Reflexion

I do not usually read other people's blogs but I came across traheho's who is a well established pro who plays at the highest levels where 100k swings are inevitable. He talks about where he loses KK to AA twice in one night for 250,000 against his good friend who he then went out and had drinks with. I can only imagine being numb to that type of a swing. I remember winning about a 200k pot on FTP 200-400 last year and losing one about the same size and I can tell you 100% that I wasn't numb to it at all & further the losing is always so much worse than the winning kind of like betting sports.

Alec talks about being emotionless and how he is taking time off. I think being emotionless is okay but not great. I mean if it doesn't matter and you don't put any value on the $ I think you are heading down a slippery slope but by the same token you can't put the $ on a pedestal and it be an end all or you will get owned so hard it will make your head spin. I just busted out of the 162 nightly hundred grand in 20th of 968 players and I am definitely upset. There were some huge pots where I was a heavy favorite that didn't work out my way but it doesn't change the fact that $28 k just possibly slipped through my hand.

I have been playing professionally for 9 years and I used to talk extensively with my fellow pro and friend David Baker about what it takes to be a professional. He & I have it a lot tougher because we have kids and lots of bills. I cannot imagine how much easier it would be to play my game if I had neither. Now I obviously am not saying that I would change a thing b/c anyone who knows me knows my son is the most important thing in the world to me and David's little girl to him, but it must be nice to have no worries about going broke and ruining others lives as well as our own. I do not know Traheho personally but he has my respect nonetheless.

Aside from poker I am headed for Las Vegas this Saturday after my son's baseball game to go to Hugh Hefner's bday bash at the Palms and I am in the suite next to the Bunny Hut :) so at least I can relax a bit and then it's Venetian series which I am gonna tear up and get me a live win which I haven't had in a year. I haven't played much but that's not the point.

Russ