So to make a very long story short, it would appear Celina and I are broken up. I won’t get into a long ranting post about the reasons why, not only because it’s personal but that just isn’t the kind of content I put in my blog really. We’ve talked about trying to hang out in Sydney and see how we go, but until then we are officially not a couple and we won’t be seeing each other until then.

I woke up today and tried to grind, but realized very quickly my head was not in the right place. One thing I’ve prided myself on in poker is that I always keep my cool and never get worked up over any table talk or berating. That ended today. I had a situation come up today after this hand: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/87/high-stakes-mtt/top-pair-drawy-board-100r-335866/
One of the other players on the table berated me for my call when it turned out the BB had 6d4d and got there on the river. I had previously sucked out on that player open shoving QJhh for like 13 BB’s on the CO or HJ or something against his AK. A few hands later that player limped the small and I shoved like 14 BB’s in the BB with A5cc. He snapped 66 and held then called me a donkey.

Historically I’ve either left the table or said something self deprecating to ease my way out of the situation. Today I wound up looking up that players Stars/Tilt account on OPR, finding out he was a –ROI player, then shooting back on the rail with comments like “You’re one to talk captain –ROI” or something like that then getting into it with him. It wasn’t particularly classy by me but if preschool logic applies; he started it.

Anyway, so I realized I’m going to need a break from poker. Stevo very kindly let me out of our November bets with the plan that we’ll do them in some month down the line. We only got one taker for the team bet, our friends ‘Improved’ and ‘Rdcrsn’ and I talked to Improved who had no problem dropping the bet and doing it later on. I really appreciate all those guys showing me some leniency here.

Instead, our Skype chat group is going to go down to Chris’s parent’s beach house down in the bay, about an hour South of Melbourne. We’ll hang out for a week and after that I’m going to go visit my friend Cade (Lee Nelsons son) in Hawaii, which is where I’d likely end up living if Celina and I stay apart. I’ve already booked all my flights and look forward to a month in the sun before APPT Sydney at the end of November. I may or may not blog during that period, but knowing me I’ll feel the need to do creative writing and put something up.

Until then, so long.

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