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#931 – Taking a Break

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This is really unusual, but I’m taking a week off from playing poker online. The only time I’ve done that all year has been when I was at the World Series of Poker, so it was hardly “a break.” I’ll be doing work on the Blog during that time, but I’m getting away from playing for a little while.

My birthday is today (Monday) and my daughter Valerie’s bat mitzvah is Saturday, so I’ll be entertaining a hundred people this week. But if I needed any other reason to get away from the game, I got it on the last hand of my last tournament of one of my worst tournament days of the year. I re-raised with T-T, caught a flop of A-A-T, and lost. That’s because my opponent raised and called with K-8o, called my bet on the flop -I dare you to figure THAT one out – then took the betting lead when he hit a king on the turn. He was 100-to-1 dog after the flop and 10-to-1 dog after the turn.

But he had the faith of a True Believer and his another king on the river to make a higher full house.

Good reason to take a break, huh?

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4 Responses to “#931 – Taking a Break”

  1. Brian Says:
    December 14th, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Happy birthday faithful blogger-player! Best wishes for the most tilt-free week a guy could ask for. (That last hand you described could take a couple of days to get over!)

  2. Michael Roy Says:
    December 14th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    Happy Birthday Michael!

    Yeah, that is quite a bad beat. I see it happens to the best of us as well.

    Have a happy holidays and I hope your daughter enjoys her bat mitzfah!

    -Mike

  3. mad1 Says:
    December 14th, 2009 at 11:55 pm

    Happy birthday, Michael – you earned some time off – you’ve continously provided plentiful posts and insights in your blog. Thanks for all you’ve posted to this date, and looking forward to your next batch. Hope you enjoyed your day!

  4. hoodwinkpoker Says:
    December 19th, 2009 at 8:35 am

    Belated birthday wishes Michael, enjoy your break, just heard Gus hansen is taking a break from poker too to study his game. Do you think taking a break makes you a stronger player?

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