The Refusal

Due to the unreliability of Hold'em Manager, I decided to stop using it.  Well, for the most part.  I still plan on importing the games to take note of profits/losses and review particular hands, but I won't look at the red line.  I unchecked the "show EV winnings" in HEM and so far have successfully resisted the urge to click it.

Of course, it's easy to not care about the all-in equity when you're running as hot as I am.  Since I made the decision to no longer look at the EV line less than two days ago, I'm up $2k+ at the tables.  Surely posting that will lead to a horrific downswing, but right now I feel rather invincible.

Hyper STTs

180s

 

I'm not sure whether to attribute the happiness to my recent run good or the fact that I'm not obsessing over the short term variance of all-in equity.  Probably a little of both.  I've definitely noticed my attitude is more positive when I grind, and I'm considerably less upset when I ultimately get the money in bad.  I used to be so bothered by being dominated that even when I won the pot I was still unhappy, but now I can enjoy my good fortune.  And if today is any indication, not sweating the EV line will help me get in more volume.