Good Session and Thoughts on My Play

Grinding through a session. Wanted to push myself a little, since I know I'm not going to be able to play as many hours and days as I want the only way I can up my volume is to play more games at the same time.

The $1.75 18 mans load fast, so I just went at it. Mixing in a few 45/90/180 turbos as they were filling up. Got about 14 games running and kept it going, if I busted I'd just reload. Not even sure how many I went through.

Wasn't paying much attention to what games I was playing, just trying to keep up. As I started to wind down the session and had fewer games running simultaneously I was thinking I'd be pretty down for this session. Happily I ended up just a little under break even. Put myself in good positions though, busted in 6th in a 180man and a 2nd in a 45man. So even though my $ amounts this session weren't impressive, I put myself in a position that they could have been much better had I ran a little better.

Volume is going to make the difference.

I'm also looking at other's (MI_turtle) games and seeing that my late game is weak. I'm fearless in the middle late stage and then when I get close I tend to tighten up and play scared. This has got to be costing me placing higher and winning. Making 11th in a 180 man turbo is shit; I need to play to win.

My late position shoving ranges I'm pretty comfortable with. What I really need to sharpen up is my middle position ranges. I find myself not knowing if I should jam/fold/other, so that's a weakness I'm going to have to fix.

My other observation is my physical setup is not going to cut it. I'm not getting any carpal tunnel symptoms, oddly enough I think its a tunnel of guyon/ulnar nerve issue and possibly an entrapment/pressure issue further up at about my elbow, where I rest my arm on the desk. My pinky and pisiform get cold and oddly painful. Thinking wrist support, and a new mouse. My mouse is crap, it keeps skipping and causing problems. Finally my monitors, a 17'' laptop and a 21'' monitor in portrait. The 21'' is too high up and is making me have crap posture. Gotta fix this up, we'll see what I come up with.

So that's me. More volume, keep railing Nick, sharpen up my ranges and figure out how to improve my physical set up.

"That's what she said."