I came home from work really down today, had a very tough day and I am finding the diet very hard to stick with lately. Karen could see I was unhappy and suggested I play a freeroll or two, I used to be the king of free roll's (see Poker Player Magazine article attached) and I also wrote a few articles about them myself, there on the blog somewhere.
I have a good sense of the best way to modify the gamble in my game to the conditions required to get chips in free rolls. First up I played a Walker poker free roll, 500 runners and came 10th when I got all the money in preflop with aces against the only player at the final table who had me coverd who had 10's. Guess what flopped! I earned a grand total of $1 I shit you not, some reward for three hours play!
I had cashed out all my money from Full Tilt so decided to play a FT player point Sit and Go, 9 players winner get's a $24 + $2 token. I won this then enterd the 9.5K G, and came second. Should have won but made a bad fold heads up followed by a bad shove.
I think we have sort of tacitely agreed I can play one evening a month, I found cold turkey just too hard. It's an interesting dilema though because this money will come in very handy but does the end justify the means?
6 comments:
Hi Kevin. Glad things are working out for you in poker and in life.
It was very courageous of you to publicly admit you had a bit of a problem with the excessive keyboard bashing.
Anyway kevin, i think you were spot on. poker is a great game, but it's just a game. Your family have always got to come first.
Just wanted to wish you and the family all the best for the future. You're a genuinely funny and nice bloke Kev and i do hope we can bump into each other once in a while for a friendly game of poker.
Look after yourself mate.
All The Best-Rage
Cheers Rage, thanks for taking the time to post. Nothing would give me more pleasure than sitting at the table with your good self. I just hope one day I regain the correct perspective on all things poker.
Cheers Kev
Hi Kev,
Glad to hear you are at the tables again and in control. But 1 game a month IMO is a bit sparse even considering your previous dilema. I mean peeps who play any other sport/game do so at least once a week. Please don't tell Karen I made this comment as I don't want to get into trouble lol. Good luck.
Kev B.
LOL, Cheers Kev It will be our secret! I missed it so much, then I come back and hit big win which solves a lot of problems, very confused!
I can tell you what you want to hear or I can tell you what I actually think.......
You know that you will win money as you can play poker well. You know that you will use this to justify playing poker.
I know for a fact that it is not possible to give up an addiction if you don't really want to.
I suggest that you find a better compromise with your wife if it is not possible for you to give up.
Once a month will not satisfy you and your missus will get pissed off
when you fall off the wagon.
I suggest you negotiate one poker evening a week and stick to that religiously.
If you can successfully stick with that then I doubt your good lady will be too concerned and you will have 6 evenings a week to spend with your family.
Sorry if that sounds a bit preachy but it is meant with the best of intentions.
All the best mate.
No worries Joe, I really appreciate you taking the time to offer your opinions.
Its something im really struggling with and as much as I think giving up would probable be the correct thing to do I just can't give the game up, becaue as you mentioned I don't really want too.
As you say though im already starting to take the piss with it and I spent 2 hours playing 2/4 the other night which was a strict no no.
Fcuk knows where I go from here.
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