Tilt

I'm sure every poker player has experienced this at some point in their playing career. You may not even realize you've come across it. It's amazing when you get struck down with it. It's like a disease....comes out of nowhere and sits you on your backside.

I was playing 3 tables the other night, nothing major, just $1/$2 no limit. Anyway, off a $50 deposit I had my balance sitting at $240, all I wanted to do was get to $350 so as I could wire the money out, not to be, the pendulim swung completely the other direction, it was like a virus had just attacked my computer, all 3 tables I started getting pounded. It starts off with a couple of bad beats and ends up with me making dumb ass donkey calls. After I lost the lot (took me about 2-3 hours), I just sat back and said to myself....."What the fark just happened there?" It was like I was someone else.

Are there any antidotes? Well, the best advice I have is to batton down the hatches, try and whether the storm and tighten ya play right up. I can say this now after the sickness has passed, can't say I'm a better man for it.....One thing I can say is; I'm financially worse off for it that's for sure.

Laters.

Dave

Long time between posts

Hi there,

Yeah I know, I've been a slacker on this thing. Been quite busy of late. I went white water rafting on the weekend. I've got a mate that works as a raft guide there, so decided to give it a crack. It was 4 hours of awesome fun. I was absolutely knackered after it. Felt like I'd been in the gym the whole time. After about 20 runs down the rapids and staying in the boat about 3 times out of those 20 runs.....It was time to call it a day - best nights sleep I've had in a while. How my mate does this for 4 days a week, I have no idea.

Been playing quite a bit of Poker of late....Mostly with friends. Everytime I win, I cope it:

"Ah so the Poker Manager is taking his mates money.......Hope ya happy".

Different story when those buggers win :) Although the ribbing is all in good fun.

By the way, I've been setting up plenty of freerolls for our players.....be sure to check out the action. Always seems to be some friendly banter happening.

Catch ya later......

Dave