Well I've been slacking this past week, but I've also been on a fantastic run, which is nice, after the fine kick in the butt the previous few weeks. I think I am still in a bit of a funk, for a number of reasons, and am having trouble pulling myself out of it. I have just been, and will likely continue to be, too lazy to get my butt exercising and also just get out of the house occasionally. I may just take the easy route and go get some anti-depressants from my doctor, which has been recommended, but I'm just not sure.
My parents are trying to be supportive but of course the past few weeks haven't been too fruitful, and my mom is also very bothered by some aspects of playing online, and there's really nothing I can do to make her feel any better. To quite a friend, “it is was it is.” It really bothers me how much it upsets my mom. But I guess that's just another tick on the list of reasons, I need to get back to Vegas as soon as I can. But that and some other things about life are still kind of nagging at me—but I guess I just need to keep on trucking and maybe also get my shit together! And also, a lot of people also seem think that I magically am doing nothing and have a lot of free time, when the reality is that I need to be at my computer putting the time in, even though I've been slacking this week (if 40 hours is slacking...). I don't know--just a lot of little things are getting to me, which shouldn't, especially when I know a lot of my friends have a lot more shit going on in their lives. Two friends in particular both have a lot of problems that I have no idea how to help them with, and I just don't know what to do.
Quick random aside, my friend Jon just made his first tee shirt on Cafe Press, so I encourage everybody to buy a shirt of his famous joke "What did one orange say to the other orange?.... Shut the fuck up Carl!!!" (It's funny because it doesn't address the fact that they are oranges.) Check out his store here.
This week's donation went to the Democrats again, because I'm seriously considering moving out of the country rather than to Vegas if the country doesn't realize how fucked up it is and elect Barack Obama.
Other than that, as I've said, I'm slacking in my duties and not done most of my weekly tasks that I so excitedly and prematurely laid out for myself (although I think I will be able to do them all if and when I do get my shit together...)—but I do think the hands I've been putting in have been quality hands. Aside from running like God, I think I did so well this week was that I didn't try to force myself to play too many tables, or to play when I wasn't able to concentrate. My friend and coach Erik thinks I ought to be able to play 8 tables and also put in 45K hands per month without much thought. He's so damned good and such a fast thinker that he can just crank out hands and reap the rewards, but once I pass 5 or 6 tables at a time, my returns don't just diminish, they turn break even at best, and very likely negative. Perhaps with work and working with him on my game (and point out some big gaping holes in my post flop strategy as per last session!), I will be able to play more tables, and grind out more hands, but that's just not happening yet, and I'm not going to force myself to put in hands or tables when I genuinely think that doing so would destroy my ability to play well. No situation is standard for me, I have to re-look at the stats, think about my image, come up with the decision, second guess it, and then make my final decision every damned time. And I don't get through that process (and I make poor decisions) when I have 8 tables up. (I will post a screen shot of my hud below, so you can see how many number I have for everybody). So for now, I'm going to stick to 4-6 tables.
Speaking of stats, I just have to say how happy I am I have a hud again, and also how well the PT3 update works. My hud (thing which overlays the stats onto the table) doesn't use too much processing power, and works like a charm! And I WHORE my hud. I use every available stat as much as I can. Cause if I have a statistical history on a guy, I might as well have his soul in my hand. Reading their hand ranges and actions is just soooooo much easier with the hud. (Of course, that doesn't mean I properly utilize this info every time, as Erik repeatedly pointed out to me!....) Even against good players, you can instantly spot gigantic edges with some stats. For example, I had one decent player who played at 22/18/3 and had a 3bet percentage of 11%, fold to 3bet of 82%, and squeeze percentage of 18. So when I raise 75s UTG (like I really shouldn't...), get called by a 40/10 on the button, and this guy is on my right in the big blind and 3bets me, I can make a 2.5x cheap 4bet and fold him sooooooo often. Or, as another example, I had a guy with standard TAG stats, except his fold to c-bet percent was 26, his turn aggression was 5, his turn aggression frequency was 72%, and his button VPIP was 44!!! This guy is calling in position and floating every flop against standard players and just taking pots down on the turn, so I just trap his ass, or I can 3bet bluff the turn, which is a high high percentage play too. Stats are just keys to the soul, and I looooove having my hud back. Obviously against fish and decent players with big leaks, you don't want to exploit their tendencies so much that they realize you are just raping them, but just keep on milking the cow. Against good players though, I do tend to do it a bit more because when they finally catch on, rather than adjusting, or maybe after the first adjustment, they just leave the table rather than fight, which leaves me with one less annoyance and more money. (Obviously I have to make a note on that so I don't try to exploit him later and he just comes over the top.)
So, without further ado, and since I didn't do any of my other weekly tasks (and hence have nothing more to talk about), here's a screen cap of my stats, followed by a picture of a Full Tilt table (normal with black background), followed by a Full Tilt table with my hud on it, so you can see what it looks like. Messy, but I like it...
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