I take the "the" out of "psychotherapist"

So today I figured out what method I would use if I ever had to kill myself. I think about this from time to time for some reason. A lot of people say they would take pills, or a gun to the head, but there are so many things that could go wrong with that. My main qualifications with it are it being quick, painless, and 100% effective. What I would do to kill myself is to get hit by a train. Now I wouldn’t be an idiot and just stand there, no, I would lie myself down perpendicular to the rails with my neck aligned with one rail ensuring that the train wheels would slice my head off completely. I imagine I wouldn’t feel that, although it would be pretty terrifying awaiting that train with your ear basically on the rail.

But enough about my problems…

So I’ve been somewhat absent from the ol’ blog for a few days, as I was away from my den and went back home to visit friends for St.Patrick’s day. I only played a few online sessions here and there, mostly MTT’s as I just can’t play my regular multitabling SNG game while away from my normal surroundings. I actually managed to place 10th in a $3 rebuy tourney with like 322342342 entrants. But 10th sucks and only pays like $2 so it was basically a waste of time. My homeboy WP scored a nice third place in a $10 MTT that I witnessed for a cool grand, grats man, but too bad you aren’t as good as me as I would have gotten first undoubtedly.

I spent most of my nights playing home game poker and/or drinking my face off. Also went to a house party that for the first time at my age of 25, felt super old. Chatting up 17 year olds who are still in high school is a skill I havn’t yet acquired, but hey, young boobies all over - can’t complain. I also managed to win a few home game tourneys which is always fun, even though they are only for $5.

Yesterday 2 friends and I headed down to Niagara Falls Casino to play some live NL cash games. They run mostly 1/2 NL with a measly $100 buy-in. I’d definitely prefer a $200 buy-in and I can’t really figure out why they don’t have it but hey, you deal. After about 5 hours of play I had worked my stack up to about $175 which was fine with me, but my other 2 friends both dominated the tables and were up 5 buy-in’s each at $500. A part of me watched the horrid poker being played and wanted to start raising with meh and outplaying people post flop, but bluffing calling stations is something I’ve always tried to avoid and decided to just “play my hands”. It worked out I guess, as I was getting a few QQ and AK to deal with, but my raises were definitely getting too much respect as I would raise and just steal the limped blinds of everyone. I then decided that hey, if I’m getting this much respect, lets get a little crazy, so once from UTG I raised to $10 with 54 of hearts, with 1 caller in the SB. Flop throws down a Q23 which gives me the draw and I decide to check behind the caller for a free card. Turn brings a T and he again checks to me, and since 2 checks to a preflop raiser = bet, I bet and of course he puts me all in and I can’t call. So much for loosening up.

All in all the trip was really fun and that play combined with my earlier live game tournament wins is giving me a pretty good feeling about my upcoming trip to Vegas in which I hope to make enough money to pay for the trip itself.

Today being my first day back to the grind, I of course am down about 5 buy-in’s after 18 games, which is excellent. But it’s obviously all bad beats and variance since my play is perfect… yea