Today after working almost everyday for 12 weeks straight and not playing any poker I woke up went to the gym and decided I have a day off its a beautiful day i will bike the 60 km round trip and head down to pure poker. I was depressed thinking about going and anxious, what if i waste my money? it takes 15 hours to earn 1.5 buys and i could lose that in a single hand essentially throwing 2 days of life away. but I knew if I applied everything I've learned in the last 3 months I would have a good shot. I had already built a very solid system on how to beat the game in the last 6 months, I just needed time away to regain perspective. I had become myopic due being entrenched in the casinos without adequate reprieve for too long. but somehow i picked up where I left off skill wise and my mind actually filled in my biggest weaknesses while I was resting. Rest and recovery is the most powerful tool. One mistake I made was combing life roll and poker roll (never again) keeping too small of a bank roll (never again) and also having entitlement tilt. While I can never say never in terms of conquering that dragon.
one thing I've done is work on my character defects, greed, laziness, comfort seeking, lying...
built a couple fences, worked very hard at every job i had which included throwing 200 bags of garbage over a 10 ft bing and each bag weighed 40-80 lbs which was very humbling and also the hardest job on my body i've done and 12 hours days.
I practice gratitude every day now which transforms me from being pessimistic into optimistic and pessimists' sound smart optimists get rich I always say.
Im just grateful someone trusted me to build them a fence and i was conscientious and competent enough to create a quality product.
I also practice humility my goal is poker is 10$/hr win rate.
I gameify everything now I tactic I learned on podcast, how long can I go without watching porn? focusing on every action in the game? without sugar? doing a few more things at work? going to bed early? basically with everything I don't want to do, I turn into into a mini game that lasts a few seconds each time to keep pushing past hard parts.
Pure has a promotion where if you play roughly 400 hours you get 850 rake back and entry into a free roll. I may just try to do that until oct 1. or go for a smaller rakeback time bracket. could use that to fund my trip to usa this winter and pay for half a months rent. luckily with every job I've chosen they are all independent contract roles so schedule very flexible.
I also discovered this therapist called healthy gamer on youtube and watching him consuel people has worked wonders on helping increase my emotional intelligence and my unresolved childhood issues such as fear of rejection and low self esteem.
so yes I'm very optimistic right now. I made 152 which included a meal and generous tips.
0-100k challenge starting over right now at 152$
also it was amazing to see everyone at the poker room
as Andrew Weil says reconnecting with old friends is one of the healthiest things you can do
as long as your friends are healthy and emotionally available enough to permit such a thing.
as I was biking to casino
6 people walking in two rows of 3 on sidewalk
not paying attention to me at all
I don't say a word I stop and let them pass me by then as im leaving they say "you cant ride your bike on sidewalk"
which is an absolute lie.
seems people won't hesitate to vilify you in order to absolve their shitty treatment of you and take no blame for their mistakes.
way back home 8 hours later it was only 11 pm but didn't see a single person out on the pathways
from a month when stampede was in town and hooting and hollering of drunk people to deafening silence today was surreal.
Felt like i had the whole city to myself.
Anyways I'm just grateful to be alive and healthy
Stay Classy Two plus Two
Not going to celebrate the win cause I could have easily lost today and was on track to
but I literlaly called my shot like babe ruth right before I left.
I said Im gonna double within the next nine hands then leave.
and so I did.
with 34off vs ak I open 10$ button bb raises 30
call flop aj4 bb lead 20 I go 55 he calls
turn 10 he check i go 65
river 3 bink city he check i go 120 he calls
funny thing is I was in Vancouver last summer I pretty sure I blogged about during my 4 hours there I played this villian and beat him there too and he just happened to be visiting in this exact moment and we played together again, thanks to my photographic memory I remembered him. he got pretty salty at the hand though.
i would have been completely content losing today cause I didn't tilt and had a good time and the cards didn't go my way in 4 key allins and I still grinded back. and I know if just one or of two those go my way next to which they should cause i was always 65% equity or better then good things will come eventually!