Life Tilt

Just to prove I can be the worst noobie dumbshit around, I thought I'd post a story about last Tuesday night. Found out my 18 month old son had pneumonia. The other kids are in bed. I'm at home playing poker watching them. Wife is at the ER with youngest. Chest xray positive. Pneumonia.

I go on super life tilt, and of course, keep playing poker for 3 hours. The worst of it is, we have a 4 year old who had pneumonia 2 years ago, and spent 3 days in the PICU and 11 days total in the hospital. And the diagnosis just screws up my head.

So I start overshoving every flop bet and just playing like supercrap, but I got these amazing cards that helped - both to get me playing maniac and to keep me from losing hundreds. I end up down 2 BI when I finally come to my senses and close out my games.

Postflop analysis: kiddo's okay, and off most of his meds, so that's +++++LIFE EV. And why, if I just wanted to play some poker to "veg" and take my mind off things, why don't I just play NL2 where two BI is like .25% of my roll? And why did I have to be on tilt when all those great cards came flyin' my way? How many BI's UP would I have been if I was playing even half-decent poker?

Life is more than poker, guys. Good luck at both.