January is a dangerous month for grinders. The year resets, goals restart and many players silently rush to “recover fast”.
More volume, less discipline. More emotion disguised as strategy.
EV does not disappear all at once. It leaks through repeated small mistakes. Opening too many tables, forcing spots outside the plan and ignoring fatigue or tilt are common January errors.
A frequent pattern is simple: a player loses two sessions, increases volume on the third, forces marginal calls and ends the week playing worse than before.
The mistake is not losing.
The mistake is insisting without adjusting.
January should be about adjustment, not pressure. Reviewing ranges, reducing variance and choosing better when and where to play usually brings more EV than forcing results.
Trying to save the year in January often creates problems that last for months.
The game does not charge everything at once.
But it always charges.
