Yesterday I took my first whole day off poker in about a month-and-a-half. It was a conscious decision--I actually wanted to play when I got home from Zingerman's, but thought it would be good to give myself a little break.
I started out at $10 no-limit and have moved up to $25 no-limit and now $50 no-limit. I moved up to 50 NL about a week ago and made more in that week than I did in the whole preceding month. I've been beating the game soundly--too soundly, probably, to be sustainable...I've been running well. I almost jumped straight to 100 NL, but decided to cash out some money and take a day off instead.
What's it like playing poker every day? Pretty easy, honestly. But to be clear, I don't mean, "So easy you should quit your day job and take up online poker," I mean, "Pretty easy if playing a strategy game eight hours a day is your idea of fun." I haven't had occasion to question the underlying premise of the whole endeavor, namely that my aptitude for learning the game and adapting will be higher than that of the majority of online poker players. At the same time I've been lucky: I haven't had my mettle tested by a long stretch of bad luck, which is inevitable sooner or later. I'm feeling confident, but between the games getting tougher as I move up and the natural swings of variance, I expect the road to get bumpier.
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