Randomness / Over The Line Chat
Hey all,
I've had a mildly eventful couple of days so I thought I'd make an entry in here. First off, I've been sick as a dog again for the past week. I dont know whats wrong with my immune system lately but its getting really really old. I've been sick so much lately since I got over mono. Unfortunately my latest symptoms look a lot like a relapse of mono so I'm hopeful that this isnt the case as that would pretty much suck.
In addition to feeling like crap for the past week yesterday before losing in every tournament I played was spent trudging the swampy woods behind my parents house looking for my dogs as they took off out a gate that opened up. Found the younger of the two pretty quick, but my oldest dog who has some leg issues was still AWOL. Ended up running through a river and what not before my parents eventually found her running down the end of our road, about 1 mile away towards our house.
Lastly and most importantly, my time back at my parents will be over December 15th since I finally am closing on a condo in Boston. I started on the other end of the gambit thinking about buying a multi-family unit but ended up being a 2BR condo 0.2mi from Fenway Park. Its a pretty amazing location so I'm excited to get back to the city, I have been gone way too long, not to mention living in my childhood hometown for the first time since I was 21 wasnt the most exciting time I've ever had, although it did have its perks. I'll be glad to get my own place up and running again though after my renovations are done.
On the poker front, I had a terrible Sunday which is being followed up by a terrible Monday, but those are the breaks when you play donkaments for a living. I'm still grinding the Stars $50/$70k so we'll see if I can salvage the night with a top 3 there.
The last thing I wanted to address was something that happened tonight, which is sadly too big a part of online poker, people going way over the line of good taste because its online and its easy to be an a-hole when you don't have to be in front of people.
xxxxxxx [observer]: to the ovens with you jew-rollo
In my opinion this is WAY WAY over the line and these kind of things should be punished. I really encourage you guys that read this to never berate people, even if its a poker related line of attack, let your playing do the talk. If you really like to get under people's skin then a little good hearted trash talk is fine, its part of the game, but I really encourage you guys to remember at all times that while there are just avatars and screennames on your screen while playing there are people behind each one of them. If you see someone else going over the line report them to support, its not right and if that doesn't tug at your morality then its also -EV. The less fun people have when playing the less likely a recreational player will play, period.