Monday, 17th January 2011
The past few days have been quite difficult Pokerwise :(
I will start with my graphic of the month for the sngs:

The past few days have been quite difficult Pokerwise :(
I will start with my graphic of the month for the sngs:

The sample is still small for what this format is, but the variance is ridiculous! Just yesterday, I ended up being -$5k and thinking "ok, it's now that we are going to the -100bis", then I was +1k and I finished the day -$3.5k.
I have also been spending a lot of time studying and cutting down the number of tables, which is why I'm a bit behind of the pace I'd like. 38.5K VPPs at the moment.
I ended up playing the Sunday-Warmup yesterday and I was playing supertight to see if I could start the year ITM at the mtts, but I lost a big pot a bit before the bubble with QQ vs JTs (82%) allin pre-flop.
Today at the gym the PT was slightly late and I did practicaly 1h of cardio. Then we worked on all the exercises that I'm weaker at and by the end I was completely exhausted. I think that in 15-20 minutes we did close to 160 repetitions, just to give you an idea of the pace. In retrospect, it was a good training. :)
I decided to read/ reread the books that I have at home.
I started with "Harrington on Hold'em: Volume I: Strategic Play".
I read it a couple of years ago and I hadn't even absorbed 10% of what I'm getting now by reading it. Everything makes much more sense and a lot of times it gives form to something I already knew. That is, something that I knew by instinct, or by experience, but that I had never really thought about, becomes an idea. Makes sense? :)
It's not that I'm going to start playing like he teaches in the book, but there are a lot of concepts in general that I find to be interesting.