Things have been going pretty well lately. I am running well, meaning I am hitting some 6-10 outers, which is always nice. I still haven't had much time to play because of all these tests. I wasn't suppose to play today because I should be studying for my 8:15 pm test but I couldn't resist. It doesn't look like I will get too many hands in this month. I am basically free for the rest of the month school wise, but I have some friends coming up this weekend, so I won't play much then. Next week, Lauren and I leave for Baltimore on Thursday and probably won't get back until Sunday evening, so there is another four days of not playing. I don't any of it though because I am doing so well this month without playing. I think my theory about playing shorter sessions is correct for me, as I've only had one session over 400 hands and it was just barely above break even.
My plan is to utilize this theory as much as possible, meaning playing multiple 200-400 hand sessions per day. There is one mental problem I have with this though, and that is having the results from my previous session still on Pokertracker. I still haven't rid myself of that fear of losing money I have already made, and I still constantly "force import" during sessions for even faster updates than every minute. One of these times I am going to play with Pokertracker minimized and see if I can handle it. I also remember reading somewhere about someone doing a prop bet to not look at their Pokertracker for an entire month of play. This is something I might be interested in doing.
Ok, I am saving this last part of my blog for a rant, which I don't do too frequently. I have been following the live tournament circuit periodically because I am dying to play another big buy-in tournament and the chance to play for life changing money. Even though I don't like 9 handed play (can't 3/4 bet liberally because too many other cards in play plus you only get on stack), I feel my game has improved a lot since the WSOP. Every day I check the tournament updates, I keep seeing people like Travis Rice and Alan Sass and others who are making the final table and sometimes even winning these things. I know I am just as good as these guys, maybe not in tournaments but in general ability, and it's frustrating to see this. I'm not trying to take anything away from them and I believed it was only a matter of time before they would really break out, I just feel like I am missing opportunities because of school. These guys are traveling all over the place winning 6 figures while I'm forced to study for an Astronomy test that I'm going to finish in 20 minutes and get an A on. An argument could be that I should just play online tournaments, but they are nowhere near the same as live tournaments. These big buy-in events give you a lot of room to play deep stacked the first couple of days (even though it is a crap shoot the last couple of days). This rant probably stemmed from all the tests I have had lately, and I'm not going to drop out or anything drastic like that. I just want an opportunity to play some of these events so I can prove to myself whether or not I am capable of doing something spectacular. I will be going to some tournaments after the end of this semester, so I better take advantage of the few I get to play in...
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