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Time for a Test

One of my favorite Elliott Smith songs of all time:

Tornado Central

I had to cut short my session tonight 'cause we're having a really bad thunderstorm and the tornado warning sirens keep going off. So sad too 'cause I had the God seat on this 60/20 donk at a table where we were both +200bbs deep. Whenever I end up with a seat like that and have to leave, I feel like I should be allowed to auction it off to the highest bidder on the wait list. I guess that wouldn't be such a good feature for keeping the fish comfortable, though.

For some reason my dog has gotten really freaked out lately by thunderstorms. She never used to pay attention to them, but ever since all the fireworks around 4th of July this year, she's been getting spooked much more readily. Right now she is hiding in the basement bathroom. I guess she'll be the safest one in the house if a tornado hits.

This weekend I decided to experiment a bit with massive multi-tabling on Stars. I wanted to see if it would even be physically possible for me to play 24 tables at once. I had never played more than 12 at a time before (which is my standard number to play when putting in a full ring session). But I got it up to 18 tables on the first night I tried and 21 tables pretty easily the next night, and 24 tables actually seems well within reach. I finally understand why people who play that many tables are so crazy about cascading the tables--there would be no way to do it by tiling them across the screen (too much mouse movement). I had tried cascading my tables once a while back on FTP, but I thought it really sucked and kept making retarded misclicks. It's easier on the Stars' software. The key is to turn on the "pop up table when action required" option, which I had never tried before b/c for some reason I thought it would be making tables pop up all over the place as soon as my turn came up (I pictured a lot of craziness ensuing!). But Stars has the software worked out quite nicely where one table will pop up but none will pop in front of it until you've made your action on that table. So with 20+ tables, it's like a continual rotation of tables that pop up each time you complete your decision on the previous table. Kinda cool, actually. I found the hardest part to be keeping track of which tables I had to reload on.

Not that I plan to get into the massive multi-tabling any time soon, but it's nice to know I can do it. It is very tiring, and I noticed the mental fatigue set in earlier than usual (like at 45 min into the session as opposed to 2 hrs in), when I started to make ridiculously ill-advised plays and had to call it a session. Also, it's rather annoying not to be able to keep track of which table I have a particular image at since I had no spatial reference points for the different tables (when I tile the tables, I'm pretty good at remembering, for example, that I just bluffed off my stack at the upper right table; that I am running the table over at the middle left table; that I have a supernit image at the bottom middle table b/c I haven't been getting any hands, etc.) 

I am kind of curious about what kind of hourly rate I could achieve w/ 24 tabling, though. I wonder if it would be more profitable. I'm thinking it probably would.

So I guess the Cubs game is gonna be rained out. Bad timing--they just barely got in 5 innings and Houston is leading 2-0. Someone should have started a dugout fire in the 5th or something to keep them from getting through the inning. Where's a decent pyromaniac when you need one?

Well, at least the Cubs won...

So I put it quite a few hands yesterday night while watching the Cubs game and played pretty much like a total idiot...end result could have been worse, I suppose. But it always sucks to look back on several hours of work and say, "hmm, well, that was a complete waste of time."


July has been light on the poker overall. I think this is the fewest hands I've put in for a month all year. Was running really hot at the beginning of the month, and I have that horrible lifestyle leak where I feel much more compelled to play when I am running bad than when I am running well. And, of course, this past week I decided I was going to try to get a bunch of hands in before the end of the month and promptly got doomswitched. Life is hard sometimes.


This was June, for comparison. Best month I've had this year. Would be nice to have a few more like this before the year is out...


June didn't have any hands as awesome as this one, though. I love bizarre misclick hands...as long as they work out for me in the end:
Full Tilt Poker Game #7288813834: Table Moreno (deep) - $2/$4 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:44:57 ET - 2008/07/19
Seat 1: Benzero ($270.20)
Seat 2: ActionDegen ($802.50)
Seat 3: OPM Crook ($864.90)
Seat 4: dar57635 ($779.50)
Seat 5: famouslastwords ($867)
Seat 6: fold-em23 ($88.30)
Seat 7: TwoGun1 ($366)
Seat 8: Bradford III ($738.90)
Seat 9: damantle ($204.60)
fold-em23 posts the small blind of $2
TwoGun1 posts the big blind of $4
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to famouslastwords [3c 5c]
Bradford III folds
damantle folds
Benzero folds
ActionDegen folds
OPM Crook folds
dar57635 folds
famouslastwords raises to $52
fold-em23 folds
TwoGun1 has 15 seconds left to act
TwoGun1 has requested TIME
TwoGun1 calls $48
*** FLOP *** [7h Td 4c]
TwoGun1 checks
famouslastwords has 15 seconds left to act
famouslastwords bets $72
TwoGun1 has 15 seconds left to act
TwoGun1 folds
Uncalled bet of $72 returned to famouslastwords
famouslastwords mucks
famouslastwords wins the pot ($103)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $106 | Rake $3
Board: [7h Td 4c]
Seat 1: Benzero didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: ActionDegen didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: OPM Crook didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: dar57635 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: famouslastwords (button) collected ($103), mucked
Seat 6: fold-em23 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: TwoGun1 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 8: Bradford III didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: damantle didn't bet (folded)

It's been super busy at work (grumble grumble freshman orientation/start of school year/doing the work of 2-3 people) so I haven't had any time to write long, boring entries this month. But I am going to make an effort to be extra wordy in August to make up for it--look out!

Achyachacha

Someone in my office keeps making coffee with only half of the coffee package. I have no idea why. It is disgusting and putting me on severe life tilt.