Grumble, grumble ...
Well, I guess you can deduce from that heading, last night was not a good night. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that maybe I just suck at this game. It seems like the more I read and study and play, the worse I get.
Started the night with $101. Ended with $68. But wait, it gets worse. What you can't see in those totals is that I cleared my $25 bonus during the course of the night, so what looks like a $33 loss is actually $58. And there's more. As soon as I cleared my bonus, I left the table I was at, took my newly acquired $25 to another table and promptly lost it all in the very first hand I was dealt. I accidentally sat down at a NL table instead of a PL table, as I have been doing. The preflop action saw one minimum raise from the SB, so I called with my K10 suited. The flop comes 10 high and the SB checks. I'm put him on two paint cards or Ax and decide take the pot down with my top pair. I move the slider all the way to the right, and that's when I realize I'm at a NL table, because my bet has climbed to $24. I start moving it back down, but figure, what the heck, might as well take the $3 on the table right now, so I move all in. He calls, holding JJ. It's official -- I'm stupid.
The thing about my butt-kicking last night is that, other than that boneheaded move I just wrote about, I can't think of anything exceptional about the evening. No real bad beats to speak of. Must just have been my own bad play. And to top it all off, I was up big at one point.
I think part of my problem, though, was that I continued playing long after I wanted to call it a night. I became focused on satisfying my bonus requirements that night, which meant having to play over 250 raked hands, and that was about 100 hands longer than I really wanted to play.
I'm not really sure what to do next. Maybe I'll try to slow the bleeding and start playing some tournaments. Maybe I'll head back to UB and try to renew the BIRE. Maybe I should really take a break.
CARDPLAYER: Cardplayer magazine is having a busy week. In addition to crowning Daniel Negreanu player of the year this week, they're also taking the wraps off a facelift for the website today. Here's the announcement:
But hell, just go check it out for yourself -- www.cardplayer.com.
MORE PROOF: Didn't I just go on a rant a couple of days ago about how shameless commercialization would lead to the end of the poker explosion? Well, here's just another example:
Not that I have anything against watching scantily-clad or unclad young women, BUT ...
I thought Poker Royale had gone cheesy with the announcement that the next incarnation of what has been a quality poker tournament show would be a "Battle of the Sexes." But now, another decent alternative to the WPT and WSOP is trying cash in with tastelessness. Like I said, I'm all for naked or nearly naked women, but this just can't be good for the game.
That being said, I wonder how much the DVD is ...
Started the night with $101. Ended with $68. But wait, it gets worse. What you can't see in those totals is that I cleared my $25 bonus during the course of the night, so what looks like a $33 loss is actually $58. And there's more. As soon as I cleared my bonus, I left the table I was at, took my newly acquired $25 to another table and promptly lost it all in the very first hand I was dealt. I accidentally sat down at a NL table instead of a PL table, as I have been doing. The preflop action saw one minimum raise from the SB, so I called with my K10 suited. The flop comes 10 high and the SB checks. I'm put him on two paint cards or Ax and decide take the pot down with my top pair. I move the slider all the way to the right, and that's when I realize I'm at a NL table, because my bet has climbed to $24. I start moving it back down, but figure, what the heck, might as well take the $3 on the table right now, so I move all in. He calls, holding JJ. It's official -- I'm stupid.
The thing about my butt-kicking last night is that, other than that boneheaded move I just wrote about, I can't think of anything exceptional about the evening. No real bad beats to speak of. Must just have been my own bad play. And to top it all off, I was up big at one point.
I think part of my problem, though, was that I continued playing long after I wanted to call it a night. I became focused on satisfying my bonus requirements that night, which meant having to play over 250 raked hands, and that was about 100 hands longer than I really wanted to play.
I'm not really sure what to do next. Maybe I'll try to slow the bleeding and start playing some tournaments. Maybe I'll head back to UB and try to renew the BIRE. Maybe I should really take a break.
CARDPLAYER: Cardplayer magazine is having a busy week. In addition to crowning Daniel Negreanu player of the year this week, they're also taking the wraps off a facelift for the website today. Here's the announcement:
Card Player magazine, the world's leading poker publication, has launched a new Web site at http://www.CardPlayer.com that offers expanded content, customization tools, and an enhanced version of its proprietary software enabling amateur and professional poker players to track and analyze their tournament play results.
The magazine also is inaugurating a new monthly freeroll No-Limit Hold'em tournament with a $1,500 prize and a grand prize competition for the year's top 100 players. Players automatically qualify for the monthly tournament by posting to site message boards, shopping at the online store, or ordering a magazine subscription.
Visitors to the new Web site can register for free membership that qualifies them to create a personalized home page comprised of modules tailored to their specific needs and interests. Module choices range from poker news, a poker odds calculator and a poker room directory to Player of the Year, World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker updates. Members will also receive their own free CardPlayer.com email address, 50MB of storage space and calendaring capabilities.
The site's proprietary Card Player Poker Analyst software provides a variety of filters enabling users to analyze both their live game and tournament performance based on whatever data is most critical to them, including location, placement, winnings and game type.
Content upgrades include a new section that lists and describes every special tournament, with ongoing updates that will include Card Player web TV programs, major tournament reporting, player profiles, Card Player's Poker Schools, a blog section, and a specialized women's area. Expanded data on World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, amateur poker, and tournament results is also planned.
"With these upgrades, our Web site will continue to be the primary destination on the Internet for anyone who loves the game of poker," said Barry Shulman, publisher of Card Player magazine. "It is simply the most comprehensive, customizable and informative online resource dedicated to poker, hands down, and it's still entirely free."
But hell, just go check it out for yourself -- www.cardplayer.com.
MORE PROOF: Didn't I just go on a rant a couple of days ago about how shameless commercialization would lead to the end of the poker explosion? Well, here's just another example:
Ultimate Poker Babes, from the producers of Ultimate Poker Challenge, America's #1 poker television program, now bring you a fun, sexy, reality game show where the cards are mandatory and the clothing is optional. The version you can't see on TV is three hours of UNCUT, UNRATED, strip poker fun. Seven babes play in one competitive game of "Sexy Hold'em."
The Ultimate Poker Babes open casting call drew lots of sexy women, all vying for a chance to be one of the lucky seven. Watch as they compete in a delicious game of Sexy Hold'em and attempt to capture the world's attention with a Strip-Or-Dare -- for the Ultimate Poker Babes crown and thousands in cash and prizes! "This is the real no-limit, high-stakes poker and gives new meaning to going all-in," said Dan Pugliese, Executive Producer.
As a bonus, the DVD contains the complete Ultimate Poker Babes: Casting Call, a full-hour of behind-the-scenes footage, including up-close and personal interviews with sexy women from around the world -- from an exotic med student to the girl next door, plus exclusive photos not available anywhere else. For more information, please visit http://www.ultimatepokerbabes.com.
Ultimate Poker Babes, is the first in a series of strip-poker tournaments featuring beautiful girls from around the world and will be presented in Las Vegas for three days beginning January 25, at NATPE in booth 448.
Not that I have anything against watching scantily-clad or unclad young women, BUT ...
I thought Poker Royale had gone cheesy with the announcement that the next incarnation of what has been a quality poker tournament show would be a "Battle of the Sexes." But now, another decent alternative to the WPT and WSOP is trying cash in with tastelessness. Like I said, I'm all for naked or nearly naked women, but this just can't be good for the game.
That being said, I wonder how much the DVD is ...
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