There are no off days: Days 24-25
Wednesday March 30th-Thursday March 31st: Strangely, for once in my life I keep falling asleep and waking up earlier and earlier instead of the opposite, which is the norm for poker players. I woke up a little past 9am on Wednesday and with time free before a session with Shon, I took the racket to the courts to warm my body up. I showed up to the gym half an hour early so I could get some additional work in. When noon rolled around I was already sweating and by the end Shon had me hunched over and depleted.
I wasn't sure if my Stars account had been compromised, so I informed them of everything happening and they've shut down contact with my old email. They asked me to verify my identity so I've sent what I hope will be necessary to confirm myself. Until they finish their investigation I won't be able to play on Stars, which I don't mind because I'm happy for them to be as thorough as they like when dealing with matters of security. Besides, with all the multi-entry business going on at Full Tilt it was easy to keep a full screen of tournaments throughout the day.
I have mixed feelings on the whole multi-entry business. The conclusion I've come to is I think they're great for rare events or for a few events on any given Sunday, but that as a regular addition to the schedule they're a potential disaster. Although the fields naturally swell up with so many people entering, they also become almost entirely full of regs. Near everyone seems to nit it up because there's nobody to abuse and few are going to make much in the way of a mistake preflop sub 30 big blinds. I'm pretty sure that at every higher stakes tournament I played all day the open preflop was for the minimum about 98% of hands once we reached something like 50-100 blinds, often earlier than that. I think plenty of the more recreational and fishy players know who the regs are and will avoid tournaments when they open the lobby and see every one of them repeatedly there. The multi-entry thing is great for two groups of people: owners and investors at Full Tilt, and exceptionally talented regs with very comfortable. I am neither exceptionally talented nor particularly well bankrolled (I'm certainly not poor, but I love to spend) so it wouldn't be long before I started to shy away from some of the higher stakes multi-entry stuff myself. I think instituting regular multi entry tournaments could potentially cause a cannibalization of Full Tilt's MTT player field, and both fish and realistic regs would start dropping out of the tournaments pretty quick. Not surprisingly, I mostly blanked out the session, and failed to make any final tables. Hours:
Session start: 1:35pm
Registration end: 6:00pm
Session end: 9:38pm
I'm still struggling with the idea of how to get better. Although this project has gone fairly well and I've had some results, despite accumulating some wins in this period I'm not up a ton when you factor in all the buy ins. I think that after this week is over, I should consider taking a couple days off to devote myself to study and review. I've done small amounts of study here and there during this period and have been saving all my trouble hands, perhaps 20% of which I've actually gone over at this point. I need to get some Pokersavvy videos created, which have become near impossible to do when playing live because there's usually numerous people in the room plus I'm often exhausted by the end of my session and wouldn't provide great content. I also need to review more hand histories from other players so I can see what they're doing differently than I am.
I woke up today and began things by driving Truck to the airport. Nearly the entire house has vacated off North until next week, save for Gabe who sleeps well into the afternoon and is so chill and quiet I'm often unaware of his presence if he's not in the office next to me. I took Heika to hit around on the tennis courts today but we didn't go long. Physically, Thursdays are always the worst because it's immediately following the three days of most intensive lifting I do. Especially problematic is the leg lifting, which leaves me limping around the house awkwardly and dreading the walk up the stairs to the office.
I took Thursday off as I always do, but still needed to do work on Raw Deal material as well as a few other small matters. Things have been good with the diet, but as I've said I'm pretty sure I'm still having a few more calories each day than I should. I've stayed clean, but every now and then I steal a bite or sip of something just so I can remember what things with taste are like.