People kept telling me to take breaks during my bad run. I didn't listen. I continued to run bad. I still don't particularly think a break would have helped, but that's impossible to say now.
I haven't played in a few days because my personal life is a disaster right now and I just can't. Instead, I've been looking for each and every possible way to not be home at nights. So poker is on hold. I hope to feel okay in a week and get back to it. I didn't want to take a break because I had been playing well and going deep in a lot of the tournaments I played. I dropped down to some lower stakes MTTs near the end. The last two I played were two $22 180s that I played simultaneously. I went out 16th in one of them and 9th in the other. I hate that I haven't won one of those yet because they're sooo ridiculous ... just a matter of time. Gotta keep playing.
I've been really bad at multitabling tournaments in the past, so I figure that playing 180s is a good and cheap way to practice it. I can do two fairly easily now (which I wasn't able to do at all before), so I will stick with that for a while and hopefully add a third when I think I'm good enough to do so. Some advice I found really helpful was from JeffreyGB. He suggested that if you are trying to learn to two table, you should have one tourney that you focus on, and one that you play when nothing is going on at the focus table. So I'll have two tourneys up, and while I'm not playing a hand, I'll get reads and take notes at the focus table. Only when I don't have anything at all going on at the focus table will I do that for the second table. Obviously I play my good cards on the second table, but that's pretty much it. I found that advice really helpful, and I've found that now I can get reads at both tables even though I still consider one of my tables the "focus" table. I guess your brain just learns to adapt when you do something like that more than once.
If anyone who reads this has any multitabling advice, feel free to leave a comment or post in my thread. I definitely really like hearing from people. Thanks to the people who contact me via PM too, everything's appreciated muchly.
Anyway, I've also been highly considering moving over to cash games, at least for a short period of time. I might put some money into FTP. Just a thought for now, will decide what to do once I get back to playing.
Ah well, that's it for now. Just thought I should update. When personal life stops kicking my ass, I'll be playing more and hopefully winning back that huge chunk of bankroll I lost a while ago.
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=27264&start=70
I haven't played in a few days because my personal life is a disaster right now and I just can't. Instead, I've been looking for each and every possible way to not be home at nights. So poker is on hold. I hope to feel okay in a week and get back to it. I didn't want to take a break because I had been playing well and going deep in a lot of the tournaments I played. I dropped down to some lower stakes MTTs near the end. The last two I played were two $22 180s that I played simultaneously. I went out 16th in one of them and 9th in the other. I hate that I haven't won one of those yet because they're sooo ridiculous ... just a matter of time. Gotta keep playing.
I've been really bad at multitabling tournaments in the past, so I figure that playing 180s is a good and cheap way to practice it. I can do two fairly easily now (which I wasn't able to do at all before), so I will stick with that for a while and hopefully add a third when I think I'm good enough to do so. Some advice I found really helpful was from JeffreyGB. He suggested that if you are trying to learn to two table, you should have one tourney that you focus on, and one that you play when nothing is going on at the focus table. So I'll have two tourneys up, and while I'm not playing a hand, I'll get reads and take notes at the focus table. Only when I don't have anything at all going on at the focus table will I do that for the second table. Obviously I play my good cards on the second table, but that's pretty much it. I found that advice really helpful, and I've found that now I can get reads at both tables even though I still consider one of my tables the "focus" table. I guess your brain just learns to adapt when you do something like that more than once.
If anyone who reads this has any multitabling advice, feel free to leave a comment or post in my thread. I definitely really like hearing from people. Thanks to the people who contact me via PM too, everything's appreciated muchly.
Anyway, I've also been highly considering moving over to cash games, at least for a short period of time. I might put some money into FTP. Just a thought for now, will decide what to do once I get back to playing.
Ah well, that's it for now. Just thought I should update. When personal life stops kicking my ass, I'll be playing more and hopefully winning back that huge chunk of bankroll I lost a while ago.
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=27264&start=70
on October 19, 2006, 4:27 pm
As for tourneys, I don't know any good tourney players (MTT's mind you) that play more than around 4 tables. Reads are a little more important in tourneys, plus as blinds get bigger you have to open up and play a few more hands. When you get down to push/fold your decisions can't be taken very lightly either, whereas in ring decisions are just as easy as they'd normally be all the time. The escalating blinds and table structure make it difficult to play a lot of MTT's at once.
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on October 19, 2006, 6:34 pm
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