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Refocusing
By: apestyles
Published: Sep 19th, 2010
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Published: Sep 19th, 2010
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Its about midnight where I'm at and I'm unshaven, my eyes are red, and my brain feels fuzzy and dull. This is an unfortunate side effect of playing poker 12-14 hours a day every day for the WCOOP. Usually I would accept this feeling, turn on my newest television series (Dexter season 4 at the moment) and unwind but I keep repeating these horrible hands I've played over and over in my head. I've been on such a heater for the first couple of weeks that I allowed that to get to my head and have played with ego and lack of discipline this last week or so. So, tomorrow before I begin playing I'm going to work out and watch some instructional videos to get in the zone before a huge Sunday.
I'm certainly not complaining, I just expect myself to make fewer mistakes than I do after all of these years of study and play (funny thing is the more I learn the more I realize how bad I am). In fact, I've been absolutely killing it this month. I think that I've played okay overall but above all I've been luckboxing hard and running like a Kenyan. Its not that I've been getting it in bad a ton, but I've won the races when they mattered most and my timing has been impeccable. It is an amazing feeling to be able to make so much money playing this game and accomplish all that I have. You'd think I'd be satisfied with winning every competition I am in at the moment and being up 6 figures but I'm not. Well... I am, I'm immensely grateful and feel blessed and lucky that I've been given the opportunity to play a game that I love, am healthy, and free. But, I want moaaar... I want to be number 1 on pocketfives and I want to have a million profit on stars. I don't think its greed though, at least I hope not. I just keep making goals to keep myself interested and engaged. The fun is in getting there right?
Anyway, I've got to get my zzzzzz on so I can wake up refreshed tomorrow. I'm thinking about collecting all of my bluffs, both successful and unsuccessful, tomorrow and putting them in a blog with analysis. Thoughts?
I'm certainly not complaining, I just expect myself to make fewer mistakes than I do after all of these years of study and play (funny thing is the more I learn the more I realize how bad I am). In fact, I've been absolutely killing it this month. I think that I've played okay overall but above all I've been luckboxing hard and running like a Kenyan. Its not that I've been getting it in bad a ton, but I've won the races when they mattered most and my timing has been impeccable. It is an amazing feeling to be able to make so much money playing this game and accomplish all that I have. You'd think I'd be satisfied with winning every competition I am in at the moment and being up 6 figures but I'm not. Well... I am, I'm immensely grateful and feel blessed and lucky that I've been given the opportunity to play a game that I love, am healthy, and free. But, I want moaaar... I want to be number 1 on pocketfives and I want to have a million profit on stars. I don't think its greed though, at least I hope not. I just keep making goals to keep myself interested and engaged. The fun is in getting there right?
Anyway, I've got to get my zzzzzz on so I can wake up refreshed tomorrow. I'm thinking about collecting all of my bluffs, both successful and unsuccessful, tomorrow and putting them in a blog with analysis. Thoughts?





