CARDRUNNERS

What's Your Edge

Andrew

March 27, 2007

There was a thread today on CR about me being busto. Obviously the OP doesn't really know his facts. However, I have barely been playing lately, so I can understand why some people might think that. I want to address this so that there is no confusion. I am a teacher on this site and it's important to me that people realize I am a winning player.

I am on a downswing. I panicked and took out too much money when Party was closing. I had most of my BR on party and frankly I just had too much money online to not panic. I did fine for a few months, but keeping a small BR online finally caught up to me around the end of 2006. I hit a bad downswing and since then I haven't had a proper BR online. I have played some since then, but not much. I had been wanting to play less poker for some time. I'm in my last year of college. I've also played so much poker for the past 3 years that I was finally starting to get legitimately burned out. When I lost most of my remaining money online, I knew it was a good time to take a step back from the game. That's what I did. Since I started taking the break, I have really been enjoying life. It's nice to have fun this last semester and not worry about all the stress that revolves around poker. I always liked to claim that poker didn't affect my personal life much, but it's almost impossible for that to be true. If you are winning or losing 10K+ in a day, it's going to affect you. I like not thinking about that stuff for once. I'm also taking a lot of hours this semester so that I can graduate in time. I've normally taken about 14 hours, but this semester I have 20. Furthermore, we've been working on a lot of backend things at CR to improve the site for you guys. I have been enjoying putting more time into CR opposed to playing as of late.

With all that being said, I still love the game of poker. I will never stop playing completely. I just felt this was the best time for me to take the break I had been wanting to take. In addition, I wasn't too crazy transferring 40k+ back online with the state of the industry. I have since decided that I think it is ok and I have had 40k put back online so that I have the proper bankroll. It's just impossible to take the game seriously when you don't have the right bankroll online. This has all been an important lesson about bankroll management to me.

I honestly don't think I even need to get on here and defend myself, but at the same time, it can't hurt. I don't need people going around and saying I'm busto, because that is just utterly ridiculous. I have invested large sums of money that will never be touched, I'm making good money from CR, and I will continue to make good money playing poker. I realize that my reputation is important as a teacher at CR so that is why I am addressing this.

I will start posting my results as I get back into the 5/10 games more. I know I will be playing a lot of 5/10+ starting in May. I will try to play as much as possible in April.

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