This should very well go in my blog, but it goes with the topic, so why not. I hit my July goal with about a week to go, cruising and feeling pretty good. Then the beats come. I laugh a few off because I'm so "hardened", just like Lukie was saying. 100k hands, I'm a pretty consistent winner...whatever, the fish will donk it all back to me eventually. Next day passes, and the bankroll is lower.

Third day comes, and I lose a little more. Granted I use bankroll management and all this losing is still less than 10% of my bankroll, but I don't like losing! I should be WINNING! So the fourth day comes. I drop about 2 more buyins. Jesus, that's like 11 buyins over four days.

I've played an absolute TON of poker recently. Probably more than is healthy. So I cut it back. After playing something like 2500 hands a day for the past few weeks, I've played about 1k in the past three days. But one day I didn't at all. I went out, I got drunk with some friends, I didn't do a damn thing. Today I screwed around with some of my "play money" I don't consider part of my roll and played 3 $5.50 sngs. (I'm a cash player).

I think this break is really good for me. It's all about the breaks man. As much as we want to be, we aren't machines. We have emotions, and keeping them in check is very +EV.