Melodramatic. Me
So my bad luck streak continues, but I've managed to recoup my losses, and if Friday and Saturday aren't losing days, I will end up having an okay week.
I'm melodramatic. I have a hard time losing. I hate it more when I have no power to change it. I'm become spoiled though. It's been so long since I had a really bad streak that I've forgotten what it's like.
I had 7 losing weeks in 2005, and my last one was in the second week of October '05. I'm way overdue for a loss. It sucks, but my "poor me, poor me" attitude isn't going to change the fact that if you play for long enough, you are eventually going to see a lot of statistically improbable things.
In actuality, I think that I must be pretty lucky. It wasn't until tonight that I looked back through my records and realized how few losing weeks I've had--- ONLY 7 in the last 16 months (unfortunately, I lost my records from before Oct '04 due to a computer hard-drive issue).
There isn't really a point to this post, except to kick myself in the ass for being such a wimp. I need to learn to be a little more envious of myself.
But last night I had a lot of fun playing poker-- more fun than I've had in a long time. After I finished for the night, there was an invitation to play at a private 1/2 No-Limit cash game table with a bunch of other Sit-N-Go pros. Normally I wouldn't ever sit down at a table filled with a bunch of professional players--- there's not much profit in it-- but after my bad luck streak, I felt the need for a little camaraderie... plus, it was low-stakes ($200 max buy-in... though a couple guys dropped quite a bit of money)
So I had fun. We had a rule that you had to show every hand that you won with, and so it made it a lot of fun to make crazy plays and pull off bluffs. It also made me remember how big of a difference there is between tournament and cash game play. I hadn't played a cash game since leaving Vegas, where I put in a lot of hours at the Wynn's 2/5 NL game. I basically learned to play the NL cash games while I was in Vegas, and it cost me quite a bit of money for the education at first. My education paid off though, and last night it was fun to be the one doing the teaching.
I'm melodramatic. I have a hard time losing. I hate it more when I have no power to change it. I'm become spoiled though. It's been so long since I had a really bad streak that I've forgotten what it's like.
I had 7 losing weeks in 2005, and my last one was in the second week of October '05. I'm way overdue for a loss. It sucks, but my "poor me, poor me" attitude isn't going to change the fact that if you play for long enough, you are eventually going to see a lot of statistically improbable things.
In actuality, I think that I must be pretty lucky. It wasn't until tonight that I looked back through my records and realized how few losing weeks I've had--- ONLY 7 in the last 16 months (unfortunately, I lost my records from before Oct '04 due to a computer hard-drive issue).
There isn't really a point to this post, except to kick myself in the ass for being such a wimp. I need to learn to be a little more envious of myself.
But last night I had a lot of fun playing poker-- more fun than I've had in a long time. After I finished for the night, there was an invitation to play at a private 1/2 No-Limit cash game table with a bunch of other Sit-N-Go pros. Normally I wouldn't ever sit down at a table filled with a bunch of professional players--- there's not much profit in it-- but after my bad luck streak, I felt the need for a little camaraderie... plus, it was low-stakes ($200 max buy-in... though a couple guys dropped quite a bit of money)
So I had fun. We had a rule that you had to show every hand that you won with, and so it made it a lot of fun to make crazy plays and pull off bluffs. It also made me remember how big of a difference there is between tournament and cash game play. I hadn't played a cash game since leaving Vegas, where I put in a lot of hours at the Wynn's 2/5 NL game. I basically learned to play the NL cash games while I was in Vegas, and it cost me quite a bit of money for the education at first. My education paid off though, and last night it was fun to be the one doing the teaching.
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