choo choo mother f***er, its time to go downhill. haha anyway yeah i can now officially say im in a downswing, in more aspects than one so i guess i will start with poker since it will be simple.
im losing the end.
jk i am on a downsing though ive probablly been in the dowswing for the past couple weeks but ive had a couple winning days here and there right now im down 3k for the month so 6 buy ins. still enough time to turn it around and make some profit for the month unless of course the dowswing continues for the whole month. right now im going to talk about an important topic to me at the moment since ive been having mixed results with it. that is the topic of tripple barreling. to be short i think im going to rarely tripple barrel anymore unless i know for sure the opent is likely to lay down. i dont tripple barrel often and in live play id say over the last 2 months ive probablly only tripple barrelled like like 6 or 7 times. well this last week i trippled barreled 3 times and each time i got called 2 of the times was when the flop was somthing like 2 2 7 or 3 3 6 and the villans ended up having 3 of a kind so that was just unlucky but all the other times it seems like the villans just cant let go of there hands which ends up leaving me frustrated and forces my self to pretty much play value poker which is fine but a little boring. now im fine playing abc/tag value poker but then it sucks when see see a regular whos lagging it up and just crushing the game and its like what the F how come they fold to this guy all the time it just makes for a frustrated experience but thats how downswings are... would you have it any other way... ok dont answer that. anyway thats how poker is going just running bad with a couple unlucky plays i suppose nothing to horrible to kill my spirits just yet.
now for a little more complaining. oh boy i bet you just couldnt wait for it. so ive said this before and ill say it again. i can directly compare pickup to poker in so many aspects. although they are different "games" they are sooo much a like. and just like in poker you can also have upswings and downswings in pickup. ill give you 3 seconds to guess which way its going for me.
so yeah this week i will consider a fail as far as physical results go. i approached about 10 girls this weeknd which ill go into depth with in a minute, but i only got one number and it was with a girl i only talked to for about 2 minutes and she had to leave so there was no room to build comfort and the number pretty much screamed flakey. i did text her a few times but thats about how far it went before she stopped texting. i dont think i can get any further with her but ill try and text her again after valentines day to see if it makes a difference. now for the individual results. there was about 5 girls that i approached that were on their way to do somthing and the conversation didnt get much farther than the opener so that was about it. theres was probablly 2 or 3 girls that just kinda blew me off so ehh. and then there was 2 girls that i ended up having a pretty lengthy conversation with. of course theres complications with those as well.
one was at a mall and after i opened i saw she had a ring on her finger and of course she was married, she pretty cute and actually really nice so i decided to just talk to her just for the experience but that was about it. then next one was when i went out for some night game. i went to this ultra lounge that i havnt been to before and opened a girl pretty early on in the night and we talked for like 15 minutes there were a couple problems though. one was she lived like 150 miles north and was only there for the weeknd and two. she said she was leaving the venue pretty soon so although we had had a good convo. nothing really emerged from it. so thats how pickup went this weeknd. it wasnt a complete fail though i worked on some techniques and things i needed to work on while i was in the conversations so i felt like i was improving a little bit. also a girl i met when i first moved to washington met me for a smoothie today, im pretty much in the friendzone with her but its cool cause female friends can help widen your female social life.
theres a lot of things different from this winter of grinding compared to last winter of grinding when i was in vegas. one thing i noticed dramatically was how im affected during a downswing. last year when i was in vegas i really didnt have any other hobbies outside of poker and i was really results oriented then. so when i would have a dowswing it took a pretty big toll on my mentality. this winter though is a bit different and now that i have pickup as a hobbie outside of poker whenever things arnt going so hot i feel like i have somthing i can turn to and put effort into aside from poker which is making a huge difference on my mentality. ive still got a lot to learn in a whole lot of aspects and im still confused as shit about everything in life as a 24 year old usually is but things are moving along and thats about how my week has been going. so untill next time cosmonauts, stay tuned :)
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