Lost Weekend

Well that was a bad weekend for poker. I didn't finish in the money once either in tourneys or sit & gos. Some of it was bad beats, much was simple bad play. Rather than grumble I'm going to treat it as a learning experience - why did I do so badly? Why did I lose?

I can think of two reasons. The first is that I had a lot of other things going on. Things I should have been doing, things I wanted to be doing, things I was thinking about doing. The result was that my mind was wandering.

The second reason is, ironically, that I've been reading too much about poker. In particular I'm reading the excellent Killer Poker Online, Vol. 2 by John Vorhaus. In the long run this book will definitely help my game, but in the short term I'm concentrating too much on thinking about the concepts in the book rather than internalising them into my play.

So, two main reasons for my poor play this weekend. Which are in fact exactly the same reason: not concentrating on the game in front of me.

Lesson learned.

Labels: general, improving my game, poker