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By the_schmenx | Published Feb 28 2005, 09:02 PM
I've been bubbling a LOT lately and it's really got me down.  9th in the 200 Stud H/L on stars where 8 pay and 1st 4 cards are 2345, oh well, betting on the come works for some folks.  Came close to the money in the 200 on UB last night, once again.  I think I made a bad play, and went over the top of some guy with 66 (he had a lot of chips) and called another 8k, we were at 600-1200 with 88, no miracle there.  I don't particularly like coming over the top of a guy who I think is going to call me with any pair below TT if I don't have to.  The bubbles I mentioned are just a few of them, this has been tough and it's been biting at me, gnawing at the core of my being.... Ok, maybe not that bad, but I've been waking up in a foul mood, and I'm usually so damm chipper.  This brings me to another point...

I don't think that I mouth off that much at the table, I do occasionally, but I usually regret it afterwards.  I think the best players keep their mouths shut and let their play do the talking.  I need to get to that place.  Sometimes I'm there.  Right now I'm not.  I never curse out a guy, but I may say something snide, and for that, well I'm sorry.  Poker is a game, and like any other game successful people observe and adapt to their surroundings.  If you are playing against a lot of weak players, you got to know it's a damm minefield and deal with it.  I will do my best in the next few days to chill out and just play.  Listening to jazz helps, or some classical.

I'm working on the LA story (3 pretty bad weeks at the commerce).  I won a tournament for about 5k after LA, but pretty much have been in a bad spot because of being conned out there.  I will write about it in a future blog.  It was good to see a few folks in LA, Chris Savage, Shawn Rice and few of the other UBers, but my head was up my arse because of feeling betrayed. 

I'm going to play the 11 rebuy and the 100 on UB tonight and hopefully I'll have some happy news.