Playing online poker for a day part three

Carrying on from part two then…..I do not let my emotions carry me away when my session goes through the $2000 profit mark at just after midday. The day before yesterday, I had lost over $1500 on another site. Limit Texas Hold’em can be a very frustrating game to play especially at the lower limits below $10-$20.

It is 1:00pm and the games are drying up and I must admit to no longer feeling my best now. The early start is beginning to take its toll as one by one the yawns start to creep in. This started to happen just after midday and I have now played poker for a full hour while not being at my peak. Why have I done it?……….I have no idea!

A bad beat in a $600 pot is my signal to call it a day. I am happy with the result not just because of the $2150 win but because my reason to rise at 5:30am seemed justified as the level of play did not seem as strong as it had been previously.

I log off at 1:10pm and end what has been a very good session; I need to rest now from the constant glare of the screen. Sometimes I wonder just how people who work in computer jobs actually do it. Depending on how I feel, I may go back online in the early evening and play some no-limit hold’em on a different site. But if I do this then there is no way that I am repeating the early start tomorrow, that feels too much like work to me.

I tend to alternate my play between limit and no-limit hold’em to prevent the game from becoming a bore. Relentless ring games can get to be pretty tedious and this is why many players play tournaments. But I have always preferred the flexibility and steady income that ring games provide.

If I am not feeling at my best or I want to stop playing for any reason then I can, whereas poker tournaments kind of lock you in to playing for a set period of time. I guess that this means that I will never get to be on TV but I can sure live with that.

I go through my session notes and update my files; I have found a couple of very weak players at $30-$60 that I will lookout for the next time. I mentally go through the session to see if there is anything that I could have done better. I conclude that I let several big bets slip away which sort of annoys me because I am somewhat of a perfectionist at limit hold’em.

What to do next, do I go out for a walk or watch TV. Common sense would dictate that I should be giving my mind a rest from poker so what do I decide to do, why some more work on my first poker book of course. I could be taking a nap to prepare for a possible evening session online but that seems very dull.

Whenever I sleep these days, I invariably dream about poker in some capacity. Usually I am playing in some game with funny characters, many of which I have never met. Last night I dreamt that I was in a game where we were all using biscuits for chips. Man do I need a change of job!!

Carl “The Dean” Sampson

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