Friday night, though, was a non-poker night. The local band I've been on about, Walking On Cars, had their first gig in town since winning their slot on the RedBull festival tour. I'll just say it was MIGHTY. I didn't miss poker for even one second while singing along to every song and being jostled by biological teenagers (I am often a transcendental teenager when listening to music that gets me).
On rousing myself Saturday morning(ish), I only had to down a couple of cups of coffee before digging in to my first MTT. But even better than the caffeine, I could feel this challenge as an uberboost to my game. I felt really focused - no spazzing about losing chips with 'I think I hope I want him to have nothing here!' sorts of behavior I can get into. Results started showing in my second MTT. I continued feeling sharp on Sunday.
I'm really trying to isolate and identify my senses in this - because playing 'ON' like this feels very different to times when I'm at my lesser game. I have different responses to similar situations, one is correct and one is... stupid. Of course that is not neccessarily reflected in the results. It's just what I know about how I'm making decisions.
I feel a burn when a bad decision has turned out in my favor. Don't get me wrong, I'm not giving the chips back.* I just feel a hell of a lot stronger as a poker player when I make the right decision, regardless of the outcome. One of my goals, in fact, is to play well 90% of the time, so in that 10% where I might get lucky even though I played badly I can laugh at myself: "lucky donk!" and play on with strength.
*Right now, when I realize I've played badly and gotten lucky it often actually tilts me and I can start flinging chips every which way while internally shouting 'SO THERE!'. Hmmm. I've just realized this mode as I've written it here. Aaaah, the implied odds of a blog have me smiling. (Red asterisks added in editing haha.)
Anyway, I didn't bink anything this week. In fact I didn't even final table anything. But I played well and I was happy with that.
I got a lot happier today when I looked at the playerscope.com stats. They're not up to speed with sharkscope - I think they may only update once a day maybe? But I checked them this evening, exactly one week since the challenge began, after getting a nudge by an (annoyed) interested party. (Hiya Gee! Enjoy your hols!)
Dear Occupant:
BuyIn - 2012
| Average | Rank | Rating | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| $7.41 |
99.74%
|
464 of 184,151 | Between $5.01 and $10.00 |
Captain Gee:
BuyIn - 2012
| Average | Rank | Rating | Level | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8.90 |
99.73%
|
479 of 184,151 | Between $5.01 and $10.00 |
