Interlude: What An Interesting Week

Before I get to the bad side of tournaments, just a few random thoughts:

-Holy motherf***ing drama bombs, Batman. Bloggers are upset about a lot of things and feelings are hurt.

-Don't lend money to poker players. Just don't. Staking a player is fine, but don't lend your good money to someone with poor money management. Sweeping generalization of the day = most poker players are bad with money.

-Even if you write a post (or complete blog) as a joke, don't delete it. Stand behind what you wrote. Deleting it only suggests you have something to hide. (Heck, even Poker Champ is still around.)

I'm still bummed my original blog got hijacked a few years back. I still wish it were around to reflect upon, even though some of the posts were quite lousy.

-Blogger tournaments have changed for the worse. I already knew this, but now it's common knowledge. Back in the day, blogger events were just a plain old private tourney, no value added shit. I just wanted to play to see how I stacked up against the other bloggers. Usually I could learn something to improve my game and discuss a play in a CIVIL manner with another blogger.

Now events are strife with bad behavior and angle shooting, plus a strong possibility of outright CHEATING. Yes, I said it. No, I have no proof. My point? Remove the incentive to cheat (value added) and you will probably remove the cheating as well.

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I played in the Mini Series of Poker (MSOP) Razz event #26, finishing 26th out of 643 runners. My last three hands were all races, losing on 7th each time.

I also cashed in my first MTT on PokerStars in quite awhile last night. 22nd out of 527 in a tiny PLO8 event. Couldn't catch any cards as the 5th hour started.

I forgot how exhausting playing in these can get. I need to improve my stamina.

You can follow my tournament exploits here and here. Shock of all shocks: I'm actually a lifetime WINNING tournament player.

Simple math, really. Take the lifetime stats from Stars (+19% ROI) and figure out how much I've won. Then take the lifetime stats from Tilt (-40% ROI) and figure out the losses. I've just won more than I've lost.