Warming up

Lately, I've been playing chess each night before playing poker. I play on lichess.org, a wonderful chess site. I used to write a chess blog, but abandoned it when I realized I wasn't going to improve the way I wanted. I've noticed similarities between poker and chess before, and just realized another one - it takes me a while to warm up when playing either game. It would be great if the software just let you play in a warm up mode until you felt you were ready to play for real. I'm sure my chess rating and my overall poker balance would be higher it that mode existed :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    16500  3500       9    14     493   99     -        0
MTT   NLHE    45000  5000       6    28      94   24    48        0

delta: $-70,000
MTT NLHE balance: $2,320,548
2017 balance: $353,400
balance: $11,771,230