ma poor lungs

*cough cough*

I tell you, spending eight hours in a smoke-filled hotel room with no ventilation whatsoever and five chain smokers isn't exactly my idea of a good time. I mean, you couldn't even open the goddamn windows. But, I had a real good time anyhow. I wasn't about to let something unimportant like indoor air polution ruin my night out in Quebec.

I went there for a 150$ deepstack tournament which brought in close to 380 players from all over the province - the creme of the crop of the Quebec poker scene, only the finest, the elite, the big guns, osti. So I thought, eh, what's 150$ anyway? It's nothing! So I decided to take a shot at the big game.

Anyway, the tournament structure was very decent in relation to its buy-in. The blinds went up every 30 minutes, the blind escalation speed was moderate(could have been a lil' slower but it's not the end of the world), and the tournament lasted for two days.

But me, I lasted for about four hours. I really don't do well in these live tournaments. I can't even remember cashing in a mid-stake live tournament ever, so it's been a long time. I must be doing something wrong. It probably doesn't help that I hadn't slept all night the day before. I played online from Saturday night to Sunday morning, just before leaving for the tournament. Tournaments are so boring anyway. After that, some poker friends from Montreal and I played a friendly, kinda  smallish cash game all night long. I played pretty well and ran even better, I can't tell you how many gutshot I caught in that game, but it's a lot. Way too much. Now they probably think I'm an insane loose aggressive maniac, which I obviously am not.

Now back to the real thing. I didn't play much cash games onlne in the last couple of days. I came back yesterday, and almost instantly fell asleep and slept through the night. Then, this morning, I started playing a little, but I couldn't focus, lost one buy-in, didn't feel like playing, so I stopped after 600 hands. I fell asleep again this afternoon, and hopefully now I'm fully recovered. The coffee, the alcohol, the smoke, and the lack of sleep really takes a toll on your body. 

So I'm not even at 16K hands for this month yet. Gotta get back on track, time is running out real quick.