Taking a Few Days Off

Posted by icemonkey9 on Mar 14, 2009 in General | 0 comments

In case you haven't heard from me complaining a lot on the Cardschat forums, things from my last "OMG I RUN HORRIBLE" type post went from bad to worse. I'm actually stuck on the month (that means down) and I can't remember that even happening at a half way point ever, or being a full 5 buyins down below expected EV (meaning people are sucking out).

Anyways, I dropped down to 50nl and the beats just kept coming. Case in point, the hand that made me say "okay i'm done with this" was stacking off with KQ on a KQ7 board against a fully stacked fish who called with QT and then having A and J roll over runner-runner to give him the straight and me out $50. With that brutal hand, I knew it was time to take a step back.

I've focused a lot of writing and making videos, which does earn me a decent amount of coin. I feel pretty good being away from the cash game grind and will enjoy my wife the next few days while she is in town before she leaves yet again. I hope next week goes smoother than this week ... this really was a long crappy week. The crazy thing is that it's not just me ... seems like a lot of good players are running just as bad if not worse than I am, like ChuckTs and BelgoSuisse specifically and to a degree even Zachvac. These are 200nl players that are playing right at that 5 buyin below ev level or worse and can't catch a break. Hopefully we all are able to shake it off soon and put the world back in order with us at the top of the poker food chain.

Finally ... for those of you that watch American Idol ... is it me or is favorite-to-win Danny Gokey eerily similar in looks to WSOP Champion Jamie Gold?!