Gack. TILT

So you've had some life issues.  Some serious real life family-type issues going on recently, and your head hasn't been in the game. 

Ok, here I am saying 'you' when I really mean me.  My head hasn't been correct for poker for several weeks.  That doesn't mean I haven't played a bit, but it does mean I haven't played seriously - or with any real focus.  Life tilt, really.  Best to not play anything I should take seriously.

But once in a while I feel like, 'I could focus right now.  I could play my A game.'

Last time I felt that way I played great and got close to a good score on Genting - busted 4th, top 2 players paid a £430 GPS buy in.

Tonight I was feeling right as well.  Decided to play Speed Poker because I've noticed from previous 'dip-ins' that a lot of the play suits my game.  I won't call it 'soft', because I think that term is far too nebulous and arrogant/insulting (depending which perspective you have).  But the brilliant Speed Poker challenge being run right now means there are a lot of players working with a specific agenda, and that suits my strategy.

There have been a lot of software updates on Genting/iPoker in the last week or so, though, and they don't they don't seem to be sitting right- in my laptop at least.  I've reported a few problems about freezing and total shutdowns of the site software.  I continued to play, though, because the opportunities seemed to outweigh the difficulties.

Until this:

Frozen out of a dream set-up.  Forced to fold and sit-out.  (There is no time-bank on iPoker Speed like there is on PokerStars 'Zoom'.)

Probably it hits me harder because I play so rarely right now.  But I think any poker player seeing this hand can feel the pain of the sit-out & fold forced here.

I sent this screenshot to the site-meisters, and proclaimed I can't play Speed Poker until the issues are sorted.  It's not a threat.  For one reason, because I'm not in any way a rake monster that they would court or worry about losing, so there is no threat to Genting/iPoker at all. 

But really, it's about my sanity - life tilt is hard enough.  Life management as well as bankroll management is shouting at me: 'BAD risk!!!'.  So, I've logged onto Stars to play a bit of 8-mix.  For now.  The old saying, 'A change is as good as a rest.' has always worked for me.

Sidenote:  'Rush' poker always tries to force its way in when I'm speaking/writing about any 'quickly-changing-table' type play.  And on Rush there were tournaments!  I'm smiling now - trying to remember the FullTilt(sponsored by PokerStars) re-start date...