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DaRk AnGel : Why Home : August 2006 : Poker....

Poker....

Tuesday and Wednesday are my poker nights…

Tonight's Hold em' tournament had 516 players. That was the main one I was interested in. It cost me 2.25 to play in this.

An hour before started a Seven Card Stud tournament with 292 players. It cost me nothing to play in this. But the purse was 100.00 split amongst the top 30 people.

I managed to get my score up to 6000 dollars in the 7CS by the time the second tournament started an hour later. This is where I wanted to be.

The second tournament started with 516 people. And I was not getting good hands. I was in fact getting crap. But I managed to stay in until position 141 of 516. There I gamboled it all on a Jack/Nine. A bad hand amongst 10 players. I was up against a King Ace, a ace pair and a queen king. But the cards decided to fall into my favor. Even with all the math and all the considerations, there is a lot luck involved. Anyone that disputes this is a liar.

Within an hour I was up to number 1 with 90 odd people left. My hands came and went and I suffered some real bad beats. This is when the odds are totally against the other and you lose. Luck again..ugh…

As we reached the beginning of the payout structure, meaning money is won, I was at position number 8 of 30. Sweet! 8 has paid me 40.00 before. And the highest I have ever finished was third and that paid 208.32. Yet it was not to be a third place this time. I would settle for 23rd and a prize of 12.98.

BUT….

The 7CS tourney was still going and nearing position 30. I knew that with the points I had and the structure of that tournament that it would still be going on with the points I had. I was in last place at position 42 and had a slim chance of making the pay out. My money was all but gone. Then I got a break, a HUGE HAND, and I played it perfectly. All of a sudden I was number 25, and the game continued and in the end I finished 7th for 9.00.

It is not the money. I like the competition. And in a lot of instances I let the other players own testosterone beat them. I will go in with a stupid hand giving them the impression I am a fool. And I will do this a few times. I loose a little here. Then when I have the monster, and bet big, they see nothing but a tootsie pop in my chair.

You can watch all the pros on TV. You can hear about the studying and the math. All of it is true. But the bottom line is that luck is a HUGE part of the game.

And luck is a huge part of life. No matter how prepared we are. No matter how well we rehearse, if it is not in the cards, it is not.

We cannot control the hands that life deals us. But our character is defined by how we play the cards we have.

It is all we can do - be as prepared as you can, but be ready to change, and to accept the storms as all part of this journey. If you can then you will always be a winner.

And even the times I win nothing. I am a winner.

For a failure, a loser, is someone that quits trying. Whether it be at cards, or a any sport, or at dreams or life. If you quit, only then are you a true failure. Life will give you many reasons to lose hope and to quit. It is up to each of us, our attitudes, our faith, and most of all our wants to find whatever it is we seek, that is the strength and the courage to get up and go again.

I hope none of you ever fail.