Well, I kept the streak intact thanks mostly to a pretty big night on Friday night where I finally got some momentum going in my direction. I scratched out a small win today as well in about a 5,000 hand session. I intended to play a ton of poker today, but saw that I got in the black for the month after finally checking the cashier and truthfully, I am just flat our exhausted right now.

This month has been incredibly draining for me. I think if I look close enough, I had to have sprouted some grey hairs. I have been sick for the past week with a nasty cold and never really felt like playing much, but with a 57 month winning streak on the line, my competitiveness took over and I had to get my grind on. If I was going to go down, I wanted to go down swinging.

I am going to take a few days off and get some tax stuff together so I can see how I am fairing with good old Uncle Sam. After a few years as a poker pro and running across some horrible accountants, I finally found a good one in Aaron Eichenbaum. I am going to insert his link here because I get tons of people asking me for a good one, so for anyone interested, you can reach his firm http://www.fordhamgoodfellow.com/ here

I really dread this tax stuff. I wish there was some kind of simple system. I know a lot of people argue it should be a simple system for a variety of reasons, but mostly for me, I just despise keeping track of all this shit. Keep a receipt from here, but not there, write this off don’t write that off….sigh. Between playing poker, writing books, caring for a newborn, trying to be a good husband, making videos for Dragthebar.com, and dealing with all of life’s challenges, who has time for this shit? Can’t there just be some simple way of doing it?

In any event, I am super relieved to have pulled out a winning month when I was losing just 72 hours ago. I can’t say I feel clutch or anything because really I just stopped getting relentlessly unlucky for a short stretch finally, but I guess I definitely take some pride in the fact that I did pull out a small win (I don’t have a final tally, but it will be somewhere between a $5k and $10k win) despite feeling physically and mentally beat up. Running bad over a spread of 15+ high stakes tables with long sessions day after day, in conjunction with having a large number of responsibilities/obligations, can really wear on a person. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother caring. It isn’t like life will stop if I don’t make money for a little while. Nor will it really alter my life in any way. But there is just something internal that makes me feel like I have do things and I don’t really have a reasonable explanation for it.

Thanks to everyone who was following this pursuit and to the people who encouraged me. It definitely didn’t hurt to know that there were a lot of people in my corner pulling for me so thanks to everyone for that. I also look forward to reading the rants of the legendary Cardplayer commenter, “Venable.” “Venable,” I have been reading your posts and you are really making me laugh man. I love it. Please don’t stop posting. I will see if I can make some calls and get you a “lucky account” so that way we can be “lucky account” brothers.

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