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Pre Session Write Up :

 I am going to fire another session of online poker. I feel a little tired. Guess I will have a coffee.


I am going to play 6 tables of PLO $10. I think that is a good approach. This will be a short session, I am a little tired now. But I can still play. I will have a coffee.

My goal is just put in some good, clean volume. Tag hands for review. Play straight forward, ABC, winning poker. Today has been a good day. I went swimming, and then I went on two decent walk sessions. Right now I am feeling a little bloated because of the smoothie I had. Just milk and berries. And my legs are a bit tired / sore. Need a rest. So I will grind 30 minutes to 1 hour of online poker. Then free play. Then pool.





Post Session Recap


Ok. That was draining. I feel drained. Could also be all that milk and berries I ate. But anyway it is pretty late for me. I feel like I woke up around 5 pm, it is 5 am now. So that's 12 hours. Anyway the session went good. I played up to 12 tables, which was too many. Also my HUD wasn't working quite right. Some of the tables the HUD stats were in the wrong spot. Annoying.


But over all the session went well. I took a bad beat! My biggest loss of the session by far. Bad beats are a sign that things are going well because to take a bad beat means you put your money in ahead. Here I was a 77% favourite. 




My session was 51 minutes and I played 459 hands. I felt my focus was pretty good. My quitting decision was good, I was definitely getting a little tired. As I said, it is late. I've had a long day. A great day. And it isn't over yet. In about 40 minutes I will hit the pool.

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