In the sweetness

I've played online poker for play money for over six years. I've only played online chess for a week. Even in such a short time, however, I've noticed parallels between the two activities. The way you keep score in online poker is via the size of your play money bankroll. The way you keep score in online chess is via the size of your chess rating. I set myself the goal of winning a million play dollars playing online poker, and was able to achieve it in two years. In the four years since then, I've been able to amass an additional nine million play dollars. So it's pretty safe to say I have little left to prove to myself poker-wise. I no longer have the fire in the belly passion for poker that I used to have. I'll still play occasionally, for the sheer fun of it, but my new fire in the belly passion is for online chess.

If you play poker enough, there will be times when you feel invincible. I call such times being "in the sweetness". When you're in the sweetness, you can do no wrong. Here are the two most extreme examples of my being in the sweetness playing poker:

- on August 22nd, 2012, I won 580,200 play dollars playing sit and go no limit hold'em; in six tournaments, I came in first 4 times and second once (note that in sit and gos, only the top two places get paid)
- on July 2nd, 2014, I won 262,204 play dollars playing cash game no limit hold'em

Already, in just 9 sessions of online chess, I've managed to get into the sweetness. Last night, I was undefeated, drawing 2 games and winning 4.

neostreet: 1189 (30-34-4 (68))
monvieux: 1302 (259-203-11 (473))