Well I had a good night last night.
I won a $26 tourney on Fulltilt and final tabled the $20 rebuy there as well.
I am playing good. And more importantly I am in the correct mental frame.
I have been to this point many times before, and each time I end up regressing and giving back much of my earnings only to have to battle back. Although I have made many posts previously about how I'm not ging to regress, I am hoping that this time will be the real time. Since I am currently unemployed, the money actually matters a bit right now, so I might just pull it off this time. We shall see...
One of the big, big things that has been helping me lately is simply recognizing when I'm becoming a dumbass and taking a breath and refusing to fall into the "I am jinxed" or "I run so bad" frame of mind. This game is emotionally draining. When you are in a crappy run and your AA repeatedly loses or gets no action when you "can't win any race" it is so easy to fall into the "screw it" mentality and suddenly instead of being out of that one tourney where you just got bad beat you are out of your other three within 15 minutes as well. At least for myself, getting into the "I'm jinxed" mentality turns into a self-fulfilling prophesy. Once you start doing that you start letting the game beat you. And I'm too good to let this game beat me.
I won a $26 tourney on Fulltilt and final tabled the $20 rebuy there as well.
I am playing good. And more importantly I am in the correct mental frame.
I have been to this point many times before, and each time I end up regressing and giving back much of my earnings only to have to battle back. Although I have made many posts previously about how I'm not ging to regress, I am hoping that this time will be the real time. Since I am currently unemployed, the money actually matters a bit right now, so I might just pull it off this time. We shall see...
One of the big, big things that has been helping me lately is simply recognizing when I'm becoming a dumbass and taking a breath and refusing to fall into the "I am jinxed" or "I run so bad" frame of mind. This game is emotionally draining. When you are in a crappy run and your AA repeatedly loses or gets no action when you "can't win any race" it is so easy to fall into the "screw it" mentality and suddenly instead of being out of that one tourney where you just got bad beat you are out of your other three within 15 minutes as well. At least for myself, getting into the "I'm jinxed" mentality turns into a self-fulfilling prophesy. Once you start doing that you start letting the game beat you. And I'm too good to let this game beat me.
on July 3, 2007, 6:05 pm
I've been in your shoes and I recall venting in the IC and getting a lot of sarcasm from you. Was a long time ago when I was on the ass end of varience for a spell.
Que sera.
Anyway good luck and I usually pop in the blogs but I don't comment much but I'll be glad to hash out some hands that you deem worthy of mention.
I thought you were working for the AG or
DA not long ago? Having spent some time grinding in the bowels of AC's big poker rooms and having a boring insurance defense job, I still recommend the day job over poker. Poker is part-time.
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on July 3, 2007, 10:11 pm
No matter how I do, I will always post hands.
And as to the AG job, my wife finished med school and has started her residency in Sacramento so I am currently studying for the CA bar and will then start job hunting after that.
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on July 4, 2007, 12:48 pm
PA NY, and CA are alleged to be the worst
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