The darkness

Don't you hate it when the clocks go back? I don't mind winter for the cold, but for the darkness.

A dearth of entries last week, because I didn't play all that much poker. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday were all busy evenings for me, and it was an enjoyble but expensive and tiring week. Actually, Thursday was busy with live poker, a sort of private club type of thing, low stakes tournament. I came third out of twenty and had a great time - while learning for the first time of the chunk that drinks and travel take from profits.

I did play quite a bit on Saturday, making $90 in about five hours of unspectacular PLO. For some reason, though, I have a strange dark feeling at the moment. I'm a bit jumpy about my life and my job and my finances, and somehow it feels like the poker has been going so well for so many weeks that the gods owe me an almighty kick in the teeth.

It's a stupid feeling which hopefully will pass, since I feel strongly in control of my game and there is no reason why I should suddenly get shafted for big losses. I think I'm just in a negative mindset at the moment.

On a positive note, I was able to visit a specialist gambling bookshop yesterday, where I picked up four poker books. I bought the novel 'King of a Small World', Jim McManus's well-reviewed 'Positively Fifth Street', Sklanksy's tournament book and 'Improve Your Poker' by the estimable Bob Ciaffone. I'm in reading heaven for a week or two!

Later:

Bah! Down $50 after an hour or so, and then my site crashed. It sucks only being on one site. I'm desperate to play and prove that my dark feelings are just stupid superstition.. and I am thwarted.