Well, after missing last weekend due to being out of town, I chose to again skip out of town this Thursday and Friday, to head back to Maryland to celebrate my birthday with my family, and to catch the major league debut of Orioles star prospect catcher Matt Wieters. Although Wieters failed to achieve his first MLB hit, he called a great game, with young pitcher Brad Bergesen pitching into the 9th inning, giving up only 2 runs in a 2-hour 15-minute drubbing of the Tigers. During the game, Luke Scott came up to bat with the bases loaded. I announced that I would like to cash in my birthday presents right then and there, during his at-bat. Sure enough, he clubbed a grand slam into the flag court in right field.
I took the train back to New York after the game and was asleep by 3 a.m. Today, I managed to squeeze in three short sessions during the afternoon (this evening is my birthday party). And it looks like FullTilt has given me a birthday present to go along with Luke Scott’s: up over 4 buy-ins for one of my biggest days in a very long time. After only putting in a few hours this past week, I felt refreshed, at ease, and focused. In fact, I had downloaded a bunch of videos to watch on the train, but never looked at them, choosing instead to listen to Junkies podcasts. Considering how bad I’ve been running (and actually, it continues, still running 300BB below All-In EV this past month), I think perhaps I needed to clear my head a bit. I don’t believe in the power of position thought (i.e., that positive thinking alone can produce positive outcomes), but I certainly believe that one’s attitude can affect one’s play. If you play believing you’re going to lose, then you’re going to play scared, and you won’t play well.
It’s hard to say if I had been playing poorly in the past few weeks. I’d like to think I was just running bad. Then again, now that I had a good day, I’d like to think the opposite: that it was not “running good”, but rather playing well. Funny how that works, huh?
2 Responses to “A very happy birthday”
300BB below all-in ev….theres a difference between “running bad” and “playing bad”.
I’m not sure if you’re implying that I’m clearly running bad and that it’s not a product of my play, or if you’re implying that I must be playing bad because 300 BB is a lot. If the former, I would say that being down 6 buy-ins below EV is not monumentally bad over any sample, and nothing to even shake a fist at. In the latter, I would say… well, actually I guess I’d say the same thing.