On the Omaha (Poker) road to Ace

So, it has been a tough poker time, with a lot of bad beats and disappointments. And it is official, Adam is going underground. No more online poker, from now on I will only play real life poker in small poker rooms around my hometown here in Europe. I have a solid game going on at Mr. Tightass’s place. It is a great room full of skill. Every Saturday I go there full of excitement. Sometimes I go home broke, sometimes with a large profit that will get me through the next week for my large bankroll funded appetite.

Why, do you ask, are you leaving online poker? Well, it has been too swingy for me, and although it has been a positive thing overall, since I won more than I lost, emotionally it was just too hard for me to lose more than 1000$ in one evening. Though I always got it back by the end of the week, winning 1000$ isn’t worth as much joy as losing 1000$, or even 500$, an emotional money-related deficit quickly builds itself when the swings are as high as they are in Omaha Poker.

So this is the new deal, making a small profit that I can live off, and enjoy life to the fullest, and what do we, poker players, enjoy more than 10 straight hours of poker in a smoky room full of the smell of sweaty poker corpses? At least it is much more enjoyable than playing 8 tables at once on a tiny computer screen.
I’m also looking forward to the new Wednesday game around the block, seems full of total newbies and ripe for Adam’s picking. Haven’t you already had that feeling, the feeling that you almost feel guilty playing the poor bastards and go home with huge profits, but not extremely satisfied? Almost as if it was too easy, almost as if you rather had lost? Well, try to overcome it, because otherwise you will be staring at an empty bankroll soon enough.

See you soon,
Adam