Today I played my first real session of sngs since June 15th. It seemed smart to take it easy, so I played for only 4.5 hours and limited my table count to around 6 where possible. For the most part games were very slow to fill at 6m, so I played half my volume at 18m.
I lost money playing 6m, but ran insanely hot at 18m and ended up making like $30/game. I felt really good the entire session, but I don’t know whether it’s due to my extended break or due to the fact I was running hot.
I don’t think I made too many mistakes due to being rusty. I made a couple bad all-in preflop calls vs regs, but other than that I think I played mostly fine.
I had quite a few icm spots that I wasn’t sure about today, though. Usually these spots come on the bubbles and itm of 18 man sngs since icm is really important in these games. I have a lot of hand histories to go through tomorrow.
A big reason why I am writing in this blog again is to reflect on my mental state while I was playing each session. As I’ve already said, I ran very well and didn’t really have much chance to get tilted today. Obviously I had my share of 3-outers and various other bad beats, but I usually don’t get tilted by those alone. I would say my biggest problem with tilting is when I get bad beat several times in a row in a short period of time, and I luckily didn’t experience that today.
In The Mental Game of Poker, it says that it is very important to recognize that you’re getting tilted before you go into full blown tilt. To be able to do this, you need to know what sort of things tilt you. I obviously have an idea, but I think it’ll become even clearer if I write about everything that tilted me at the end of every session.
Next session is tomorrow! Probably another 4 hour one.
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