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Struggling: GroovyT's Poker Babble

GroovyT's Poker Babble

November 02, 2008

Hey guys.

Well, times are rough. Since the Niagara trip I've been struggling finding the desire to play online. I just never feel like it. Regardless, I've plugged through a few sessions and have just been getting my ass handed to me over and over and over and over. The cooler train was just getting warmed up in Niagara and has rolled on into my online world too. Since the start of Niagara I've gone on the worse downswing of my life totalling about $30k now.

So, October marked my 2nd losing month of the year (March was the first). I'm really feeling the wear. November hasn't started any better.

Today, I ran the Sunday gauntlet of tourneys on Stars, Tilt, and a couple elsewhere. I went 0/6 on flips that were for above average chip stacks and just got 5 outted to finish bottom rung in the only one I cashed in (Stars $215 NL/Limit Mixed). I'm still in the Mulligan on Tilt in a 4-way tie for 1st in chips with 380 left (100 pay, 1st $47k). So hoping I can pull out a miracle here. I missed my hockey game tonight to finish up this tourney so hopefully it's not a complete waste.

I've noticed quite a depressing trend amongst my group of local poker playing friends. It seems we're all struggling, to put it mildly. I organized a game last week, played awful, and still made about $2500 (should have been at least $8k if I didn't make the world's most retarded play in one hand). So, maybe that's what it takes, play bad, run good. I'm running so crappy online I'm not even sure how well or bad I'm playing anymore. I think I've definitely let tilt get the better of me a few times, a habit I thought I'd curbed in the past year.

Everytime I run bad like this I begin mulling over serious life changes. I have a few ideas, none of which will make close to the money I've made this year with poker, but maybe that's ok. It doesn't mean I have to quit playing poker, I sometimes forget that. Hell, as it is now, with the amount I FEEL like playing, I'm not even logging all that many hours anyway unless I'm on the road. We'll see, we'll see. I'll talk more about it when I get some sort of actual clue what I want from "work". I've watched a lot of guys come and go in poker circles. I guess I view doing something else BEFORE I've attained my goals in poker as a failure of sorts. That's a bit absurd, I know.

On top of crappy poker, it seems everything I touch lately breaks or malfunctions. Multiple Xboxs, laptops, cameras, etc, etc, etc. Now our basement is leaking in the corner. I lost money online last night, had more "technology" problems I was screwing with for hours, came upstairs grumpy to find a FEW nice little piles of puppy diarhhea taking up residence in all the fibers of the carpet. Things just seem to roll like that sometimes. Trust me, the last thing you feel like doing after getting oversetted for a massive 300BB pot online is clean up after your annoying dog's liquid bum. Anyway, sorry about that little detour...

Regina is looking iffy in a couple weeks, but I'm definitely going to River Rock in BC for a week. Finalize plans on that in the next few days.

Dwindled to 15th in chips with 240 left in the Mulligan. I'm not exactly in the mindframe of having high hopes in these things, so I don't think I'll be very crushed if it doesn't work out again.

Woo, just won my first decent flip of the day to get back to 4th in chips, then another medium hand to get to 2nd! Good sign good sign. I'll update when done.

Take care guys. Like I always say, I'll try to get on here more and write about non-depressing interesting stuff, but who knows. Peace!

Update: Donkeyed away all my chips to finish 35th. Made two separate pot odds calls hoping to be racing, was dominated both times (once by bigger A, once by bigger pair) and basically handed them my chips. I wanted a final table so bad. I was actually standing behind my chair and dancing around hoping for my cards to hit and verbally requesting big hands when the cards were being dealt. So after all that, end result just another $2k down the drain for the day. Sigh....I just really want out of this slump.

Gonna play a little NHL 09 before a late night session, though my Xbox probably won't work...

P.S. I know I'm whining and feeling sorry for myself, but fuck it.

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Nov 8, 08 05:37:25

go trav

Sucks to hear about the rough times dude. Do not pass on Regina though! Think how bad you killed that 5-10 game last time! Anyways, if you do not make it here, good luck in BC. If you make it here, I may actually have the control to not play 5-10, and will forfit my chance to bust you :(

swightness

Nov 17, 08 05:02:14

I think we were at the same table in the 500.., did it end up being a good weekend?

pce

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