Monday, April 21, 2008

Random Post

I have feck all specific to write about, so I'll just see where this goes.

I hate work.

Not much has happened me pokerwise in the last while so not much point talking about it really.

I hate work.

I booked my flights to Vegas for the summer last week though. I think the pain of sitting here in work drove me to do it as otherwise I would have no holiday plans until September, with my last trip away being last July to Vegas as well. I'm fairly sure that last year I said iw ouldn't bother going this year unless I won a main event seat, but typically I did a full 360 turnaround, going over now, but not being there to play the main event even in the unlikely circumstances that I won a ticket. I doubt I will even play a satellite though, so that is an unlikely outcome.

I hate work.

Instead I plan on playing some smaller events in the Venetian, cash games, and possibly a $2k event in the WSOP, finances permitting, but that is certainly not a priority. Other things I plan on doing when there include Buying plenty of discounted stuff since it is just so cheap, and getting drunk several times. I was planning on pushing the boat out and staying in the Venetian for my trip, but then rethought it and I am now thinking more about staying somewhere like "Bills Gamblin' Hall and Saloon". The name alone is great. It is cheap, gets good reviews on trip advisor, and is damn central, being across the road from Ceasers and Ballys, and next door to the Flamingo.

I hate work.

The subtle them of this seems to be developing into the fact that I am not overenamoured by my job currently. The fact that I am consistent loser in my 8 entered draws per year in the lotto is not helping me gain an escape route, and I believe I am way too cynical towards all the bullshit and rubbish that goes on in these places to think that a change of job (but in the same area) would help me get my work mojo back, if indeed I was ever in possession of said mojo in the first place. The natural escape route for someone of my persuasion might be to see if I can make enough money playing online to escape, but even if I was able to I would be fairly reluctant to do more than take a 6-12 month career break to restore my sanity. However, the fact that I cannot motivate myself to play online to get a bankroll to play at stakes that would be meaningful enough to hurt/reward says that it is 100% fiction to think I will ever be an online 'pro'. For this to happen I would need a couple of years consistency at decent stakes with decent winnings, but that isn't likely.

I hate work.

Ideally I would be able to change career to something less soul destroying but there are a couple of holes in that theory such as (1) I don't want to take a drop in pay that would accompany a career change. (2) I don't want to retrain. (3) I can't think of anything that I would like to change to realistically. I think I may be stuck where I am.

I hate work.

On a different note, bug week in sport coming up now with the Champions league and the Heineken cup semi finals over the next week and a bit. Liverpool, Barcelona and Munster are the teams I will be actively cheering for, with obviously Liverpool being foremost among them. Hopefully they can see of Chelsea, but it will be far from easy. This year for some reason, there seems to be more expectation on Liverpool to actually beat Chelsea, whereas the last two times they played them in this competition Chelsea were healthy favourites. I really hope that Liverpool keep a clean sheet in the first leg. My ideal scenario involves 3 Chelsea red cards and a 5-0 win for Liverpool in the first leg, but I'm sure I'd be only too delighted with a 2-0 home win in the first leg and 1-1 away from home. I doubt it will be easy though and could go either way. Ok, I got interrupted here so lost my stream of whatever thought may have existing, although I'm not sure any coherent sentences were contained in this post at all.

Oh, I nearly forgot. I hate work.

That is all.

12 comments:

El_Stuntman said...

meh if poker became 'work', you'd be posting 'I hate poker instead'

suck it up (as my Aussie friends would say)

either that or go postal on your workmates - both are good options

Dom said...

Oh I am under no illusions that poker as work would be horrible as well unless I had a big cushion of money, hence it doesn't bother me that much that I don't play online poker that much.

I really do hate work though.

smurph said...

Okay, Im gonna put my "Aunty Colette" hat on for a second. Dom, you need to get out more. you hate work, you come home from work, you play cards, you get little sleep, you go to work.

You need to get out go for a walk, do something active, get some va va voom... There are few people in the world who love their job (well okay I do) but I have the torture of getting to work each day. Im not saying that you play cards 7 nights a week, I know you don't, but snap out of the "I hate my job" and for the love of god add some colour to your blog.....

Dom said...

Grey is good Smurph.

As for the cards thing, I play less now than I used to, but I take your point. Do you have any nice 25-30 female friends to distract me :)

Anonymous said...

What about taking an interest in something that might lead to going out on your own - what line of business are you in? I might be able to suggest something

dokearney said...

Exercise

Dom said...

Ya, I have started cycling a bit in the evenings now (leading up to cycling to work hopefully), but the years of non exercise menas it is slow and painful at this point. Hopefully I'll persevere.

Chris, currently I'm in IT (some mainframe and bits and bobs of other things), not sure the current market is one to be trying to contract in, but sure who knows.

lyspy said...

Hi Dom,

I am setting up a new site for Irish poker. Would you like to publish your blog there?

Anonymous said...

Something tells me that you're not that keen on work mate! LOL! I wasn't too keen either and ended up getting the sack for internet abuse and despite me hating it I do sometimes strangely miss it!

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