Downtime

I'm updating my database on my desktop, it has all of the games I've played this year. Switching between laptop and desktop and trying to maintain the master here is a bit annoying, but worth it. I just have to remember the latest day I'm up to date with so I don't have to go back and check. Stoner mentality.

I haven't done a ton of volume since the rebuild attempt, but things are bound to pick up by the weekend at the latest. It's only Tuesday and Monday we went out and shopped a bit. I need to crush Christmas shopping soon so it doesn't sneak up on me like it always does.

I've probably logged close to the same amount of hours at both cash and DoNs. I'm up at both already, about 5 buy-ins at cash and 6 at DoNs I think. The hourly is pretty much the same right now, but I'm only 6-tabling cash while I figure some things out. I don't see me mega tabling cash, at least 6-max, any time soon. I'm excited to battle my way through the stakes though.

As for DoNs I will certainly be glad to hit my buy-in goals for moving up. I initially said 70, but I'm doing it with 60. The variance just isn't such that I should suffer my hourly that significantly. I'm playing life-nit right now since I'm going to be semi-busto after scratching off student loans, but in reality I'm still fine. I don't mind be a little nitty right now and do things right so I can reestablish myself well; debt free.

With 60 buy-ins I'll have a little less than half the roll in play at one time, but the variance for DoNs is such that the possibility of having a 35 buy-in downswing (the "reserve" buy-ins I have while having 25 in play, but one, open another). So the likelihood of dropping 35 buy-ins consecutively without winning any, or having a run such that you lose that much more than you win, is pretty thin. And the possibility of having it in one session is basically impossible unless you tilt like a monkey, which I'm proud to say I don't do so much anymore.

Cash rules are staying very strict, as I'm still learning the game at a very basic level, but I'm still very excited to be progressing the ranks there as well. Progressing DoNs is more about securing a more certain hourly level that makes things comfortable. Progressing cash is more about learning to make money, consistently, first -- at any stake. I think climbing the ranks is just a necessity for me to achieve the skill level I desire at cash.

Despite my desire to rise the ranks in DoNs quickly, I am still feeling terribly burnt out on the entire thing. I'll be glad to get done with the prop bet volume. I'm not sure what the exact plans are for November now, but I think it involves a decent amount of cash and likely a sizable amount of DoNs. Burnout or not, I'm doing this for these next months for a reason.

What may be the best idea is to play more tables than I generally have been. I can play from my desktop and do 35 tables pretty well, which is about 10 more than I'm comfortable doing on my laptop for an extended period (I do 25 and in the last 10-15minutes I load up to 32, and maintain that number until I've loaded for 2 solid hours). I'm a volume whore when I play a session.

So if I 32-35 table from my desktop for several hours the next several days I could wipe this prop bet out and make more decisions about where I'm headed. Even with 300 games per day I'm looking at the next 7 straight days. Not terribly excited about that at all. It might be more bearable if I just do it while doing a movie marathons or something. 25-table drone it for 7 movies a day or something.

It would be a sweet note to finish on if I make my number and sippin doesn't. Gonna grab some sleep and hopefully be up in time to get a session in early afternoon. I'm excited about this game I stumbled on yesterday, Borderlands. It drops tomorrow and I've been looking for an RPG but have been loving FPS lately. I'm looking forward to playing it, hopefully this weekend if I can go out and get it tomorrow.