Coming back to the fold
May 19, 2009
It’s been a year of hell as far as poker is concerned. Not so much as in I’ve been losing shed-loads of money, but more in the ‘losing total interest’ scenario.
Having had a poor run on the tables last year, problems started in my personal life in the shape of losing my job. Money was tight and I ended up dwindling away what was left of my bankroll at the various sites I had money in. Thinking I was getting back on my feet after finding a new job, that uber-shitty thing called fate intervened yet again when the company I was working at folded after 3 months. Almost 6 months later, and after a helluva lot of CVs sent out, I managed to get another job. Fingers crossed, this will last a bit longer than 3 months!
From the time I lost the first job up until now, I’m lucky to have played poker more than 20 times. But I’m hoping to start making a comeback. It’s going to be a hard slog, but I’m up for the challenge.
This year, I’ve played a couple of the OFC freerolls. I’ve not won any money from any of them, but have played quite well and managed to finish in the top 10% of most of them, normally going out to either a bad beat or more commonly going card dead and being blinded away, then going all-in with the first good hand I can get.
I’m using these freerolls as a re-learning tool. When I sort of stopped playing last year, I had been playing quite poorly. I was complaining about anything and everything that was making me loose. In hindsight – and something that should have been obvious – I was the only person to blame.
As I was saying, I’m using these freerolls to re-learn. To re-learn the dangers, pitfalls, and plays of the game of poker. Freerolls are not normally the place I would recommend practicing, but I’m getting the benifits I’ve been looking for. I’m gaining my patience back. I’m making my mistakes and steadily learning from them. I’m experimenting with different plays. I’m experimenting with aggression. Basically, I’m trying out everthing, learning from the results in the hope that I get it right for the time I start playing seriously for cash again. It’s costing me nothing to experiment, so it doesn’t matter if I go out first hand or later in the tournament. As long as I’m not put out through a dumb move (by me) I’ll be happy. The more I learn now, the better.
So, soon you’ll see me back on the tables, hopefully better prepared than ever. And hopefully winning more than ever!
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come back and try a few games with us again….
The door is always open, come experiment with $100.00 dollar added games at Power Poker, Netty is over there and we would like to see the gopher back in the mix!
Good to hear you’ll be back soon G-Man and even gooder (?)
to hear you are playing a bit of poker again Bro.
There is nothing wrong with playing a freeroll if you are playing it for practice and making plays knowing the odds of your hand or slow playing rockets or a set and just working through the poker arsenal when the hand presents itself to ya, hell win or lose, you are playing smart poker and practicing the tools we all had a few short years ago. The more ya play, the more chances ya have to get into those hands that make ya heart race, you know the type, and those are the hands that will keep ya coming back to the table. Those hands and good friends to share the moments with, too me, thats what tis crazy ass game is all about.
Damn, I been typing so long my fleet may have been crashed
Hope this crew comes back together and can start really playing good poker again, I could use the money
See Ya on the Felt
He’s baaaaaaaaaack!
Yup. Dumb ass lippy won $60 at pokerstars doin a freeroll. Played a qualifier to get into the weekly freeroll for $2k. The qualifying game was razz, the freeroll was omaha…go figure.
Any way I now have 60 bucks to smooge, so if any of you guys play at poker stars and want to flip flop some bucks with me into absolute, give me a holler.
I will join ya in some of our old get togethers and do some back door wham bam thanks beatch with ya.
I’ll now sign up for this site so do the okie dokie and accept me ya turds….
SEEEEEEEE YA !!!!