250 Hours Blind Experiment
I am doing a somewhat interesting experiement over the next 250 hours of play. This involves never updating my daily statistics which I keep religiously and never looking at the cashier on any poker site I play. In other words after a week I will have absolutely no idea how I'm doing at poker.
I have already started and am at 16 hours, 30minutes played and all I know is that I am probably down but I wouldn't be suprised if I was even or up either. It is just a general overall feeling. If that is how clueless I am after 16 hours just think what it will be like on hour 249 =)
I reckon it will take me 2 months to complete although this will require playing more than I have recently. It may even make me play a lot more just to get it over with, I have been playing quite a lot over the past few days. I have no reason to cash out or cash in. The only thing that would screw me over is if I go bust on one site some time during the run. Then it will give me a clue to how terrible I am doing and I might have to quit this experiement prematurely :)
Current hours played : 16 Hours, 30minutes.
Start date : May the 12th
Estimated time of completetion : Late June or Early July.
Sites played : Ultimatebet, Pokerstars, Littlewoods(Crpytologic network), Ladbrokes and Partypoker.
Limits played : Mostly $2000 ($2500 at Ultimatebet) NL Hold'Em tables but with one or two £2000 ($3800) NL Hold'em tables or $5000 NL Hold'Em tables. I will not sit at $10,000 or £5000 NL Hold'Em tables once during this experiement.
Tables played : Five or Six tables, 95% of the time 6 handed or less. I will force myself to play only one heads up game whilst multi tabling or 2 if they are particularly good.
Now the question is, will I play better or worse not looking at daily statistics? Technically it shouldn't matter but psychologically I think it might. At the end of the day all you have to do is play each and every hand as well as you possibly can regardless of previous results. Right? =) I guess we'll see.
It will certainly be exciting tallying up my totals on hour 250.
I have already started and am at 16 hours, 30minutes played and all I know is that I am probably down but I wouldn't be suprised if I was even or up either. It is just a general overall feeling. If that is how clueless I am after 16 hours just think what it will be like on hour 249 =)
I reckon it will take me 2 months to complete although this will require playing more than I have recently. It may even make me play a lot more just to get it over with, I have been playing quite a lot over the past few days. I have no reason to cash out or cash in. The only thing that would screw me over is if I go bust on one site some time during the run. Then it will give me a clue to how terrible I am doing and I might have to quit this experiement prematurely :)
Current hours played : 16 Hours, 30minutes.
Start date : May the 12th
Estimated time of completetion : Late June or Early July.
Sites played : Ultimatebet, Pokerstars, Littlewoods(Crpytologic network), Ladbrokes and Partypoker.
Limits played : Mostly $2000 ($2500 at Ultimatebet) NL Hold'Em tables but with one or two £2000 ($3800) NL Hold'em tables or $5000 NL Hold'Em tables. I will not sit at $10,000 or £5000 NL Hold'Em tables once during this experiement.
Tables played : Five or Six tables, 95% of the time 6 handed or less. I will force myself to play only one heads up game whilst multi tabling or 2 if they are particularly good.
Now the question is, will I play better or worse not looking at daily statistics? Technically it shouldn't matter but psychologically I think it might. At the end of the day all you have to do is play each and every hand as well as you possibly can regardless of previous results. Right? =) I guess we'll see.
It will certainly be exciting tallying up my totals on hour 250.
posted by TillerMaN | 3:51 AM
9 Comments:
That is a great idea. I often don't check my accounts for several days at a time and it really helps you play better because you never feel as if you are 'down' from the plateau in which you last checked your account at. It feels like you exist in an aether of 'uppedness'.
Funnily, when I read the title of your post I thought you were talking about something that I first heard KrazyKanuck does to get better... He puts tape on the screen over his cards and plays an opponent heads up. If you can afford to do this, its a brilliant idea to work on playing your opponents cards, not yours.
I am agree with this strategy. This is like warcraft III games, when u have lost so much consecutive and u have to forget them and play the next doing your best. I think it will be good for u, but, lets check it :P. (it is easy to think that this is not important and will never work XD)
That's a great idea, Tiller. I hope it works out well for you.
I personally go on tilt every time I sit down and post a blind, knowing that I'm down from my previous "peak."
=)
May the force be with you !
any chance of the stu ungar clip from 1981
This seems to be very interesting and I'm very exciting how you're going to do with that!
In a way I think, if you're experienced enough, what I expect you definetly to be, it's also possible to look at the results and even if you're down to say to yourself "happens" and just go on playing.
But hey! Thats up to you; I'm excited about that!
gl hf
I play 10 NL $200 tables on Party and starting today (finished school for the semester) am going to play 5k/day (around 8 hours) during the 8 hours I don't check if I am up or down.
This is hard for me to do -- I couldn't imagine doing it for 250 hours haha.
After just 8 hours though I regularly find myself down when I thought I was up and vice versa.
hahahah this is sucha crazy idea it might just work
Id never do it.. checking is fun.
I keep my Excel spreadsheat religiously updated with hours played $ won etc. So i have over 2 years of precise data already.
useful and motivating
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