Patriots, How I Love Thee

I put in an unfortunately absymal 6k hands or so between Saturday and Sunday, leaving me barely better than breakeven over 11k hands so far this month. Not like an 11k BE stretch is anything to write home about, but it's a tad discouraging when after being so psyched about running a couple BIs above EV for a change the next session is double figures below AIEV. Another 20-25k or so hands on Stars this month to clear my milestone and I'll be done for the year though, which is a definite positive. I'll be putting in a little FTP volume this weekend as part of an FTP promotion.

Just minutes ago I finished the Lufia remake for the DS, and I'll sum it up as "it could have been worse". They could have easily spent less effort simply prettying up the original and had a better product, which also would have provided 30+ hours of entertainment, compared to the remake only being in the 15 hour range for an initial playthrough. But that said they easily could have butchered the intellectual property far worse so I'll take what I can get. I'll be going out to pick up my copy of Catacylsm tomorrow, so most of my gaming time will be of the MMO variety in the near future.

A few hours ago the Patriots finished up an absolute thumping of what a lot of people thought could be the best team in the NFL, the New York Jets. Man that was satisfying. With their stockpile of draftpicks and extremely young defense that should get much better with a little maturity, they should be damn scary in a couple years time - even if they don't win it all this year.

Here's my favorite hand from Saturday. It's not like I want to ever win a flip or 80/20, but maybe every third time someone decides they don't want to fold no pair no draw and stack off the bare gutter they pick up on the turn I could hold? I'd be fine with being drawing dead if his back door flush draw was live, but I even have that dead with bigger hearts. Oh, also note this was a Euro table so I actually lost around 1.4x the currency implied in the HH, but the FTR hand convertor won't take Euro hands.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2.00 BB (6 handed)
Hero (BB) ($200)
UTG ($203)
MP ($207.15)
CO ($200)
Button ($217.55)
SB ($201)

Preflop: Hero is BB with J♥, Q♥
4 folds, SB bets $4, Hero calls $2

Flop: ($8) J♣, 6♥, Q♦ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $6, SB calls $6

Turn: ($20) 2♠ (2 players)
SB bets $42, Hero raises to $190 (All-In), SB calls $148

River: ($400) 3♠ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $400 | Rake: $2

Results:
SB had 4♥, 5♥ (straight, six high).
Hero had J♥, Q♥ (two pair, Queens and Jacks).
Outcome: $400 returned to SB