By Adanthar on May 26th, 2008 (more posts by author)

Last week was pretty gruesome, culminating with today, when, in addition to playing my B or C game most of the time, I managed to take my first 3%'er beat of the month and had about 5 sets/overpairs cracked in big pots. To be honest, I didn't even really care and was mostly playing on autopilot - leaving in 3 days has me thinking about other stuff too much. There are 2 videos I want to make for CR before Wednesday, and I still need to get some cash from the bank, check in with my backers, etc. etc. etc. In fact, I haven't even started packing. Yeah, standard.

To psych myself up, I've been looking at other people's blogs. It's surprising how much I can forget about running well until it happens, how bad other people's streaks can be and for how long, and, for that matter, that I'm still playing tourneys. I've said it about a dozen times by now, but this might be it; after the WSOP is over, I want to switch to MSNL full time. It's just not worth it to continually run bad when Cake and other sites still have the kind of games that they do, and on top of that, tourneys often tie me to the computer late at night when cash games, even if I only play them when they're good, basically run 18/7.

Of course, if I win something, that'll probably immediately change. But I do feel like waiting around for bi-yearly scores is just not that much fun compared to booking steady wins and watching the bankroll line go upward relatively steadily day after day. I might not be able to play 20K hands in a day, but I can certainly book longer sessions in cash than tourneys. So what's stopping me? Thus far, basically some laziness + feeling that cash has gotten tougher faster...except, just by checking out the MSNL regs that frequent tourneys, I know I still easily beat those games. Even my lazy ass has gotten to the point where I think I have to switch.

Meh.