Black Belt Poker

Obviously, the poker landscape has changed drastically since that night, as have the stakes I've been playing. Its quite sobering, for me, to think that, despite playing hours and hours of poker since, that my poker bankroll would still be higher today if I'd not played at all but could just eliminate that one session. Put another way, I could have played zero hands of poker since that night and travelled the world for the last two years, staying in five-star hotels, and still be better off if I'd just avoided that one fateful episode... FML.

Of course, psychologically, this is not really the best way of rationalising or thinking about my poker past...