These past couple of weeks have been weird.
When I first started this little poker adventure, I was actually pretty good. I won at home games and online. I’ve always felt I was ‘good’ at poker so I figured this should be a snap. Lately though, I’ve been losing lots of games and generally feeling like maybe I’m not going to get a handle on this poker thing after all. More and more, I’m becoming aware of the chasm between casual players and really good, experienced players.
At this exact moment however, I’m not really sure how to feel…
On one hand, I just got done playing at the tables at PokerStars and I did pretty well (started with $2k, ended with about $10k. The winning isn’t what has me excited though- it’s that I knew when I was going to win and lose. For the first time, I felt like I wasn’t guessing. I was reading people correctly, and playing the hands the right way.
On the other hand- it’s freakin 5:45 in the morning. I haven’t slept, and I’ve been playing poker for somewhere in the neightborhood of 7 hours. Maybe this is becoming a problem… I need to try to catch a few hours of sleep and figure out how I feel about this.
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