When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.
Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.
When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.
The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.
Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.
To start with you had to keep from getting arrested by the police. Then, you had to keep from getting cheated in the games. You also had to worry about collecting the money if you won. Then finally, after all that was said and done - you had to keep from getting hijacked.