HPH

When I was playing 6max on stars I could get around 500 hands per hour playing 6 tables.
Yesterday I 2 tabled rush 6max for a couple of hours at over 600 hands per hour.

The interesting thing about this is that when 6 tabling normal ring games these is tons of stuff going on all the time. I find things a quite rushed and struggle with hand reading, note taking etc.
Yet when 2 tabling rush it seems like I have all the time in the world when involved in a hand.

More volume + more time to think. Nice.

Brawling

I played the $256 sunday brawl and $75 super stack this evening and felt pretty out of touch with the tourney game.

I have always done OK in tourneys and am planning to spend most of my FTP points on tourney entries this year, but I clearly need to work on my game. In particular I need help with the middle stages when stacks start to get shallow but not super short, and we are still some way off the money. People don't seem to fold thier blinds as much these days and I was getting pwnd by some decent aggro players to my left.

Can anyone recommend good MTT books or videos that cover this?

ps. I didn't win my next cash session but things are improving on that front :)

Urgh

Biggest ever downswing (in buyins):


According to the poker mindset I have already hit the following for 2011:

53/1 chance at 5 losing seesions in a row
270/1 chance at 7 losing sessions in a row

The table in poker mindset doesn't go as far as 8 losing sessions so that must mean I win tomorrow :)

Long way to go

I just finished another tough days play and now sit at -30 buyins for the new year.

My optimism for 2011 has been shat on from a great height over past week and things can only get better that's for sure. On the plus side I recorded the last 40mins of the final session today and will be going through it with Corwin in a coaching session next week.

I am not feeling to bad mentally and that is another positive so I guess things could be worse :)

Oh and I am scarpping the no stats thing, it's just not for me.

Going Stat Free...again

Downswing sits at 23 buyins for 2011. Am not going to bitch and wine, and will hold my hands up and say I have not played perfect, but it is getting silly now. Enough is enough poker gods, go fuck with someone else. K thanks.

Short term results are playing on my mind a bit now (not good, sometimes unavoidable)so have decided it is time to go fully stat free during session times. I tried this before and was pretty much clean but have gotten back into bad habits and need to quit again.

To help me I am:

1. Going public (this post)
2. Adding a stat free record to this blog. (Look left)

Wish me luck, I need it atm :)

Edit: I played a 15 minutes session just now, and am stat free 100% so far and am on a $2.30 upswing. Woot!!

2011 Sucks

My year has started with a 14 buyin downswing and can be summed up by this stupid hand:

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

CO: $51.85
BTN: $109.90
SB: $131.80
BB: $38.30
UTG: $113.00
Hero (UTG+1): $162.45
UTG+2: $107.75
MP1: $115.25
MP2: $87.40

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is UTG+1 with A K
1 fold, Hero raises to $3, 1 fold, MP1 calls $3, 5 folds

Flop: ($7.50) 7 3 J (2 players)
Hero requests TIME, Hero bets $74, MP1 raises to $112.25 all in, Hero calls $38.25

Turn: ($232.00) 5 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($232.00) T (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $232.00

Hero shows A K (Ace King high)
MP1 shows 7 7 (three of a kind, Sevens)
MP1 wins $229.00
(Rake: $3.00)

Hope you guys are running better than me :)