Monday, January 26, 2009

Life's best lesson "TILT"

Ok, I have it again..the worlds worst disease.......Tilt.

On Saturday night I sat down for my usual 4-6 tables of $1-2 pot limit Omaha.
After 2 hours and a few bad beats I'm playing $5-10 and tilting like crazy.
I end the night down a LOT, and go to bed feeling like this is the end of my poker.
After 2 or 3 hours of feeling so bad I finally fall asleep and when I wake up the following morning I don't get up. Last night I've lost thousands that it took me weeks to make. So what do I do?
Feel bad all day Sunday and think to myself is this all really worth it?. People look at poker players and think Ohhh he made $2k yesterday while sitting at home or on a beach and I wish I had his job. Yea its great...until you have a BAD day. I've had a number of businesses over 14yrs and I've never had an experience like Saturday night. So anyone that thinks poker is a great career path, think again. Anyway Monday I get up and open my account to see the real damage on my account and my god it hurt. But I either give up or get better...!!! So by Monday night I have most of my losses back I really need to make sure I never tilt like that again.
No plans for any tournaments live or online.

Cinema: Go and see " Seven pounds" wow what a film 10/10.
"Valkyrie" with tom cruise is ok 4/10.
This is my new afternoon hobby. Coffee in Tatlers coffee shop (best coffee in Ireland" followed by Cinema. The perfect day lol
Betting: Golf, Paul Casey this week in Dubai dessert classic 28-1 e/w.

On my holiday trip..deffo stopping in Bangkok and also gonna do a beach for 5-7 days.
I'm gonna stay here in Bangkok http://bangkok.lebua.com/facilities-en.html my brother was the construction manager when they built this in the 1990's. Bring on the Sun.

Monday, January 19, 2009

First 09 update.

Ok. I need to start updating this but I don't have much to update.
Playing 4-6hrs a day cash only on Ipoker and doin ok.
Playing mostly $1-2 Plo & Nlh and up $3700 for the first 2 weeks of Jan.
I'm ment to be starting my "7 level" challenge at the start of February but I've decided to have a break from this weather and I'm gonna hit Asia for a few weeks in Feb "kindly paid for by Mr Rakeback". Up to now I've been playing Carlospoker but there leaving Ipoker next week so I'm gonna move to a new Ipoker skin. I'm dying for a live game of poker but have no real plans for any live event until maybe the Irish Open, Ideally Id like an Omaha tournament so I'll have to wait and see. Big Slick events have their coursing festival coming up soon and I'm deffo planning a few days of live Plo cash there.
On the personal front there has been No golf due to the horrible weather but as soon as we get some dry weather I'm gonna hit the course, if not then I'll bring the clubs on holiday as I love playing night time golf in Asia.
That's it.....wish I had some exciting news but I don't.