By DeuceSeven on March 7th, 2008 (more posts by author)

I don't know if anyone else feels this way, mtt poker doesn't seem all that fun at the moment. After my biggest cash last month I can't get anything going, I have trips bvb, I'm up against a boat, I have trips bvb the other guy gets there and ties with a worse kicker or boats up. And more bad beat blah blah blah blah. I get a large percentage of my volume in on my days off probably at least 50%, despite that I haven't played a single mtt today or yesterday. I haven't cashed in the last 22 mtts I've played some due to a blow up, most losing a big pot with less then 20bb with hands like AK or AQ regardless if I'm ahead/flipping/behind.

I took 3 days off played a great session and had nothing to show for it except to double up a couple of donks who bluffed with npnd and got there. I'm probably being results oriented, in fact I am, it's just really tough to fire up some mtts when absolutely nothing works. Maybe I should take more then 3 days off, maybe a week would be good. I just feel I put so much time and effort into getting better that I owe it to myself to play.

Poker is a strange game, especially mtts, you can do everything right for a week, month, 3 months and see no good results. In almost anything else whether it be chess, basketball, or golf you put in the work, improve and you see results right away. Either you improve to be good and your handicap decreases or you don't put the work in and you get worse. In poker you can play absolutely horrible and make money at least in the short term, the same is not true in most any other sport.

That's all from emo boy.