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DJ (Hawk) SMART accountability
week preceding 1/11
Intro:
I figured I would start an accountability post to talk about my progress, and write up little reports as I go. One thing I did was create a session tracker for each of my goals (attached as a jpg) in excel. I couldn’t remember all my excel skills, but I made it functional as long as I track it monthly on separate sheets.
Any who, let’s get into goals shall we? This past week was really my first real time being able to start working on my sessions. Health stuff, really was making it hard to do anything, and I was just trying to recover so I can have a good start. My health goals of walking and an apple a day are going well. I’ve had to miss a couple days just from feeling like a freight train hit me, but that is chronic health issues. I wish I could say I’ve figured out this “acceptance” many docs talk to me about, but really I get frustrated. I did get up to a 2mph (not converting that to metric) pace for 10 minutes today; which at the start of me using the treadmill for PT I couldn’t go past .4mph without my ribs and back pulling apart painfully. I’m still starting to hurt pretty bad at the six minute mark no matter what, and I’ve had to take a knee a couple times, but I’m moving some and that’s progress. On the apple front Cosmic crisp apples are amazing, I have a new apple I’m trying starting tomorrow let’s see if it ranks above or below.
Cash Sessions:
I decided I’m only counting >30 min sessions, but all my sessions this week were around an hour, with one almost two hours tonight. I’m up overall 171.4bb in 3 sessions thanks in large part to a hand I’ll probably submit in the forums. Just how I had seen the Villain play and then how they treated the hand, it seemed like a tilt bluff, but I nearly folded. Sky Matsuhashi says in courses “If you don’t know what is going on just fold” and well it just didn’t fit this Villain’s pattern of play when they had good hands, but I was also just confused on reading them. I also lost a good hand on what I thought was a good bluff, so I am fine with getting caught by a set of KK on the river, but maybe the shove was on the turn vs river. I may submit it as well after I’ve looked at Bluff:Value for the range. So as you can see on the tracker I’m on pace for cash sessions!
Rec.poker tournaments:
I played 3 this week when I was really not planning to play any, but I saw there was an OPAH and joined, had a great conversation with Combinkley, and battled through the tournament to get 5<sup>th</sup> and be ITMBM (In the make believe money). I ended up doing two more tournaments getting 5<sup>th</sup> ITMBM again, and then 6<sup>th</sup> a hand before someone else went out so I could have been 5<sup>th</sup> again but I made a poor raise decision. The last hands of my tournaments have been the worst hands I’ve played in each tournament, at first I thought I was just feeling that way because I was knocked out, but I’ve looked at the first two tournaments (and the PKO I played) and think it’s actually accurate. I played some solid to good B-game poker and then made some big blunders, and blunders are the stack (and tournament) killer.
Cash Tournaments:
1 tournament to report, a $100 GTD PKO on ACR, and a second place. I didn’t get many knockouts up until the final table but knocked out 3 of the final 8, unfortunately they all had the lowest bounties at the table and the person I lost to got everyone else. A funny part from this tournament is I was the chip leader and to my right was the person with the biggest bounty of the tournament and they were forced all in twice once when I was the initial opener in their BB and once in my BB. I lost both times, once AA lost to JTs (flush) and once JJ lost to AA. The aces were perfectly disguised with their .4BB in the pot, technically I won more than I lost on the .44bb pot because I had a limp caller that folded on the flop. Still funny.
The final hand of that tournament was one I posted on bluesky if you can find me, and the only thing that bugs me is I didn’t get it recorded in PT4, so I tried posting it as quickly as I could so I wouldn’t forget, but I still think maybe there is something wrong about my write up and not being able to learn something bugs me more than if I made a blunder. When I worked in a social psychology lab we had a motto “progress over success”, so I know I’m always going to be learning in this game, and I am happy about that, I’ve always had a curious mind and poker gives me an outlet for it and lets me see just how bad my brain is behaving any given day.
Ending thoughts:
I am planning on the 150GTD PKO on ACR tomorrow, and my week is kind of up in the air with some draining social and medical stuff that needs done. Hopefully I can keep on this, but honestly there is only one way to eat an entire (usually they say elephant, but since we have so many people this might apply to) moose…. one bite at a time.
Take care everyone, see you on the tables.
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