Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Priortizing and Concentration

Today I want to share my story on priortizing. I have a professional Warcraft III gaming background where I played over 300 APM (Actions per minutes, which means I input over 300 any key strokes and mouse click consistently from the beginning of the game until the end of the game), sponsored by AMD and getting salary.

When I first started playing, playing like 4-8 tables was really boring so I played 12-16 tables going crazy. I was consistently winning but I was not the best winner and thought about why I started winning so much as I reduce the number of tables I play and win more.

Let me give you more concrete example. You are very patient in person (at least I saw how you play). However, I see you playing somewhat medicore once the pot starts getting big, I saw you executing just huge bluff without much of plan and later you told me you thought the guy would fold. I believe those plays are straight out of your greedy + ego and not much from your critical perspective thinking on your opponent.

When I was playing that many tables, I was playing cards - not the men. I am now at a level where I know how to exploit people's weakness but if you straight play cards and do not pay attention to the exploitable reads that people are offering you and not taking advantage of it. I figured out that you are actually losing more EV by not exploting them. That is why I don't play more than 8 tables when I play my sesion. Think about it and see if this makes sense to you.

P.S: The dates on the blogs are completed messed up, I even changed time zone but it is still doing it wrong. I will forget about the date from now if it is one day difference but you will get 14 posts for sure by the end of this perspective blog from your luxurymaster.

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