As I blogged earlier, I was so tilted I had to quit twice while playing today, but overall had a good day which brings me up to 46% of my 100NL HU goal:



I've come a LONG way since my tilt days and have to give a lot of credit to Tommy Angelo. These days, I think a lot more about how to reduce my C-game than how to improve my A-game. Tommy is putting out a 8-episode series on deuces cracked which I'm really enjoying. Because of Tommy I handle beats better, can quit sooner, and am simply a better player.

I've downloaded all three episodes and will plan to listen to them again on the way to Vegas. Speaking of which - my friend PrincessDonk is in the money in the ladies event. I've been following her but the updates at the official site have not been very good. I told her that she needs Twitter but alas - nothing yet.

But ... back to tilt and poker. After I took one of the beats and decided I was going to stop, I went downstairs, packed the dishwasher, folded laundry, and realized I was just tired in general. It was around 2:00 p.m. and I've been up since around 6:00. I decided that a nap would be really good and so I went and laid down in my bed. Even though I was really tired, poker was just racing through my head and there was no way I was going to fall asleep.

Rewind back a few days. I played a morning session and then I took my dogs (2 of them) and friends dogs (3 of them) to a park. We were the only ones there, I let them all off the leash, and watched them go crazy and run around. I walked for about 15 minutes (most of them were within eyesight for that whole time) and finally found a bench in the shade to sit. Pretty soon all of them made their way there and just crashed. A petted a few of them for a while and then headed back. By the time I got home, I laid down, realized how empty my head/thoughts were, and was able to put in an awesome nap.

I woke up feeling amazing and put in a great session playing my A-game. Only today when I tried to take a nap did I realize just how great these dogs were for eliminating my tension, stress, and negative energy. For those of you that have dogs, you gotta know the feeling of coming home stressed and seeing a dog wagging it's tail and being all excited over the fact that you are there.

My two dogs (especially my little one) are massively +EV for my poker game. I always knew that spending time with my dogs made me really happy, but the direct link between that and getting off my C-game back to my A-game didn't hit me until today.

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