Observations and a New Attitude

Posted by icemonkey9 on Apr 18, 2009 in zen | 1 comment

 

Funny thing happened the other day while online writing an article ... on AIM someone IMs me and said "jake" and I assumed it was my friend Jurn8, whose name is Jake. So I said hi, and it turned out (after what had to be a full 5 minutes of confusing conversation) that the person that IM'd me was looking for Jake, and was actually noted DeucesCracked.com coach "Nolan" who wanted to say thanks to Jake for the plug of his videos on his blog. Somehow, he ended up accidentally IM'ing me. Weird! Anyways was talked about downswings and stuff, and he rifled through my blog. I don't have the transcript but he basically gave me some quick tips:

• My blog reads tilted.  I've become really wrapped up in results.
• I need to get myself to a zen-like mental state and even convince myself "I deserve to run bad" if I have to in order to detach myself from downswings.
• 15-20 buy-in downswings will happen to regulars.

Although none of the information was new groundbreaking stuff that blew my mind, a lot of it I just had to hear one more time from a respected source.  I really appreciate Nolan for taking a few minutes out of his day for me like that, it was cool to briefly chat with him and get his advice.  I did take it seriously and made some alterations to my behavior.

I'm really going to just focus on playing smart and really thinking through every hand.  That means less tables.  Also I am going to play a consistent game free of distraction.  In addition I am going to hold myself accountable (as well as to someone else I asked for help) for my goals and game-play strategic improvement.

I have been using HEM 1.08 Beta 28 which has the slick features of Omaha plus the new Table Scanner.  The scanner is being built by the same guy that made the popular "Telescope" program and is almost identical in form and function.  It's super slick and I really like using it after fooling around with it for a couple of hours.  If you haven't checked it out - it's a nice feature probably worth getting if you play regularly at 100nl or higher.