I play poker on autopilot much of the time. There are advantages and disadvantages to this. One of the biggest advantages is that I don't have to pay much attention. Ironically, that's also one of the biggest disadvantages. Allow me to explain. Poker is largely a game of pattern recognition. When you're new to the game, you have to think a lot about what you're doing, since your pattern bank is empty. As you encounter the same types of situations over and over, you start to see the patterns, and this allows you to think less. All you have to do is recognize the pattern, and then perform the correct action for that pattern, based on your previous thought processes. You take a shortcut - instead of thinking through the situation again, you simply remember what you did before and do it again :-) Of course, that's an oversimplification, but you get the idea. The problem with not having to think is that it makes if very hard to remember specifics. To write interesting blog posts about poker, it helps to be able to remember at least some of the specifics.
The only memory I can dredge up from last night's session is a pretty boring one. I was dealt ducks (pocket deuces), called the big blind amount, then had to fold before the flop when a player acting after me raised and another player called. It was a case of mucked ducks :-)
style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings
MTT NLHE 174000 26000 6 96 24 41 0
delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $20,287,668
2020 balance: $13,065,343
balance: $74,873,353
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