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Ace Jack of Spades vs a Drunk Monkey

// January 16th, 2007 // No Comments » // Poker Blog

Ace Jack of Spades 

Good Karma Kid: [As][Js]  

Drunk Monkey [9c][7c]

Preflop, Drunk Monkey raises, I 3 bet from small blind, drunk monkey 4 bets, I call

Flop [Ah][Jc][8c]

Put 5 bets each in on the flop

Turn [Ac], giving me the stone cold nuts, Aces full of jacks, giving drunk monkey the flush

We put 10 bets each in on the turn ($600), drunk monkey finally stops

River [10c], I bet out drunk monkey calls, I expect to drag the huge pot my direction, drunk monkey turns over his hand to show me that he had a flush, and of course tables his hand so the dealer has no choice but to read it, Drunk Monkey makes gut shot straight flush on the river and doesn’t realize it  :(

I went to the bathroom to puke, then decided to go home.  Normally, I would continue to play, but this was just the climax of about 3 hours of similar types of plays and bad beats and I was mentally frustrated to say the least.

Todays Lesson:  If you are frustrated, distracted, or shaken up mentally, consider going home or stop playing for the day. Poker requires 100% of your brainpower to process actions, reactions, and decisions.  There is always another game tomorrow.

New Years Resolutions

// January 1st, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Poker Blog, Website Marketing

New Years

It seems I have forgotten about my Poker Blog again, I’ve posted about this before, I guess I’m a bit of a procrastinator. Today is January 1st, 2007 and one of my New Years Resolutions is to post to my poker blog at least once a week on either Monday or Tuesday. Posting once a week should be a realistic and achievable goal.

I will be posting about my life as a professional poker player and Poker Affiliate My poker blog will discuss different situations that come up while playing poker, funny observations I make about people while playing poker and the occasional off-topic post.

Check back every Monday or Tuesday and if you don’t see a new post from me, send me an email or enter a comment and tell me to get off my lazy ass and post an article to my poker blog.

The GoodKarmaKid

I normally post a daily lesson, but today I have decided a quote would be more applicable.

Today’s Quote: “Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”
Napoleon Hill