Was There A Full Moon Tonight?

The cash tables have been a little kinder to me lately, though I still can't run average for a session to save my life. Oddly enough, Monday the games on Stars were far better than they have been in ages, better than on both Friday and Saturday of the past week! I had to double check that it wasn't a US holiday or something (it wasn't) because it didn't make a whole lot of sense, especially since it was the first night of Monday Night Football which surely would pull some casual poker players away from the tables during US prime time. The Full Tilt games were far more of what I expect to see on a Monday. Just as weird, a handful of Stars regulars did some completely ridiculous stuff against me on Monday, the kind of things you'd normally see only a couple times a month at most. Naturally, most of the ones which weren't drawing dead were rewarded for their awful spew, but it still helped me ship a decent 3 hour session. I think the following was my favorite of the instances of regulars going nuts from Monday:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2.00 BB (7 handed)
CO ($630.55)
Hero (Button) ($200)
SB ($478.40)
BB ($368.30)
UTG ($280.05)
MP1 ($223.75)
MP2 ($247.75)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 4♣, 4♦
UTG calls $2, MP1 bets $9, 2 folds, Hero calls $9, 1 fold, BB calls $7, 1 fold

Flop: ($32.80) 10♦, 4♥, 4♠ (3 players)
BB checks, MP1 bets $22, Hero calls $22, BB raises to $358.90 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero calls $168.60 (All-In)

Turn: ($436) 9♥ (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($436) 7♣ (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $436 | Rake: $3

Results:
Hero had 4♣, 4♦ (four of a kind, fours).
BB had J♣, 10♣ (two pair, tens and fours).
Outcome: Hero won $433

The villain who overshoved the flop is perhaps more of a regfish than a true regular (doesn't beat the rake, likely loses even with FPPs), but he's logged over 100k hands and isn't completely insane.

I'll be back playing my fourth of ten WCOOP events tomorrow evening, the $1050 NLH at 8:00 EST. It would be excellent if things went well and I could squeeze further value out of my freerolls, in addition to the $2.2k from my third event.

On a football related note, I hate Matt Forte. That is all.

After finishing Ys 7 for the PSP which was a down right excellent game, I moved on to Valkyria Chronicles 2 which I'd guess I'm about half way through. It is the sequel to what was a very enjoyable and unique PS3 title. It sacrifices the beautiful novel style storytelling of the original for deeper gameplay - which makes sense given they moved it from a console to a handheld. Unfortunately for those of us who prefer console games to handheld counterparts this seems to be a trend lately, as handhelds have equal or larger user bases and significantly lower development costs. Anyway, the game is definitely fun so I'm happy.