first off, my parents were at the house we were staying at because its there house and they are trying to sell it. They also like to come watch me play if they are bored and my dad was playing 2/4 limit so my mom was going between us watching.

It was definitely a good time. If it wasn't for the damn borgata, I would have made money overall but with the expenses from the trip, i lost money but it was worth it. It was damn tiring though. Good thing kenny only half staked me instead of fully staking me like he originally wanted.

I have read almost everything Kenny and Bri have posted on BTP, but I swear, you guys just spent many days on a poker vacation, didnt lose, had strippers etc, and the way you guys write, it sounds like a damn root canal !!!!!!!

it was just surprisingly tiring to put in all those hours.

From what Iceman has posted it seems that there is a definite increase in skill level from the 2/4 to the 5/10. I am not playing at that level (nor am I good enough too ) so can only repeat what I have seen posted. Sounds like your playing well enough to move up to the 2/4 as long as the bankroll is large enough. Good luck.

Kenny: ... So I said to poker ...

Psychologist: ... Does Poker OFTEN talk back...?

Kenny: Yeah, not only does it talk back, it feels the pressing need to kick me square in my humungous "best 1/2 NL player in the world" genitalia several times a day...

Psychologist: ... I'd like you to take 2 of these little blue pills twice a day, and we need to schedule a regular appointment...

Sucks to see ya struggling, although I know you'll be back on top form and kickin ass soon enough...

Although it IS selfish of me... It kind of makes me feel good to know that even the "great ones" can have struggling sessions, where whatever we do, we get a nice boot to the nads... Lets me know that, while obviously my skill pales in comparison to yours, I'm not quite as bad as everyone keeps tellin me...

BTW... I whole heartedly agree w/ Poker that you probably should've spent all that money on hookers... As much as strippers are -EV, Hookers are about as +EV as ya get...

That dialogue was hilarious.

We ought to post that in the how to handle bad beats article. Number 7 is to write a story about your bad beat.

How much of the 7 buy ins was tilt losses? Be honest now.

I was thinking my worst streak ever was 8 buy ins but I remembered that it was 10 buy ins. A full 4 buy ins or so was tilt.

That was over 2 years ago. My worst since then was 6 with maybe 1 buy in of tilt.

Other than these 2 streaks, Ive never lost more than 4 buy ins.

Tilt is very very hard to control when everything is going wrong but if you dont control it, you have major problems.