Shortterm results

Trix · #1 08-12-2005, 01:30 AM

I think my results during sessions may be affecting my play, so I´m gonna keep pokertracker closed for the rest of the month to move my focus on how I´m playing rather than what my short term results are.
Somes times it results in missplaying hands, or maybe I would have missplayed those anyway..
The other thing is that I may quit a session early if I start off on a bad run or may be thinking that I´m on a X bet downswing when I start playing the next day, rather than focusing on maximizing my EV.

Does this make any sense to do ? or should I rather keep it open at all times and force myself to just ignore it ?

I´ve seen people use a program to block your $ ammount on the table as they dont want to know what their stack is. That seems a bit silly though, as if I played live I wouldn´t be able to do that and my stack can sometimes help me with my decisions, even in limit.

I´m on my second day of doing this now and I´m not really sure if I´m up or down, think I´m up, but the point is that I dont really know and I shouldn´t really care.
In theory I should care alot more about overplaying a hand for an extra BB than dropping 100 BBs through solid play, so this is what I´m trying to get to.

pokerrookie · #2 08-13-2005, 12:57 AM

Your stack is your bankroll in limit. Your decisions should be independent of the stack size. Unless you think that other people are playing you a certain way based on your stack size.

I cannot think of any other situation when your stack size should change the way you play. Care to elaborate?

Trix · #3 08-13-2005, 09:09 AM

Well, I´m never below 12 BBs, so it has nothing to do with that, so yeah, I think it affects other peoples decisions.
Maybe not the stacksize, but how you have been running at each table. Since I usually play 2-3 tables, it´s easier to me to just look at my stack and just see how I´ve been running. I guess it doesn´t really have much to do with stacksize, but whether you have been catching cards or not. Perhaps things get a little enhanced if I go from 1000 to 1700 on one table rather than going from 300-1000, though it´s the same ammount.

For the record, I still haven´t looked at results in pokertracker, but getting a bit curious [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]