"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- unknown

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

poker
April 07, 2007 - 7:36 pm

Triumphant from where? Foxwoods.

Triumphant at what? Poker.

Why nearly not so? Well.. you see the plan was to take $200. The last time I was there, months ago, the max buyin for a 1/2 table was $100. The plan was to go bust no more than twice.

Well, not that I was planning to go bust at all, but that was the lower limit.

Upon arriving and getting my first stack of chips, I saw that they'd changed the rules -- you could now buyin with as much as $300.

Sitting down with $100 no longer seemed a good idea.. but I only has $200 in cash, so ended up sitting and playing with the full $200.

I didn't play long.. For whatever reason I never seem to "play well" when I join an existing table. I like to start at a bran new table. Anyway, after losing, I debated what to do.. my plan was to go bo bust not more than twice.. and I only really went bust once. So I got more money and happily ended up joining a new table.

Over the next six hours.. I was as high as around $750.. but then fell to about $300 and again rose to around $700 before leaving with $650 -- up a total of $250.

Not too shabby.. add in driving time and I earned around $27 an hour.

Why did I go? My "dream" of making the money I need playing poker has awakened in my head again.. Why? I don't know.. it just seems absurd spending the vast bulk of my time "working". But that would get me off on a philosophical rambling that I'm going to avoid.

Instead, I'm going to go have a beer and watch a movie.