18 hours into my week of not playing poker and ive gone cold turkey!!!!!!!!!!!!! As per usual i woke this morning keen to get back at the tables and put this months wrongs right- two things prevented me. Firstly id forgotten id pulled my back last night playing fat aside football, so my first atempt at getting out of bed was quickly stoped by a seriously sharp pain in my lower back resulting in high pitched scream that no doubt woke the neighbours within a square mile. After 20 minutes and much huffing and puffing i fianlly made it too the office were i remebered that all my accounts had been zeroed and the pain i had just gone through to feed my poker sickness was actually a complete and utter waste of time..............So instead i switch on my pokerholdemmanger and start chewing over the fat of the months play. The conclution is that im way of my "A" game and nothing surer im not playing my game. The more i looked at the stats and thought about it, the clearer ir became what the actual problem was...............id stoped playing my game to suit everyone elses game based on the stats collect by the tracker. My game is based on solid fondations of position and starting hands. Once in a hand i tend to put my opponents on a very narrow range of hands and play my hand acordingly- well i did up until a month or so ago!!!!!! What i think as happened is that ive started to rely far to much on the information provided by the hud, how often does he raise from 3rd position, how often does he call the flop, how often does he check raise the turn etc etc............i mean all very useful information but a little confusing when your used to just asking one question, ie what hand as he got?! Weve got a thread going on the forum regading trackers and stats and my last post on the subject said something like stats are all well and good but poker is not just a game of maths its a game of people- i think i gave my biggest edge up over the last few weeks, i need to get back to what makes me the player i am and thats trust in MY ability to read a situation and not worry to much about the stats of the situation! Only another 120 hours to go and i can once again start to practice what i preach!