Today was a pretty epic Sunday(ECOOP Main- 1580 buyin, 1.5m guarantee, Party Million- 640 buyin, 1m guarantee, Betfair monthly 1k, as well as the usual lineup which is pretty impressive in itself)

My computer has been fairly prone to crashing lately, so I opted to not read the forums when I play and also talk much less on messenger. I found that this lead to me focussing much better and overall just completely changed my whole mindset.

Usually on a Sunday, I have 12-14 tables going and am reading the forums or talking to a handful of people and then just the tables pop up and I make my decisions accordingly. I think this is the same grind that virtually everyone gets into where they know they're +EV in the tournaments but they also find that they aren't enjoying them that much and instead of really trying to capitalize on their time at the table, they just try to stay out of trouble, not take unnecessary risks and always err on the side of not playing a hand since they have so many other tables and other opportunities to profit.

Today when I had nothing running besides 12-14 tables I was thinking more about the hands before the action got to me, constantly watching pots that I wasn't involved in, really trying to make the best decision at all times and at numerous times I felt as if I didn't have enough tables(a sensation I often get on Sundays when I have like 8 going) and then counted to see that I have 15. I also felt that all throughout today I was really just in the zone and constantly making the right decisions and correctly assessing the shape I was in.

What I mean by this is that I often give regulars too much credit in a lot of spots where I feel that I "shouldn't" be able to have that much info as to the strength of their holding but in actuality when ranges are tight enough, people are exploitable enough and don't really have predefined sizing(I used to always do this a few years ago in an attempt to be unexploitable but now I have joined the masses and try to exploit since in all honesty I think I'm much better at exploiting others than they are at exploiting me) and today both preflop and postflop I was able to do a lot of things that I wouldn't have otherwise done to capitalize off of this.

All in all, I felt extremely good, and in the future I definitely think that I'll continue to try focussing more when I play since its just satisfying to do my job as well as I can.

Onto how the day went results wise:

I started the day at noon and by 3:00 I already had a first place and a second place in 2 tournaments. They were both turbos on ongame, I won a 108 turbo for 2511, and got 2nd in a 54 turbo for 1105. I run super hot on that site and was pretty close to winning both, but I was hoping I hadn't wasted all my run good getting 3.6k in cashes on a day where I'd eventually spend over 12k in buyins.

After that I went through a phase where I lost like all my small tournaments but was getting a few reasonable stacks(in the Party Million, Warmup, Brawl and 530 on UB). I then lost a bunch of allins to leave me remaining in just the Brawl and UB, including busting the ECOOP AK to KK which was kind of lame, but possibly foldable since the play in that tournament was quite nitty. I ended up getting around 70th in the Brawl after losing some allins which I can't quite remember and cashing the UB 530 but being quite shortstacked. After getting in the money, I went card dead for a while, then won a flip to get to nearly average, then got AA against 99 to get into great shape. I then eliminated 2 people KQ>AJ and some flip to be chipleader with 10 left. The final table was super deepstacked(like 55BB avg stack) and I thought there would be a lot of play since I had like 80BB. There were a bunch of coolers but the shortstack usually won, but we were soon down to 7. I then missed an OESFD with T9hh on a 877hh board but I played it like a nit so I didn't get stacked, then lost A9 to KJ and AJ to 55 within like an orbit to bust in 7th for like 6.6k. I was pretty happy to make big final tables back to back days(1st was 38k), but it would have been nice to capitalize on one of them. I ended up having a bunch more cashes, one in the 108r on ongame, one in the 109r cubed on Stars, but didn't really connect on either of them, overall I spent like 12.4k and cashed for 12.3k today

I've been really happy with my poker lately(both in how I've been playing at the table and how its been going away from the table regarding stuff like record keeping, planning my schedules etc etc) and hope that it continues and I can turn one of my deep runs into a big score sometime in the near future.

Sorry for the cocky tone of this blog, I've just been really happy with my game lately