Heads up Play

After a few days of torrential downpour, the sun is shining here again and I’m sitting outside listening to On The Rail (as you do) and I’m struck by the fact that the next time Nick and I podcast we may ACTUALLY be on the same continent, same country and in the same room. Miraculous! Obviously given the work that Nick and I do together, we really are great friends and so I’m looking forward to welcoming that pasty Englishman to my new neck of the woods here in sunny California.

Before that happens though, I’ve got the final table of the WPT Invitational to host in LA and then I’m up to Las Vegas to play the NBC Heads Up Championships. I have to make a confession here… I’m terrified by the HU portion. As Nick and I talked about in our last podcast, I’ve been working on my Heads Up game and I can report that it has not gotten better! I’m still frustrated as hell by the whole thing but as Nick has pointed out to me, I’ve never really had a big downswing before and it really will make me a better player.

When the results are coming in and everything seems easy, most people (me included) just don’t put the effort into analysing hands or working in a methodical way on their game. Dealing with the downside of things… well I’m certainly putting more work in. I can see where my game has improved and I’ve been going through hands with people I really respect and although I have some definite leaks, I can see the progress. Thats great and all…. but… yeah. Hopefully the results will follow.

God, it’s so hard not to be results oriented!!!!

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