Bottom line is I have hardly put any volume in. Although motivation wasn't the primary reason for my small sample it was an easy excuse during a difficult start to the new year.
MTT wise Ive played a weekends worth of uneventful MTT's with no scores to speak of.
PLO Cash
If Im honest somethings just felt off and all my old cash game mental leaks hit me. Its most likely a case of feeling vulnerable in life, feeling exploitable on the felt. Its difficult for me without a background in cash to really understand whats going on because these mental leaks have not really shown up in my results (or maybe its just more difficult for me to see them). Aside from lacking volume and being unwilling to test myself higher up the stake tree so far this month I got off to an ok start.
My first session lasted a grand total of 55 hands (yay me, lol) where I banked a profit of $83 at PLO50. My next visit to the cash tables was almost a week later when I managed another monster session of 103 hands and made a profit of $38.
The next day I managed to put in the kind of volume (hours wise) that made me feel like I was actually trying to make some coin. I played two sessions (one early hours of the morning and one at the end of the day) totaling 700 hands at PLO50/100 and made $300 profit. I ended this session due to the tilt monster. I overplayed by an hour in which I lost, won, then lost $100 when I knew my mind was semi-tanking on life baggage. I realised it was time to cut the session short as my decisions had become loose rather than clinical and I knew it was costing me. This made me realise that one of my strengths MTT wise is that I can call upon clarity when I need it even when Im not in the perfect mindset. In cash this lack of clear thinking at all times can be costly and I need to try and work on ways to manage myself better.
315 hands @ PLO100 for $165 profit (52/100)
670 hands @ PLO50 for $253 profit (75/100)
Pretty much a fail so far.
Deep breaths before I tackle the second half of January....
