https://imgur.com/a/1VXcd
So this is how I started my PowerFest on Party (well, this is how the cash games went) and I didn't fair much better in the tourneys. Faded the $5k as I'm not rich enough/don't really know what i'm doing, bricked everything else including 2x bullets in the $530 $250k, the $215 main and some $109s I had running on the side. All in all a pretty stupid and painful day.
What happens to my body after days like this?
On a day like yesterday I could feel the adrenaline pumping hard all day. My step count was at a record low 680 steps for the whole day. My diet was ok on the day without being spectacular, in short I was over pumped, over stimulated and was losing large pots to Lars Luzak at a frequency that made my ECG look like my cash game graph.
Classically this ended with me suffering some fairly severe physical reactions in the night. I had excessive chest pain after lying down going to sleep, I wasn't overly concerned that it was heart attack related cos a) I'm 30 b) I've just come back from several cardiologist examinations where they were like
hey idiot, your heart is good and c) well there just couldn't be that much run bad in one day right?
Anyway, it still wasn't pleasant but it could have been a number of things. Alongside the chest pain that would come in and out but was worryingly consistent I had my old friend the shakes return. The shakes are what they sound like, it's me, shaking, as if I'm having a mini seizure with my GF telling me everything is going to be ok whilst painstakingly asking me if I want water over and over. It's not very pleasant and it's probably the mind or body's way of saying
slow the f*%& down you're gunning it too hard.
So with that in mind that'll likely signal the end of the Powerfest for me, the WCOOP isn't an option for me as I decided to self ban my Stars for a long time when they decided they wanted to f%&* every man, woman and child (above the age of 18, otherwise against TOS) under the sun. I guess I'll stick to what I do best, trying to beat a table of 8 men, women and animals who, like myself, hold 4 cards (some more gracefully than others) and punt around, splashing in chips and generally sit in chairs for 8 hours not really knowing what they're doing.
That leads us rather swimmingly into the most interesting part of the blog (said with the thinnest layer of sarcasm..) the live results:
31st August £5/10 PLO +£9000
Yes that's right, only one result, online poker taking up the majority of my time and in between the last post and this I spent most of my time in Lake Como in Italy @ a friends wedding and thusly had a nice break from poker and gambling.
I did have a slight missing result from the other day when I sat down in a £2/5 PLO game for a brief 10 minutes and lost like
£400. This is a word of warning so others don't do what I did...
Whilst waiting for said £2/5 seat I stumbled across a $25/50 PLO game on my phone running on Party. I sat in just to see who it was running around and indeed there was a very big fish sat. In the half an hour waiting for my £2/5 seat I lost
$18,000 and that was the driving factor behind me not wanting to play the £2/5 once the seat became available, fairly understandable most would agree. I sold half my action to a close friend and reader of this blog so personally the hit wasn't tooooo bad however result orientation aside I was unhappy with my choice to play after. Anyone who plays party will tell you this, the software is bad at the best of times, it's even worse on the phone and it's almost impossible to navigate and bet size correctly without running out of timebank. The open seat at the table was to the direct right of the fish who was now sat $13k deep, therefore me choosing to buy in for $10k probably wasn't wise. All in all it was a clustfck of decision making and one that ended up being very costly.
So that's it really, bad day, bad week, bad health but good vibes, I think I'll try and relax for the rest of the month, fish out some punishment at the Vic and I dunno try and be happy so that I don't consider suicide a viable option.
Last edited by BigAisaOK; 09-04-2017 at 10:23 AM.
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