A Good Day

On Friday I had what is my best day at the cash tables in a long, long time. Given the first half of my month was just awful outside of WCOOP cashes, it was a much needed boost. I actually didn't even put in much volume for a Friday, stopping just short of 6k hands.

Here's the graph:


Additionally, I reached the 500k VPP milestone bonus today, so ship another $3200 free money! Quite an encouraging day indeed.

My Wednesday however was not as pleasant. While I didn't play much if any cash, I busted my second to last WCOOP event to a runner runner back door flush draw well before the money (also failed to cash in my final event which was a turbo on Thursday, very happy overall with how my WCOOP freeroll equity panned out though). Far worse however, during the event my secondary hard drive died. After a few reboots running CHKDSK to confirm its death (yup, it's dead Jim), the boot sector on my main drive mysteriously disappeared! Windows repair tool was no help at all (note: I love Windows 7, but a missing boot sector is a problem the Windows repair tool should most definitely be able to handle, epic fail that it didn't get the job done). Thankfully a little advice from strangers on the internet and I was able to repair the damage manually from the command prompt after booting from DVD. Fortunately, there wasn't much in the way of essential data on the disk that died. The biggest loss was my iTunes library, which I was able to restore from my iPod. The other stuff will have to stay lost, as I'm not shelling out $1k for a disk recovery service.

Finally, FTP announced recently that their high volume rewards program, referred to as "black card status" is kicking off at the end of the month. It'll be interesting to see just what kind of additional equity this provides for members who reach that status, if it is good FTP could steal a lot of regulars away from Pokerstars.