Thursday, June 11, 2009

Poker can be Frustrating

I think tonight is the first night where I've genuinely been annoyed and peeved in general about poker. I mean bad beats happen, I let them slide pretty easily - don't ever get upset over it, probably don't even show any emotion when a 2 outer come for an underpair or some guys hit his runner runner for a straight against my top set.

Tonight was different, it was just frustrating in a sense that big hands ran into bigger hands, just always having the second best hand in a big pot, or losing the critical flips yet winning the one that has a pot that is really irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

This is the first time for a long time where I actually feels a bit tilted, and just have a sense of not caring anymore. I know that feeling definitely crowded my judgment in a couple of the tournaments I played, but part of me just didn't want to continue anymore and don't really care if I busted out. As I write this, I'm still grinding out one last tourney that I started - I'm definitely taking a break for the next couple of days just to get poker out of my head before playing the 200 seat guaranteed on Stars on Sunday.

At the end of the day, I don't think I really have the right to complain after winning a WSOP ME seat just recently, but when I graph my all-in EV and see how I'm running so much lower than expectation, I wonder whether I might've won a second seat by now.

1 comment:

Casino King said...

Hello,
I know poker is a tough game and there is high risk.
But it is not always frustrating.