After the usual screaming and carrying on as you do when you win, I would take my wife to a noncomputerised holiday resort where we can spend time together. As a pokerplayer I have the habit of ignoring her a bit in the evenings while grinding the tables. I focus so hard on the game that I barely hear her talking to me and when bedtime comes she wants to talk (and I sleep).
So all that lovely cash would go to my wife making sure that I’m available and listening to whatever she has to say, for the entire holiday.
How long would 5K last on a tropical island? Would PokerStars offer to pay the flights if I win?
To ensure my wife’s happiness that would be the best scenario.
I’m surprised that most my pokerplayer friends have both wife and kids and still manage to stay together. It must be without a doubt a tough task that I don’t envy. I have enough with just a wife and 3 4-legged Ragdolls. Well the cats sure makes a good companionship for the wife while I play, but it’s not a substitution for me. About those cats, yeah they are lovely but they have also made me call & fold important hands while trying to catch that damn mouse cursor flying allover the screen.
Back to the game…
How do I win this thing? Patience combines with aggression or just donk my way through the field like a true Scandinavian?
Sure there is also tight and supertight, but that normally leads to getting blinded out. So I have to find a way on each table that suits me and my current chipstack. Wonder if main event starts with 10K stack. Sure hope so! Last Sunday when PokerStars had their DOUBLE WHAMMER in all the big events i played one Warm-Up and one Million and finished 503rd in the Million. Happy with the way i played in that except when i miss clicked call 33K of my 37K with 95 off against AQ. Luckily the flop came 997.
OK so when I have figured out how to play in the main event I then have to find a way to please my wife during those hours. I’m all ears for ideas how I can solve this precarious issue! You see I’m perfectly content with just playing poker that evening, with the occasional socializing with the wife during the 5 minute breaks.
To make her perfectly happy I not only need to win this, I also need to pay her attention during the game. HOLY CRAP! Life is hard for a poker player. Or is it?
She always says that the computer comes before her, but that is not entirely true, actually it’s not true at all. I say one day all this playing will pay off. Or atleast that is what i keep telling myself. So with this little post all I really wanted to say was that I love my wife and I would do anything to make her happy. Even if it meant ignoring her for a few hours while playing poker.
So good luck to me!
With my latest run being down just 1K this year to even, I’m ready to take on this challenge. I have recently played a bit of Omaha Hi/lo tournaments and hope that WBCCOP have one of those stored in their schedule.