Day 3 = HELL
Posted by pharreal87 - Posted on January 3rd, 2010
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What an ugly day. I ran so bad. Not even sure what happened today. I know that i played bad at times but not to be down this bad. Maybe just cuz its a sunday lets hope. I'll be back tomorrow to look to show a profit.
Today
First three days
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January 4, 2010 - 12:10pm
i think the problem yesterday was a bit of playing with worse players. i know how to play monday-saturday but do bad sundays in higher stakes stuff. need to change up my play on sundays. sucks to be down to 5.8% roi when i was 8 3 weeks ago.
can't slow down because my goal is 400k vpps this year.
Good luck keeping it going.
Probably just variance. Your ROI at this level is 5.8% +- 1.9% so you're bound to have some long downswings. But you'll always end up winning in the long term.
The only other two things likely to be having an affect are: 1) the quality of the opponents - may be they were tougher yesterday; 2) once a downswing starts you can get tilted. Always stop if you find yourself making donk moves.
Setting yourself a target of playing 3000 of one type of tournament in a single month is likely might make you more likely to suffer from both these problems.
I like to switch between tournament types as it feels easier to forget the bad beats that happened before. You might want to consider a more flexible target i.e. 3000 tournies rather than 3000 52 DoNs or have a profit target instead. I also find switching tournament types keeps you fresher generally.