Turning $1 into $1,000: A Poker Goal - update #4
June 10th, 2007 by KenricPoker Epiphany!!!! Going from $100 to $200 took less than 2,000 hands. Next is the $500 milestone!
Sorry to make another poker update so fast but something clicked. I’ll have a real estate update tomorrow, I don’t know what’s going on with SFH#1. I actually got sick over the weekend. I must have ate something bad or got the stomach flu on Thursday. I had a stomach ache and massive muscle soreness. In fact, it was so bad that I stayed in bed all day Friday and Saturday. I did not make it to the Flagstaff Adventure Race on Saturday. There was no way I could have run 6 miles and biked 12 after not eating for 2 days.
The good news is that while I was in bed all day, all I did was read poker forums and play poker. I would read alot, play a little and go to sleep. Then I’d wake up and do it over again. Pretty soon I was dreaming poker hands and thinking about how to play hands while I tried to go to sleep. It obviously helped my poker play this weekend.
I can’t explain it, but I went into autopilot poker playing. I was in the zone. It could be a fluke. I only have 2000+ hands played so far but it just began to feel easy. If you look at my graph, I was struggling, going sideways before that. I was winning, but it felt very forced. This weekend, it felt natural and easy.
In fact, out of the 2,000 hands, I can remember only 5-8 hands where I made “I just wanted to see if I’m wrong” bad calls in which I lost a significant chunk of money. I do have to attribute alot of my winnings to how bad other players actually are. The hands they showdown their stacks with were crazy. For example, I had AA, the board is (K 10 3 K 7). I really expected to lose this to AK but the guy showed A 10 and called a shove on the flop!
We’ll see in a week if this weekend was a fluke. I should have another 10,000 hands complete before the next update.
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