Tilt!!!

Well, I ended up missing the HORSE tournament because I had other pressing matters, so that sucked. I still pulled out a 7th place finish, but I love playing HORSE, so I am bummed that I missed it.

So I went on destruction tilt yesterday night. Played some 2/4 NL and destroyed myself against this one calling station. Then I played a $200 Headsup NL match and lost that. Then I went to go play some 15/30 3-handed, was down $900 at my lowest point and pulled out a $270 loss overall. By then my game was on, but I was going to chill with some girls for a Blunts and Fourties night, so I called it quits.

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: The following is a semi-rant about substance abuse so for those with strong opinions about said subject, just skip this. Please.

I am going to lay down my feelings on substance abuse. People who drink/smoke/whatever too much annoy me. People who don't drink/smoke/whatever at all annoy me. In the first case, these people come to depend on that activity to relate to other people and if I can't have fun with those people without a substance on hand, then I don't really want to hang out with them (unless they are offering said substance for free). People who do the opposite are generally, in my experiance, closed off anyways and very uptight. I'm not talking about people who only drink a beer a week, but those who just DON'T. They don't know how to loosen up and tend to be very controlling when you are around them. I feel that, like most things in life, substances should be used in moderation. I don't feel the need to drink every night, but if some friends are like "Let's hit this" then I'm like "Ok." I don't need a substance in my alone time because my normal mental state is just spiffy the way it is. Too much, and you're and idiot, too little and you are boorish.

EDIT: I am not bagging on people who have absolved themselves from substances because they were abuser and then quit because of the negative effects. Those people I respect. It's those who are so stuck up that they refuse to even try a beer. Yes, I know people like that.

Whew. Done with that. To wrap this up, I'm thinking of putting some money of Party Poker (my money is mostly tied up on Full Tilt Poker and a bit on Poker Stars), so I will be watching those tables. I think it might be good for my NL game to be able to play a more straightforward game most of the time. One of my biggest problems (which a friend of mine who is a very good NL player pointed out) is that I like to switch gears a lot, which will probably serve me well down the line, but is hurting me now.