change your luck….

I’ve been running really bad last 10 weeks, in live poker, online, sportsbetting, pretty much everything. I put my money in good, I lose. I put my money in bad, I lose, I put my money in on a race, I lose.

I wrote a whining post this morning with a few of the 100 or so hands where I ran pretty bad last 10 weeks, but I got rid of it. It’s boring, and no one cares.

I edit an online casino website for Tony G. and the PokerNews team www.casinopokernews.com and one of my writers submitted an article about luck today which picked me up a little. The article was a simple basic psychological article about luck and the exercise at the end piqued my interest. When you’re running sick bad (60,000 hands of it in my case, the worst I have ever experienced in 1.5mil hands of poker), it can be hard to be objective about your situation. And the exercise at the end of this article (just a mood trick) made me realise that, at the end of the day, I’ve been pretty damn lucky so far and that life is good.

My flatmate in Brisbane before I moved o/s was a big proponent of the “think positive, change your luck” principle but I usually dismissed such logic as bs. But I think there is something to it. At the very least, thinking positive, even if it doesn’t change your tangible “luck”, helps you be objective and realise that there are billions living below the poverty line, and whether we like to admit it or not, just being born in a 1st world country and having access to 21st century education and university loans etc makes us all extremely lucky. I’m even more lucky than most, being able to make a successful living playing mid-stakes NL, and I’ve been able to travel to 15 or so countries in the last couple years in my profession.

Life is good - the cards can fall where they want, I’m going to stop to smell the roses along the way.

End sentiment.

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