happen a ton in the US!) but I SS'd him & he is crushing the $5s & $10 for around 30% ROI, which got me thinking about something I'm reading in 50 cents book at the min. One of his keys to fearlessness is to rediscover curiosity. Explaining that as a child the world was a huge source of information & we paid close attention to everything, as time goes on we tend to close our minds off, thinking we know all we need to know mainly out of fear that our assumptions about life have changed. 


This strikes a chord with me when I think about poker strategy. There is certainly 2 definitive camps when it comes to HUSNG 'basic' strategy, you're tendencies are either passive or aggressive (As argued on 2+2) but no one really considering each others strategy to be effective. Maaybe this is a bad example but it got me to open my mind back up, remembering the style of play that Cog taught me & try a little small ball & it seemed to work. Hopefully I've moved past this roadblock of auto-piloting & found my creative side where I'm thinking more for myself & not just re-enacting the actions of my peers.


I finished the week off pretty dismally, Saturday I played way too much, I think I dropped around 5 BIs which is terribad TBH & tottally lost focus. PLayed a short 5 game session today, won all 5 for around $22 profit leaving my week around -$10 but a valuable lesson learnt. Volume wise I exceeded my target but the auto-piloting has hurt me pretty bad. Overall I've played 82 games this week, bit too much I think and my loss of $10 shows it.

Good luck at the tables.


Jay