My Need To Apologise...
Runadrum, you are a player and a person who I have a massive amount of respect for. So I feel I owe you an explanation.
I am not a good loser.
:-)
I should be, as I've plenty of practice, but as you know from my blog poker is my replacement for football, a sport where I was terribly competitive and driven.
During the 90 minutes of play I was totally focused on my team winning, to the point where I detested every single player on the opposition, until the final whistle, and I'd change back into the good-natured 'nice' person that I think I am normally.
The problem that I have when I play poker, is there is no final whistle. I need to find a way to swtitch off the 'nasty' competitive me in the same way I could when footballing. I should realise that you make your decisions with your cards and your stacks, and I have no right to expect you to play by 'my rules' (in other words, let me win).
When I go out of a tourney though, the last thing I want to say is "nice hand" or "well played" or "good game", regardless of the person who beats me. The game is not finished, so how can my nice side materialise... So when you knocked me out of the PL Virgin tourney last week, for 5 minutes after the river on my last hand, I couldn't accept that I was not playing, and so the nasty side of me made that embaressing post. In fact the reason it has not been deleted is to shame myself, and to remember that when you get the message saying 'you finished in xxth position' that is my 'final whistle'.
Maybe then I can post what I really want to say, instead of looking like an immature fool.
What I really wanted to say was, 'you lucky person, you. You'd better go on and win it'. Maybe next time I can...
Anyway you deserve credit, as you've been playing well and getting some good results! Well done.
Please accept my apology, mate.
P.S. I notice in your blog that all the articles are in a different coloured text, and I wondered why mine wasn't. Well... tonight I found the text colour button.
I am not a good loser.
:-)
I should be, as I've plenty of practice, but as you know from my blog poker is my replacement for football, a sport where I was terribly competitive and driven.
During the 90 minutes of play I was totally focused on my team winning, to the point where I detested every single player on the opposition, until the final whistle, and I'd change back into the good-natured 'nice' person that I think I am normally.
The problem that I have when I play poker, is there is no final whistle. I need to find a way to swtitch off the 'nasty' competitive me in the same way I could when footballing. I should realise that you make your decisions with your cards and your stacks, and I have no right to expect you to play by 'my rules' (in other words, let me win).
When I go out of a tourney though, the last thing I want to say is "nice hand" or "well played" or "good game", regardless of the person who beats me. The game is not finished, so how can my nice side materialise... So when you knocked me out of the PL Virgin tourney last week, for 5 minutes after the river on my last hand, I couldn't accept that I was not playing, and so the nasty side of me made that embaressing post. In fact the reason it has not been deleted is to shame myself, and to remember that when you get the message saying 'you finished in xxth position' that is my 'final whistle'.
Maybe then I can post what I really want to say, instead of looking like an immature fool.
What I really wanted to say was, 'you lucky person, you. You'd better go on and win it'. Maybe next time I can...
Anyway you deserve credit, as you've been playing well and getting some good results! Well done.
Please accept my apology, mate.
P.S. I notice in your blog that all the articles are in a different coloured text, and I wondered why mine wasn't. Well... tonight I found the text colour button.
posted by Mr V. at 12:10 am
1 Comments:
I think we need to agree that being in love (with poker) means never having to say you are sorry. (I like that and think I will have to use it on my blog tonight !)
There are enough examples from me on Punters Lounge to show that I am not a good loser either. Whilst I try to remind myself that any two cards are allowed to win, however unlikely, I do think I get over it quicker if I have a sounding board - be it the Lounge or now my blog, depending on how many people I want to read it !
So I promise you I do not mind if you need to do the same.
The football analogy I can understand as I have a friend who is the son of a vicar, church-goer himself, used to volunteer for the samaritans, as mild-mannered and patient and understanding a person you could wish to find - until he gets onto a football pitch !
Perhaps Mrs V could don a referee kit and blow a whistle when you finish on a poker table - or would that throw all possible concentration out of the window ?
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