By Adanthar on December 9th, 2008 (more posts by author)

Before I go on with this entry, I once again want to thank Gilbert Gaul from the Washington Post for writing an excellent two part piece. He'll almost definitely never see this, but it doesn't really matter because it needs to be said anyway; while 60M was pretty decent under the circumstances, the Post's article was so good that I have no doubt it's going to help us all out in the long run. I never thought either story would be terrible, but this piece surpassed my wildest dreams, so again...thanks for presenting it in a level and objective fashion and I hope that, in return, a lot of people buy a lot of papers.

Right, I'm not famous anymore so nobody cares what I've got to say about this, gotcha. Moving on...

I took several days off after the show, only playing again on Sunday. It's not something I thought I'd really want to do, but as it turned out, spending a few days talking to old friends (to be honest, I didn't really know that many people I knew watched the show!) combined with my laptop video card randomly deciding to overheat itself and die. My laptop is now effectively my main PC, so having it in the shop cramps my style a little bit - I do have a desktop at home that I'm using now, but it's not quite the same. Prior to it landing in the shop, I'd been experimenting with eight tabling and up, maxing out at 12 tables of full ring cash (where I can autopilot), and because my laptop is considerably faster than this desktop, it's noticeably smoother to run 12 tables+PC3 combo I need to use. (Anyone know how Hold'em Manager compares to PT3 in terms of resources?)

Meanwhile, it looks like I'm still decent at tournaments. I didn't play two Sundays ago because of 60M, but three Sundays ago, I landed a 41'st in the Mil, and this Sunday got me a 17'th in the Bodog 100K, a tournament I have some completely insane ROI like 800% in (two firsts including one where the prizepool was 200K, two thirds, a ninth and some other deep runs will do that). I think I flamed out of a couple of other tourneys where I had the potential to go deep, as well, but no big deal. Once I get back from a three day trip I'm making tomorrow, I'll be playing a lot again.

The trip I'm making is important enough that it could potentially become a big deal for online poker. That's about all I can say for now, but it's something that would not have been possible last year and that has a decent chance of happening this year...thank a combination of several friendly officials and a collapsing economy (okay, maybe not).

I'll be back Friday night. Again, I won't have my laptop by then, but will be putting in some hours just to prove I can. In the meantime, here's a poker thought I had and then did the math on last Sunday: when you have the CO or button, the BB is sitting out and the not-horrible SB has about a 30x or larger stack/you cover, it is undeniably massively +EV to raise 32o planning to four bet most SB 3 bets.

(No CTS ebook yet - just hasn't gotten to us. It's gonna be here sooner or later :))