Eric Rizen Lynch

Rizen moves down in the rankings

The latest rankings were released by Pocket Fives early this morning. I had dropped from 66th to 68th in the last week. I personally believe the drop is fair. I haven't had any significant finishes in 2-3 weeks now (which is fine with MTT variance) while several of the players who were previously ranked below me have been tearing things up. My moving down I believe is really more a side effect of them moving up, and they were very deserving.

As most of you know, I make a conscious effort to take at least 2 days a week off poker, and if you're a serious player I recommend you do the same. It helps me catch up on my sleep, take care of other things, get my mind away from poker, and most importantly, it makes my wife happy. So, no tournament updates on my poker playing or anything.

I have a pretty full plan for tonight. Around 8pm I will start the Super Tuesday, the Stuper (Stars 150+12) and the 75k on Paradise. Depending on how I'm doing in those three (I typically try and do no more than 5 tables at a time, although I'll occasionally do 6) I'll add the UB 100+9, Stars 45k, Empire Happy Hour, and Party 40k in that order around 9pm (all times central) depending on how my desktop real estate is doing. If I bust out of enough that I have room I'll add the 'Pearl' on Paradise around 10pm to close out my night. A few people have asked what kind of nightly schedule I keep, so there it is.

Keep in mind though that I set priorities on what I want to play, and make sure I never open more tables than I feel I can handle at a time. I also try and make very sure not to let myself get into gamble mode too early in order to either bust out or double up in one tournament real quick so I can make another. I'm better off doing the very best I can in every tournament I enter, and I try to stress quality over quantity (even though I do play A LOT of tournaments).

Kind of a boring update today, but I do have one more post I want to make that is very off topic from this, so I'll add that later for some 'meatier' content.

-Rizen