It's actually more like a formula, since it wouldn't make sense that a Buddist with zero knowledge would have 75% of the game licked. So, (skill * 'other factors') = success.
For me, for a while, my other factors have supremely sucked. So SKILL (80%) x OTHERFACTORS (10%) = 8% overall success rating.
The thing is with me, I've always known that hard work is so important. I've convinced myself that I do indeed work hard, I mean I play 150 hours per month and do work away from the tables. What I don't do enough of is stuff I don't wanna do. Things like eat well, do physical exercise, quit playing after 2 minutes cos my heads broken even though there's nothing else to do because Nic's got the TV tied up with The Only Way Is Essex.
Reading players. I've been doing a lot of work with Pawel about reads on Stars regs. It's useful. What I've lost in 9-12 tabling though is the ability to almost sum up a player and his attitude to poker, and me, in 3-4 sentences. So individual reads are important, but general attitudes (risk averse, cally, makes bluffs in obvious spots, takes weird lines for value, etc) are all the stuff that when winning (bi-winning?) I used most of all and was supremely adaptive to.........
So 6 tables for now. Much more adapting. Then tomorrow, feel some pain through all that other stuff.
My last >$20k month was last October. Was still in the middle of struggling throughout the whole year. What I remembered from reading blogs though is that this was literally the only month in the whole year that I absolutely refused to play when feeling off-game or light headed. Every time I did, I got up and went to sleep instead.
So, I need a plan for feeling this way. When light headed, I'll do one of the following things (NOT GO WATCH THE WIRE OR READ EMO POKER-POCOLYPSE LEGGO BLOGS).
Go for a run.
Make a micro leggo video.
Watch a video and make notes.
Go to sleep.
Study a reg.
Basically, all the 75% of stuff needed to succeed.
Is all!
dan
