The Journey is complete. The fun times had. 897…

_Anonymous_ · 2009-10-14T15:53:32Z

Ok, so I have played like almost 0 Poker since the end of agust when I so nicely wrote that super encouraging 2 sentence post in my last blog which has been laid to rest with the piles of other blogs in the latter pages of the Your Poker Blogs Section. For those that are new to reading my blog, I am 8979687, been playing poker since June of 2008 or so. The whole speel can be found at the beginning of my old blog. I ended up Tilting while playing FL, and I had had enough of finding myself getting so upset over nothing. When I ended my last blog, there was no real loss, or major problem with my BR. It was just that after convincing myself over and over its just a game of random numbers where you can use the odds in your favor, I found myself getting pissed off when the odds meant nothing and the worst players I had ever seen were making profits and I was steadily grinding it out to what felt like a pointless end. I finsished up with a BR of like $360 Canadian. Thats what I ended up with when I withdrew the whole thing. I have been having fun with play money again, and figured I would give Real money another solid shot, this time, to eliminate Tilt, or reduce it greatly, I am starting with .25c US on Pokerstars. There are 1 cent 990 or something player hyper turbos that pay out like 2 bucks for first. thats a 25 buy in start &spades;_biggrin: There is no goal here to turn it into xxx amount of dollars, and no time limit to hit something or forget it, I have my whole BR sitting with me, but I want to start out from scratch, so that I can enjoy the buildup however long it takes me to do it. I figure this way when I do get up to higher limits, I can relax about the results and money, because if I was able to make it somewhere with .25c then there is obviously no worries. I seriuously want to find a way to detach myself from the monetary aspect of this game, and it is sooo hard to do because most of your decisions at the beginning of a poker day are based on your BR. IE what site to play on what limits have the right traffic that I can afford to play etc etc. I can play the hardest video game ever and not get mad or throw my controller after playing soo long to have something unlucky happen to me and have me lose everything to start over. There are all kinds of other examples I can pull up of trying and failing or even having a rough time with but not getting mad at. So maybe if I can actually not give a fuck about my results and I mean TRULY not care this time, I can have the same outcome when the fish are biting but not biting the bait, biting me in the ass and wallet. Thats it for now, thanks for reading, I will even post charts and graphs again, and update regularly.

_Anonymous_

28.01.2011, 01:44 0

Thanks, but it is all over now.

An emergency required me to pull the roll off of Party.

So that is it. I do have the TAF bonus pending I didn't even bother transfering it to Party because
you have to play with it before you can withdraw it.

I may one day down the road start with it and see where it takes me.

$50 is much more than .25c and If I do get back into the mood for SNGs it wold be a lot of fun
to start out at the micros again but only if it were quite a while from now. I can not even stomach
the thought of seriously grinding through the micros a fourth time.

I had a good run though, from the $50 starting capitol I have in total withdrawn more than $3000 US.

Over the holidays I had to wait for the funds to be cleared on Party Poker and I ended up getting
black ops and I ended up getting very bored waiting more than a week for the cash to get on there.

And as I wrote before, with my health and lifestyle I can not make 1k games a month or even play
a solid amount during a year to make this worth while.

So for fun it will be and when ever I do get the urge for it because we all do again one day, this blog
is finished and retired. It has been a great pleasure writing here and logging in to find people have left
me something to read, from questions to good luck to even encouragmenet when I needed it. It is too bad
because lessthanthrees new video is out and it is gold. It would have been nice for it to have been the
last one I saw.

Thanks again everyone on this site. For everything. And mostly, for reading my blogs, and leaving me
something from yourselves to log on and find for myself to read and respond to.

I will probably be posting things here and there on the forums so its not like I am going to vanish
but my interest in poker is dwindling

Thanks everyone for reading.

stevegold87

Joined: 18.06.2009

Posts: 2,902

28.01.2011, 01:53 0

Well that kind of sucks dude but I understand real life can be sometimes a bitch and requires you to do those things. You know with your past you could always get staked for the 12$ by someone here and you would still be able to play poker.

GJ with all your archievements and I hope you will come back one day or something. Good luck in everything I remember starting my first blog at the same time as you, you sure progressed faster...!

My blog : MTT madness - No BRM, luckboxing, Shot taking, liveplays and health challenge

Together, we will get through this.

_Anonymous_

28.01.2011, 06:34 0

gg 897. make sure to hang around the forums when ur bored

_Anonymous_

29.01.2011, 20:40 0

Originally posted by stevegold87
Well that kind of sucks dude but I understand real life can be sometimes a bitch and requires you to do those things. You know with your past you could always get staked for the 12$ by someone here and you would still be able to play poker.

GJ with all your archievements and I hope you will come back one day or something. Good luck in everything I remember starting my first blog at the same time as you, you sure progressed faster...!

Thanks!!

I have been offered stakes before.. I would conisder it if I was offered again but not for a little while.

I would not play my best right now because my interest is not 100% into it and that would not be
fare to the staker.

Thanks lessthanthree. You have been a great help.

I will probably see you on TV one day.

_Anonymous_

31.01.2011, 10:53 0

All the best man. Make sure you linger in the forums like I am

_Anonymous_

31.01.2011, 20:18 0

Originally posted by gedwashere91
All the best man. Make sure you linger in the forums like I am

Thanks Ged!

I still check my marked blogs, yours included and I look at 2+2, I have been lurking there forever. There is enough
stuff on there to keep a person occupied for life haha. That triple range merge has been nominated for one of the
greatest quotes if I recall correctly.

Hlynkinn

Joined: 14.06.2008

Posts: 4,988

31.01.2011, 20:48 0

yupyup this blog was a fun read..

Good luck with whatever you'll be doing instead of shoving stacks

My signature is better than yours

yaxkukmian

Joined: 24.12.2007

Posts: 2,039

31.01.2011, 21:07 0

Good luck man! It was one of those blogs that I've been reading regularly. Unfortunally I didn't comment as I should but I was sure happy for your progress and results.
Best wishes and stay cool! ♠_cool:

Quarter Pro - From $111 to Grand Seiko!!!

_Anonymous_

01.02.2011, 00:18 0

Thank you Hlynkinn and Yaxkukmian!

I will tell you who is happy to see my success as well.. The people that got my bankroll.

2 thousand dollars spent in a flash on emergency repairs on 2 different vehicles and a vet.

I guess life does things for a reason I lose interest just before the shit hits the fan so its like well
its a good thing that cash was there and at the same time I am not very torn up about it because
I was losing interest anyway.

I transfered the TAF money over and now there is that $50 plus the first deposit bonus on $500
so whatever I unlock in donking around I get as a roll.

Thanks again guys for writing and don't worry about not commenting.

Piles of people read this blog when it was going strong because the views is up there pretty high and
most people read without writing anything and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

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