Beat: You're reading this

As long as you're in the middle of a life-beat by coming to this blog, you may as well stick around and read the rest of this post. There are a couple of things here that may apply to you.

BTW, if you're expecting to see a new Gene's Blowing Up post right now, put your pants back on and calm down. That's not what this is. I've just been thinking about some posts by other people regarding this blog, and something occurred to me that I felt like writing about.

For all of the times that people have told me that I need to lighten up and not take things seriously, it appears that nobody has applied their own advice when reading this blog. I think you guys are convinced that I really do believe I'm the unluckiest player ever.

More on that in a moment, but first let me back up for a bit and talk about the genesis of this blog. You may recall that when Drome was made an ~Admin, one of the first things he did was to ban poker beats from the Beats section. Kinda dumb really, but what can you do when it's an ~Admin Playground over there now. Anyway, I started a thread entitled "Can I just have my own beat thread or something?", because I was in the mood to vent about a 2-outer that killed an otherwise great game.

One of the first responses was from WC: "Thats what blogs are for, start one and vent there"

It actually sounded like a good idea. I personally hate blogs, but at least it would give me some small amount of space on the internet for when I'm tilting from some of the nastier beats. And if someone was interested in watching the carnage, they could just come here. Keeps everything nice and neat and out of the forum.

When I came up with the "King of Bad Luck" title and description, I was just trying to be a little over-the-top. I figured hey, if I'm going to have a bad beat blog, I may as well go all out with it. I also decided to post hands from every game I play instead of just selective beats, for three reasons:

1. It would appear less misleading that way.
2. When I did win, I could look back on it to study key hands.
1. It would show how absurd it is to consider yourself "unlucky".

Did ya catch that last one? This is where the "don't take me seriously" part comes in. Of course I don't really think I'm that unlucky. As you can see in the hands that I have posted to this point, there have been some times when I got caught making a move, and there have been times when I was behind and sucked out. Shit happens, and even though it has happened a lot more lately (last 6 months) than usual, I know that I'm just in a bad run that will hopefully turn around soon.

I truly didn't expect that anyone would read it, and I don't know now why they did. Maybe it was because it was linked in my sig. Maybe it was because Zack linked to it in his blog. It was probably because of Zack. Anyway, it has become clear that everyone has misunderstood my reasons for starting this blog, and the reason why I'm writing all of this about it now is because it has directly affected how people read my forum posts. I won't go into the Annette discussion again, but suffice it to say that it had nothing to do with her running good or me running bad.

So, this blog is going to change slightly. I still hate blogs, and I'm tired of going through the effort to post every single game anyway, so it's a welcome change for me. The really nasty beats are still getting posted... that's why this thing was started, after all. But I'm going to focus more on my new code project, which is essentially a SNG version of PokerEV. Obviously it still ties in to the luck theme of the blog, so that works out pretty well.

There you go. Now you can go back to your normally beat-free life. :-)