Parameters for Play

Firstly, I should say that HU poker has been going well for me in general, but I had a horrible weekend last weekend.  My account was at $3700 on Friday afternoon and by the time I finished with it it was $2600.  (And our van died, and our envelope of food money for the month was stolen...)  By Monday I was down to $2100.  Wow.

I think I ran well at $50NL to move from $1500 to $3700.  I also think I played well.  I was on my A-game almost all the time.  I was not on my A-game when I returned $1600 of the funds I earned.

I haven't quite returned to my A-game.  I've had glimpses of it here and there, but I'm still angry and feel entitled to that which I lost.  I'm also playing impatiently.  None of this is justifiable.  The people who owned me deserve their spoils.

Right now I have a 2BI stop loss rule for any one villain.  I think I need more structure.

For now I'll start with a 6BI stop loss for the day.  That's still a lot, and it may be too high.  It might be that I can't recover from that well enough.

I also will not play or study poker past 1:30am.  I think I can play well at those times, but I need to get up around 10:00am to feel good about life.  And feeling good about life is important for playing good poker (and more important than poker anyway).

I also need to develop a plan about how to study poker.  For that I should talk to Hunter.  I need to compose an email to Hunter explaining what things I would like help with regarding structure and learning.  I think there is value to having a guide, even if the guide should be (a little) misleading.

I also have a game plan to play mostly weak players.  Open a table and wait for action.  If someone who I have little edge over joins the table then leave and start another one.  It's okay to sit at a table, but do it infrequently, maybe 10-20% of the time.

For now, I think I need to stick to playing only one table and record all of my sessions.

In summary, the parameters:

1. Quit at 1:30am
2. Quit for the day if down 6BIs
3. Quit any villain if down 2-3BIs
4. Play only one table at a time, record all sessions
5. Generate tables, leave if competent player joins