Friday, May 25, 2007

Spicy Food and Coping with Failure

I just got back from having what could possibly be the spiciest meal of my life. I've been a vegetarian for about the last 6 months and the biggest problem with eating food without meat is having things that are too bland. With that in mind I went to a Thai place for dinner tonight. I ordered the Thai chow mein with tofu...then the waitier asked me how spicy (1-10) I wanted the dish. I thought 8 sounded like a good number because I've had a lot of bland food lately and I love spicy things.

Fast forward to me 25 minutes later...I was in a full sweat, my face was a lovely shade of red, my eyes were tearing up, I had gone through 6 cups of water, my mouth was still on fire, and the waiters were just laughing at me. It was really good food, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to have a solid 20 minutes of punishment for my toilet later...

On to poker related items. Lately I've been able to grind away in SNG's with a little $50NL mixed in there. My results have been positive but I've found myself going to sleep angry on a very regular basis. I have yet to have any real success in MTTs. I was going over my stats on thepokerdb and I've played in 74 tourneys and made the final table on 8 different occasions. Unforunately my best finish at any final table was 4th place and I haven't done better than 7th recently. Despite this, I'm still slightly above break-even with my MTT results (probably due to some of Bodog's overlays). It's so frustrating to get so close to some big cashes and fall short...8 times in a row. 8 final tables without a top 3 finish is terrible. I've either had the best hand or been in a race situation when I get my money in during the final table, so as of right now I'm chalking the results up to negative variance...but I'd be very willing to change that assessment if nothing improves over the next few final tables I'm able to make.

Bankroll = $1043.95 (first number over 1k...it feels good)

On the life front I have some buddies coming over tomorrow night for the UFC fight and maybe a little partying afterwards. So it should be a nice start to this 3 day weekend.


EDIT: 4 MTTs tonight...made it past the break in all of them, more than doubled my stack in all of them at one point, bubbled one, cashed in zero.

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Keep playing smart and playing within your roll. Finishing up a few bucks is better than being broke.

Most good players will tell you you have to play a ton of MTT's in order to finally make a big score. (Those kinda beats at the final table suck, but it's usually a push fest anyway by that time...happens).

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