I know we I only just started this blog but gonna do a re-cap on October. Was my worst month to date by far and endured a 60BI downswing. This is not really normal for HUSNGs and essentially should never really happen. In hindsight i didn't really play all that well, although i ran like garbage throughout the whole month (Graphs are posted below).
Lifetime FTP Graph.
October FTP.
October Redback.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU October!
In saying all of this and as terrible as my month was, I'm actually really proud of how i handled it. I went through a period in April/May this year that was no where near the extremity of this downswing, and to be honest it was just a long breakeven stretch. This period almost broke me between April and May, and as close as i've come to quitting. I didn't really tilt once throughout this current downswing though, nor did it really affect my life in general. Its tough to get up every day and get back to it when you've had 12 losing days in a row, and as i said before i certainly didn't play my best and my confidence was hurt, but i pushed through it and towards the end of the month it slowly began to turn slightly.
The biggest challenge in being a professional poker player is definately the mental challenge and being able to pull through the tough times and continue to play well. I don;t claim to have mastered this because it certainly did affect my play to a degree but not nearly as much as it would have 6 months ago.
In other news, recorded 2 new videos last night for Pokersavvy Plus. I was inspired by a series of matches i played vs a fish to record them. Essentially i was thinking about how we approach playing fish and how often we don't focus on playing our A-game because they're just fish. Obviously our B or C game is effective vs fish so why put all our mental strength into playing our A-game? Even though we would still have an edge it's certainly not what it could be when we don't show up with our A-game and in a game where variance can so adversely affect our results it is important to be at our best regardless of who we're playing against. And if you do this you will be surprised how easy playing some types of players actually is!!! So that will be out hopefully sometime in the next 7 days.
Almost finished University for the semester looking forward to it a lot. After that i have a pretty busy time coming up, with trips to Melbourne for the Hachem Series at Crown Casino where i plan on playing the HU event, and straight after that i'll be off to Belgium for the Belgium Poker Championships. Mainly going for the HU team event that i'll be playing with two people i have a great deal of respect for and are two of the top HUSNGers in the world in PrimordialAA and Spamz0r (mientjeuh on FTP). After that i arrive back in time for APPT finals in Sydney where i also plan on playing the HU event, so should be a really fun month and hopefully ship something big.
Hardest part of all this will be being away from Nat (fiance), i don't think we've been apart for more than like 4 days at any time. Our parenting classes start just before i go so will be missing some of that too which is disappointing because it's something i def need to do haha. I have no idea on children and have never really dealt with a baby in my life so need all the education i can get! haha. But anyways i think that's all for now, gonna try to get some sleep had a long day grinding and sick of staring at the screen!
~Good luck in all your games~
Matt
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