Well, I Finally Did It

I cashed out the last remaining money I had in an online poker site.

The realization came to me this evening that the money is either better served in my cash bankroll or perhaps invested in some other way. For better or worse, I don't have the patience for online poker anymore. I find it tedious, anti-social and unexhilirating. I'm still a net winner (I've stopped playing holdem and razz has been kind to me), but the limits at which I would prefer to play razz are so hit-or-miss (as to whether any game will be going) that I don't see the point in keeping the money in the site anymore.

It didn't help that I decided to play some limit holdem for the first time in a while (8/16) and lost the only two hands of note that I played in an hour. I'll spare the bad-beat details except to say that I was a 7-to-1 heads up favorite in one and got called down by an unimproved ace in a three-way pot after betting a big draw hard the whole way in the other. I was happy with the way I played both hands, but obviously the results speak for themselves. That cemented that my love affair with limit holdem is over; I don't play NL holdem cash games online; and if they can't keep razz spread at my limits, what's the point of keeping the bankroll there?

A trip to AC is coming very, very soon.