Thanks for the kind words, 4 players will be child's play when I'm finished training you. Hopefully within 10 days I will have you and @davidsmith both tracking 10 players at online speeds for 100 hands. This of course is just the beginning as you started to think of ways to utilize your new skills on other stats. I am extremely proud of your progress and I am looking forward to doing an oovoo session with both you and @davidsmith.
Ps. Online speeds are 2-3 times faster than regular play allowing you to truly gain much more information than you thought possible. I am also up because my daughter needed a bottle lol.
More techniques using Onika-Miyagi method
So its been a few days since my last posting... to catch you up to speed, I'm still working on things, but at a slower rate than before. I've had a head cold for a couple of weeks, which I self diagnosed into a sinus infection today, so my health has been holding me back. To top it off, Tuesday night I seem to have gotten a bit of a stomach bug, Lisa caught it as well, and now Kate has a cold, all in all the Vince household is like a peetree dish and memory and poker has been on the bottom of the list.
But, I have been working on things with him. In the previous lessons, Bennett has given me things I've needed to memorize, these things have helped with remembering cards in the 52 cards in order challenge. In the same fashion, I've needed to come up with more things on my own to memorize that will make my memory even stronger. As Bennett has put it, helping organize my brain. our brains will retain information, more than you and I can recall, the hope is we put the information into a filing system we can understand and recall at any given time.
So that said, I've been working on that successfully. Now I'm on to the next challenge of tracking players at a table.
I used to play a Monday night $25 league game, this was recently cancelled because the room we played in closed down. I'm working on a new casino to host the game but that will take time. In the mean time, I used to be involved in a free bar poker league here and have opted to maintain my game by playing Tuesday nights at the Northern Lights Poker League. I'm going to be using these techniques in this environment to see if I can improve. That said, these techniques are exploiting now the biggest flaw in my game: ATTENTION... I don't have any attention in poker. If I'm not playing the 2 cards in front of me, I want to be... If my mind isn't being entertained, I'm going to play the 2 cards, any 2 cards, some may remember the phase in my poker career where any 2 cards would do, I played some of the best poker i've ever played like that, but also didn't have a rhyme or reason to what I was doing. So I stopped, I use aids now, movies, books, twitter, conversation to do anything to avoid playing 28ss out of position...
Because I don't pay attention to the game, the new techniques are very hard to implement... So next Tuesday, no phone, no book at the table... just me, my mind and forcing myself into attention.
So Wednesday night, Bennett asked me to use my techniques while watching an online game, no play, just watch. I pulled up a $25/50 6 max cash game and paid attention to 2 players, following along over 42 hands *7 orbits* to track who played hands. It was fantastic, I recalled one player playing 7 hands and the other playing 8 hands, running that over 42 hands, calculated their percentages.
Having that information online is easy to get using software, but live its impossible, until now. With the memorization, I think I can track 4 players at one table, which I'm going to try on Tuesday again...
Its still a very exciting process, things are amazing me still, less now because the techniques that are in my head I see as endless possiblities. I suggested to Bennett that I could use this to calculate 2 numbers like VPIP and PFR, and even further to AG and more... then he reigned me back in, and said, lets walk before run... ok ok, I just like seeing the end before the race begins. Part of my personality.
Ok folks, I'm off to bed, but stay tuned, though if you still need convincing that memory techniques are helpful, I'd be shocked... the book went to the printer, preorder your copy on Amazon already ;)
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Trust in the process that is your life!
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