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Message: [QUOTE="Matt Vaughan, post: 2021822, member: 34747"] [B][U]UPDATE TIME:[/U][/B] Ok, well I've been putting this off, partially due to busy-ness and partially due to embarrassment, but: it's update time. I came back to school this week, and last weekend I put in about 12 hours of live cash game play spread over 2 sessions - Saturday and Sunday night. The first night I was playing somewhat too loose and not making all the right reads, but I also ran absolutely awful. Over the ~6 hours I was there, I managed to run my top pair into sets 6 times, straights twice, and flushes 2 times. The worst were actually the sets, because each time the players I was against were relatively short-stacked and so we ended up all in during 5 of the spots. One issue with waiting this long to update is that I don't remember enough of the details of many of the crucial hands to talk about them here =/ so I'm going to try to start taking short-hand notes at the table regarding action of interesting/questionable spots. First night ended down 1.6 BIs. The second night went similarly bad in terms of money lost, down 1.8 BIs, but had fewer traditional "bad beats," and more top-of-range spots as well as me failing to adjust. There was an enormous station at the table who was clearly a huge fish and had no clue what he was doing (for a while he was looking at his hand every street, sometimes multiple times per street). It took me too long to figure out that he was stationing that hard, and I lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 cbets that I really didn't need to. On top of that there were many times where there would be a couple limpers and I'd raise a decent but non-premium hand to thin the field and get 3 calls, and miss the flop and have to shut down. Then three times in a row, during a period when I had been more active, I raised preflop with AK, AK, and AQ, and I took down just the blinds. It was just one of those sessions where it felt like everything was going wrong. I felt that I played much better during the second session though, trying a little harder to play range-based poker and stay tight even when I was folding almost all my hands for a few hours straight. I've also managed to now get a small roll for 4nl on Lock (after having my BCP money tied up) so I grind online - albeit without a HUD - when I want to. I think this is good for getting back into the habit of range-reading and tilt management, since I struggle to do both live. I don't have tilt-like symptoms live as often (ie I don't swear at bad beats), but I certainly have trouble staying focused at times. It's hard because I've noticed that sometimes when I engage socially at the table I don't pay as much attention to the action as I'd like, but when I focus ONLY on the action, I get bored and burn out faster. I'm working on finding a good balance with this. Obviously right now, I'm not a huge winner or anything, so my enjoyment still has to be one of the most important factors, so I don't think it makes sense to ALWAYS play silently. But I think I may try to deliberately cut back on conversation to build up my concentration muscles so that if I choose, I can JUST focus on the game in time. Probably won't do this every session, but maybe every other. Think that's all I have to say for now, except that I'm loving my online game theory class, and most of my new semester classes are going well too. I am taking volleyball for my required phys-ed class this semester, and though I'm a bit bruised (need to learn how to bump better) from today, I had an absolute blast. I really miss my old soccer (footie) days/organized sports etc. Hopefully will get out to the casino this weekend and run and play a lot better!! Study is my friend ofc and I've been doing more of that as of late, and feel confident that it will have an effect since I just feel more mentally engaged in poker now. 'Til next time. :) [/QUOTE]

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