Last night I polished off the complete Take2 bonus on FullTilt. Having started a couple of days late, I grinded my way to the finish line, not missing a day since I started. This was a very clearable bonus, with minimum play required, though I would often go well past the limit when the time and or opportunity arose. A nice move if you can pull it off is to play late at night/just past midnight - clearing both bonuses in a short amount of time. More notably, it's the first time I've gone through a bonus-whoring process *and* made money beyond just the bonus itself. No definitive stats available (yeah, I'm that guy who still doesn't have Poker Tracker or Hold'em Manager), but the bankroll is about where it was a month ago yet I've been in the shitter for certain with the few tourneys/SNGs I dove into during September. Also, I feel like I'm at the point where I can now strike a balance between managing two 6-max cash tables, juggling various fantasy lineups, filtering through far too many podcasts, performing general web surfing duties, and attending to various wife/dog needs and wants. Christ, you know it ain't easy. You know how hard it can be.
Special hats off to the idiot girl ('lthgirl' somethingorother) at my .10/.25 PLHE table on Friday night who ensured that I stayed in the black for Take2. She was felted at least half a dozen times in a ~2 hr session, rebought for the max most of the time and probably dropped $200-$300 easily at this low stakes table. I was the recipient of about $50 of it. The guy to my immediate left made about $235 on the session. She was the dream tablemate. She'd continually bet pot, regardless of the holdings. The strategy was just to sit, wait, find a hand and bet it big. She did wake up with AQ on me once when I had JT and got excited about a QQJ flop. Fortunately, she was short-stacked for that one and it only cost me $15 or so. How crazy was she? The average .10/.25 PLHE table has pot sizes averaging around $3. We were north of $15. An audible groan came up when she left the table.
I've tweeted enough about PSU already. How can a "powerhouse" football program have such horrible OL play so often? Sure there are down years, but when it's constantly the same achilles heel, can't you address it through strong recruiting? One would think.
A perfect fantasy day yesterday. I won my primary league big - everyone got me 13+ points except for my stupid kicker, and yet not one of my guys had one of those MJD-type banner days. Just consistent performance throughout. It's a PPR league and we've been doing it that way for about 5 years now. You would think people would latch on to the concept that receptions count, but they don't. I just nabbed all the Ray Rice, Steve Slaton, Derrick Mason types to complement the studs and even when those guys don't score or rack up much yardage, they do get you 3-6 receptions and 10-12 points.
Lost late last night in my other league, in which my draft thoroughly sucked and old man Tomlinson's ankle is just killing me. The best news of all is that with the Take2 and fantasy out of the way, tonight is a night for pure R&R.
Finally, when you slog through the rain and are -1 thru 6 holes, it's best not to finish with three straight bogeys. Furthermore, when you make the turn and are then -1 on the back through 5 holes, it's best not to finish with three bogeys in the final four holes. I can't figure out why this keeps happening, but it needs to stop. I'd like to get in one more solid round before the snow flies to overcome this. On the positive side, it was good to make four birdies yesterday.
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