“All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right” – Alexander Pope
And so my cards continued to be a little bit cold tonight, although I was able to play 4 $3-6 tables comfortably for the first time ever. I squeezed the 4 tables onto my dual monitor solution in preparation for the laptop I ordered yesterday, on which I spent an extra $200 to max out the resolution at 1920 x 1200. I don’t know if I’ll be able to see the little PartyPoker avatars on the screen at that resolution, but I guess I could fit 6 tables on the 15.4″ wide screen. Yes, that’s right, I’ve gone and spent way too much money on a super laptop (I got an HP Pavilion). I feel a little bit guilty about it, because it’s not something I “need”, but hey, I haven’t bought anything for myself in a long long time.
I use the term “comfortably” lightly… after breaking even on 3 of the tables, I was rivered brutally on the fourth hand after hand. The worst two hands were back to back Big Slick, pairing my ace on the flop and losing to J6o on the turn on both hands. This was to the same player, who called a raise preflop both hands. Ahhh, PartyPoker.
One thing that seems to naturally happen when increasing the number of tables is an automatic tightening up– you drop marginal hands like QTo from your arsenal, since playing multiple hands simultaneously on 4 tables is difficult.
After an hour and a half or so, I found myself down $130.
But after getting rivered one too many times, thankfully a buddy popped in to one of my tables and bailed me out before I could lose much more. We took a field trip over to the NL $50 tables, which were about as much fun as watching paint dry. I’d rather play video poker; everybody sees the flop for a buck, waits for the nuts and goes all-in. I don’t know how people can play these games.
Of course, that lasted for about 20 minutes, before we took our chips over to the $5-10 6 max games, my buddy’s usual hangout. The first table I happened to check out was one which another buddy happened to be playing at, along with a maniac with 1K in front of him. I sat down, against my vows not to play with him, and soon after my buddy followed suit. I went up about $100 pretty quickly, and my buddy said goodnight.
But he couldn’t stay away long, and made a return about 20 minutes later. Immediately a chat window popped up:
buddy: what happened to your bankroll?!
My favorite part about this quote is that he actually spent the extra half second to add the exclamation point after the question mark to convey his amazement. Oh the humanity!
Ouch. I got burned a couple times by the maniac, being aggressive with big aces but not hitting anything, and was down about 200 since my friend logged out.
It only got worse from there– my friend started the downward spiral by raking in a big pot when his A8 paired his kicker on the turn, and beat my AT. He did have the flush draw though, so no complaints there. But the following hand saw my AJ go down in flames to the maniac’s AQ, when the board showd AAKQ9. The next hand the maniac raised my blind, and I called with A7. I had second pair on the flop, and went to the river, only to be shown AA by the maniac. My friend shut his eyes and logged out, claiming “I can’t watch!” I couldn’t either.
So that’s where I’m at now, trying to win back my $250 that I burned through in a short hour of play. With bourbon in hand (and in belly), I’ve got $70 of it back, and will try to win a couple pots before I pass out.
I’m excited for the new laptop, although if I didn’t have the tax return, I’d be worry about the cost after the last couple sessions.
But wait! As we speak, the poker gods have smiled on the bourbon-drinking, patient worshipper:
#510710387: Win $73 from the main pot with a full house, Twos full of sevens.
#510711113: Win$128 from the main pot with two pairs, kings and queens.
#510712742: Win$105 from the main pot with two pairs, kings and tens
And just like that, I’m back to my buyin at the $5-10 shorthanded game. At least my friend went to bed a winner, so I’m happy (ok, relieved is more accurate). Note: all 3 of these wins came against a player who was tilting like a pinball machine. Thank you, poker gods.
Well, that’s about it for me. I’ve switched to water.
[thanks to andyadontstop and hdouble via cc]
And so my cards continued to be a little bit cold tonight, although I was able to play 4 $3-6 tables comfortably for the first time ever. I squeezed the 4 tables onto my dual monitor solution in preparation for the laptop I ordered yesterday, on which I spent an extra $200 to max out the resolution at 1920 x 1200. I don’t know if I’ll be able to see the little PartyPoker avatars on the screen at that resolution, but I guess I could fit 6 tables on the 15.4″ wide screen. Yes, that’s right, I’ve gone and spent way too much money on a super laptop (I got an HP Pavilion). I feel a little bit guilty about it, because it’s not something I “need”, but hey, I haven’t bought anything for myself in a long long time.
I use the term “comfortably” lightly… after breaking even on 3 of the tables, I was rivered brutally on the fourth hand after hand. The worst two hands were back to back Big Slick, pairing my ace on the flop and losing to J6o on the turn on both hands. This was to the same player, who called a raise preflop both hands. Ahhh, PartyPoker.
One thing that seems to naturally happen when increasing the number of tables is an automatic tightening up– you drop marginal hands like QTo from your arsenal, since playing multiple hands simultaneously on 4 tables is difficult.
After an hour and a half or so, I found myself down $130.
But after getting rivered one too many times, thankfully a buddy popped in to one of my tables and bailed me out before I could lose much more. We took a field trip over to the NL $50 tables, which were about as much fun as watching paint dry. I’d rather play video poker; everybody sees the flop for a buck, waits for the nuts and goes all-in. I don’t know how people can play these games.
Of course, that lasted for about 20 minutes, before we took our chips over to the $5-10 6 max games, my buddy’s usual hangout. The first table I happened to check out was one which another buddy happened to be playing at, along with a maniac with 1K in front of him. I sat down, against my vows not to play with him, and soon after my buddy followed suit. I went up about $100 pretty quickly, and my buddy said goodnight.
But he couldn’t stay away long, and made a return about 20 minutes later. Immediately a chat window popped up:
buddy: what happened to your bankroll?!
My favorite part about this quote is that he actually spent the extra half second to add the exclamation point after the question mark to convey his amazement. Oh the humanity!
Ouch. I got burned a couple times by the maniac, being aggressive with big aces but not hitting anything, and was down about 200 since my friend logged out.
It only got worse from there– my friend started the downward spiral by raking in a big pot when his A8 paired his kicker on the turn, and beat my AT. He did have the flush draw though, so no complaints there. But the following hand saw my AJ go down in flames to the maniac’s AQ, when the board showd AAKQ9. The next hand the maniac raised my blind, and I called with A7. I had second pair on the flop, and went to the river, only to be shown AA by the maniac. My friend shut his eyes and logged out, claiming “I can’t watch!” I couldn’t either.
So that’s where I’m at now, trying to win back my $250 that I burned through in a short hour of play. With bourbon in hand (and in belly), I’ve got $70 of it back, and will try to win a couple pots before I pass out.
I’m excited for the new laptop, although if I didn’t have the tax return, I’d be worry about the cost after the last couple sessions.
But wait! As we speak, the poker gods have smiled on the bourbon-drinking, patient worshipper:
#510710387: Win $73 from the main pot with a full house, Twos full of sevens.
#510711113: Win$128 from the main pot with two pairs, kings and queens.
#510712742: Win$105 from the main pot with two pairs, kings and tens
And just like that, I’m back to my buyin at the $5-10 shorthanded game. At least my friend went to bed a winner, so I’m happy (ok, relieved is more accurate). Note: all 3 of these wins came against a player who was tilting like a pinball machine. Thank you, poker gods.
Well, that’s about it for me. I’ve switched to water.
[thanks to andyadontstop and hdouble via cc]