Having Fun

The fact is, I typically don't have a lot of fun playing poker anymore. This is natural for any hobby that becomes a "grindy" job I'd imagine, but it is definitely something I miss. Fortunately, there are still forms of poker that are indeed quite a bit of fun and I've taken to playing some micro 6max PLO again purely for the enjoyment. I learn new things, and get to play on tables where with no game selection whatsoever there are on average 4 droolers. Pretty sure someone with basic PLO knowledge could sustain 15ptBB/100 at 2PLO quite easily, especially since you can buy in 250bb deep on all tables.

The NLH grind was really painful at the beginning of the month due to epic runbad, but my last few short weekday session have been ok. I actually played a hand last session that I thought was super interesting (these don't pop up all that often) against a pretty spazzy reg where I took a weird line with a flush draw, turned the second nuts and flatted his lead, and then had a sick situation where he overbet (only a little, like 48 into 40 or something) the blank river. As he'd assume I never have a flush due to the flop check back folding is out of the question, but if I raise he's crazy enough to jam the bare ace blocker some of the time, which is the hand he ended up with. I ended up just flatting, but I think raise/calling is better.

The CFL is back in season, and the Stamps are 1-1 so far. I watched their most recent game in which they held an 8 point lead, with the ball, with just enough time left that they couldn't simply take two knees to run out the clock. Somehow our (overall, very good) QB Henry Burris manages to botch the hand off and turn the ball over, making for an interesting last minute where the defense had to step up, and did. The thing about Burris is that while he's great most of the time, when he is not great it can be some of the most epic fail on a football field you have ever seen. He played one series last year that is by far the worst possession from a quarterback I have ever witnessed period, and I watch a lot of football.