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."
Hi Jesse, just wanted to say Hi and gl with everything. Hope you don't mind my asking, but what would you say your average stack size is when you FT a 180? Alicia.
ReplyDeleteHey Jesse.Let me know if you have a name on SKYPE and we can get in touch.
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