As what I was thinking what to name this post, a scene came to my mind, which brought the word "Rising" to the picture...
Rising as in the sun that enlightens my apartment and wakes me up, more often than not, in a refreshed and pumped mood, rising as in my poker abilities and the way I perceive the game that I love and am so passionate about, rising as in the obstacles facing me in the challenges that I set up for myself in the short term and long term but let us focus on the short term side.
September was what I'm sure a countless number of people playing poker for a living would just like to erase from their memories, a brutal month in every definition of the word, I spent the 1st week with my gf in Bali which was nice, fun and relaxing then once I was back, I ran so bad it was disgusting, from the Punta Cana main event satellite where I got knocked out with set over set on the flop to the cruel set versus my Aces to send me to the rail out of the Sunday 100K 34th out 661....
It took a while for me to adjust back to my normal game but the thing is, I wasn't satisfied with it anymore, I want to be better, more skillful at extracting the maximum value, making the correct folds and/or adjustments, get better at hand reading, situation exploiting and all this while keeping an extremely focused and zen like mind.
