Being Felted (going bust,broke) is considered by some in the poker world to be a badge of honor. Like a Battle Scar even when you lose the fight it toughens you up for the inevitable Wars ahead. After months and most likely years of sustaining your income with nothing else but playing poker, this is an unfortunate absolute occurance. (especially early in your career as a PPP) -- After long sessions, days turning into night turning into day, grueling tournaments of 2-3K ppl, dealing with drunks, morons & other unsavory characters that are a regular occurance in the business - the ritual of going bust is like being "shot in the gut" a wound that doesnt kill you at first but in time eventually will. (without medical attention of course) Going busto you kinda sense the end is near before it happens and when it finally does happen it feels like Armageddon. Especially if its been awhile since the last bust. Post Busto is a time of reflections on battles won & lost. The time interval between felted sessions usual determines the ratio of won/loss battles with the more time its been since u been felted the more successful you've been.
Mostly though it is a badge of shame. There is a reason why your felted and mine is no glory session. A bad series of chain linked events led to this wondrous Felt. (just like in the Curious Case of Benjamin Button) --= Missed Partie(s) plural FFS, lead to bad decisions at the table cuz i was already pissed which lead to tilt decisions which lead to even worse decisions all complied by playing in the Pit which is a major leak for any PPP (which stands for Professional Poker Player in case you havn't figured that out yet). "The Pit" is the area of the casino where they play the other games besides Poker. Blackjack, Roulette, Craps etc. The reason why its called the pit is bcuz ur money falls in and never comes out. (at least thats why i think its called that -very fitting huh) = so after my crappy poker play i go play High Stakes Blackjack $300-$400 a hand (high stakes to me maybe not to u if u reading this blog in your Bently Limo while Alfred pours you a Mimosa) do they even have Bently limos? nvrmind - after a 2 day session I was stuck a pretty good amount on the 1st day but the 2nd day a mere $40 dollars but after playing 15 hours straight on the 2nd day I was exhausted and decided to make up the $40 in Blackjack. After losing like 4 hands in a row I was betting $400 a hand and being dealt 20 to a dealers 21. FFS ****** after that mega tilt kicks in and I bet my last $400 and get dealt AA. = sick joke the gambling Gods are playing on me for this is a great hand in the game i just played for 15 hours and only saw that hand once here I am being dealt it on my 5th hand in and now I don't have enough to double down. Of course Picture Picture comes up i get 22 and had I been able to split those aces I would've got two Blackjacks or 21 which I couldn't because that was the last of my roll. I would've been boosted right back up there with $1600. sigh
Also these Micros episode are really tripping me out with how relevant they are to my actual roll. When the first episode came out and Chase won that Tournament by spiking the King of Diamonds on the River was the same week I won that MiniFTOPS HORSE event. But as I said in a previous blog, strange occurrences like that are now the norm for me even though once in awhile they still spook me out a bit... (Twilight Zone theme playing...)
WizDrW on FT...Fuck forget about it.
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