![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Well, the three-day jetlag phenomenon did its normal kick-in or perhaps it was the strain of actually going back into the office (and the gym). I crashed out at 4.30 yesterday afternoon and woke up just in time to watch the second half (the good half) of the Valencia v Chelsea game. I then toddled about, went to bed at 1am, with the alarm set for 5.30 am ...
...and woke up at 3am.
Surely it isn't meant to work like this? I thought to myself. Then I remembered the three-day jetlag kick-in. In the US this often entails going to your room for a nap at 5pm, only to wake up some seven hours later and then doze through to 6am. After the trip back, it's a sudden wake-up in the middle of the night, with, quite definitely, no hope of getting back to sleep.
+++++
Congratulations to Pauly for getting the ESPN feature-writing gig at ESPN for the WSOP this year. I predict some great articles. Our new HST is born, trust me.
And Iggy is cranking out the post. The uber-superlatives for cunt-faces Party Poker can get a bit wearing (these people are shits, although that doesn't mean that the stock is a bad investment. Party seems to be doing well in weaning punters away from Poker and into arenas where Party can take all the profit) but you can't help but admire the stuff that Iggy produces. The latest Abdul/Hellmuth e-mail exchange is worth the price of admission alone.
If there was a price of adminssion, whjich there isn't.
+++++++
Elsewhere, Chan is back in black, MilkyBarKid is on a rollercoaster, many many players are silent.
Hugo Martin wrote a piece on how the "been there, fed up" style is "the new black" in poker blogging, with Fargis and Three-Bet Eric cited as the most significant examples. But I think Hugo somewhat misses the point, These guys were definitely not doing it out of oneupmanship. They were doing it because they were genuinely fed up and they wanted to get some balance back into their lives. Even though I have kept some balance (by keeping a full-time job), it does sometimes feel when I'm coming home that I've got to put in another couple of hours before I can relax. Poker really shouldn't be like that.
So, well, I've vut down a bit since returning, and I aim to continue my cut-down on work days. There's nothing hip about this. I just think that I've let things in my life become a bit imbalanced, and I want to feel better about myself. Fargis said that he hadn't played for a month and he felt great. Such a strong-willed decision (even MilkyBarKid walked away for 10 days, and he has to do it for a living) shows strength of purpose rather than a desire to remain or become hip.
The problem is, the poker sites don't want the rest of the world to find another fad; it will cost them money if poker relapses to its old popularity levels. In that sense, you have to take with a pinch of salt much of what you read in any site that is funded by the popularity of poker.
Now, work beckons.
...and woke up at 3am.
Surely it isn't meant to work like this? I thought to myself. Then I remembered the three-day jetlag kick-in. In the US this often entails going to your room for a nap at 5pm, only to wake up some seven hours later and then doze through to 6am. After the trip back, it's a sudden wake-up in the middle of the night, with, quite definitely, no hope of getting back to sleep.
+++++
Congratulations to Pauly for getting the ESPN feature-writing gig at ESPN for the WSOP this year. I predict some great articles. Our new HST is born, trust me.
And Iggy is cranking out the post. The uber-superlatives for cunt-faces Party Poker can get a bit wearing (these people are shits, although that doesn't mean that the stock is a bad investment. Party seems to be doing well in weaning punters away from Poker and into arenas where Party can take all the profit) but you can't help but admire the stuff that Iggy produces. The latest Abdul/Hellmuth e-mail exchange is worth the price of admission alone.
If there was a price of adminssion, whjich there isn't.
+++++++
Elsewhere, Chan is back in black, MilkyBarKid is on a rollercoaster, many many players are silent.
Hugo Martin wrote a piece on how the "been there, fed up" style is "the new black" in poker blogging, with Fargis and Three-Bet Eric cited as the most significant examples. But I think Hugo somewhat misses the point, These guys were definitely not doing it out of oneupmanship. They were doing it because they were genuinely fed up and they wanted to get some balance back into their lives. Even though I have kept some balance (by keeping a full-time job), it does sometimes feel when I'm coming home that I've got to put in another couple of hours before I can relax. Poker really shouldn't be like that.
So, well, I've vut down a bit since returning, and I aim to continue my cut-down on work days. There's nothing hip about this. I just think that I've let things in my life become a bit imbalanced, and I want to feel better about myself. Fargis said that he hadn't played for a month and he felt great. Such a strong-willed decision (even MilkyBarKid walked away for 10 days, and he has to do it for a living) shows strength of purpose rather than a desire to remain or become hip.
The problem is, the poker sites don't want the rest of the world to find another fad; it will cost them money if poker relapses to its old popularity levels. In that sense, you have to take with a pinch of salt much of what you read in any site that is funded by the popularity of poker.
Now, work beckons.
