One For The Road

Last September I went almost a month without blogging, partially because I was out of town for a bit but mostly because I just didn't have much I felt was worth saying. To be honest, I haven't enjoyed blogging nearly as much the past few years, and the reason why is pretty simple: much of what I post is similar stuff. Ran good/bad, Patriots played good/bad, Flames played good/bad/were locked out, video game I'm playing is good/bad...

When I started the blog, it chronicled what I believe was pretty interesting progression. In 2009, it helped keep me on track and motivated to hit SNE. In 2010, I had the SNE tournaments to blog about which I think were legitimately interesting stuff, but aside from those it basically followed the pattern of 2011 and this year.

So, since I'm not enjoying the writing much and frankly I don't think a lot of it should be worth reading (though some of you obviously disagree), I'm going to be posting a heck of a lot less. If something comes up where I think my voice is both relevant and interesting, I'll post about it (things like Pokerstars making changes to Full Ring structures, or US regulation going through could qualify as examples). The small talk stuff is done for though, at least after this post. One more can't hurt, right?

Poker this month has been unremarkable. I've been playing a little less volume which has been nice. Game quality the past few weeks has seemed really bad though, hopefully not a sign of things to come. Time for a reload bonus to bring back some fish perhaps?

The Patriots won on Sunday but didn't deserve to - their secondary looked really, really bad all game. Devin McCourty tried really hard to give the Jets the game by fumbling a kickoff with two minutes left in a tied game, but somehow the Jets only managed a field goal and the Pats were able to equalize on the last play of regulation time. Hockey is still on hold.

I should also mention I played live poker for the first time in over a year last week. One of my friends was visiting from Kugluktuk (yes, that's a real place waaaaay up north), and we hit up the recently rebranded Cowboy's Casino (ugh, they took the Stampede Casino and reduced its class several notches) for a six or seven hour session. The table was butter soft, despite some of the other players (who I assume were regulars) suggesting otherwise. I ran pretty poorly to start but after doubling with KK > A6 AIPF (iso'd a limp to 7.5bbs, got min 3b by whale, overshipped 85bbs and got snapped) ended up booking a 150bb win which was nice. As I say after every time I play live, as soft as it is, it just sucks. So slow, and kind of dirty - I don't really know how to describe the latter part, I just never feel good after a session.