Lost a fair amount this weekend in two different 2-3 sessions at two different poker rooms. The first loss (on Saturday) was pretty large, owing to a series of poorly conceived plays based on advanced strategies that I'm realizing simply aren't conducive to winning play in low limit games. You might recognize a button raise as light and three-bet with an appropriately wide range from the blinds - but when the button raise was preceded by a couple of limps and then everyone calls anyway for roughly 15BB with any two cards, you're pretty much playing bingo poker. Leaning into that is just plain stupid.
On Sunday, I resolved to play primarily for value, eliminating the speculative end of pre-flop ranges and significantly reducing bluffing - resulting in a much more comfortable, low-event (boring) game that yielded about a breakeven result. That might seem pointless - but in these games, you're going to make your money with nutted hands against a field that simply refuses to fold. You don't always get nutted hands, and this was one of those sessions. The key is strengthening resolve to make it through six hours of play while maintaining that level of discipline, and I don't mind resigning myself to that for awhile until it becomes second nature.
Just scheduled a new date for re-filming the EPK interview questions in late April. Looking forward to finalizing that aspect of the promo materials...
Game 1 for Isles vs. Canes in T-minus about 20 minutes. Followed by my game tonite, for which I'll have to leave prior to the end of that game 1 if it goes into OT. Really hoping the Isles win it in regulation!