kenewbie
08-31-2004, 04:54 AM
After some serious tiltage last night for the first time in 3 months, I had to sit back and think about my play a bit.
When all is said and done I think about 20% of my losses came from tilt, the rest was just beats. They where painfull ones, but still just beats which I'm normally pretty good at dealing with.
Another big percentage of the loss probably came from me trying to incoorporate pieces of my "a game" into a field that had me pegged as a slotmachine. Raising not so decent hands first in from the CO into thight blinds works great when you have a solid table image, not so much when people have seen you drop 25BB in 20 minutes and play way too many flops.
Now this is the part where I had my epiphany. When things started to go to hell, thats the point when I tried to alter my play for the better. That just isnt right. In a perfect world I would play my best game all the time, but I realized I'm usually on cruisecontrol. Probably as much as 70-80% of the time I just play on rutine without really thinking. And I'm not talking about easy hands or standard situations, I'm talking about sessions at a time. The only time I know for sure I'm always giving the game my full attention is in short handed games or tournaments.
So, my question is this. How often do you really play your A game? When I play my best game I take advantage of every situation I see, thight blinds, loose limpers, people playing Axo, people who steal blinds, people who are agressive on draws, people who are passive on draws, autobetters, and so on. The list is long, and the abillity to proccess as much as possible of this information and take advantage of the texture is what makes a good poker player. Most of the time, however, I dont even try.
k
When all is said and done I think about 20% of my losses came from tilt, the rest was just beats. They where painfull ones, but still just beats which I'm normally pretty good at dealing with.
Another big percentage of the loss probably came from me trying to incoorporate pieces of my "a game" into a field that had me pegged as a slotmachine. Raising not so decent hands first in from the CO into thight blinds works great when you have a solid table image, not so much when people have seen you drop 25BB in 20 minutes and play way too many flops.
Now this is the part where I had my epiphany. When things started to go to hell, thats the point when I tried to alter my play for the better. That just isnt right. In a perfect world I would play my best game all the time, but I realized I'm usually on cruisecontrol. Probably as much as 70-80% of the time I just play on rutine without really thinking. And I'm not talking about easy hands or standard situations, I'm talking about sessions at a time. The only time I know for sure I'm always giving the game my full attention is in short handed games or tournaments.
So, my question is this. How often do you really play your A game? When I play my best game I take advantage of every situation I see, thight blinds, loose limpers, people playing Axo, people who steal blinds, people who are agressive on draws, people who are passive on draws, autobetters, and so on. The list is long, and the abillity to proccess as much as possible of this information and take advantage of the texture is what makes a good poker player. Most of the time, however, I dont even try.
k