Revival
So I've decided to revive this as a bit of a poker blog, though a lot of it will be about life in general.
And boy has my life been fun of late.
After a two week holiday I returned home nice and relaxed, started uni (something I'm a little bit pumped about), and then I had the audacity to crash a car!!! I "Failed to stop at a stop line" which I couldn't see because it was at the top of a crest, and I didn't know the intersection, so I went straight into an intersection, clipped a taxi, and he hit two other cars. When I say clipped I mean hit front on. I've lost 3 points on my license, and got a $200 fine. I've written off the car and damaged four others! Luckily we're fully insured...
But honestly, it is easy to see how I made the mistake, but my lack of experience meant I made the correct decisions too slowly and I crashed. Mum and Dad are thinking it might be worth investigating making an appeal, mainly because there was no stop sign, but I dunno... we'll see about that.
The reason I'm thinking "Poker Blog" is because on sunday I had my second US$1K+ score in a month... probably totalling about $2500 australian, which is a quater of what I made last financial year!!! I didn't run quite as good in this one as the first one (though I did get lucky in a few key spots, but its tournament poker.... thats to be expected). This is only the first time I've made the money in a significant tournament since my last score, and that time I won... this time 3rd. I've proven to myself that the first time wasn't a fluke, that I can do this... a thought that really scares my mother and father.
I'm really finding that when I'm on my game I am unstoppable. I'm making reads that are really very accurate and taking down some really good pots. But then there are times that I am off my game, and I make really bad plays and terrible calls. I just have to not play during these bad times I guess :P
Playing at the Pokerdome still has me completely baffled... I am so much better than so many of the players there, but I can't get the results. I'm not up or down any significant amount lifetime, but MAN it shits me... I should be winning so much more than I do there. The structures really are terrible, but even still... I just seem to not get very lucky at that place... it'l come eventually I guess.
And APL shits me even more! I made a final table last night in pretty good chip position, and just went card dead!!! And its not like I can just move in and steal pots because the blinds are so big that the BB is often pot committed, and I still have to avoid everyone else in the field! Once you get to an APL final table, it comes down to the cards. The blinds are so big that the pots become huge, and so anyone has a good chance to win the bloody things. Of course, I still haven't won one... Eric has, Shay has, Fender's won a few, but I can't win ONE!!! You really think I wouldn't care either... its just for a coin that says I won, but its a pride thing. Even if I had just won the main event I'd still want to win at the APL.
Bah it sucks...
And boy has my life been fun of late.
After a two week holiday I returned home nice and relaxed, started uni (something I'm a little bit pumped about), and then I had the audacity to crash a car!!! I "Failed to stop at a stop line" which I couldn't see because it was at the top of a crest, and I didn't know the intersection, so I went straight into an intersection, clipped a taxi, and he hit two other cars. When I say clipped I mean hit front on. I've lost 3 points on my license, and got a $200 fine. I've written off the car and damaged four others! Luckily we're fully insured...
But honestly, it is easy to see how I made the mistake, but my lack of experience meant I made the correct decisions too slowly and I crashed. Mum and Dad are thinking it might be worth investigating making an appeal, mainly because there was no stop sign, but I dunno... we'll see about that.
The reason I'm thinking "Poker Blog" is because on sunday I had my second US$1K+ score in a month... probably totalling about $2500 australian, which is a quater of what I made last financial year!!! I didn't run quite as good in this one as the first one (though I did get lucky in a few key spots, but its tournament poker.... thats to be expected). This is only the first time I've made the money in a significant tournament since my last score, and that time I won... this time 3rd. I've proven to myself that the first time wasn't a fluke, that I can do this... a thought that really scares my mother and father.
I'm really finding that when I'm on my game I am unstoppable. I'm making reads that are really very accurate and taking down some really good pots. But then there are times that I am off my game, and I make really bad plays and terrible calls. I just have to not play during these bad times I guess :P
Playing at the Pokerdome still has me completely baffled... I am so much better than so many of the players there, but I can't get the results. I'm not up or down any significant amount lifetime, but MAN it shits me... I should be winning so much more than I do there. The structures really are terrible, but even still... I just seem to not get very lucky at that place... it'l come eventually I guess.
And APL shits me even more! I made a final table last night in pretty good chip position, and just went card dead!!! And its not like I can just move in and steal pots because the blinds are so big that the BB is often pot committed, and I still have to avoid everyone else in the field! Once you get to an APL final table, it comes down to the cards. The blinds are so big that the pots become huge, and so anyone has a good chance to win the bloody things. Of course, I still haven't won one... Eric has, Shay has, Fender's won a few, but I can't win ONE!!! You really think I wouldn't care either... its just for a coin that says I won, but its a pride thing. Even if I had just won the main event I'd still want to win at the APL.
Bah it sucks...