Monday, October 22, 2007

Changes

So my goal has always been to continuously move up in the game as my bankroll grew and my game improved.

Funny thing happened, once I knew I was a winning player in the 11 turbos, I move up to the 22s, I may more money. Then I move up to the 33s and make even more money per game. Then I move up to the 55s/110s and... I haven't made more money per game.

I'm kind of torn as to what I need to do, but I feel I have to make a decision soon. I've played over 700 110 turbos, I feel I've ran below expectation for over half of these and close to 75% of these games.

So on one hand I feel as if I should keep playing these, it's not like I'm losing money at them, just not making very much at all. On the other hand, I don't know if I can continue to play more than 5-10 of these a day without positive results. I've been on a downswing/break even swing for like 200-300 games now, and I feel I've played pretty good poker overall.

A few options for me would be:

Move down to the 55s: Positives. Easier level to beat, less variance. Negatives: I never found the 55s that different from the 110s, potentially less profit/vpps.

Play 100 dollar regular speed games. Positives: Higher ROI than turbos, easier overall. Negatives: Much slower speed, I can't stand regular speed games lately, I won't play one unless it's at the $200 stake.

2 table 33 dollar turbos. Positives: Easy level for me, higher ROI, potentially more profit. Negatives: FPP/VPPs, sense of failure if I don't meet my goals and keep my ROI at 20% or higher (I'm 25% single tabling these). Different and weaker opponents means my game won't improve as quickly without attention to study.

Move to FTP. Positives: Probably fishier players, faster games means 50-75% more games per hour which means potentially more profit. Negatives: Haven't had a ton of experience with the structure, possibly higher variance because of faster speeds.

Combo solution:

Grind FTP games starting with 2 tabling 33s, working up my 600 FTP br from there. Game select PS games, 100-200 regular speeds, possibly 500 regular speeds selling 200 of my action.

Positives: Change, possibly more profit, better ROI on PS, more games on FTP. Negatives: Change, playing on 2 sites, possibly improving less as I'm playing different structures.


So there are the feasible options in my mind. I don't want to play another form of poker, I feel I've learned so much about HUSNG already it would be wasteful to learn a new game at this point. When I'm solidly making 75-100 an hour in HUSNG I plan to learn other forms of poker, probably HU varities. Maybe shorthanded cash, I don't know or really care at this point.

I'd like to make a decision by the end of the week. I would like to take a day and try each of these options, but I know I'll end up leaning towards the day that I run the best, it's too hard to stay objective if I try each of these options out for one day.

Now, moving on. Some things in my life I need to change that will help me play more games and keep an even temper. During this recently stretch I had done very well in playing a lot of games, playing through or getting around anger, but the last week or so I haven't really played much. It feels like I ran out of patience. I'd like to change some things in my life to avoid this in the future, or to reduce it.

Sleep

I haven't been sleeping great, basically in the last 2 years. But I can sleep OK if I'm tired. I feel good when I wake up 6-9am. This should be the ideal time for me to get in 60-75% of my games each day. Lately I've been going to sleep at 3-5am and waking up at 12-3pm. This needs to stop, I feel like shit too much of the day when I do this. More on how to change this in other sections.

Health

I'm fairly unhealthy. I smoke a half pack of cigarettes a day, I eat too many fattening foods and I don't exercise enough. Luckily I have a good metabolism and I'm tall. I'm certain a good amount of other people in this world would be very overweight and even worse out of shape if they had the same habits as I do.

Some ways to change this include walking for at least an hour everyday. I'll try to develop some sort of plan, walk x amount of minutes/hours for every x amount of games, have a smoke after x amount of games, slowly reducing cigarettes and slowly increasing walking/games.

Lifting some weights wouldn't be a bad idea, but it is relatively unimportant at the moment. I'm not weak and I'm not big on "toning." Lifting weight is a good way to reduce stress, but I don't have room in the place to put any equipment and I don't want to join a gym at the moment.

Anyways, doing the above should help keep me "tired" at night and going to bed by midnight most of the time.

Productivity

This kind of ties in with the other stuff, but I've been fairly unproductive lately. I find myself very bored when I'm not playing poker, and when I don't feel like playing (aka last week) it's just a shitty feeling.

I need to start planning and doing things outside of poker. Basically the only thing I do now besides play poker is brew/drink beer and watch movies/shows with my girlfriend. Part of the reason I don't really feel like doing other things is because I hardly ever play the amount of games I feel I should be playing. This all goes back with the "50-65% of games in morning" thing, if I have a daily goal and complete it by the evening, I'll almost certainly be in a much better mood, meaning I'll actually want to do other stuff.

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So that's what's been on my mind the last few days. There's some other random stuff I'm sure I forgot, but when I have figured things out a bit more clearly I'll post about it.

As to the website, husng.com, my old roomate finally got in touch with me. He's how I met the webmaster who may or may not be working on the site still. He gave me some advice as to dealing with the situation and I should have an answer within the next few days.

Some other stuff is developing that may or may not be bad for my site, I'm not quite sure yet. Regardless, the site needs to be mostly functional very soon.


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