March 2009 100K hand challange.

This is the link to the 2+2 thread that will tell you what it is about.

Well this month has taught me a lot. Playing at least 4.5 hours a day almost every day really does change your perspective on what a pro has to deal with. Things that I've learned:

- 4-5 hours of poker in one day is a reasonable task but sometimes you really don't wont to play.

- tilt managment, I've learned when I need to quit. I've also been able to spot tilt much sooner then before where as before I would be in denial about it and continue to play resulting in bad sessions.

-Sometimes you just need to quit a loser for the day, even if you are playing well.

-Sometimes you need to play longer sessions when you are winning. Seomthing that I struggle with now is winners tilt but I try not to look at my cashier when playing.



Including the back end of Feb I have been break even for 60K hand. By far some of the most variance I've felt. 2 10 BI down swings really makes you stress.

Anyway when ever I run bad or exerience variance it forces me to look into my game deeper. This months problems in a nut shell (other then run bad):

- I was playing far to loose (17/14)
- I got myslef into a lot of marginal situations often.
- I was over thinking some situations due to only 12 tabling.
- Some tilt goes a long way, I played sessions on tilt for waaaay longer then i should.
- I've never played this much in a short period of time.

I honestly think I play better when I play 15+ tables. It gives me less time to over think the situations (sometimes resulting in FPS). I naturally tighten up, 23 is never a great hand to iso raise a 90/2 fish! I can play way more hands per hour obv!
I thought this challenge would be much easier volume wise but 12 tables only gets about 600 (fasttables) hands per/hr. I've played 80 hours this month (think thats a new personal record) and played 50K hands. I'm way behind on the volume and my WR is so bad, yet some how I still feel positive about this month. I think thats because after some changes and less spew the past 20K hands I've run at 4ptbb/100. I hope I can keep that up and at least get to around 90K hand mark.

.safe: