After heaven knows how many years of playing, studying and thinking about poker then you would have thought that I would have thought of the solution that I am just about to put to you before now. My $10,000 challenge is still going strong on www.888poker.com and the current session today saw my bankroll reach $664:91. It is pretty clear now that I will make $10k after doing the hard part of getting away from $100.
I am actually proud of the fact that I have dug in and seen out the rough times……but the rough times are continuing. I feel like I simply cannot do this any more and the act of playing so low has mentally done me in. I was on the verge of quitting or having a wild thrash at the $200 level with only three buy-ins when I had a Eureka moment.
My problem is that I am getting bored and then start spewing money which usually comes by way of crazy bluffs and very loose calls. I was in a prison of my own making. The boredom leads to bad play and the bad play leads to frustration and the bottom line is that I am basically treading water. The problem is that subconsciously I don’t want to do the challenge or the act of playing such low levels.
I was fine to start with because I was mentally strong but that evaporated like the morning dew. So I have hatched a plan to multi task while I am playing poker. This usually doesn’t work for numerous reasons. Mainly it is to do with concentrating less and that usually hurts your bottom line in poker. But it is the act of concentrating that is hurting me. My automatic default game should be enough to make money up to and including NL50 at full-ring.
It gets a little tricky at NL100 and certainly at NL200. But I reckon that 3-4 tabling NL50 full-ring and multi-tasking should help me to stop spewing money because the poker will not be my primary focus. It also allows me to increase productivity as well as playing 40 hours a month means that I am not doing other things for those 40 hours. Multi-tasking is hardly a ground breaking theory and it is usually frowned upon and rightly so. But I have a sneaking feeling that it is going to be the best thing that I have done so far. I have already tried it and had three winning sessions out of three with $83 in profit.
But the difference was that it felt so good for the first time and it has led to a total transformation in my mindset as I am almost no longer playing the games or at so it seems that way.
