I recently moved up in the stakes and took such a winning streak that I thought I was 1 step away from being able to give away my job. It's hard to help concluding that you are a poker genius when you're on a huge rush. Of course that rush ended and it took me a long time to realize that that's what it had been - a rush - and I've lost about 1/3 of my bankroll in that time as I experienced the negative side of the rush and had more bad beats in a week than I think I had in the entire time before that.

So now I'm consolidating. I was getting so angry with limit Texas that I decided to quit it altogether for a while to get my balance back. Instead I've been playing limit Omaha hi-lo and Texas SnG's. My bankroll is creeping back up and I'm having fun again...and sometime I will go back to the Texas Holdem ring games with my head refreshed. The fun thing is important, and I am finding Omaha hi-lo to be a very fun game...which (surprise) a lot of people play very badly...