Adjusting my play.

Ok, so Blogger has changed which confuses me at this hour. Good job I can't remember what it looked like before, so we're all good! Back to the task at hand, which is writing about the experience of poker.

Last time I wrote I said I'd lost the love of the game. Well it's back, turns out I just had to play a few. It took me a little while though but I think my game has returned to some sort of natural equilibrium - like but not the same as my early play - when I hadn't read anything about poker and was just playing how I wanted. I say like because it's not the same, I still have all the knowledge that has slowly soaked into my mind over the years. The months becoming obsessed about a particular part of the game, whether that be position, three betting or push/shoving are now joined together becoming a more three dimensional model to play along with my own style. Often when I learned something new about poker I'd learn it well but then it would take over for a while ruining my game in other areas. A rest from poker has cleared my mind, letting me concentrate and actually think about the game again.

I started playing again ten days ago and in that time I've played 35 tournaments and cashed in only eight. At first I played OK cashing in the fourth and fifth games, coming in at 27/648 and 76/4990 respectively, not cashing again until fifteen games later 886/11946. What seemed to be happening was that when I was running deep I'd get either get a bad beat and lose most of my chips or if that didn't happen I'd mess it up myself by pushing with something stupid. I handled the bad beats and addressed what part of my game wasn't working and played a six seated $1 tournament. I'd made a few mistakes along the way but nothing major, tried to avoid situations where I was flipping for my chips and folded some good hands if I thought I could find a better spot, then after hours of play, I'm 9th out of nine left, I check the chips and I have around 400,000 as does the 8th player, after that everyone had around a million chips and instead of thinking what I was about to do when it folded round to me on the button I pushed all-in with J3os getting called by 44. I believe this was unnecessary even with only around 10 big blinds left, a better spot could of been found. Either way I shall learn from it - it's just the worst feeling when it's your own fault. In the end I won $46 which is $46x the entry fee so it isn't too bad I guess. It puts my current Pokerstars bankroll up to $145.92 along with $72 I have in PKR from a free ticket they gave me, finishing 19/2589.

My brain has stopped now, so I shall stop typing, I'm disappointed in my last move but pleased with how I played the rest of the game so I'll just have to take from that what I can.