Playing Poker Sick
3 days ago I woke up in the morning to that elusive scratchy throat. I knew it was coming and despite drinking as much orange juice and water as possible all that day, I woke up the next morning with the shittiest sore throat ever and a likely fever. I pretty much decided to sleep all day and just watch ESPN. However, I kept getting phone messages from PTR telling me that a few of my favorite fish were online. One particular fish who multitables 200nl was on 8 tables so I decided to just weather the storm and sit with him. It was a terrible idea. I quickly found myself getting outplayed and just playing overall bad.
I managed to lose 3.5 buyins before I decided it was a bad idea to continue on in my state. I went back to laying down. About 2 hours later, I get another alert. This time for a really big 72/13 fish. I knew i wouldn’t have to play for long with him before he stacked himself off to someone (hopefully me). I went to go see what he was playing and what the waitlist looked like. To my amazement he was on a 2/4 table with another 50/20 fish. The average pot at the table was climbing above $150. I decided again that I must sit down with them for the sake of liking money.
I managed to get cold decked and coolered by one of the fish. I lost a buyin there as well. Overall a pretty ugly day at the tables when I really shouldn’t have been playing at all. I think i learned a vital lesson though. Don’t play when you know you don’t have your A game. The C game isn’t enough to even have my competing against the likes of sainter and berlinsbest.
Today, I am feeling better but still feeling a little sick so I stuck to 100nl. I usually wouldn’t have played at all but I really have this itch to play a ton of hands. It must be just feeling out my new style of play and really starting to get my head around very good postflop play. I decided I would only play deep tables with a $200 stack (this catered to my ego). I knew i would play against likely the best 100nl regs, but I think I can crush just about all of those guys. I wasn’t wrong in my assumption. I absolutely bulldozed the tables. I managed to win 15 bi’s in 3000 hands. It was pretty awesome, but makes me wonder why I can’t just run like a normal human at 200nl. Click HERE to see a link to the graph from today.
I dunno what i’ll play tomorrow, but hopefully I feel better. At least good enough for some happy hour!