gamera (2012-08-13)

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Interesting to see him having it so rough with his movign up stakes. What I'm wondering is what did he do on his week off? He took a week off recently and has had a tough time since coming back. We all know that often we play well after a break. But choosing this as a time to move to the highest stakes is questionable. It depends on what he did during the week off. If he spent the week watching and taking notes on the 200/400 games before moving up then that's not so bad but if he was on holiday and having a few beers or whatever then I don't see it as a good move to then move up on return. He should of given it a week at his old stakes. Book a solid 50k or 100k win for the week and get back in the groove. It's very easy to loose to groove. Loose 2% of the zone feeling that he obviously was in and the consequences can be heavy, especially at the levels he is playing. I remember once having a great winning streak, long stretches with no losing days, totally in the zone, then went on holidays for a week, came back and lost half my roll in the next 3 weeks. Was just slightly too relaxed, that few % off my best, lost the toughness. I wonder if this is what is going on with Eire Abu right now?

Believe me this is a very important and underrated factor!

Having said all that, it's not detremental. I mean, how many buy-ins is he actually down? Not so bad. It happens....but he certainly isn't playing at his very best the last few days.

Interesting.