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Sometimes...: GroovyT's Poker Babble

GroovyT's Poker Babble

October 13, 2008

this game can really slap you in the face. I have been getting slapped around for the past few days pretty rough. I have played okay, made some ugly mistakes, and am still not down all that much. I can recover before the end of the trip.

However, pretty much every night sometime between 3-4am I get super-coolered for a huge pot and just lose all urge to continue playing. Usually I am pretty tired by this time, so I've just packed it up, hit up 24 hour TGIFs for some crappy takeout, pouted while feeling sorry for myself on a bar stool waiting for the food, and watched a show in the hotel room and crashed. It's becoming a pretty frustrating routine the last 3 nights.

Usually I push through being tired in the early morning hours because the games are often at their best then. But after losing massive pots and combining frustration and the spontaneous stuckness (is that a word?) with my already tired brain, and I know it's just time to quit. So I have.

If I've learnt anything these past couple years it's times like these that a poker player must persevere. I'm going to eat this, now cold, appetizer sampler, watch a flick, and start a new day when I wake up.

I've never done a thing to make myself deserve to run good all the time, no one inherently deserves anything in this stupid game, so that's that. I will post again when I have more encouraging news. Hopefully that's sooner than later. Good night.

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