The sky is falling, Poker and Monte Carlo…

I have been on a bit of a hiatus from playing poker the past week or so. I got back into playing some the past few days and won 50k or so, but I played terribly. I forced myself to play the past few days because some of the best games I have ever seen running were going.

I always see people post about “how tough poker has become”, “Two years ago the games were so soft” or “how unbeatable the games are today”. People love to make excuses for why they are losing and they never want to admit it was because of their own play and decisions. They also remember things much better than they were. I personally think the games are as good at the high but not nosebleed stakes now as they were two to three years ago.

I think the nosebleed games generally run around a few people and are still good when they run, but run rarely because they revolve around so few players who have lost large sums of money.

Hopefully what I just wrote doesn’t come off as condescending. I understand why alot of people blame things outside of their control for their results. I look back to when I was struggling with learning PLO. I thought I was getting coolered time and time again and there were days that I wanted to blame variance. I generally didn’t and some days where I did I would really analyze my game to see it usually wasn’t variance. I realize looking back, I wasn’t the unluckiest person in the world, I just wasn’t that good at PLO.

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I have been winning alot of money recently and I am getting really complacent with my game. I am already up over 1 million dollars this year, while winning at 9 bb/100 and I am getting a bit bored with poker. I feel a bit unchallenged. In a kinda sick way I enjoy when times are tough and I am struggling a bit.

Its coming really easy for me right now after alot of struggle and my focus isn’t there. I am trying to remember back to the times when things didn’t come easily for me in PLO and I had to really work on my game so I have more appreciation for whats happening now. I don’t want to be playing on autopilot, I want to play my best at all times.

I don’t know what I am going to do about turning my focus around. This has happened to me many times in the past and I usually just end up playing really bad poker until I lose alot of money. I would obviously like to avoid that this time, so I will probably not play unless I really want too.

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Tomorrow I leave for Monte Carlo where was singed up to play the 10k Euro Main Event, 25k Euro High rollers event and the 5k Euro PLO event. Unfortunately the PLO event was canceled because of some dispute with the Monagasque government. I don’t know what events I will end up playing as I don’t want to force myself to play if I am not in the mood. I may just take it easy and relax for the week.

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