3.19.2010 (Preparing for War)
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 10:43AM Another weekend of poker is approaching. Again I’m aiming to suffer through 20 hours. I always seem to fall short of the 20 hour mark on the weekends. I’ll get in around 15-16 hours Friday/Saturday, but then something always comes up on Sunday. That being said, still going to aim for 20. It’s supposed to be beautiful and sunny outside the entire weekend, which is going to make it even more difficult. But I will still be aiming to get in some tennis and basketball during the afternoons. Today is also a half day at work, so I will be getting in my share of natural sunlight this weekend.
I went out last night and got completely hammered. I really didn’t even drink that much, I just have no tolerance now that I have been going out a maximum of only once per week. Ok let me rephrase: if I drank that much a month ago it wouldn’t have affected me. This is good and bad. Good because I’m poisoning my body less obviously. Bad because my tolerance is very low, a 24 year old should be able to handle drinking a large amount of booze every once in a while. Also I think drinking is now that much worse because my body isn’t used to handling it. With my previous lifestyle it’s like “ok I’m used to this abuse”, but now when I go out my body is saying “WTF IS HE DOING OMG OMG”.
I believe the human body has an incredible ability to adapt to certain circumstances, and we really haven’t begun to understand this. An example would be Don Gorske eating over 20,000 Big Mac’s in his life time. The Big Mac constitutes 90% of the guy’s solid food intake and he is QUITE healthy for his age. He’s actually in better health than 90% of the people his age. I’ve made a lot of good changes based on intense research with regards to what I put into my body (especially during the past half year), but examples like Gorske can make one challenge everything they think they know. I could go on a few pages here and I don’t want to start rambling about health and nutrition, so I’ll just move on.
I have decided to purchase the $650 bonus on Stars for 50,000 FPPs. I know I’m getting ripped off a little by spending the FPPs at Platinum Star level, but I made this decision because:
A) This could take some pressure off me.
I’m getting hammered right now. When you run this bad it stresses you out and you begin to question whether you will EVER win again. The pressure gets worse as you have to dump more money in to ride the down-swing out.
B) PokerStars could up the min buy-in mid April.
I originally didn’t consider this. If Stars ups the buy-in mid April it will screw short-stacking sure. But also I won’t be able to earn nearly enough VPPs. Therefore, I might as well clear the bonus while I’m still clearing at a certain rate. Who knows what will happen if they make massive changes. This type of bonuse might be a hell of a lot tougher to clear when April rolls around.
C) Its always better to be playing with bonus on your side.
If things aren’t going right, there’s always that bonus in the back of your mind comforting you. You can justify bad swings easier: “well technically that’s cutting into my bonus money; not the real money I invested in”. You’re less likely to throw your chair across the room if you take a bad swing that cuts into bonus money, as opposed to cutting into money you directly deposited in.
Well I have a lot of work to do this weekend. I’m going to keep these goals in mind each session:
1) Don’t lose your temper.
2) 10-12 table Steady the entire session.
3) Try to make sure at least half of the tables are NORMAL SPEED.
If I post future commentaries I will probably have these goals posted at the top of the page in an attempt to keep myself focused. If I run as badly as I have been this upcoming weekend I’m going to pack up and move here:
Chapingo, NL, Mexico
BAHAHAHAAHHAHAAH
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Could it be the most unhappy place on Earth???????
Reader Comments (3)
Remain focused on your goals. Don't let short term fluctuations impact your long term outlook. You can do this. Good Luck.
Lucypher,
Thanks for the comment. The weekend went kinda bad, but I was fine with the way I played. I put together 3 flip-out commentaries so I'll probably pick one and post later. Probably down around two-hundred something total, nothing can go right this month though. Not an amount that really screws me, but it's getting old.......
You should maybe consider measuring your time in table hours instead of real world hours - 20 real world hours playing 12 poker tables at a time where you're seeing like 65 hands/hour on average is pretty insane.
It definitely stretches your concentration and temper to its limits.
I play about 12 hours per week 4-tabling with a couple of those being Rush Poker so my table hours are probably close to double.