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I’ve been watching for online bargains in an attempt to find a new laptop to replace my aging Dell. What I really wanted to buy was a Powerbook Pro but two things… cost and lack of Vista support meant I had to find a windows machine. With my new and hopefully successful career as a home PC support guy, most of my clients (when I get clients) will more than likely be on either XP or Vista machines. I needed to familiarize myself with Vista as well as be able to dual boot both it and XP.
I had settled on looking at refurbished machines as I felt that would give me the most bang for my buck and still be able to have a decent machine. This lead to spending a lot of time refreshing pages from wholesalers since this type of inventory moves quickly.
I’ve owned AT&T(yes they used to make laptops), Toshiba, and Dell in the past but I’ve heard good things about Acer and wanted to give it a try. As luck would have it I found the best deal on a new machine and oddly enough at a Best Buy. I now have an Acer Extensa 5620 and even though it’s not a top of the line machine it is infinitely more powerful than my old machine and capable of running WoW just fine. (that was important criteria, my old laptop couldn’t show all the texture maps. I often wouldn’t see the mini map and the terrain was always just colored square patches, no roads, no nothing.)
At any rate I’m now enjoying my new toy and will be playing poker on it for the first time today.
I wish I knew how to win right now. I managed to donk out of the HUC losing two straight to Highonpkr.
I also can't seem to get my head above water in the SNG's right. I'm only down a small amount but with my recent withdrawal I may have overestimated my risk of ruin.
I have a bad tendency to lose when I'm feeling the pressure to win.
Light bulb moment: I finally realized as I'm writing this why that is. Bad beats affect me more when I feel the pressure. I literally cussed at the computer during play tonight which is something I rarely ever due. Hmmm maybe writing in this blog still has value after all. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
I think this may be my first post this month. It will also be my last. I’m on vacation and will be out of town the rest of the month so no poker or blog for me. This month poker has taken a back seat and I’ve only been playing the bare minimum of four SNG’s a day. I had to play these whether I wanted to or not so I could maintain my continued Iron Man status at Full Tilt. Thankfully I’ve been running good and have a 21% ROI for the few I’ve played.
The TV featured in the photo was delivered to my house today thanks to the Pokerlistings treasure hunt. I managed to win first prize (a drawing, no actual poker skill required) which was a 52” Sony Bravia LCD. This baby is sweet and it’s something I never would have bought on my own. It will replace our aging 29” Zenith which we bought at Sears nine years ago. Adding this to the Cruise I won in a freeroll, and the two NUTZ card protectors I won during the Bluff Poker Tour and poker has indeed been very very good to me.
Sunday was tournament day for me and I managed to come up with a big goose egg. In fact I only played one event half way well and in that one I definitely brought my “A” game. I unfortunately was sucked out on by the overall tournament chip leader and it soured my willingness to play for the rest of the day.
I took Monday off and then my SNG play yesterday amounted to a -50% ROI effort.
mmmm… poker goodness.
So in a last ditch effort to make a little scratch I headed of to some low limit no limit action. My only hand of any note for the session also ended up being the KINGOFTHEWORLD hand for today. As is my style I like to open up for a raise when I’m first to act and then the continuation bet is a large part of my overall strategy. The best ways to combat someone who employs this strategy is to either call the continuation bet or just lead out at the flop. This puts the pressure back on the original raiser as they now have to decide if it’s worth firing another bullet at the pot.
The player I’m in this hand with has been my designated whipping boy. He was the loosest (68.57% VPiP) and weakest (Aggression Factor 0.9) at the table and had continually folded to my continuation bets. He chose to call me this time but I couldn’t give him credit for a real hand since he only called my bets. His bet on the river screams of a missed flush/steal attempt so I acted accordingly.
