Experiementation gone sour

I played terribly for the first 2,000 hands I played today... I was experimenting with a bunch of new stuff and it wasn't working... I lost far too many stacks on bluffs and I picked a few terrible spots to follow through and also just simply ran into the tops of people's ranges a few times which didn't help matters either. I think, however, that may have helped me get paid off later on in the session.

I can remember one hand where a reg stacked off with top pair, K's with a 6 kicker vs me, lol. To be fair to him, I play a decent amount of bluffs this way and semi-bluffs (like 4h5h) I would probably do the exact same thing so I guess his ship on the turn isn't terrible... but now that I know he's willing to stack off this light vs me it's going to be a lot of fun taking him to valuetown in the future. Here's the HH:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3412727


I ended up winning about $1.6k over 3,000 hands today, which is a pretty good result considering that I was down about 3 buyins over halfway through the session. I would have been up a ton more if I had just played my normal game right away and not spewed off a ton of chips at the beginining.





Today was my last "marathon" session. I had to have one final hurrah I guess before I change it up. From now on, I'm going to do what my coach, Nutedawg, suggested. He said that I should break up my sessions into like 2 hour blocks and make sure to take a break (away from computer for about 30 mins to an hour) in between.

He said this will actually allow me to make more money with less hands played and be more efficient because I'll be playing more optimally all the time. I'll be the first to admit that during a marathon session I'm probably not playing my "A" game towards the end of the session. Hopefully, I'll be able to avoid a lot of mistakes because I'll be more focused during each session. I'm looking forward to trying this plan out, as I think it could improve my play significantly.