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I am not a (good) cash-game player

...Yep. An increasingly fleeting part of me wants to be. I'm not. I strongly believe I have the technical "know-how" and work ethic to become one. However, as life's other priorities have taken up the vast amount of my time, and, given a handful of other circumstantial reasons... "syouganai." That is - "It cannot be helped." I should mention I have taken up learning Japanese. Ganbarimasu. I just got back home from working in San Diego for a couple months. That makes two work trips this year (including Japan from Jan - May) for a total of approximately six months. Outside of my WSOP stint and the couple of tournaments from January - I have not played any poker. This year is, by far, the least amount of poker I have played since picking the game up in 2007. I opted not to blog my WSOP experience. Mostly because it felt burdensome. I bricked every tournament (I think 6 total?) for a net loss of about $4k. The good news is I felt pretty