wild poker swings

Saturday was a horrible poker outing for me. I was playing 400 NL (2/4 blinds), 600 NL, and 1000 NL. I was down over 1,400 chips before midnight. I then decided to play a multi-table tournament (MTT) with OmniX and we both busted out pretty early. I was pretty much on tilt at that point. Decided to take a breather and practiced an hour and a half of piano (Brahms rhapsodies and Bach prelude and fugue).

Afterwards, I went on a hot streak. Finished the day at +1,400 chips. That’s a 3,800 chip difference between my lowest point today and when I decided to call it a night.

Poker can take a toll on you emotionally. Especially if you focus on side games like I do. I’m going to focus on tournaments now (invest maybe 250 chips per week on tourneys) since I don’t the luxury of sitting in front of the computer for 40 hours a week. Multitable tournaments can last 8 hours or so (that’s if you make it to the final table). Winning over 100k for 8 hours of work sounds like a deal. I probably can make the money (i.e., at least get my buy-in amount back, means you have to make it to top 20%) a little more than half the time, so from a cost standpoint, it’s not that expensive. But if you hit, that’s over 100k.