Sorry to hear about your downswing Sir.

I like your analogy about poker gods testing us. Although it may sound cheesy, anything to help get out of a rut is good.

dranger sent me this video the other day, I recommend everyone to check it out for some poker humour. It's also got a great lesson in it despite the fact that it's intention was not educational:

http://www.xtranormal.com/xtranormal...90222182227485

Definately a must watch for ANY poker player, lol.

Now for the best update this thread will ever see:
TODAY IS THE BEST DAY OF MY POKER CAREER.....why is that you ask?

Because Pokerstars just shipped me Professional No-Limit Hold'em by Ed Miller, Matt Flynn, and Sunny Mehta - I picked it up from the mail room on my way home today. I plan on reading this shit multiple times, and getting through at least 50 pages or so before getting back to grinding. This has to be the most +EV thing I've done outside the tables besides getting PT3. I've been anticipating this read for too long now so I'm going to get started as of immediately after I finish this post.

And I'm done with this post. So you all know exactly what I'm doing right now. I'll let you know how the read goes, and I'll probably participate in the discussion forums about the book.