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My poker break continues.  Sorta.  I played in a freeroll Sunday and it went exactly as I figured it would.  Sit there like a bump on a log, not play a hand because I don’t get a decent hand and/or everybody is raising/shoving and I don’t have good enough cards to join in, become a shortstack and be forced to open shove with any ace, get called by a worse hand (I had two overs, hit my ace, and he still won), and get knocked out.  And it pissed the crap out of me.  Which leads me to believe I’m still not ready to play if I got so mad and frustrated at a freeroll.  I almost felt like playing once last week, but it went away. 

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m meeting up with some of the guys from the forum in Niagara Falls this weekend.  I’m still going (and will try to provide a Snickers99-worthy trip report), but I’m not looking forward to it as much as I usually do.  I’m even thinking about exclusively playing 2/4 Limit, just like the old days.  Right now, with my frustration level reaching the max so easily while playing poker, I don’t think it’s a good idea to be playing NL.  Which might be backward thinking because is there a more frustrating game than a live 2/4 Limit poker game?

But at least at 2/4 Limit, I won’t blow my whole stack on one hand and hopefully a suckout won’t cost me too much.  And I know what to expect with 7, 8, 9 people to a hand.  The last time I played in Seneca, they had two NL buyin tables…one was $100 max, the other was, um, I forget.  Maybe $200?  Now, usually when I go to West Virginia where the max buyin is $300, I’ll buy in for $200.  So it would figure that I would choose the $200 max tables at Seneca.  But I actually feel more comfortable at the $100 max table.  I think it fits my nitty game better as I can sit and wait for a huge hand.  $100 max buyin doesn’t allow for too much play as you can quickly get your stack in…especially with the raises you tend to see at a live table.  So, if I’m going to risk my stack, you can be sure I have a monster.

Anyway, the point I’m getting to is that I may play one of the $100 max buyin table Friday night when I first get there and see how it goes.  If I lose my $100 (or I get short stacked and don’t want to rebuy), I can get up and move to the 2/4 Limit games.  Maybe I just need a good live session to get me back into the swing of things.  Oh, that is as long as they still offer the two types of buyins.

I know I keep repeating the same things over and over, but it’s really like someone just flipped a switch as far as me and poker.  I just lost the desire to play that fast.  It wasn’t any one thing.  I just lost the desire.  I don’t even hang out in the forum as much.  And when I do, I usually don’t bother reading any poker intensive threads, like strategy or news.  I’m just not interested anymore.  I wouldn’t be surprised if I never play another hand of online poker again…freeroll or possibly forum tournaments excluded.  I just don’t feel like it.  Well, I don’t know about never.  But it does feel like it will be a long time.

UPDATE!  I actually wrote the above at work Monday.  Since then, I’ve been thinking about poker and am now more excited about Niagara Falls this weeekend.  Still don’t know what I’m going to play (Limit or NL), but the itch might be s-l-o-w-l-y coming back.

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