Pokewhore

What a game we play. The past 1.5-2 months at the tables have been absolute hell. Watching what seems to be every hand get it in and the chips going the other direction and then ding, 'youve been eliminated' noise.  It's happened all too much but what can you do?  Expected, standard, etc etc etc. It's poker. I've said it a lot latley but this is still currently my worst downswing in the 6ish years I've played. For some odd reason my HH's weren't being saved again so any semi deep run I had I've been unable to look at them to see the leaks that need plugged.  Seems to be working today so hopefully I'll have some tournaments to look at.

We can't always blame variance on the problem.  Finding new ways to accumulate chips is something that every player needs to add to the arsenal. Everybody has their standard push hands, calls hands, etc etc etc. But what about the in between? What separates the sickos from me? What if we kick back from 16-18 tables to 10 or so and find more spots to pick up chips. Maybe it isnt the best +EV situation for you but I think in a vaccum, in that certain moment where you have a read and decide to make an unorthodox play. You get called and lose so what? You have many more tournaments to get at. MTTs are getting tougher and are only going to get worse thru the years. Staying ahead of the curve is important and obviously finding new ways to increase your edge is a must. Training sites and books and forums can only get you so far. It sets a good foundation to build upon. Who cares if it looks silly if you get called, you tried. It's an art..rough drafts of shit to see if it needs cut out or kept. Don't throw it out because you got called and lost, take a look back and see if you saw something that maybe it was a bad time to do. I'm rambling on about some basic common sense but sometimes I think it's missed. We get so wrapped up in our own situation, downswing, upswing, whatever and we forget to review our games. It's easier to just pass it off on bad luck, right?  So the new goal is going to be atleast 1-2 tournaments per week need to be reviwed. I'm not sure if any serious players follow this besides the usuals but I encourage you to do it also.  Even if you find 1 spot that you could have got chips, thats a + for the review session.

Also I was talking with Jay(plzjusthold) and we are going to try a new set up.  12 tables to begin the session and then cutting back as you get deeper(thats what she said). This will get us paying more attention to detail in the mid-late stages. We will see how it goes, Sunday today..got a nice schedule going. GL at the tables.