New Set Up, Long Day

After listening to the rainman talk about having a routine and treating poker was like a sport, I was inspired to make my set-up a little more legit. Previously, my desk was a chair, which upon it rested my monitor and computer, and a broke-ass couch that I would lie down on while I played (and often also doubled as my bed). It's pretty obvious that I was not giving myself the best chance to play good poker with that set-up, especially when you consider that I am infamous for having totally unpredictable sleeping patterns. I went to the Micro Center (best computer store imo) and bought a little do-hickey to make my laptop use dual screens, and a fancy mouse that I succesfully programmed to run my PokerNinja shortcuts, I was very proud of myself. Above is the pic of my new and improved set up.


Yesterday was a long day of grinding, I started around two after Bodeye's webinar, the 180 mans were taking too long to load so I added in some $2 MTTs, strangely enough the MTTs were where I had the most success yesterday. Got fourth in a random $2 non-turbo, for a decent $70 cash. I was feeling a little tired around 8pm, 6 hours is definitely a long session for me, but I was so amped on my new set up I just wanted to keep playing/perfecting my setting etc. On my last round of tournies when I was starting to get pretty tired I made a very poor decision by entering the Daily Dollar on Full Tilt. This is a double stack non-turbo and needless to say takes freaking forever if you a make run, which I did, ended up 40th of 7,000+. I think my fatigue led to some really poor play on my part in the mid-late stages when there were 90 or less people remaining. I went from contending for chip lead to shortstacked during this time, due 100% to poor post flop play. To keep myself awake I connected my headphones to my laptop, turned the volume almost all the way up, so when my turn came the "BEEP" would alert me if I had passed out. Not ideal. Still a solid day though, made some legit steps towards reaching my bank roll goals, today I'm going to try to do some intense sessions, but break them up a little more, the 14 hour session yesterday was a little excessive.