Lesson with Nute = I start crushing again

It never fails. Normally, right after I take a lesson from Nutedawg I get back to playing great and absolutely crushing the game. I had a lesson with Tim on Tuesday and pretty much every session since then I've played extremely well. We talked a bit about the mental game and certain frames of mind that are really bad to be in when you're playing poker. I definitely had a few mental game leaks for sure.

I also realized that I was being far too stat-reliant when playing. A few weeks ago I tried playing with only a 3-stat HUD but I quickly switched back to my normal HUD. That was a mistake. I'm now using a HUD with VPIP/PFR/3-bet/# Hands. This is helping prevent me from using stats too frequently. Now, I seem to be only looking at the other stats in the pop-up when I need something to help me break a tie. That is the way it should be. I need to be putting players on a range every single street of every single hand, pay attention to betting patterns/sizing, board textures, timing tells, and all other sorts of important things before I start to use random postflop stats to help me make a decision during a hand.

Today, I totally crushed and played about 6.5 hours total. I felt like seeing how I did so I checked and here's the graph of the day. I went on a nice little heater at the beginning of the day and then just grinded away from there.


Also, just as a comparison... the graph of the month so far... you can see exactly where my lesson with Nute was, lol. I'm not even exaggerating. I figured out exactly when I played my first hand after the lesson with Nute and it was Hand # 5439. So everything before that hand, is before my lesson with Tim and the hands after #5439 were played post-lesson.



It's so crazy how easy it is to stray away from perfect play after a few weeks of just grinding it out. I think a lot of it is due to a subconcious shift to auto-pilot type play + occassionally having too many tables up. Of course, this is a small sample so the swongs could easily be just do to variance but I don't think it's too much of a coincidence that my graph skyrockets after I got some guidance.

In other news, my Intramural inline hockey team played in two playoff games this past Monday. We played the semi-final game and won 8-7. Then, in the Championship, we fell behind 2-7 early on on the game... but battled back to make it a nail-biter. However, we ended up short by one goal and lost 10-11.