How to burn benches

Something I learned last year –

For the men’s basketball game between Duke and the University of North Carolina, students will camp out in teams for up to 8 weeks to get tickets.

And apparently there’s pretty strict patrolling to make sure every tent meets the correct requirements.

8 weeks!

It didn’t quite register on our first date when my girlfriend told me that she took part in that.

“OK so she likes sports a lot I guess”

But after seeing the intensity with which she watches a single basketball game behind a TV, I finally started to understand it.

Some people really freaking love sports.

So much that they would sleep many many nights outside just to be able to witness 40 minutes of their teams greatest rivalry in action that year.

The closest I ever came to that was probably waiting 2 hours for the midnight release of a video game.

I used to think it was crazy to care about something that much. How could you waste so much energy on something you aren’t really involved in?

But what else did I used to believe?

I also used to think you shouldn’t show any emotion while you play poker.

Or celebrate your wins too much afterwards.

Or care too much about long-term success.

Or want things too badly.

And plenty of other things that didn’t lead to a very exciting or motivated life for the first era of my poker career.

Turns out it’s way more fun to let it all in, all the time.

The only catch is if you want to feel all the biggest and best moments, you also have to let all the hurt in too.

The pain is real.

With all the fun you get to have watching parades and burning benches after your team wins, you also have to endure everything that comes with the losses.

Same thing with poker.

It’s all or nothing.

You don’t get the highs without being able to feel the lows.

If you numb it all? Everything gets pretty boring real quick.

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