By Adanthar on July 28th, 2008 (more posts by author)

As promised to myself earlier, I'm temporarily done with MTT's except on Sundays (for the record, yesterday was pretty ugly, but mostly unavoidable - a lot of second best 2 pair/set hands were involved.) What I *have* been doing is playing a bunch of PLO on Cake with a propping deal I set up for myself (increased rakeback). The main downside is that I can't play a lot of tables as I have to start games, and playing > 2/3 tables of HU and shorthanded PLO while still learning the game is probably a bad idea. However, the actual results have been very good. I have a decent sense of when to get it in, and except for a lack of turn aggression (mostly because Cake players don't ever fold 2 pair or raise less than the nuts, so value betting them thin is not really a great idea), I'm much better aware of close plays. About the only thing I want to do is play more tables, probably on FTP (where I do have rakeback), and to understand how the cross-site increase in aggression changes turn and river play.

I'm also playing a bunch of 6max SNG's on Cake, as well. Those are more mixed; I find I don't have the best pushbot sense with 8-13 BB anymore, plus the Cake regs call a "proper" unexploitable strategy too light and decrease both their and my ROI's in the process. I'm still up a decent amount of money doing that, but I think I'm going to have to buy SNG Power Tools or some other utility and quiz myself for a bit before I play too many more of those.

The calendar in the next two weeks: a trip to Fresno to go play in Kyle's tournaments ;), a collaboration to be named later, and, at some point next month, the long awaited 60M interview/Washington Post photo shoot (I think you guys get to see me and dlpnyc21 play online on laptops or something - not too sure what they're doing with that.) By then, UB should just about be done naming the 19 cheaters and their 88 accounts, by which I mean they won't have named anybody but will be busy stonewalling until the end of time. I should really be done hoping they'll come to their senses by now...

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Offtopic: My wife and I got a Wii Fit game last week. So far, we've both spent 30 minutes (actually an hour once you factor in the downtime between games) a day on it 6 of the 7 days we've had it, and it pretty much beats a gym membership hands down. I totally recommend this thing and I'm sure it'll help me lose those 10-15 extra poker pounds in a hurry. Since when has exercise actually been fun?