Last few days have been tough to say the least. Sunday was again terrible. I'm thinking of not playing a Sunday session anymore. I start work at 6.30am until 6pm and then start grinding. This just seems to be burning money and I find it difficult to stay focused. Looking back through some bust out hands just makes this even more clear. I absolutely butcher some of them if I'm honest :(.
Two weeks running now I have dusted off a decent chunk of my roll chasing a big cash in an MTT. I think from now on I will not play MTTs on a Sunday unless I can wangle the day off form work. I woke up this morning knowing I would have to put in some decent volume to try and recover from yesterday. Unfortunately it's just gone from bad to worse so far. I have played 2.2k hands so far today and dropped 6 buy ins. I have been unlucky here and there but again emotion has got in the way at some stage. With blasting money 2 weeks from MTTs and a pretty break even week at cash last week, having to move down to $25nl is becoming a possibility :(. Hopefully that won't be the case but I'm fully prepared to drop down if need be.
It's become clear over the last week or so that I really need to work on my mindset and emotional state whilst playing. I have noticed myself getting pretty angry over pretty std things, which is not a professional attitude towards the game at all. If I want to progress any further in this game I have got to change this ASAP and not worry about the short term results and/or bad beats. I guess I will talk to some friends about this, as I'm prepared to work very hard at improving this aspect of my game but if I'm honest I am not really sure how to improve it.
Well will get back at the tables and try pull some $$$ back :). If I can stay focused and playing well I may well beat last Monday's most number of hands in a day record, but we'll see. I definitely won't be playing if I'm steaming.
Be cool dude, stay frosty and rememeber poker is a long term game with many a rise and fall. We all get bad runs and some nasty bad beats.
ReplyDeleteYou will be fine, just relax a little perhaps take a few days off even.