Ramble On

“I pop open a table at the drop of a hat like it's fine to start playing away. This lack of preparation and anticipation, again, is starkly different than playing live, where I would have to get to a casino (if I'm not staying there), find the poker room, get on a list, have my name called after reading CardPlayer, get chips, decide if I was posting or not, then play. I need to treat playing online more as something I earn the right to do. If I have a great, productive day, then maybe I get to play.”

I read this at CC Explore and it reminded me of how I approach the game at times. I don’t understand why I would employ this methodology but I can see how being less than adequately prepared will cause issues with your bankroll overall. I like the idea of the reward system determining when and if I get to play but that would eliminate my play all together as I am as unproductive as a human can be. I think that limiting my play to a set schedule may be the right alternative for me. I could create I weekly itineraray that shows events that I plan on playing and the times I will be playing. I could place it on the refrigerator, under the Rosati’s Pizza magnet, so that the family will be able to see how my time is being allocated. I think with my new found free time that this is an idea I may use.

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My spell check is not working and this is a problem. I am the worst speller in the world. Please forgive any gramitical issues you incounter as I have no way of fixing it at the moment. In two more days it wont matter anymore.

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I had a crazy night at noble last night. I played 8 Dirty Dozen SNGs but only cashed in three. The crazy part was that I bubbled out of 4 others. It was a great example of AQ losing to A4, or other similar hands, and seeing the small stacks make a run to knock you out. I’m not really complaining because I know that the plays I made will be profitable in the long run but the short term junk kicking sucks.

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Poker Stars is approaching their 5 billionth hand and thus is giving away money as milestone hands are reached. Last night I saw that hand #4,960,000,000 was coming on quick so I fired up a few $1 MTT to see if I could get lucky and hit. The lucky players on the table that hits will each receive $2000 while the winner of the hand wins $5000. So I’m watching the counter and as we get close I have some idiot taking forever to call or fold an all-in over bet with about $60 on the table. I’m thinking fold and lets see if we hit. He waited to long and the number passed us by. We missed by 19 spots. Considering that 20,000 hands a minute is not out of the question we almost got it. Better luck next time.