Quick poker update, as i've not played or posted a lot lately. I've mostly been dealing with RL stuff, as well as spending more time pokering "off the tables", working on my game, my routine, optimizing my days, etc. In April I was logging in and playing 5k hands straight, which was burning me out pretty quickly. Spent most of May tinkering with that and I think i've found a pretty optimal setting (for me anyway).
I ended up dividing my play in 1h40 chunks, so I usually start playing at about 10am, play 1h40, 10mins break for walking around/exercice, another 1h40, about 45mins off for lunch, and another 1h40. (Optional additional 10mins break and 1h40 after if I have time/energy). Nowadays I can pull off days like that and still have solid energy for the rest of my day so i'm pretty happy with it.
The only thing I still have to stabilize for peak performance is sleep and food. I used to be a big night owl so going to bed at 10h30-11h still feels annoying but any later than that and my alertness & energy suffer the next day, which is terrible for poker. Food is also a big deal on game days and I have to make sure I eat a big enough breakfast with constant snacking/drinking during play & on breaks.
Even though i'm not playing a lot lately, when I do pull it all off though it works pretty awesome, and i've gotten to a point where i'm really happy with my game as well, although that's a never ending process. Coaching helped, but the amount of homework I need to do to truly get the most out of it is pretty staggering to say the least!
Only thing left to figure out is how many days/week I want to play and how to split them up. Other than that i'm really happy with my progress (should hit Supernova again in early July). The most important thing for me is to keep poker fresh, stay hungry and always being eager to play and play at my best when I do log in, and so far those goals have been going great and i'm looking forward for more!
