- Preparation:
- Pregame. Have been doing a better job of warming up prior to playing SnGs. I think what I really need, however, is a tournament-specific preflight check-list, similar to what I discussed here. One of the things I've added to my to-do list is to create just such a beast.
- Postgame. Meh. Did a couple of post-mortems, but for the most part I've not gone back and reviewed hands in depth. Plan is to do so on the airplane today.
- Off-Table.
- Forums/Hand-of-the-Day. Posted a couple of hands-of-the-day responses. I'm trying to focus on the tournament hands that get posted, but often I can't help but weigh in on their cash game questions, too, as those are where I actually feel like I know 99% of what I'm talking about. MTT questions are more like 70% at this stage of my development.
- Books. Still reading Snyder's first book. Also am looking back through some hands in the Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time books.
- Videos. Watched a couple of Splitsuit's new (free) cash game videos on playing 99-JJ hands and c-betting in multiway pots. Split's a really good coach/video-maker I've followed for years. He sells some of his higher-end vids on his website, but he also posts free ones on the poker bank (click here). The thing I like about his vids is that they're short, not "powerpoint" and/or "bulletted list" intensive, and zip right along, with lots of examples and hand replays. Try some out if you've got some free time.
- Podcasts. Listened to Bart Hanson's podcast on semi-bluffing and started a second one on weighted combos. As usual, this is really good stuff. I also subscribed yesterday to a new podcast that is starting up by a guy named Andrew "Foucault" Brokos, who blogs very regularly on Cardplayer Magazine. He's primarily a tournament guy, and does a nice job on his blog working through hands, so I'm curious to see how his podcast works out. Click here if you're interested.
- Health. Meh week, with only a little more than a pound lost. My weakness continues to be crap/junk food at work, especially in the late afternoons. I eat a good breakfast and lunch, exercise fairly regularly, and even do pretty well at night at home. The trick, however, is avoiding the buckets (yes, buckets) of MandMs and other candy/poison that people bring in daily to destroy the health of the workplace masses. Mr. Multi, I'm talking to you. ;-)
- Other. Like the aforementioned pre-flight checklist, I think I need to get a little better organized on all the off-table prep work; I'm kind of just bouncing around right now, reading some of this book, watching some of that video, etc. It's time to get a more organized framework in place, especially when it comes to MTT-specific REDi stuff.
- Technique:
- Preflop. Haven't worked directly on my starting hand chart in a few weeks, but I have taken some notes. Hopefully plan to finish off the last cash-game post on the subject this week, and then see about tweaking it for tournament play (i.e., per Snyder's guidelines).
- Postflop.
- Evals (RED). Read a couple articles on ICM and how it applies to poker. It's a really powerful tool... if you're a computer 'bot playing online. Not exactly sure how I can use it live, however, as the computations are ridiculously intensive for even a 4-handed game. I also played around with ICM Trainer, which is a free push-fold quiz program that isn't too bad. You can get it by clicking here if you're interested.
- Line Implementations (i). Did nothing in this area.
- Emotional Control:
- Tilt Control. Had one "tilty" cash game session where, thankfully, I didn't lose my entire shirt. Otherwise did pretty well on this front.
- BRM. The 'roll is in OK shape and I'm playing within my limits, both tourneys and cash.
- Discipline. Meh. Did OK overall, but did a poor job of paying attention at times (often slipping into auto-pilot mode), as well as tracking results.
- Tournaments (Online). Played six STSnGs this week, cashing in three of them (one first place, and two 2nd place finishes), and one microstakes 45-man MTTSnG, in which I took 3rd place. Total added to bankroll was $36.85.
- Tournaments (Live). No live tourneys played this week.
- Cash Games. More meh. First part of the week was up and down a bit, basically breaking even for three days on end, but Friday and Saturday showed some decent gains. Didn't play as much as I would have liked (to build the 'roll), primarily due to heavy load at work, but I can't complain overall as I added $56 to the bankroll in cash.
Summary: As you can probably guess, the best word to describe this week's progress was "meh." Feeling a little unfocused and unmotivated, but also have a plan in place to fix that.
All-in for now...
-Bug
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