poker sess

 About to fire on a poker session. Hopefully it goes well.


My goals for this session.


Volume. 

Quality.

Focus.


Let's get it done.



session recap : 


decent session. not much on volume, but high quality and good focus. really short session.





ok.


goign to fire another session.


session goals.

play well.

make good decisions.

post session recap.

go for a walk after


session recap :


this session I exhibited concerning behaviour, specifically sitting at PLO $50 and playing 6 card PLO. Actually, the 6 card PLO table turned out to be extremely profitable, after I flopped nuts + redraw in a three way three bet pot and GII with 75% on the turn three way. I cashed out that hand. Then I won a massive pot not much later with flopped nuts (JT on AKQ) which I check called until the river when I c/r. Villain had top two pair only.

So yah. Definitely problematic. I did have a nice win and am now even for the day. But definitely tested my mental game and found it wanting. So I will have to work on that, and perhaps re-read mental game of poker and do some exercises. Gonna take a walk and then when I come back I will reflect some more on poker and life.


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