This past week was going extremely well until Friday. Somewhere in the course of the day on Thursday I decided it would be a good idea to try some new things on Friday in an attempt to improve on the volume of SNG tournaments I can play in one day. That didn’t go so well.
An initial experiment with 8 tables in a stacked layout seemed to work out ok. I then decided to see if I could do an even 10. I’m still not exactly sure what happened, but something with my stats tracking software flipped out and I basically lost control of all the windows on my desktop for a few minutes. Tournament timers started going off, I started getting folded out, and I couldn’t get any window to stay on the screen long enough to let me do anything. When I finally closed my tracking software, things calmed down, but I was now in a really nervous state, with 10 games going at the same time, without my HUD, and still trying to flip through all the windows to make sure I had clicked “I’m back” on all the tables that had timed out on me during the fiasco.
The end result was that I decimated the 20% ROI I had been making for the last 2 weeks. I dropped down 7.5 buy-ins in an hour. Normally, on my losing days, I might lose 2 or 3 in a day. To lose 7.5 in an hour really hurt.
I seem to get a little over-confident sometimes and do something stupid when I’ve been winning for a fair amount of time. Some sort of self sabotage I guess. I’m gonna bookmark this one as a big reminder of why I need to stick with my original plans that I came up with after careful thought, and not allow myself to do stupid things because I’m having a few good days or weeks.
I have no doubt I’ll eventually be able to play more tables at the same time. But for now, I just need to keep practicing and allow myself to get faster without trying to push it so much.
Hopefully next week things will start moving up again. A new week, a new month, and hopefully a big new addition to my bankroll.
May the fish be with you…