I wonder however, if it's even possible for someone not somewhat "deep in the game" to even understand it in writing let alone on a personal/real level. I think the hardest part of the job is the way it effects your outside relationships, and unfortunately this is also possibly the hardest and (deservedly) unreasonable aspects to discuss with anyone not with you in the poker world. If you choose to be self-employed you choose to live a lonely life style. I'm surprised when I listen to rappers like Chamillionaire and Kid Cudi constantly talking about how lonely they are and how they can't trust and relate to normal people.
Good examples are in these songs:
Cham - Lonely at the top:
Cham - Life goes on:
Kid Cudi - Save my soul:
I obviously can't make blog posts without including rap songs. However, some of the similarities in these artists feelings in regard to poker are interesting nevertheless. It's also worth pointing out that cham/cudi obviously have way more money and are in the public eye way more than any of us including durr, and so their motivations/feelings are likely even harder to deal with than ours by quite a bit, but regardless, are somewhat congruent with a poker players' even at lowish stakes.
All this being said, I think that if you choose to play poker, or go it alone, you should do so being aware of how it will effect you. I think I was well prepared for this and it shows in my short lived results.
I was motivated to write this because I was recently at my universities homecoming and sort of blew up on a guy I used to live with who was attempting to congratulate me for a quick television appearance at this years WSOP. He had frequently clowned on me for being a poker nerd while we were in school, and I took this in an insulting way. I'm fairly confident that despite my own personal feelings I was in the wrong to lose my cool as dealing with things like this are part of what I chose in taking this path in life.
If you want to move forward you need to leave some things behind.
Anyone think I'm off point here? Not sure how others perceive these things.
yo i got a weird problem maybe you guys can help me with.
i have two monitors, a 30 and a 20, with the 20 placed vertically.
regardless of which table is primary, when i click view--> tile tables, it always tiles as many tables as it can on the small vertical 20. is there any way to solve this? it does this on my other setup as well.
FTP always seems to know to tile on the bigger monitor.
with the final 27 in place i've actually played with like half the remaining field at some point while i was in the tournament.
there were two people i played with who are short but i think are sleeper picks to take it down if they can double through.
i played a bunch with jesse habaak during the bubble. he was a really nice guy from north dakota and schooled me pretty good in one hand. he seemed pretty loose for a tournament guy and i'll be rooting for him coming in.
the other player i think could make a run if she gets a big stack is leo margets. i don't want to give too much away, but i'm pretty sure she's possibly the most competent female player i have ever played with/observed. i was absolutely floored by some of the plays she made and hands she showed down. it is her first wsop and shes on a sick run, it would be so sick for poker if she takes it down so im really rooting for her. she's from spain as well, which is definitely one of the smaller poker markets at present but has some pretty extreme potential, so i think we'd all do better to see her do well.
she has some crap blog where she is talking about her M and how she is exploiting her image. she started online as well, and if i had to guess, i'd say even if she is the first one out today it won't be the last we hear from her. i just can't get over how skilled she seemed to be, and how good she was at exploiting the fact everyone would think she was bad.
anyways, other than those two, i'm of course rooting for ivey because i think he's the best player on earth and i like to see someone i look up to do well.
i'm pretty excited for the final table, a lot more good players in the field than last year, should make for some good action.
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