4/10/09

Yesterday I took my first real day off of poker probably since I got home from traveling central america in February: I didn't play a single hand all day. I know this isn't a big deal to most players, but I just like the game so much, and enjoy enough variations of it, and am probably to some extent addicted, that I find myself putting in at least one session of nl/plo every day. Actually laying in bed having not put in a single session was a very unfamiliar feeling to me. 

Instead, I walked around the city with friends from home, and then later on went out to a concert. Had a great time and even felt like I was able to clear my head a little. I felt like the last couple weeks have seen me devote all my thought processes to poker, which is obviously unhealthy. This is something that I need to work on in the future, and one of the reasons why I am skeptical of having one job year round.

Today I traveled home for easter weekend, but managed to play a little as well. Earlier, I put in a few hundred hands of HU and was up about a stack at 3/6. Later tonight, I played 9 tables of 2/4 and 3/6, making a few large mistakes, and ending up breaking almost perfectly even. It was just one of those nights where even though I played bad, my opponents managed to play worse.

Hands played: 1744

Total won/lost +533

Time played: ~3.75 hours