When the bad get going, how bad does the going get?
June 2009, so far, has been the swingiest month of my poker life. It started nice; a 19 buy-in upswing over the first twelve days. From there... not so nice.
The bad news started when I found out that the DOJ had frozen basically all the online poker money in the USA. We've had crises before, but never this bad. I decided to try to get my money ASAP- I cashed out all 19 of those buy-ins, plus 25% what I usually leave in Stars, leaving me a comfortable amount of money in my account for playing purposes.
Now, I know I haven't been playing like an idiot since then. Maybe I have some leaks to plug, or maybe I'm more worried than I think about whether I'm ever going to see that check. Whatever it is, I've hit a 10 buy-in downswing. I can't remember losing that consistantly in a long time. Maybe ever. So as hard as it's going to be to do, I think I'm gonna take a little break, and try to head into the VBC fresh.
No real news here, though. Poker's not making me enough money. I need a real job, and I need to start it while me and Stephanie still have a decent amount of money behind us- And I need to pay our cushion back the half that I definitely haven't even been paying half of (I figure I owe about $700/mo since we moved in, which comes to $8,400. And we blew through a lot of money together too, and she technically footed the bill for all of it.) So, yeah. And I still have no real prospects. This is the type of time you find out what you're made of.
I love Stephanie a lot. I'm itching to get into a situation where I can apply some elbow grease and show her how right she was to bank on me. Once I get going, I'm not gonna stop. She deserves that herculean effort that I know I got inside me.
The bad news started when I found out that the DOJ had frozen basically all the online poker money in the USA. We've had crises before, but never this bad. I decided to try to get my money ASAP- I cashed out all 19 of those buy-ins, plus 25% what I usually leave in Stars, leaving me a comfortable amount of money in my account for playing purposes.
Now, I know I haven't been playing like an idiot since then. Maybe I have some leaks to plug, or maybe I'm more worried than I think about whether I'm ever going to see that check. Whatever it is, I've hit a 10 buy-in downswing. I can't remember losing that consistantly in a long time. Maybe ever. So as hard as it's going to be to do, I think I'm gonna take a little break, and try to head into the VBC fresh.
No real news here, though. Poker's not making me enough money. I need a real job, and I need to start it while me and Stephanie still have a decent amount of money behind us- And I need to pay our cushion back the half that I definitely haven't even been paying half of (I figure I owe about $700/mo since we moved in, which comes to $8,400. And we blew through a lot of money together too, and she technically footed the bill for all of it.) So, yeah. And I still have no real prospects. This is the type of time you find out what you're made of.
I love Stephanie a lot. I'm itching to get into a situation where I can apply some elbow grease and show her how right she was to bank on me. Once I get going, I'm not gonna stop. She deserves that herculean effort that I know I got inside me.